Hidden Gems
Underrated History Movies
History films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated History Films
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 92★ 8.1$22K box officeMaria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain +2
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Bronenosets Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 91★ 8.0$51K box officeAleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy +2
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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Srdjan Dragojevic·1996·ComedyTML 90★ 8.6$0K box officeDragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo +2
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Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 90★ 7.9$51K box officeAleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy +2
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Bloody Sunday
Paul Greengrass·2002·DramaTML 86★ 7.6$773K box officeJames Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith +2
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$22K box officeMaria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain +2
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Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky·1966·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$102K box officeAnatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov +2
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Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Michael Haneke·2009·DramaTML 84★ 7.8$2.2M box officeChristian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi +2
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Russian Ark
Aleksandr Sokurov·2002·DramaTML 82★ 7.2$3.0M box officeSergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova +2
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Of Gods and Men
Xavier Beauvois·2010·DramaTML 82★ 7.2$4.0M box officeLambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale +2
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