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
- 1
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 92★ 8.1$22K box officeStarring
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
- 2
Bronenosets Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 91★ 8.0$51K box officeStarring
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
- 3
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Srdjan Dragojevic·1996·ComedyTML 90★ 8.6$0K box officeStarring
Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic, Zoran Cvijanovic
- 4
Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 90★ 7.9$51K box officeStarring
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
- 5
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford·1940·DramaTML 90★ 8$55K box officeStarring
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
- 6
Bloody Sunday
Paul Greengrass·2002·DramaTML 86★ 7.6$773K box officeStarring
James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
- 7
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa·1980·DramaTML 86★ 8.0$4.0M box officeStarring
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu
- 8
Day of Wrath
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1943·DramaTML 85★ 8.1$8K box officeStarring
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Kirsten Andreasen
- 9
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$22K box officeStarring
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
- 10
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky·1966·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$102K box officeStarring
Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
- 11
Dà hóng denglong gaogao guà
Yimou Zhang·1991·DramaTML 85★ 8.1$2.6M box officeStarring
Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao
- 12
City of Life and Death
Chuan Lu·2009·DramaTML 84★ 7.7$123K box officeStarring
Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao
- 13
Hey Ram
Kamal Haasan·2000·CrimeTML 84★ 8.0$275K box officeStarring
Kamal Haasan, Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Hema Malini
- 14
Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Michael Haneke·2009·DramaTML 84★ 7.8$2.2M box officeStarring
Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
- 15
Phoenix
Christian Petzold·2014·DramaTML 83★ 7.3$3.2M box officeStarring
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
- 16
Russian Ark
Aleksandr Sokurov·2002·DramaTML 82★ 7.2$3.0M box officeStarring
Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
- 17
Of Gods and Men
Xavier Beauvois·2010·DramaTML 82★ 7.2$4.0M box officeStarring
Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach
- 18
Machuca
Andrés Wood·2004·BiographyTML 81★ 7.7$27K box officeStarring
Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
- 19
The Official Story
Luis Puenzo·1985·DramaTML 81★ 7.7$29K box officeStarring
Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana
- 20
Land of Mine
Martin Zandvliet·2015·DramaTML 81★ 7.8$435K box officeStarring
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
- 21
Under sandet
Martin Zandvliet·2015·DramaTML 81★ 7.8$435K box officeStarring
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
- 22
No
Pablo Larraín·2012·DramaTML 81★ 7.4$2.3M box officeStarring
Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
- 23
A Taxi Driver
Hun Jang·2017·ActionTML 79★ 7.9$1.5M box officeStarring
Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Hae-Jin Yoo, Ryu Jun-Yeol
- 24
Shooting Dogs
Michael Caton-Jones·2005·DramaTML 78★ 7.6$108K box officeStarring
John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney
- 25
Katyn
Andrzej Wajda·2007·DramaTML 78★ 7.0$118K box officeStarring
Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
- 26
Becket
Peter Glenville·1964·BiographyTML 78★ 7.8$149K box officeStarring
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi
- 27
The Age of Shadows
Kim Jee-woon·2016·ActionTML 78★ 7.1$542K box officeStarring
Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, Zach Aguilar
- 28
Frantz
François Ozon·2016·DramaTML 78★ 7.5$881K box officeStarring
Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber
- 29
Joyeux Noel
Christian Carion·2005·DramaTML 78★ 7.6$1.1M box officeStarring
Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay
- 30
Joyeux Noël
Christian Carion·2005·DramaTML 78★ 7.7$1.1M box officeStarring
Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay