Best History on Prime Video, ranked by IMDb rating
232 history titles on Prime Video rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.
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Sita Ramam (2022)
★ 8.5 IMDb 🍅 86%
Afreen, a rebellious Pakistani student sets ablaze the car of an Indian in London. Angered Afreen returns to Pakistan to ask for money from her grandfather that she has to pay in a month's time as damages. However, she g
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Mahanati (2018)
★ 8.4 IMDb 🍅 100%
Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.
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Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
★ 8.2 IMDb
Director Peter Joseph examines examples of economic subjugation and offers solutions based on alignment with nature.
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The Miracle Worker (1962)
★ 8.1 IMDb 🍅 96% MC 83
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sull
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The Heiress (1949)
★ 8.1 IMDb 🍅 100%
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
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Valley Uprising (2014)
★ 8.1 IMDb
In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls,
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JFK (1991)
★ 8.0 IMDb 🍅 85% MC 72
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
★ 8.0 IMDb 🍅 73%
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much les
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Apocalypto (2006)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 65% MC 68
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him.
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Matewan (1987)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 94% MC 73
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and pol
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 76
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparr
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Breaker Morant (1980)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 100% MC 73
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from th
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In This Corner of the World (2016)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 73
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home
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Muscle Shoals (2013)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 75
In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the
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The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 83% MC 68
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
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Raazi (2018)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 100%
An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Becket (1964)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 75% MC 68
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
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Only the Brave (2017)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 87% MC 72
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
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Argentina 1985 (2022)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 96% MC 78
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 98% MC 99
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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My Way (2011)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 19% MC 30
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspire
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The French Revolution (1989)
★ 7.6 IMDb
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King
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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 100% MC 80
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally spec
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The Flowers of War (2011)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 41% MC 46
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 57% MC 46
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to
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Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 87%
The Chola kingdom is under threat from forces both internal and external, and with crown prince Aaditha Karikalan, his younger brother Arunmozhi Varman and the emperor, Sundara Cholar separated by situations, it is up to
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 58% MC 52
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage t
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Frantz (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 73
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
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Hatred (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she i
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Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 67%
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructo
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12.12: The Day (2023)
★ 7.5 IMDb
After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.5 IMDb
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him t
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Electra (1962)
★ 7.5 IMDb
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
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Air (2023)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 73
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 80
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
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Love & Mercy (2015)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 90% MC 80
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter
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Cross of Iron (1977)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 71% MC 64
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and
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Fortress of War (2010)
★ 7.4 IMDb
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the thre
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An Honest Liar (2014)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 98% MC 76
An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. The film brings to life Randi's intricate investigations that publi
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Compulsion (1959)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 100%
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
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Lost Illusions (2021)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 81
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
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Red Cliff (2008)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 89% MC 73
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the sout
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 85% MC 76
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Tog
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 79% MC 60
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus
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The Captain (2018)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 83% MC 67
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit tha
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A Passage to India (1984)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 77% MC 78
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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United (2011)
★ 7.3 IMDb
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on
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The Innocents (2016)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 95% MC 78
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcil
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The Long Walk Home (1990)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 73
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
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Salt of the Earth (1954)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 100% MC 74
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypo