Movies by Lists - American History Films (139 [156]) 
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| 42In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process. | 2013 | Brian Helgeland | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.5 (95.4K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| 1776A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence. | 1972 | Peter H. Hunt | Drama, Family, History, Musical | 7.6 (9.4K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Age of InnocenceA tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin. | 1993 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (57.8K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Age of Innocence, TheA tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin. | 1993 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (58K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Ah Wilderness!Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence. | 1935 | Clarence Brown | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (773 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Alamo, TheIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas. | 1960 | John Wayne | Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western | 6.8 (15.5K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, War | 8.1 (60.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| Allegheny UprisingIn 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians. | 1939 | William A. Seiter (*) | Adventure, History, War, Western | 6.3 (1.7K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| AmigoA fictional account of events during the Philippine-American War. | 2010 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, War | 5.9 (614 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| AmistadIn 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally | 1997 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (75.2K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| AndersonvilleThe story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War. | 1996 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.4 (2K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Apartment for PeggyA retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans' famil | 1948 | George Seaton | Drama | 7.2 (972 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| April MorningOn the morning of April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began with the ""shot heard 'round the world"". | 1988 | Delbert Mann (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.4 (779 votes) | 100 | 20240407 |
| Auntie MameAn orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle. | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (11.2K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| AvalonA Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. | 1990 | Barry Levinson (*) | Drama | 7.2 (6.2K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Away We GoA couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old frie | 2009 | Sam Mendes | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (53.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Baby BoomThe life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative. | 1987 | Charles Shyer | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (16.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Bakuchi-uchi - Inochi-huda [Fate Deals the Card of Death]Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (76.2K votes) | 91 | 20220315 |
| Band of BrothersThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day. | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine | Drama, History, War | 9.4 (410.8K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Barefoot In The ParkPaul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment. | 1967 | Gene Saks | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (18.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Belle Of The NinetiesRuby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Installed as the prize attraction of "The Sensation Club", | 1934 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sport | 6.4 (764 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Best Years of Our Lives, TheThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. | 1946 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.1 (62K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Black Hawk DownThe story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. | 2001 | Ridley Scott (*) | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.7 (383.7K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. | 1967 | Arthur Penn (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (109.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Boogie NightsBack when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent. | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson (*) | Drama | 7.9 (255.6K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Bostonians, TheA Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future. | 1984 | James Ivory (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (2K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Bridge Too Far, AOperation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. | 1977 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.4 (60.1K votes) | 175 | 20231101 |
| BrothersWhile on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's copter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage. | 2009 | Jim Sheridan (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 7.1 (125.6K votes) | 105 | 20220806 |
| Buccaneer, TheDuring the war of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet. | 1958 | Anthony Quinn | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.5 (2.5K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Car WashA comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way. | 1976 | Michael Schultz | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Cold MountainIn the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (155.3K votes) | 154 | 20240219 |
| Color Purple, TheA black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. | 1985 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama | 7.8 (84K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Courageous Mr. Penn [Penn of Pennsylvania]William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography ""William Penn."" | 1942 | Lance Comfort | Drama | 5.6 (159 votes) | 78 | 20231017 |
| Crossing, TheA dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton. | 2000 | Robert Harmon | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (2K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Dances with WolvesLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. | 1990 | Kevin Costner (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 8.0 (254.9K votes) | 181 | 20211228 |
| Daniel BooneIn 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites. | 1936 | David Howard | Biography, Family, Western | 5.6 (285 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| DinerA group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore. | 1982 | Barry Levinson (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| DogfightBefore leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find. | 1991 | Nancy Savoca | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (9.2K votes) | 94 | 20220723 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Drums Along the MohawkNewlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.1 (6.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| East of EdenScreen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel which begins in the years after the American Civil War and, through the story of the Trask family, brings to light a struggle and conflict inherent in the human condition. | 1981 | Harvey Hart | Drama | 7.4 (802 votes) | 1 | 20231001 |
| East of EdenTwo brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light. | 1955 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 7.9 (44.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Farewell to Arms, AAn English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit. | 1957 | Charles Vidor, John Huston | Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (2.6K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| Father of The BrideThe father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding. | 1950 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.2 (11.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Few Good Men, AMilitary lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders. | 1992 | Rob Reiner (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (252.1K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Fight ClubAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more. | 1999 | David Fincher (*) | Drama | 8.8 (2M votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Flags of our FathersThe life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II. | 2006 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (121.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| For Whom The Bell TollsDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. | 1943 | Sam Wood (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.9 (9.2K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Fort ApacheAt Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe. | 1948 | John Ford (*) | Western | 7.5 (17.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Frost NixonA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. | 2008 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (106.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Gabriel Over the White HouseA political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident. | 1933 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Geronimo - An American LegendThe story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people. | 1993 | Walter Hill | Drama, History, Western | 6.5 (11.5K votes) | 115 | 20220414 |
| GettysburgIn 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War. | 1993 | Ron Maxwell | Drama, History, War | 7.7 (28.7K votes) | 271 | 20211228 |
| GloryRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates. | 1989 | Edward Zwick (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (131.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Gods and GeneralsThe rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers. | 2003 | Ron Maxwell | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.3 (16.1K votes) | 219 | 20211228 |
| Good Night,and Good LuckBroadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. | 2005 | George Clooney | Biography, Drama, History | 7.4 (96.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Graduate, TheA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. | 1967 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (266.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Grapes of Wrath, TheAn Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 8.1 (90.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Great Gatsby, TheA Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love. | 1974 | Jack Clayton (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (24.7K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Great Race, TheIn the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris. | 1965 | Blake Edwards (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport, Western | 7.2 (17.4K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| Hail The Conquering HeroWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home. | 1944 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, War | 7.7 (4.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| HairsprayA 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. | 1988 | John Waters (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (21.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Harold and MaudeYoung, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (75.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Harry and TontoWhen his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto. | 1974 | Paul Mazursky | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (5.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Heartbreak RidgeHard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. | 1986 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, War | 6.9 (42.8K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Homecoming, TheIn a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife. | 1973 | Peter Hall | Drama | 6.9 (768 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| House of the Seven Gables, TheBased on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them. | 1940 | Joe May | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Hunley, TheDuring the siege of Charleston of 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submersible to sink an enemy warship in wartime. | 1999 | John Gray | Action, Drama, History, War, Western | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20240625 |
| JarheadA psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home. | 2005 | Sam Mendes | Biography, Drama, War | 7.0 (184.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| John AdamsThe life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years. | 2008 | Tom Hooper | Biography, Drama, History | 8.5 (31.3K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Johnny Got His GunDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life. | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | Drama, War | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Johnny TremainJohnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself. | 1957 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Adventure, Family, History, War | 6.5 (1.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Last Days of Disco, TheStory of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco. | 1998 | Whit Stillman | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.7 (13.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Last of the Mohicans, TheThree trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War. | 1992 | Michael Mann (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.7 (163.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Last Picture Show, TheIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (46.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| League of Their Own, ATwo sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry. | 1992 | Penny Marshall (*) | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.3 (101.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow, TheIchabod Crane, a Yankee wanderer, arrives in Sleepy Hollow and becomes the new schoolmaster. He meets Katrina Van Tassel, and blissfully fantasizes about how he can marry her, ultimately inheriting her father's rich estate. Her su... | 1999 | Pierre Gang | Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy | 5.1 (1.2K votes) | 105 | 20240530 |
| Lions for LambsInjuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. | 2007 | Robert Redford (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.2 (52.5K votes) | 92 | 20240313 |
| Long Day's Journey Into NightAt the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse. | 1962 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 7.6 (5.1K votes) | 174 | 20211228 |
| Magnificent Seven, TheSeven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. | 1960 | John Sturges (*) | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.7 (92.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Malcolm XBiographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam. | 1992 | Spike Lee (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (92K votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (74.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Meet Me in St LouisYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family. | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (23.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Music Man, TheTraveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town. | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.7 (17K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| My AntoniaLife in rural Nebraska in the late 1890s. | 1995 | Joseph Sargent | Drama | 6.1 (262 votes) | 100 | 20240622 |
| Myth of the American Sleepover, TheFour young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer. | 2010 | David Robert Mitchell | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (4.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| New World, TheThe story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas. | 2005 | Terrence Malick (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (88.6K votes) | 135 | 20231001 |
| NickelodeonBuck and lawyer Leo accidentally get into movie production in the early days (1910). | 1976 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy | 6.3 (2.3K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| North & South [North and South]Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War. | 1985 | Richard T. Heffron | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.0 (11.6K votes) | 2 | 20231013 |
| Northwest Passage [Northwest Passage Book I -- Rogers' Rangers]Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected. | 1940 | King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western | 7.0 (3.9K votes) | 126 | 20240419 |
| On Moonlight BayDuring World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father. | 1951 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (2.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| One Man's HeroJohn Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army. | 1999 | Lance Hool | Action, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Paper MoonDuring the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.1 (45.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| PlatoonChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (401.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| PosseIn 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike. | 1993 | Mario Van Peebles | Western | 5.5 (4.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| President's Lady, TheThe story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties | 1953 | Henry Levin | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (819 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Pulp FictionThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.9 (2M votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Pump Up the VolumeMark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. | 1990 | Allan Moyle | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.2 (31.2K votes) | 102 | 20240511 |
| Quiz ShowA young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation. | 1994 | Robert Redford (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.5 (68K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Radio DaysA nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium. | 1987 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy | 7.5 (33.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| RagtimeA young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. | 1981 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 7.3 (9.5K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Real Glory, TheA small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines. | 1939 | Henry Hathaway | Action, History, Romance, War | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| River Runs Through It, ATwo sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing. | 1992 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama | 7.2 (58K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryA three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression. | 1978 | Jack Smight | Drama | 5.6 (342 votes) | 110 | 20240727 |
| RootsA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation. | 1977 | Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.4 (17.1K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Rough RidersUndersecretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigns to form a volunteer militia unit called "The Rough Riders" to fight in the Spanish-American War. | 1997 | John Milius | Action, Drama, History, War, Western | 7.3 (2K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Ruthless PeopleA couple cheated by a vile businessman kidnaps his wife in retaliation, not knowing that their enemy is delighted that they did. | 1986 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (27.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Salem Witch TrialsA masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials. | 2002 | Joseph Sargent | Drama, History | 6.0 (934 votes) | 189 | 20231017 |
| Saturday Night FeverAnxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco. | 1977 | John Badham (*) | Drama, Music | 6.8 (77.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet Letter, TheAn affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences. | 1995 | Roland Joffé (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.3 (15.2K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| SeminoleA cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major. | 1953 | Budd Boetticher | Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance, Western | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 87 | 20230328 |
| ShaneA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. | 1953 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (39.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Show BoatDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady. | 1936 | James Whale (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (3.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Social Network, TheAs Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. | 2010 | David Fincher (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.7 (671.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Somewhere in TimeA Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel. | 1980 | Jeannot Szwarc | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.2 (28.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Splendor In The GrassA fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. | 1961 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (20.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| State FairEach member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair. | 1945 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Stepford Wives, TheJoanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. | 1975 | Bryan Forbes | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (17.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Tecumseh - The Last WarriorThis western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win t... | 1995 | Larry Elikann | Western | 6.7 (296 votes) | 92 | 20231017 |
| Thank God It's FridayA Friday in the life of the disco club The Zoo, where the staff and clients meet and dance their lives away. | 1978 | Robert Klane | Comedy, Music | 5.4 (2.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Thank You For SmokingSatirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year old son. | 2005 | Jason Reitman | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (218.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| They Died With Their Boots OnA highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.2 (6.2K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| They Shoot Horses Dont TheyThe lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon. | 1969 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama | 7.9 (18.8K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Thirteen DaysIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 2000 | Roger Donaldson | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.3 (57.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Thoroughly Modern MillieIn New York City during the Roaring Twenties, would-be flapper Millie Dillmount's self-appointed mission to marry her boss is complicated by white slavers and true love. | 1967 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (6.4K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Tiny FurnitureAbout a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life. | 2010 | Lena Dunham | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (14.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| To Kill a MockingbirdAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. | 1962 | Robert Mulligan (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (308.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| To the Last ManA highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.2 (6.2K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| TombstoneA successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre | Action, Biography, Drama, History, Western | 7.8 (140.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora!The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness. | 1970 | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.5 (35.8K votes) | 144 | 20230619 |
| True GritA stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer. | 2010 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Drama, Western | 7.6 (329.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| United 93A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. | 2006 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.6 (104.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Valley ForgeGeorge Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War. | 1975 | Fielder Cook | Drama, War | 7.0 (69 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| W. [Bush]A chronicle of the life and Presidency of George W. Bush. | 2008 | Oliver Stone (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 6.3 (50.1K votes) | 129 | 20240511 |
| Wall StreetA young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing. | 1987 | Oliver Stone (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (151.5K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Washington SquareIn this adaptation of the Henry James novel set in 19th-century New York City, a wealthy spinster with an overbearing father is pursued by a handsome fortune hunter who may be only after her money. | 1997 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (3.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Where The Red Fern GrowsWhere the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs. | 2003 | Lyman Dayton, Sam Pillsbury | Drama, Family | 6.5 (1.2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Squanto: A Warrior's Tale | 1994 | Xavier Koller | Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Desperate Crossing: The True Story of the Mayflower | 2006 | Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | History | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Animated Hero Classics: William Bradford: The First Thanksgiving | 1992 | Richard Rich | Animation | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| American Playhouse: Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I | 1985 | Philip Leacock | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Gospel of Liberty | 1996 | Andrew Gardner | Short, Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Light in the Forest | 1958 | Herschel Daugherty | Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance, Western | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Emissaries of Peace | 2007 | Linda Randulfe | Documentary, History | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The World Turned Upside Down | 1985 | Joan Henson | Short, Drama, History | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Midnight Ride of Paul Revere | 1973 | Jack Regas | nan | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Sybil Ludington Story | 2012 | Scott Bryce | Biography | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Awakening Land | 1978 | nan | Drama | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West | 2002 | Bruce Neibaur | Short, Adventure, Drama, History, Western | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| True Women | 1997 | nan | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Little House on the Prairie | 2005 | nan | Drama, Family | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Roots: The Next Generations | 1979 | nan | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Rosa Parks Story | 2002 | Julie Dash | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| King | 1978 | nan | Biography, Drama, History | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |