Historical Dramas on Netflix

Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 9.3
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Runtime: 02:22:33
Netflix ID: 70005379 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an organized-crime family patriarch barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son steps in to take care of the would-be killers.

Year: 1972
IMDb: 9.2
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 02:57:03
Netflix ID: 60011152 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8.9
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 03:15:04
Netflix ID: 60036359 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a prison guard discovers that a death row inmate possesses mysterious powers, he tries desperately to prevent the condemned man's execution.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 03:08:41
Netflix ID: 60000417 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tapped for the throne after the death of the emperor, a Roman general instead finds himself condemned to die by the late ruler's power-hungry son.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:34:58
Netflix ID: 60000929 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Against a backdrop of burgeoning social unrest, a neophyte filmmaker makes history in 1913 as the director of India's first feature-length film.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8.4
Runtime: 01:38:32
Netflix ID: 70127589 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:38:25
Netflix ID: 70075473 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This portrayal of Adolf Hitler's final days is based on the memoirs of Traudl Junge, the young secretary who was with him until his death.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:35:44
Netflix ID: 70023508 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An FBI agent makes it his mission to put cunning con man Frank Abagnale Jr. behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:21:06
Netflix ID: 60024942 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A freeborn black man is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 70284282 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, Army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss becomes an unlikely hero on an Okinawa battlefield without bearing arms.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:19:04
Netflix ID: 80108975 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young newlywed moves to her husband's imposing estate, where she must contend with his sinister housekeeper and the haunting shadow of his late wife.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:03:02
Netflix ID: 81002196 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ben Kingsley stars as the diminutive attorney who stood up against British rule in India and became a global symbol of nonviolence and understanding.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:08:23
Netflix ID: 60010384 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this biographical drama, Britain's King George VI struggles with an embarrassing stutter until he seeks help from speech therapist Lionel Logue.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 01:53:23
Netflix ID: 70135893 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, a brilliant mathematician leads a team of cryptanalysts as they work feverishly to break the Germans' notorious Enigma code.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 01:54:12
Netflix ID: 70295172 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As tens of thousands of Allied troops push further inland, the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima during World War II prepare to meet their fate.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:20:30
Netflix ID: 70058006 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In late 19th-century Italy, four peasant families struggle to survive. For one sensitive boy, a good shoe will make all the difference in the world.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:57:34
Netflix ID: 70001601 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In May 1940, soldiers and civilians struggle by land, sea and air to evacuate the British army and their allies, Europe's last hope, from Dunkirk.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:46:34
Netflix ID: 80170278 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shady mayor hires a magical minstrel to lure away rodents with his flute but fails to pay him. Soon, the children of the town begin disappearing.

Year: 1972
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:30:27
Netflix ID: 70100329 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 12th-century Spain, a philosopher and his profound teachings jeopardize the caliph he serves when political rivals threaten a government upheaval.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 02:15:56
Netflix ID: 81252543 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two young lovers are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:03:48
Netflix ID: 60036227 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Jane Austen's tale of 19th-century England, Mrs. Bennet hopes to marry her daughters to prosperous gentlemen, including new arrival Mr. Darcy.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:06:36
Netflix ID: 70032594 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This stirring drama follows the first African-Americans to serve in combat during the Civil War -- and shows how they helped turn the tide of the war.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:02:12
Netflix ID: 547335 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this Merchant-Ivory period drama, a dutiful butler dedicates himself to tending his lord's house, turning a blind eye to his Nazi sympathies.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:14:15
Netflix ID: 60011325 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Rendered in the style of the beloved Dutch master, this animated biopic recounts the tortured last days of Vincent van Gogh.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:34:36
Netflix ID: 80171527 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Jules and Jim are friends who fall for the same woman, sparking a decades-long love triangle that tests and strengthens the bond between the two men.

Year: 1962
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:46:16
Netflix ID: 660602 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Inspired by Soviet satellite Sputnik streaking across the heavens in 1957, a teenager builds a rocket to compete for a science fair scholarship.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:47:19
Netflix ID: 18957852 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When her kidnapped son is brought home, a mother suspects that the boy isn't her child, so the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:21:41
Netflix ID: 70100378 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As his esteem grows in the world of physics, Stephen Hawking's body is ravaged by ALS, forcing his increasing dependence on his devoted wife, Jane.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:03:25
Netflix ID: 80000644 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Henry VIII seeks approval from the aristocracy to divorce, Sir Thomas More finds himself caught between the king and the Roman Catholic Church.

Year: 1966
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:00:27
Netflix ID: 732905 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on the life of Jan Banas, a famous footballer’s megawatt success begets a game of rivalry, passion and love.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:41:54
Netflix ID: 81116046 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Facing poverty after their father's death, three sisters are obliged to rely on the generosity of others in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:16:22
Netflix ID: 948002 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Lifer Frank Morris plans his unauthorized departure from Alcatraz in this thriller based on the penitentiary's only successful jailbreak.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:51:52
Netflix ID: 480144 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Technical troubles scuttle the Apollo 13 mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew in this chronicle of a true story.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:19:46
Netflix ID: 262866 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:13:17
Netflix ID: 70012795 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Sultan of Egypt and Syria launches a campaign to retake Jerusalem amid the Crusades.

Year: 1963
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 03:14:03
Netflix ID: 81252549 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A gifted baseball player whose life has taken some startling turns becomes a 35-year-old rookie who helps a cellar-dwelling team get back in the game.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:17:44
Netflix ID: 793907 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 02:10:10
Netflix ID: 81043755 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Oscar-winning biopic focuses on painter Frida Kahlo's relationship with her husband and her controversial political and sexual reputation.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:02:55
Netflix ID: 60024997 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Feisty New York writer Helene mails a note to a small London bookshop, sparking a touching and humorous correspondence with reserved bookseller Frank.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:39:22
Netflix ID: 60023132 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Oscar-winning treatise on absolute power and its human toll sees fledgling queen Elizabeth I sacrificing happiness for her own safety.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:03:25
Netflix ID: 17236680 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two Mississippi families -- one black, one white -- confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming and friendship in a divided World War II era.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:15:02
Netflix ID: 80175694 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:53:54
Netflix ID: 81039383 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A relationship blossoms for a young Frenchman and a sculptress in Wales but when he returns to Paris, his affection starts to shift to another.

Year: 1971
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:09:41
Netflix ID: 1072815 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Living in Alexandria during World War II, an Egyptian teen enamored with American films dreams of making it in Hollywood.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:11:07
Netflix ID: 60001801 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After escaping from a World War II labor camp, a band of soldiers undertake a journey to traverse Siberia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:13:10
Netflix ID: 70121494 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Diagnosed with a disorder, Susanna Kaysen is sent to a mental institution, where she enters the skewed world of people who truly belong on the inside.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:07:37
Netflix ID: 60000428 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The talent and ambition of French sculptor Camille Claudel catch the attention of legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin in this passionate drama.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:53:36
Netflix ID: 60003618 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Driven from her post at Thornfield House, young governess Jane Eyre reflects on her youth and the events that led her to misty moors.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:55:10
Netflix ID: 70142825 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Four sisters and their mother battle life's vicissitudes in Civil War-era America after their father leaves to join the conflict.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:58:29
Netflix ID: 707114 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The deaths of three African American men at the hands of Detroit police in 1967 ignite civil unrest and deadly protests. Based on true events.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:23:14
Netflix ID: 80187062 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Romani writer Bronislawa Wajs struggles to succeed as a poet in 20th-century Poland -- while being rejected by the very people who inspired her art.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:05:57
Netflix ID: 81078812 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Astronaut Neil Armstrong spends a decade training for the flight of a lifetime, as he prepares to be the first man to walk on the moon.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:20:59
Netflix ID: 80991403 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A widower and past war hero just wants to live in peace and farm his land -- until a cruel British officer brings the American Revolution to his door.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:45:01
Netflix ID: 60001044 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Vietnam War epic tells the story of the Battle of Ia Drang, which pitted 450 U.S. soldiers against thousands of well-armed Vietnamese troops.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:18:32
Netflix ID: 60022697 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Denmark native shares a marriage of convenience with a womanizing baron. But when they move to Nairobi, she falls for a free-spirited hunter.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:40:54
Netflix ID: 60000019 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This drama follows a wounded Civil War soldier making the long journey home, while his faraway love fights for survival on her deceased father's farm.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:34:25
Netflix ID: 60031289 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 12th-century Asia, an orphaned slave escapes from his captors and becomes one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known: Genghis Khan.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:05:19
Netflix ID: 70075474 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A well-bred New Yorker engaged to an appropriate, cultured woman puts society's mores to the test when her alluring cousin comes along.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:18:26
Netflix ID: 60011002 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fascinated by the mysterious and affluent Jay Gatsby, his neighbor Nick Carraway bears witness to the man's obsessive love and spiral into tragedy.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:22:01
Netflix ID: 70244437 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a fateful encounter with the McDonald brothers, struggling salesman Ray Kroc becomes driven to change the way hamburgers are made and sold.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:55:19
Netflix ID: 80101899 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two Portuguese priests go to Japan to look for their missing mentor, but their search is hindered by a regime that's hostile to Western culture.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:41:07
Netflix ID: 80146803 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a rival newspaper lands a major scoop, detailing a decades-long cover-up about Vietnam involving the president, The Washington Post faces a choice.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:55:50
Netflix ID: 80192932 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fearing retribution, a Republican from the Spanish Civil War hides in his home for more than 30 years with the help of his wife. Based on true events.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:27:58
Netflix ID: 80242912 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, an escaped POW makes his way to Tibet, where he meets the Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:16:22
Netflix ID: 1179053 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A passionate romance with roguish barrister Tom Lefroy serves as the inspiration for the works of budding novelist Jane Austen.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:05:34
Netflix ID: 70065107 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A wealthy plantation owner and her adopted daughter are living in French Indochina when civil war erupts, and both fall for the same French officer.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:32:26
Netflix ID: 626910 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This true-life drama tells the story of football legend Freddie Steinmark, the Texas Longhorns safety who gave his all despite the odds against him.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:58:29
Netflix ID: 80058062 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This riveting World War II drama recounts the story of six U.S. soldiers who raised the American flag atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:11:47
Netflix ID: 70044687 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ten years after being declared dead in battle, a colonel returns home to find that his wife has claimed his vast fortune and married a count.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:46:21
Netflix ID: 80010612 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While filming a movie in England, Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe slips away with a young Brit for a week of self-discovery and frivolity.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:38:55
Netflix ID: 70202150 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This biopic tells the story of Margaret Keane, the American painter who was known for her pop art paintings of children with large doe eyes.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:45:42
Netflix ID: 70095129 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Officials interrogate German worker Georg Elser when a bomb he plants detonates after Hitler has left a rally, thwarting his assassination attempt.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:14
Netflix ID: 80088000 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Nazis invade Poland, Warsaw Zoo caretakers work with the underground resistance to save Jews from the horrors of the Third Reich.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 02:06:42
Netflix ID: 80146804 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on the 1884 epic novel by author Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish knight fights to reclaim his lover from a Cossack leader amid civil unrest.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 02:55:13
Netflix ID: 70308739 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This vibrant biopic traces the tumultuous life of pop superstar Claude François, from his early years and meteoric rise to his tragic death.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:28:46
Netflix ID: 80004281 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This biopic captures the colorful adventures of Pierre Beaumarchais, the 18th-century playwright who moonlighted as a spy and an arms dealer.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:36:32
Netflix ID: 80010610 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Identical twins and notorious gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray elude the authorities in 1960s London while transfixing and terrifying the public.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 02:11:24
Netflix ID: 80057599 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this true tale (which inspired 'Moby Dick'), a New England whaling crew wages a desperate battle to survive when a giant whale capsizes their ship.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:01:39
Netflix ID: 80017529 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1920s Australia, an Aboriginal farmhand kills a white man in self-defense, then flees into the Outback, where he is pursued by a determined lawman.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:53:04
Netflix ID: 80216706 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Wild artistic inspiration and emotional turmoil fill painter Vincent van Gogh's last years as he struggles to bring his unique vision to the world.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:51:14
Netflix ID: 81020388 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Leading a tumultuous life, Egyptian-born French-Italian singer Dalida navigates love, success, suicide and the dark side of fame in this biopic.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 02:01:44
Netflix ID: 80210753 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Queen Elizabeth steels herself against invasion, treason and betrayal as she pines for the love of swashbuckling adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:54:45
Netflix ID: 70045272 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tasked with unraveling the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an honorable magistrate finds himself targeted by the shadowy perpetrators.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:38:10
Netflix ID: 80141338 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:40:58
Netflix ID: 81446625 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ambitious Boleyn sisters Anne and Mary compete for the heart of powerful but intemperate King Henry VIII in this opulent historical drama.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:55:22
Netflix ID: 70083114 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The first German film adaptation of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' dramatizes her inner world and her life spent in hiding in Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 02:09:25
Netflix ID: 80239504 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Keira Knightley stars as the titular 19th-century Russian aristocrat who enters into a forbidden love affair with the well-heeled Count Vronsky.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:09:31
Netflix ID: 70243443 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this big-budget adaptation, soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley and promises to return his sword to his family in Nottingham.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:20:21
Netflix ID: 70111323 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As World War I looms, an American nurse travels to the Ottoman Empire on a medical mission, where she clashes with a dashing lieutenant.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:50:34
Netflix ID: 80143796 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the early 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett becomes consumed with finding a mysterious ancient civilization in the Amazonian jungle.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:20:38
Netflix ID: 80022614 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this fact-based drama, a prominent socialite and financier in 1930s France is exposed as a con man, whose fall ultimately takes down the government.

Year: 1974
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:57:14
Netflix ID: 81304219 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two 19th-century Irish immigrants journey to the United States for very different reasons, finding love amid the hardships they endure.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:19:56
Netflix ID: 492899 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While Spain relinquishes its last colonies, a battle-fatigued outpost engages in a long, brutal and sometimes bizarre clash with Filipino insurgents.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 02:09:43
Netflix ID: 80121844 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Wes Studi has the title role in this sprawling Western recounting famed Apache warrior Geronimo's losing battle with the U.S. Army in the late 1800s.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:55:06
Netflix ID: 538871 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Four African American veterans return to Vietnam decades after the war to find their squad leader's remains — and a stash of buried gold. From Spike Lee.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 02:35:52
Netflix ID: 81045635 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Rivals Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse find themselves in a frenzied race to determine whose electrical system will power the modern world.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:47:52
Netflix ID: 80192838 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The film explores the effects of a luxurious yet terribly confining lifestyle on the young queen and ultimately led to her undoing.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 02:02:41
Netflix ID: 70044601 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During Prohibition, the son of a cop bootlegs his way toward the top of the Florida underworld, but not before making a powerful enemy.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 02:08:46
Netflix ID: 80091140 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of peasant farmers fights to protect their village against a corrupt landowner. Adapted from the popular novel by Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi.

Year: 1970
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 02:09:30
Netflix ID: 81252548 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb