The best history movies streaming right now.
A tense chamber drama about the weather forecast that decided D-Day. All talk and barometric readings, no beaches, and it…
Dir. Reema Kagti
Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…
Dir. RaMell Ross
The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…
Dir. Magnus von Horn
Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…
Dir. Brady Corbet
Just a few minutes in, you can already feel the immensity of The Brutalist. The rousing score stirs you. The…
Dir. Tim Mielants
Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…
Dir. Tim Fehlbaum
On September 5, 1972, at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists held members of the Israeli Olympic team…
Dir. Johan Grimonprez
In the 1950s and 60s, as Congo freed itself from Western rule, it also played a vital role in the…
Dir. Ali Abbasi
The Apprentice is as much about Roy Cohn as it is about the titular mentee, a very green Donald Trump.…
Dir. DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman
After Loving Vincent, DK and Hugh Welchman’s iconic oil paint animation initially seems like old hat, but this time the…
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
In The Promised Land, director Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) and Mads Mikkelsen reunite to create another intense, enjoyable drama…
Dir. Alejandro Monteverde
After drawing controversy for the embellished, modern day-set Sound of Freedom, director Alejandro Monteverde and writer Rod Barr pivoted to…
Dir. Margaret Betts
Many people lament the decline of the mid-budget drama with Hollywood A-listers in the lead roles, and for good reason:…
Dir. Jon S. Baird
Who knew that behind the puzzle Tetris lies a political thriller of a backstory that is just as fun and…
Knowing better than to dwell on its title character’s early life in bondage, Lawmen: Bass Reeves grants him his freedom…
Dir. Chris Robinson
Shooting Stars may be based on LeBron James’ account of his teenage years, but this adaption by Chris Robinson is…
Dir. Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli
Using the documentary form with supreme clarity and righteous fury, Lakota Nation vs. United States distills hundreds of years of…
Dir. Maria Schrader
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
Dir. Bianca Stigter
In this documentary by Bianca Stigter, a three-minute home video of a nondescript Jewish town in Poland is examined in…
Dir. Anthony Fabian
It’s difficult to portray Cinderella stories nowadays without making them feel cliche and irrelevant, but Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris…
Dir. Ron Howard
Thirteen Lives is a taut, no-nonsense film that smartly forgoes dramatizing an already well-known case and, instead, hones in on…
Dir. Santiago Mitre
Argentina, 1985 is a legal drama about how a prosecutor and his young team were able to mount evidence—despite all…
Dir. Geeta Gandbhir & Sam Pollard
By retelling a vital chapter of the civil rights movement from the perspective of an entire community—and not just through…
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