American historical films

2000 film by Ridley Scott

2012 film directed by Ben Affleck

1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2017 film by Christopher Nolan

2018 film directed by Bryan Singer

2019 film by Sam Mendes

1941 film by John Ford

1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

2014 film directed by David Ayer

1935 film by Frank Lloyd

1991 film directed by Oliver Stone

1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2017 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2003 film directed by Peter Weir

2018 film directed by Damien Chazelle

2013 film directed by John Lee Hancock

2016 US film by John Lee Hancock

2019 film directed by Roland Emmerich

1943 film directed by William A. Wellman

1997 film by Bernard Rose

1962 film by Rudolph Maté

1929 film by Frank Lloyd

1963 historical war film directed by Nicholas Ray

2016 film by Gary Ross

1961 film directed by Anthony Mann

1959 film by John Ford

1939 film by Sidney Lanfield

2019 film directed by Todd Haynes

1944 film directed by Henry King

1953 film by Jean Negulesco

1945 film by Albert Lewin

1939 film directed by Henry King

1961 film by John Ford

1965 film by Carol Reed

2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh

2024 film directed by RaMell Ross

1936 film by Michael Curtiz

2018 film by Mimi Leder

2017 film directed by Angelina Jolie

2016 film directed by Craig Gillespie

1976 film directed by Jack Smight

1960 film by John Ford

1941 American Western film

1965 American Civil War film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen

1963 film directed by Roger Corman

1938 American film

Sommersby is a 1993 period romantic drama film directed by Jon Amiel from a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, adapted from the historical account of the 16th-century French peasant Martin Guerre. Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, the film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Clarice Taylor, Frankie Faison, and R. Lee Ermey in supporting roles. Set in the Reconstruction era, it depicts a farmer returning home from the American Civil War, with his wife beginning to suspect that he is an impostor while also falling in l

1952 film by Fritz Lang

1945 film by Tay Garnett

Chisum is a 1970 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring John Wayne in the title role, and adapted for the screen by Andrew J. Fenady from his short story "Chisum and the Lincoln County War". The supporting cast features Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Andrew Prine, Bruce Cabot, Patric Knowles, Richard Jaeckel, Lynda Day, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., John Agar, John Mitchum, Ray Teal, Christopher Mitchum, and Hank Worden, with Geoffrey Deuel and Pamela McMyler receiving "introducing" credits. The picture was filmed in Panavision and Technicolor.

1979 film by Douglas Hickox

1966 film by Edward Dmytryk

1932 film by Sidney Franklin

1941 US film by Raoul Walsh, B. Reeves Eason

1952 film by Howard Hawks

1945 film by Sam Wood

1951 film by Raoul Walsh

1944 film by Jacques Tourneur