Top 10s History
Schindler's List
Winner of 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List follows the true story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
Oppenheimer
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer works with a team of scientists to develop the atomic bomb.
12 Years a Slave
A free black man is abducted and sold into slavery.
Dunkirk
A portrait of the historic evacuation of Allied soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk, France, during World War II.
The King's Speech
After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). After a rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall), the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle. Based on the true story of King George VI, The King's Speech follows the Royal Monarch's quest to find his voice.
Hacksaw Ridge
HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.
Argo
A CIA agent hatches a risky plan to get six Americans out of Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis.
Downfall
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of World War II.
Hotel Rwanda
Hutu Paul Rusesabagina risks his and his family’s lives to harbor over 1,500 Tutsi refugees at his posh Rwandan hotel during the 1994 genocide.
Black Hawk Down
U.S. soldiers take heavy fire while trying to capture a warlord's associates in Mogadishu, Somalia.