| | Schindler's List (1993)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $96.07M Lead Role: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, | Director: Steven Spielberg, In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. |
| | Dunkirk (2017)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $188.37M Lead Role: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, | Director: Christopher Nolan, Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. |
| | There Will Be Blood (2007)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $40.22M Lead Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer, | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. |
| | 12 Years a Slave (2013)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: $56.67M Lead Role: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, | Director: Steve McQueen, In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. |
| | Braveheart (1995)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $75.60M Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, | Director: Mel Gibson, When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England. |
| | Amadeus (1984)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $51.60M Lead Role: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, | Director: Milos Forman, The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. |
| | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, | Director: Sergio Leone, A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. |
| | Spotlight (2015)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $44.99M Lead Role: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, | Director: Tom McCarthy, The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. |
| | Zodiac (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $33.05M Lead Role: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, | Director: David Fincher, In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree. |
| | Der Untergang (2004)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $5.50M Lead Role: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, | Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. |
| | Hotel Rwanda (2004)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $23.47M Lead Role: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali, | Director: Terry George, Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. |
| | Rush (2013)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $26.90M Lead Role: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, | Director: Ron Howard, The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. |
| | Hacksaw Ridge (2016)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $67.12M Lead Role: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, | Director: Mel Gibson, WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot. |
| | Il gattopardo (1963)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 100 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa, | Director: Luchino Visconti, The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily. |
| | The Aviator (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $102.61M Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, | Director: Martin Scorsese, A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. |
| | Bridge of Spies (2015)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $72.31M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, | Director: Steven Spielberg, During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
| | The Hurt Locker (2008)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $15.70M Lead Role: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, | Director: Kathryn Bigelow, During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. |
| | Zero Dark Thirty (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 95 | Earnings: $95.72M Lead Role: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, | Director: Kathryn Bigelow, A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. |
| | Troy (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: $133.23M Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover, | Director: Wolfgang Petersen, An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved. |
| | The Great Escape (1963)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, | Director: John Sturges, Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. |
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