Historical Fiction Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 93 films set in a real historical period, spanning 1940–2025. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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300
Mountaindir. Zack Snyder - 2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Urbandir. Cristian Mungiu - 2009
Agora
Urbandir. Alejandro Amenábar - 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ruraldir. Edward Berger - 1984
Amadeus
Urbandir. Miloš Forman - 1986
An American Tail
Urban · Ruraldir. Don Bluth - 1966
Andrei Rublev
Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 2006
Apocalypto
Wilderness · Rural · Urbandir. Mel Gibson - 1969
Army of Shadows
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1975
Barry Lyndon
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 2019
Beanpole
Urbandir. Kantemir Balagov - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 2003
Cold Mountain
Rural · Mountaindir. Anthony Minghella - 1985
Come and See
Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov - 1990
Cyrano de Bergerac
Urban · Ruraldir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau - 1990
Dances with Wolves
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner - 2017
Dunkirk
Coastal Seadir. Christopher Nolan - 1998
Elizabeth
Urbandir. Shekhar Kapur - 1993
Farewell My Concubine
Urbandir. Chen Kaige - 1994
Forrest Gump
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis - 1981
Gallipoli
Desert · Rural · Urbandir. Peter Weir - 2002
Gangs of New York
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2000
Gladiator
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2003
Good Bye, Lenin!
Urbandir. Wolfgang Becker - 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson - 1988
Hairspray
Urbandir. John Waters - 2002
Hero
Rural · Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 1981
History of the World: Part I
Urban · Wildernessdir. Mel Brooks - 2013
Ida
Rural · Urbandir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 2016
In This Corner of the World
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sunao Katabuchi - 2009
Inglourious Basterds
Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1972
Jeremiah Johnson
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Sydney Pollack - 2019
Jojo Rabbit
Urbandir. Taika Waititi - 1962
Jules and Jim
Urbandir. François Truffaut - 1980
Kagemusha
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 2005
Kingdom of Heaven
Desert · Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Desertdir. David Lean - 1994
Legends of the Fall
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Edward Zwick - 2021
Licorice Pizza
Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1997
Life Is Beautiful
Urbandir. Roberto Benigni - 1979
Life of Brian
Urban · Desertdir. Terry Jones - 2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Coastal Seadir. Peter Weir - 1968
Memories of Underdevelopment
Urbandir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - 2002
Millennium Actress
Urbandir. Satoshi Kon - 1960
Mughal-e-Azam
Urbandir. K. Asif - 2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro - 1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Peter Weir - 2005
Pride & Prejudice
Ruraldir. Joe Wright - 1995
Rob Roy
Rural · Mountaindir. Michael Caton-Jones - 1945
Rome, Open City
Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini - 2022
RRR
Urban · Wildernessdir. S. S. Rajamouli - 2002
Russian Ark
Urbandir. Aleksandr Sokurov - 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi - 1998
Shakespeare in Love
Urbandir. John Madden - 2016
Silence
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Martin Scorsese - 2025
Sinners
Ruraldir. Ryan Coogler - 1959
Some Like It Hot
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Billy Wilder - 2015
Son of Saul
Undergrounddir. László Nemes - 1960
Spartacus
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 2006
Still Life
Urbandir. Jia Zhangke - 1999
The 13th Warrior
Wilderness · Rural · Undergrounddir. John McTiernan - 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean - 2024
The Brutalist
Urbandir. Brady Corbet - 1985
The Color Purple
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 1971
The Conformist
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1996
The Crucible
Ruraldir. Nicholas Hytner - 1978
The Deer Hunter
Urban · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino - 2001
The Devil's Backbone
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 2018
The Favourite
Urbandir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1974
The Godfather Part II
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Ruraldir. John Ford - 2008
The Hurt Locker
Urban · Desertdir. Kathryn Bigelow - 2013
The Immigrant
Urbandir. James Gray - 2006
The Last King of Scotland
Urbandir. Kevin Macdonald - 1992
The Last of the Mohicans
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Michael Mann - 1988
The Last Temptation of Christ
Desert · Urban · Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese - 1963
The Leopard
Urban · Ruraldir. Luchino Visconti - 2006
The Lives of Others
Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 2005
The New World
Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick - 2004
The Passion of the Christ
Urban · Ruraldir. Mel Gibson - 2000
The Patriot
Ruraldir. Roland Emmerich - 1994
The Postman
Island · Coastal Seadir. Michael Radford - 1998
The Prince of Egypt
Desert · Urbandir. Simon Wells - 1998
The Thin Red Line
Wilderness · Island · Coastal Seadir. Terrence Malick - 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Rural · Mountaindir. Ken Loach - 1997
Titanic
Coastal Seadir. James Cameron - 1994
To Live
Ruraldir. Zhang Yimou - 2004
Troy
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Wolfgang Petersen - 2011
War Horse
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in a real historical period?
Kinora's catalogue lists 93 films set in a real historical period, spanning 1940–2025.
What are some movies set in a real historical period?
Films set in a real historical period in our catalogue include 300 (2007), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Agora (2009), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), and Amadeus (1984).
What is the oldest movie set in a real historical period?
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is the earliest film set in a real historical period in our catalogue; the most recent is Sinners (2025).