Top 10: Best historical titles

 

1. 55 Days at Peking (1963) - Guy Green, Andrew Marton, Nicholas Ray

 

 

2. My Enemy's Enemy (2007, documentary) - Kevin Macdonald 

 

 

3. The Last King of Scotland (2006) - Kevin Macdonald

 

 

4. Elizabeth (1998) - Shekhar Kapur 

 

 

5. Gandhi (1982) - Richard Attenborough

 

6. The Look of Silence (2014, documentary) - Joshua Oppenheimer

 

 

7. Oppenheimer (2023) - Christopher Nolan  

8. Farewell My Concubine/霸王別姬/Bàwáng Bié Jī (1993) - Chen Kaige

 

 

9. Deadwood - season 1 (2004) - David Milch

 

10. Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - Clint Eastwood

Selected from 51 titles labeled 'historical', 'historical drama' or 'history'

Previous Top 10 lists:

Best action movies
Best adapted movies
Best adventure movies
Best 'big flop' movies
Best B/W movies
Best true story movies
Best 'big hit' movies
Best biopic movies
Best 'box office success' movies
Best car chases in movies
Best comedies
Best cop movies       
Best crime movies 
Best debut movies   
Best Danish movies
Best Disney movies 
Best documentaries 
Best dramas
Best drama-thrillers
Best dramedies

Best drug-themed movies

Best UK movies

Best epic movies

Best erotic movies

Best family movies

Best fantasy movies

Best films about filmmaking 

Best first-of-franchise movies 

Best 'flop' rank movies

Best Twentieth Century Fox titles 

Best French movies

Best franchise movies 

Best future-set movies 

Best gangster movies

Best gay-themed titles

Best German movies 

Best ghost horror movies 

Best gore movies

Top 10: Best HBO titles

Best heist movies

Best high school titles 

What do you think of the list?
Which historical titles would make your personal Top 10?

Top 10: The best big flop movies reviewed by Film Excess to date

1. We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011) - Lynne Ramsay

2. Anything Else (2003) - Woody Allen 

3. City Island (2009) - Raymond De Felitta

4. Braindead/Dead Alive (1992) - Peter Jackson

5. Dogville (2003) - Lars Von Trier

6. 54 (1998) - Mark Christopher

7. Children of Men (2006) - Alfonso Cuarón

8. The Devil's Backbone/El Espinoza del Diablo (2001) - Guillermo del Toro

9. Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott 

10. 55 Days at Peking (1963) - Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton

Other great big flop movies reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order)

25th Hour (2002)
Albert Nobbs (2011) 
All Is Lost (2013) 
Amos & Andrew (1993) 
The Believer (2001) 
Bound (1996)
Dark Water (2005) 
Dazed and Confused (1993) 

Good big flop movies reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order)

Art School Confidential (2006) 
Attack the Block (2011) 
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans/Bad Lieutenant (2009) 
Catch-22 (1970) 
Celebrity (1998) 
Cimarron (1960) 
Collateral Damage (2002) 
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) 
Dinner for Schmucks/Dinner with Schmucks (2010) 
Il Divo/Il Divo - La Spettacolare Vita di Giulio Andreotti (2008)
Dogtooth/Κυνόδοντας (Kynodontas) (2009) 
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) 
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) 
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) 
In Real Life/Det Andet Liv (2014) 
Maniac (2012) 
Melancholia (2011) 
Mesrine: Killer Instinct + Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1/Mesrine: L'Instinct de Mort + Mesrine: L'ennemi public n°1 (2008) 
Northwest/Nordvest (2013) 
The Paperboy (2012)
Rango (2011) 
The Sitter (2011) 
Thirteen Days (2000) 
Tusk (2014)
We Shall Overcome/Drømmen (2006) 

Mediocre or poor big flop movies reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order)

15 Minutes (2001) 
16 Blocks (2006) 
A Dangerous Method (2011) 
A Home at the End of the World (2004) 
Arthur (2011) 
Bandidas (2006) 
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) 
Deathwatch (2002) 
The Doom Generation (1995) 
Dreamcatcher (2003) 
Dreamgirls (2006) 
Dune (1984) 
The Frighteners (1996) 
Girl Most Likely/Imogene (2012) 
John Carter (2012) 
John Dies at the End (2012) 
The Mechanic (2011) 
Night of the Living Dead (1990) 
Promised Land (2012) 
Spider (2002) 

[63 titles in all]

Previous Top 10 lists:

The best action movies reviewed by Film Excess to date
The best adapted movies reviewed by Film Excess to date
The best adventure movies reviewed by Film Excess to date
The best B/W movies reviewed by Film Excess to date 
The best true story movies reviewed by Film Excess to date 

What do you think of the list?
What big flop movies would be on your top 10?