History movies on MUBI in India

Top 14: History movies on MUBI in India

Updated 9 October 2026 · Ranked by TMDB popularity, which reflects what people are watching and searching for this week · Subscription titles only

1. The Zone of Interest (2023) · ★ 7.0/10 · Drama, History, War
   The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
2. The Girl with the Needle (2024) · ★ 7.6/10 · Drama, History
   Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency.…
3. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) · ★ 7.7/10 · Drama, History, Romance
   The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the…
4. Benedetta (2021) · ★ 6.6/10 · History, Drama, Romance
   A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to…
5. Night and Fog (1956) · ★ 8.3/10 · Documentary, History
   Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
6. Peter Hujar's Day (2025) · ★ 5.6/10 · Drama, History
   A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene…
7. The Cut (2014) · ★ 5.9/10 · History, Adventure, Mystery
   In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night, he learns that his twin daughters may be alive,…
8. Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) · ★ 6.6/10 · Drama, War, History
   A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally…
9. I Was Nineteen (1968) · ★ 7.5/10 · Drama, History, War
   A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence,…
10. Liberté (2019) · ★ 4.9/10 · Drama, History
    1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the…
11. House of Seven Belles (1979) · ★ 5.3/10 · Drama, Horror, History
    The seven sisters of the outcast LeFleur family try to survive in a post-Civil War Deep South. The movie was unable to be completed, thus, it may be left to the viewer…
12. Cut (2012) · ★ 5.2/10 · Documentary, History
    Agricultural laborers in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, harvest a field of sugarcane using machetes. The camera keeps its distance as it observes their smooth movements.…
13. Tatsumi (2011) · ★ 6.5/10 · Animation, History, Drama
    Animated film based on the life and stories of Manga writer Yoshihiro Tatsumi who revolutionised the art form with darker, more adult stories. The film animates several…
14. In omaggio all’arte italiana! (2015) · ★ 3.6/10 · History
    Fragment of last reel from "History Lessons" presented in an installation as a special event for the Venice Biennale Arte.

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