The Best PG-13 History Movies
List of PG-13 history movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best PG-13 history movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG-13 History movie of all time is. This list of popular PG-13 history movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top PG-13 History movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG-13 History films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific PG-13 History film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
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- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Ron Howard
This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according ...more - 2Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: James Cameron
James Cameron's "Titanic" is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic; the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest ...more - 3Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Terry George
Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a Hutu, manages the Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives a happy life with his Tutsi wife (Sophie Okonedo) and their three children. But when Hutu military forces ...more - 4Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would ...more - 5James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Tony Bill
Before the United States enters World War I, some American youths volunteer for the French military. Subsequently, they become the first U.S. fighter pilots and form a squadron known as the Lafayette ...more - 6Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Bille August
After serving a lengthy prison sentence, Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson) turns his life around after an act of kindness opens his eyes, becoming a beloved mayor of a French town. A policeman, Javert ...more - 7Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Kevin Reynolds
The classic story of an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a ...more - 8Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Robert Markowitz
A semi-fictionalized account of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-African-American Air Force squadron during World War II, the film centers on ambitious young pilot Hannibal Lee (Laurence ...more - 9Cuba Gooding, Terrence Howard, Nate Parker
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Anthony Hemingway
During World War II, the Civil Aeronautics Authority selects 13 black cadets to become part of an experimental program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The program aims at training "colored ...more - 10Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Gary Ross
In the midst of the Great Depression, a businessman (Jeff Bridges) coping with the tragic death of his son, a jockey with a history of brutal injuries (Tobey Maguire) and a down-and-out horse trainer ...more - 11Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Sofia Coppola
An Austrian teenager (Kirsten Dunst) marries the Dauphin (Jason Schwartzman) of France and becomes that country's queen following the death of King Louis XV (Judy Davis) in 1774. Years later, after a ...more - 12Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Roger Donaldson
For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, ...more - 13Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Following the fall of apartheid, newly elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) faces a South Africa that is racially and economically divided. Believing he can unite his countrymen through ...more - 14Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, Q'orianka Kilcher
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Terrence Malick
Arriving with a British expedition in Virginia in 1607, Capt. John Smith (Colin Farrell) is captured by Native Americans. His life is spared thanks to Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher), daughter of the ...more - 15Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: David Fincher
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, ...more - 16Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
With the globe on the brink of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) travels from Britain to Australia to inspect a cattle ranch she inherited. Reluctantly joining forces with a rugged ...more - 17Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell
A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how the campaigns unfolded from Manassas I to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film "Gettysburg" explores the ...more - 18Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Saul Dibb
Though adored by the people, the Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley) is not content to sit as a pretty figurehead. Determined to be a major player in affairs of state, she rises to the forefront ...more - 19Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Oliver Stone
Two Port Authority officers, Sgt. John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Officer Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), become trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center after going in to help people escape ...more - 20Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) faces threats to her rule from abroad and at home. Determined to restore England to Roman Catholicism, Spain's King Philip II dispatches his armada. Sworn to her ...more - 21Paul McGill, Robert Sciglimpaglia, Jr.
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: James Marsh
Using actual footage from the event seamlessly mingled with new re-enactments, filmmaker James Marsh masterfully recreates high-wire daredevil Philippe Petit's 1974 stunt: performing acrobatics on a ...more - 22Jeffrey Nordling, Ty Olsson, Colin Glazer
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Peter Markle
In this dramatization, unsuspecting passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 board the aircraft on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001. After three other planes strike their intended targets, ...more - 23Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam
- Released: 1970
- Directed by: Arthur Penn
Little Big Man is a 1970 American revisionist Western directed by Arthur Penn and based on the novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. It is a picaresque comedy about a white male child raised by the ...more - 24Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Billy Ray
Young hotshot journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) puts on a good show for his adoring editor, Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria), but admits deep insecurities to his fellow writer, Caitlin Avey ...more - 25Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, James Earl Jones
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: John Sayles
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a scab named "Few Clothes"Â ...more