1.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones

As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

Genre: Drama, Historical
Budget: $65 million(s)
Gross: $261M
On dvd: 54 days

2.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Genre: Foreign, Historical, Romance
Budget: $8 million(s)
Gross: $8M
On dvd: 54 days

3.

Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Genre: Biography, Historical
Budget: $ - - million(s)
Gross: $9M
On dvd: 40 days

4.

Director: Peter Webber
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew Fox, Kaori Momoi,

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Genre: Drama, Historical, War
Budget: $ - - million(s)
Gross: $3M
On dvd: n/a

5.

Director: Noam Murro
Starring: Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro, Sullivan Stapleton,

The Greek general Themistocles battles an invading army of Persians under the mortal-turned-god, Xerxes.

Genre: Action, Historical
Budget: $ - - million(s)
Gross: $ - -
On dvd: n/a

6.

Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis

A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.

Genre: Historical, Thriller
Budget: $30 million(s)
Gross: $15M
On dvd: 467 days

7.

Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko

In 117 A.D., Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pict raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with the famed 9th Legion of the Roman Army under orders to wipe out the Picts.

Genre: Action, Historical
Budget: $12 million(s)
Gross: $7M
On dvd: 929 days

8.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson

Warriors Porthos, Athos, and Aramis are musketeers of the King of France. After discovering a conspiracy to overthrow the king, the three add young D'Artagnan to their band and the four of them embark on a mission to save the crown and Europe.

Genre: Action, Historical
Budget: $75 million(s)
Gross: $132M
On dvd: 432 days

9.

Director: Jonathan English
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox

In the thirteenth century, a Templar knight and a ragtag group of warriors hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle. Pitted against King John, the group struggles to defend the freedom of their country.

Genre: Action, Historical
Budget: $25 million(s)
Gross: $ - -
On dvd: 663 days

10.

Director: Farren Blackburn
Starring: Charlie Bewley, Clive Standen, James Cosmo,

Action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferrocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom.

Genre: Action, Historical
Budget: $ - - million(s)
Gross: $ - -
On dvd: n/a