A relatively inexpensive source for movies. documentaries and television shows. Netflix offers thousands of movies available to stream on your computer, television, video game console and mobile devices.  Though the Netflix streaming library is more limited than its disk-by-mail library, Netflix streaming does have an excellent selection of history-related documentaries, many of which are included in the movie lists below.

is an excellent documentary series from PBS.  Nearly all episodes of American Experience are available to stream online, free of charge.

 is another excellent documentary series from PBS.  Unlike American Experience, most episodes of Frontline deal with current events.  You may watch and report on any episode of Frontline, whether it is included in my movie list or not.  All episodes of Frontline are available to stream online, free of charge.

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Apocalypto
The New World
The Mission
Black Robe
God in America: Episode 1 - The New Adam
We Shall Remain: Episode 1 - After the Mayflower
Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation
America: The Story of Us - Rebels
The Scarlet Letter
The Crucible
The Salem Witch Trials
The Last of the Mohicans

Post-WWII Economy & Society

Salesman
Death of a Salesman
A Beautiful Mind
Awakenings
Good Night & Good Luck
The Majestic
Citizen Cohn
Point of Order
The Good Shepherd
Atomic Cafe
Radio Bikini
Chosin
American Experience: The Lobotomist
American Experience: The Polio Crusade
Pleasantville
American Experience: Tupperware!
Julie & Julia

Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World

The Declaration of Independence

Founding Brothers

1776

The Crossing

The Patriot

American Experience: War Letters

American Experience: Into the Deep - America, Whaling & the World

America: The Story of Us - Revolution

Africans in America: Revolution

Saving the National Treasures

National Treasure

John Adams
Ken Burns: Thomas Jefferson
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Jefferson in Paris
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Sacagawea
We Shall Remain: Episode 2 - Tecumseh's Vision
The War of 1812
American Experience: Dolley Madison

Roots
Amistad
Africans in America: Brotherly Love
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
The Color Purple
12 Years a Slave
American Experience: The Abolitionists Frederick Douglass
Underground Railroad: The History Channel Underground Railroad: The William Still Story Whispers of Angels: The Story of the Underground Railroad
We Shall Remain: Episode 3 - Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears
God in America: Episode 2 - A New Eden American Experience: The Amish
PBS: The Mormons, Part I
Ken Burns: Prohibition - Episode 1 - A Nation of Drunkards
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Donner Party
America: The Story of Us - Westward
America: The Story of Us - Division
The Alamo
Walker (1987)

Ken Burns: The Civil War
America: The Story of Us - Civil War
Civil War Journal
Virginia in the Civil War
Ironclads
American Experience: Robert E. Lee
American Experience: U.S. Grant - Warrior Gods & Generals
Gettysburg
Glory Andersonville
Civil War Battlefields
American Experience: Death & the Civil War American Experience: Abraham & Mary Lincoln - A House Divided
American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Lincoln
Killing Lincoln
National Treasure 2
Gone with the Wind
Birth of a Nation
Africans in America: Judgment Day
Slavery by Another Name
Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War
Cold Mountain
God in America: Episode 3 - A Nation Reborn American Experience: Walt Whitman

African Americans & Civil Rights

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
42
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Raisin in the Sun
American Experience: A Class Apart
The Help
Far From Heaven
Remember the Titans

God in America: Episode 5 - Soul of a Nation

Architects of Civil Rights

The Rosa Parks Story

American Experience: Freedom Riders
American Experience: Soundtrack for a Revolution

Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement

The Murder of Emmit Till

Four Little Girls

Mississippi Burning

Ghosts of Mississippi

The Last White Knight

A Force More Powerful

Citizen King

Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream

Dr. Martin Luther King: A Historical Perspective

Been to the Mountain Top: Martin Luther King, Jr.

American Experience: Roads to Memphis - The Assassination of Martin Luther King

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement

Thurgood Marshall: Justice For All

We Shall Overcome

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Malcolm X

Panther

When We Were Kings

Ali

Little Rock Central High: 50 Years Later

Searching for the Promised Land
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth 

Coal Miners
Hatfields & McCoys
The Molly Maguires
Matewan

The Wild West
Ken Burns: The West
America: The Story of Us - Heartland
The Railroads That Tamed the West
Far and Away
Outlaws & Gunslingers
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
High Noon
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit
Shane
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
American Experience: Wyatt Earp
American Experience: Annie Oakley
American Experience: Billy the Kid
American Experience: Jesse James
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
American Experience: Dinosaur Wars American Experience: Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Soldiers

Plains Indians
We Shall Remain: Episode 4 - Geronimo American Experience: Custer's Last Stand
Fort Apache
Dances with Wolves
Little Big Man
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
There Will Be Blood 

Immigration, Industrialization & Urbanization Alexander Graham Bell
The Men Who Built America
American Experience: The Rockefellers
The Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
Thomas Edison: Father of Invention
Tesla: Master of Lightning
The Prestige
Madness in the White City
American Experience: Henry Ford
Henry Ford: Tin Lizzie Tycoon
America: The Story of Us - Cities
Ken Burns: Mark Twain
Gangs of New York
Ellis Island
The Statue of Liberty
The Orphan Trains
Hester Street
American Experience: Triangle Fire
The Godfather, Part II
God in America: Episode 4 - A New Light
The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Foreign Policy

Jarhead
Three Kings
The Devil's Double
Black Hawk Down
Captain Phillips
Hotel Rwanda
Sometimes in April
The Constant Gardener
Breach
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
World Trade Center
United 93
9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Special Relationship
W.
Frontline: Bush's War
Iraq for Sale
The Hurt Locker
No End in Sight
Standard Operating Procedure
Dirty Wars
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden
Zero Dark Thirty
The Square 

The Last Samurai
Hawaii’s Last Queen
Amigo Rough Riders
American Experience: Panama Canal
American Experience: The Greeley Expedition All Quiet on the Western Front
Battleship Potemkin
American Experience: The Great Famine Lawrence of Arabia
Strike Reds
Johnny Got His Gun
A Farewell to Arms
American Experience: Influenza 1918

Sacco & Vanzetti
Rosewood
Eight Men Out
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Iron Jawed Angels
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Inherit the Wind
The Great Debaters
Ken Burns: Jazz
Ragtime
Bird
The Great Gatsby
The Aviator
American Experience: Amelia Earhart
American Experience: War of the Worlds
America: The Story of Us - Boom
Citizen Kane
Modern Times
Man with a Movie Camera
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Ken Burns: Prohibition - Episode 2 - A Nation of Scofflaws
Ken Burns: Prohibition - Episode 3 - A Nation of Hypocrites
The Untouchables
Road to Perdition
Public Enemies
Reefer Madness
American Experience: The Crash of 1929
America: The Story of Us - Bust
American Experience: Mount Rushmore
American Experience: Hoover Dam
American Experience: Grand Coulee Dam
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Black Blizzard
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice & Men
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The March of the Bonus Army
American Experience: The Hurricane of '38
American Experience: Riding the Rails
O Brother Where Art Thou?
American Experience: Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
Cinderella Man
American Experience: FDR
American Experience: Civilian Conservation Corps
American Experience: Huey Long
Warm Springs 

Road to War

Triumph of the Will
The Great Dictator
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Ken Burns: The War

European Theater

America: The Story of Us - World War II
Casablanca
Das Boot
Enemy at the Gates
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
The Tuskegee Airmen
Red Tails
American Experience: The Bombing of Germany
Slaughterhouse Five
Saints & Soldiers
Valkyrie
Downfall

Pacific Theater

Empire of the Sun
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Thin Red Line
The Pacific
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Windtalkers
American Experience: Victory in the Pacific
The Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Trinity & Beyond
Fat Man and Little Boy
American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Homefront & Holocaust

American Pastime
The Rape of Europa
The Sorrow and the Pity
Schindler’s List
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist