The table below lists the top-grossing Historical Fiction movie released in each calendar year (based on worldwide box office). Click on the year number for a list of all the Historical Fiction films released that year. The "Domestic Stats" links will take you to a summary of the domestic film business for Historical Fiction movies for the year in question (this part of our archive starts in 1995). Click on the movie name to see information on the individual film.
| Year | Domestic Stats | Total Movies | Average Production Budget | Combined Worldwide Box Office | No. 1 Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBD | 115 | ||||
| 2027 | 1 | ||||
| 2026 | Domestic Stats | 70 | $150,000,000 | $840,990 | Border 2 |
| 2025 | Domestic Stats | 321 | $31,757,143 | $2,408,679,670 | Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐人街探案1900) |
| 2024 | Domestic Stats | 311 | $80,000,000 | $1,412,546,634 | Gladiator II |
| 2023 | Domestic Stats | 324 | $97,571,429 | $2,254,166,144 | Full River Red (满江红) |
| 2022 | Domestic Stats | 264 | $48,500,000 | $947,214,383 | RRR |
| 2021 | Domestic Stats | 196 | $70,000,000 | $1,250,609,955 | Cruella |
| 2020 | Domestic Stats | 194 | $38,367,060 | $427,992,171 | The Call of the Wild |
| 2019 | Domestic Stats | 270 | $29,377,778 | $2,092,606,442 | My People, My Country (我和我的祖国) |
| 2018 | Domestic Stats | 222 | $29,663,158 | $1,250,110,320 | The House with a Clock in its Walls |
| 2017 | Domestic Stats | 226 | $40,402,174 | $3,696,388,327 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |
| 2016 | Domestic Stats | 220 | $31,912,162 | $2,472,374,685 | The Legend of Tarzan |
| 2015 | Domestic Stats | 208 | $21,887,262 | $1,914,199,598 | Bridge of Spies |
| 2014 | Domestic Stats | 116 | $37,177,083 | $2,704,748,876 | Noah |
| 2013 | Domestic Stats | 87 | $59,944,444 | $1,496,738,259 | The Great Gatsby |
| 2012 | Domestic Stats | 113 | $32,403,571 | $3,052,573,439 | Life of Pi |
| 2011 | Domestic Stats | 99 | $33,425,000 | $2,988,675,784 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
| 2010 | Domestic Stats | 69 | $34,289,286 | $1,512,777,985 | Robin Hood |
| 2009 | Domestic Stats | 45 | $27,857,143 | $1,390,681,453 | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2008 | Domestic Stats | 81 | $36,318,930 | $2,406,915,044 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
| 2007 | Domestic Stats | 72 | $37,006,429 | $2,849,380,580 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End |
| 2006 | Domestic Stats | 62 | $33,615,714 | $2,631,395,211 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest |
| 2005 | Domestic Stats | 38 | $36,115,000 | $1,345,364,841 | Kingdom of Heaven |
| 2004 | Domestic Stats | 48 | $44,224,138 | $2,535,159,954 | Troy |
| 2003 | Domestic Stats | 40 | $38,718,182 | $1,744,223,655 | The Last Samurai |
| 2002 | Domestic Stats | 39 | $39,400,000 | $1,530,095,837 | Chicago |
| 2001 | Domestic Stats | 37 | $33,664,706 | $1,016,721,234 | The Others |
| 2000 | Domestic Stats | 39 | $31,555,556 | $1,289,496,032 | Gladiator |
| 1999 | Domestic Stats | 43 | $36,819,048 | $1,670,404,319 | Tarzan |
| 1998 | Domestic Stats | 37 | $29,576,923 | $1,616,687,607 | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1997 | Domestic Stats | 29 | $49,428,571 | $2,758,372,548 | Titanic |
| 1996 | Domestic Stats | 34 | $32,525,000 | $851,368,471 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 1995 | Domestic Stats | 48 | $35,669,231 | $1,249,403,612 | Pocahontas |
| 1994 | 40 | $28,291,667 | $1,918,395,215 | Forrest Gump | |
| 1993 | 28 | $15,342,857 | $585,726,633 | Sommersby | |
| 1992 | 29 | $24,300,000 | $804,723,684 | Bram Stoker’s Dracula | |
| 1991 | 32 | $22,500,000 | $756,263,196 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | |
| 1990 | 35 | $38,166,667 | $1,131,906,821 | Dances with Wolves | |
| 1989 | 23 | $23,625,000 | $757,502,943 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | |
| 1988 | 35 | $9,860,000 | $369,534,320 | The Land Before Time | |
| 1987 | 37 | $15,400,000 | $527,702,595 | Dirty Dancing | |
| 1986 | 24 | $7,300,000 | $368,623,100 | Platoon | |
| 1985 | 34 | $16,475,000 | $328,992,090 | The Color Purple | |
| 1984 | 30 | $26,166,667 | $677,012,380 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | |
| 1983 | 43 | $8,950,556 | $318,665,084 | Scarface | |
| 1982 | 28 | $14,083,333 | $441,821,226 | Porky’s | |
| 1981 | 31 | $17,250,000 | $645,892,377 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
| 1980 | 15 | $24,250,000 | $112,596,707 | The Blue Lagoon | |
| 1979 | 28 | $17,550,000 | $372,416,627 | 1941 | |
| 1978 | 23 | $7,666,667 | $579,690,175 | Grease | |
| 1977 | 13 | $14,000,000 | $22,039,060 | New York, New York | |
| 1976 | 24 | $5,000,000 | $67,816,045 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | |
| 1975 | 19 | $7,000,000 | $163,743,406 | The Apple Dumpling Gang | |
| 1974 | 13 | $7,533,333 | $249,439,605 | Blazing Saddles | |
| 1973 | 15 | $3,800,000 | $280,981,323 | The Sting | |
| 1972 | 16 | $5,500,000 | $317,785,889 | The Godfather | |
| 1971 | 20 | $9,000,000 | $136,955,079 | Fiddler on the Roof | |
| 1970 | 31 | $13,602,421 | $289,446,226 | M*A*S*H | |
| 1969 | 26 | $8,200,000 | $199,569,538 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
| 1968 | 26 | $4,418,333 | $186,305,787 | Funny Girl | |
| 1967 | 14 | $1,200,000 | $123,880,785 | The Dirty Dozen | |
| 1966 | 25 | $5,866,667 | $101,939,394 | Hawaii | |
| 1965 | 22 | $8,166,667 | $550,688,356 | The Sound of Music | |
| 1964 | 9 | $17,000,000 | $72,293,628 | My Fair Lady | |
| 1963 | 12 | $3,343,000 | $104,495,889 | How the West Was Won | |
| 1962 | 22 | $2,000,000 | $39,851,890 | The Music Man | |
| 1961 | 17 | $29,070,940 | The Guns of Navarone | ||
| 1960 | 13 | $12,000,000 | $52,668,280 | Swiss Family Robinson | |
| 1959 | 18 | $15,000,000 | $106,733,411 | Ben-Hur | |
| 1958 | 29 | $81,824,868 | South Pacific | ||
| 1957 | 21 | $3,000,000 | $33,449,844 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | |
| 1956 | 31 | $4,032,000 | $82,962,381 | Around the World in 80 Days | |
| 1955 | 21 | $34,761,132 | Mister Roberts | ||
| 1954 | 27 | $2,750,000 | $78,452,357 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | |
| 1953 | 30 | $1,650,000 | $58,736,769 | From Here to Eternity | |
| 1952 | 23 | $730,000 | $8,055,358 | High Noon | |
| 1951 | 30 | $5,275,000 | $68,463,476 | Quo Vadis? | |
| 1950 | 25 | $4,503,434 | Winchester '73 | ||
| 1949 | 22 | $1,000,000 | $40,074,130 | Samson and Delilah | |
| 1948 | 33 | $3,350,000 | $20,017,490 | Red River | |
| 1947 | 26 | $65,010 | Great Expectations | ||
| 1946 | 33 | $3,643,667 | $71,697,824 | Notorious | |
| 1945 | 16 | ||||
| 1944 | 17 | $12,883,285 | Meet Me in St. Louis | ||
| 1943 | 15 | $17,886,425 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | ||
| 1942 | 9 | $3,719 | Arabian Nights | ||
| 1941 | 9 | $1,250,000 | $382 | How Green Was My Valley | |
| 1940 | 13 | $1,312,500 | $9,208,392 | Boom Town | |
| 1939 | 19 | $3,900,000 | $390,788,769 | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1938 | 7 | $2,000,000 | $4,000,000 | Alexander's Ragtime Band | |
| 1937 | 5 | $415,165 | La Grande Illusion | ||
| 1936 | 9 | $3,000,000 | The Great Ziegfeld | ||
| 1935 | 11 | $120 | The Devil Is a Woman | ||
| 1934 | 18 | ||||
| 1933 | 15 | $200,000 | $2,200,423 | She Done Him Wrong | |
| 1932 | 8 | ||||
| 1931 | 8 | $84 | Dishonored | ||
| 1930 | 5 | ||||
| 1929 | 4 | $19,899 | Queen Kelly | ||
| 1928 | 2 | $4,121 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | ||
| 1927 | 4 | $2,000,000 | $516 | The General | |
| 1926 | 2 | ||||
| 1925 | 4 | $3,900,000 | $9,198,286 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | |
| 1924 | 2 | ||||
| 1923 | 3 | ||||
| 1920 | 1 | ||||
| 1919 | 1 | ||||
| 1918 | 1 | ||||
| 1916 | 1 | ||||
| 1915 | 1 | $110,000 | $11,000,000 | The Birth of a Nation | |
| Total | 5,553 | $31,950,046 | $73,605,863,040 | Titanic | |