Films like Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) is adventure, history, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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  Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

  Also adventure and history. 7.1/10

  After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

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  King Arthur (2004)

  Also adventure and history. 6.3/10

  The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in…

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  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  Also adventure and history. 8.0/10

  During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

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  Alexander (2004)

  Also adventure and history. 6.0/10

  Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing…

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  Rise of the Conqueror (2026)

  Also adventure and history. 5.9/10

  In the 14th-century, as the Silk Road crumbles and rival factions tear the land apart, fearless warrior Timur emerges from exile. Stripped of everything, he fights to unite the…

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  Cold Mountain (2003)

  Also adventure and history. 6.9/10

  In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across…

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  The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

  Also adventure and history. 6.4/10

  In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its…

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  Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)

  Also adventure and history. 7.5/10

  In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

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  Red Cliff (2008)

  Also adventure and history. 7.1/10

  In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms…

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  The Alamo (1960)

  Also adventure and history. 7.1/10

  The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new…

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  Red Cliff II (2009)

  Also adventure and history. 7.3/10

  The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu…

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  Helen of Troy (1956)

  Also adventure and history. 6.3/10

  Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must…

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  Shout at the Devil (1976)

  Also adventure and history. 6.0/10

  During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting…

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  Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

  Also adventure and history. 8.0/10

  When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

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  Alexander the Great (1956)

  Also adventure and history. 6.1/10

  An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of…

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  Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)

  Also adventure and history. 7.9/10

  The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history - Sgt. Stubby - and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.

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  The Red Baron (2008)

  Also adventure and history. 6.7/10

  Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical…

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  The 300 Spartans (1962)

  Also adventure and history. 6.5/10

  The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidas, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek…

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  Legionnaire (1998)

  Also adventure and history. 5.9/10

  Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails…

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  Kingdom (2019)

  Also adventure and history. 7.3/10

  Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young…

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  Rob Roy (1995)

  Also adventure and history. 6.7/10

  In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market…

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  1911 (2011)

  Also adventure and history. 5.7/10

  China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.

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  The Imitation Game (2014)

  Also history and war. 8.0/10

  Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at…

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  Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

  Also history and war. 8.2/10

  WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to…