Movies Like Unwrapping King Tut: Secrets of the Mummy

If you liked Unwrapping King Tut: Secrets of the Mummy (2025), a history movie directed by Nick Gillam-Smith, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Egyptian (1954)
★ 6.5/10Also history
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against…
2
The Lost King (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also history
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
3
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
★ 6.5/10Also history
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
4
A Passage to India (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also history
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
5
David and Bathsheba (1951)
★ 5.8/10Also history
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
6
A United Kingdom (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also history
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British…
7
The Physician (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also history
England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and…
8
Cleopatra (1963)
★ 7.1/10Also history
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor…
9
Radioactive (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also history
The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of…
10
Finding Altamira (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also history
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
11
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also history
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.
12
Harriet (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also history
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
13
Dalíland (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also history
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
14
Ararat (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also history
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
15
Mary (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also history
A miraculous conception. A merciless king. A murderous pursuit. Mary's journey to give birth to Jesus unfolds in this biblical coming-of-age epic.
16
One Night with the King (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also history
In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.
17
Panther (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also history
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
18
All Eyez on Me (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also history
All Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row…
19
Oslo (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also history
The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…
20
Killer Legends (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also history
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.