Best Pakistani history movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch history films from Pakistan, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Jinnah

    Jinnah 1998

    Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

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  • Poster for Sardar Mohammad

    Sardar Mohammad 2017

    Set during the India-Pakistan partition, the story of Sardar Mohammad revolves around an infant who is saved by an Indian Sikh police officer.

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  • Poster for Manto

    Manto 2015

    The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.

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  • Poster for Gunjal

    Gunjal 2023

    When the killer of an adolescent labor activist is acquitted, journalist Shahbaz Bhatti sees glaring loopholes in the verdict, and begins a quest for justice. But each lead he follows contradicts the one before, and the twisted story reveals the ugly truth of child labor in 1990s Pakistan.

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  • Poster for Khel Khel Mein

    Khel Khel Mein 2021

    A group of students from the colleges drama society decide to participate in a theatre competition taking place in Bangladesh and choose the 1971 war as their topic for the play Their idea is opposed by almost everyone but the students are determined to stick to their plan. However when they reach Bangladesh, they realize why everyone was concerned, now it is their job to change that perspective and not only win the competition but their hearts as well.

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  • Poster for Saya e Khuda e Zuljalal

    Saya e Khuda e Zuljalal 2016

    A historical glimpse into the history of Pakistan India Partition and war's of 1965 and 1971 and present day of the new conflict in Pakistan.

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  • Poster for Rebel

    Rebel 1956

    An Urdu action blockbuster set during liberation struggles against British colonizers. The first movie of Pakistani Actor Sultan Rahi

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  • Farangi 1964

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