Genre "Historical Film" Movies
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| 1. Amistad (year: 1997) |
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This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion abo ...
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| 2. Andrei Rublev (year: 1966) |
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Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky's 205-minute medieval epic, based on the life of the Russian monk and icon painter, was not seen ...
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| 3. Ben Hur (year: 1907) |
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| 4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (year: 2007) |
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Director Yves Simoneau explores the plight of the American Indian in the later half of the 19th century in this docudrama exploring the effects of wes ...
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| 5. Caligula (year: 1979) |
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This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza. The star-studded cast, pe ...
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| 6. Captain from Castile (year: 1947) |
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In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th Century Spain. Pedro helps to f ...
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| 7. Cleopatra (year: 1963) |
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word — an epic investment, an epic in the annals o ...
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| 8. Druids (year: 2001) |
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The life of the fabled Gallic leader Vercingetorix is brought to the screen in this epic international production. Young Vercingetorix came of age in ...
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| 9. El Cid (year: 1961) |
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When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El ...
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| 10. El Perro Del Hortelano (year: 1996) |
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A prominent 17th-century Spanish noblewoman throws social convention to the wind and pursues a romance with her low-born personal secretary in this ro ...
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| 11. Eleni (year: 1985) |
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage, Eleni traces Gage's search for the truth behind the execution of his Greek mother Eleni. John Ma ...
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| 12. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (year: 2007) |
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Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and director Shekhar Kapur steps back into the director's chair for this belated sequel to ...
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| 13. Exodus (year: 1960) |
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with t ...
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| 14. Fat Man & Little Boy (year: 1989) |
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"Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning d ...
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| 15. Gandhi (year: 1982) |
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it fi ...
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| 16. Hannibal (year: 1960) |
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| 17. Julius Caesar (year: 1953) |
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed this exquisite version of William Shakespeare's play. Louis Calhern is Julius Caesar, whose conquests have enabled him t ...
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| 18. Kedma (year: 2002) |
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Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai directed this historical drama based on a true story of the conflict between Jewish refugees and Palestinians on the eve ...
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| 19. Khartoum (year: 1966) |
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After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) massa ...
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| 20. Kingdom of Heaven (year: 2005) |
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Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a humble ...
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| 21. La Patagonia Rebelde (year: 1974) |
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In the 1920s, workers in the far southern province of Argentina went on strike for better working and living conditions. In this film, the story of th ...
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| 22. La Reine Margot (year: 1954) |
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Though the screenplay for La Reine Margot (The Queen Margot) was written by legendary filmmaker Abel Gance, the directorial reins were handled by Jean ...
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| 24. Land of the Pharaohs (year: 1955) |
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"Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue exchanges in the Willia ...
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| 25. Ludwig (year: 1973) |
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Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand patron of traditional Europ ...
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| 26. Marco Polo (year: 2007) |
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A journey that starts as a die-hard mission to net Christian converts soon evolves into the adventure of a lifetime, in the sweeping historical epic M ...
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| 27. Mission of the Shark (year: 1991) |
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When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of WWII, it began one of the most scandalous court-marti ...
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| 28. Palavra e Utopia (year: 2000) |
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Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based o ...
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| 29. Prince of Foxes (year: 1949) |
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Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is a cinemadaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the fil ...
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| 30. Sharpe's Rifles (year: 1993) |
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In this action adventure, author Bernard Cornwell's fictional Major Sharpe is faced with the daunting task of teaching a ceremonial battalion to fight ...
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| 31. Soldier Blue (year: 1970) |
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A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Be ...
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| 32. Spartacus (year: 1960) |
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| 33. The 300 Spartans (year: 1962) |
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A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which the Spartans defend themselves for a Persian invasion against overwhelming ...
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| 34. The Alamo (year: 1960) |
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| 35. The Fall of the Roman Empire (year: 1964) |
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Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is ...
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| 36. The Lion in Winter (year: 1968) |
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The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of moth ...
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| 37. The Madness of King George (year: 1994) |
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Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King ...
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| 38. The Spirit of St. Louis (year: 1957) |
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A misfire for all concerned, The Spirit of St. Louis can be chalked up as a courageous failure. At age 48, James Stewart was far too old to be convinc ...
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| 39. The Wind and the Lion (year: 1975) |
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In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. T ...
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| 40. Thirteen Days (year: 2000) |
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Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after their 1987 pairing, No Way Out), only this time with a ...
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| 41. Tora! Tora! Tora! (year: 1970) |
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This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American naval base during World War ...
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| 42. Troy (year: 2004) |
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Homer's sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Pr ...
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| 43. Zulu (year: 1964) |
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Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors ...
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