Historical Film
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    The New World (2005)

    Explorer John Smith (Colin Farrell) and his companions encounter Pocahontas and Powhatan's tribe in...

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    Troy (2004)

    The fierce warrior Achilles (Brad Pitt) leads Greek forces in the Trojan War, ignited when Paris...

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    Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

    During the Crusades, a young blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) rises to knighthood and protects Jerusalem...

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    Marie Antoinette (2006)

    An Austrian teenager (Kirsten Dunst) becomes queen of France, then later loses her head during the...

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    Apollo 13 (1995)

    Astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) try to...

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    Paris 36 (2009)

    Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary"...

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    Max Manus (2008)

    The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to...

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    Caligula (1978)

    Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius...

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    Hero (2004)

    Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie...

  • King Arthur picture
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    King Arthur (2004)

    Arthur (Clive Owen) and the Knights of the Round Table embark on a rescue mission as Saxon hordes...

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    The Patriot (2000)

    A pacifist farmer (Mel Gibson) of South Carolina reluctantly joins the Revolutionary War and fights...

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    Cleopatra (1963)

    The queen of Egypt (Elizabeth Taylor) seduces Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison), but when he is killed,...

  • The Alamo picture
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    The Alamo (1960)

    Davy Crockett (John Wayne), Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) die...

  • Amazing Grace picture
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    Amazing Grace (2007)

    William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) and his close friend, William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch), wage...

  • Captain John Smith and Pocahontas picture
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    Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)

    Indian princess Pocahontas (Jody Lawrence) weds Jamestown settler Smith (Anthony Dexter) after...

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    The Crucible (1996)

    A 17th-century Salem woman (Winona Ryder) accuses an ex-lover's (Daniel Day-Lewis) wife of witchery...

  • The Iron Duke picture
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    The Iron Duke

    Marie Antoinette's daughter (Gladys Cooper) causes the downfall of the Duke of Wellington (George...

  • Che: Part One picture
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    Che: Part One (2009)

    In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an...

  • Thirteen Days picture
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    Thirteen Days (2000)

    President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and members (Kevin Costner, Steven Culp) of his staff...

  • The Scarlet Letter picture
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    The Scarlet Letter (1995)

    After a young widow (Demi Moore) has a child and refuses to name the father, a Puritan community...

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    Jefferson in Paris (1995)

    Set just prior to the French Revolution, the story revolves around Thomas Jefferson, then US...

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    Black Robe (1991)

    A priest's task to bring religion to native tribes leads to a better knowledge of himself and his...

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    Captain Boycott

    An Irish tenant farmer (Stewart Granger) leads others against a land agent (Cecil Parker)...

  • Red Cliff: Part I picture
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    Red Cliff: Part I (2009)

    In the early part of the 3rd century, three kingdoms in China wage a massive war, culminating in the...

  • Julius Caesar picture
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    Julius Caesar (1953)

    Shakespeare's Brutus (James Mason), Cassius (John Gielgud) and others plot the Roman ruler's death,...

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    Dangerous Exile

    A French duke (Louis Jourdan) saves Louis XVI's son during the Reign of Terror and hides him with a...

  • Cleopatra picture
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    Cleopatra (1934)

    The queen of Egypt (Claudette Colbert) barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony (Henry Wilcoxon)...

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    Spartacus (1960)

    A gladiator slave (Kirk Douglas) leads a revolt in decadent Rome and attempts to lead his followers...

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    Braveheart (1995)

    Enraged by the killing of his wife, Scotsman William Wallace (Mel Gibson) leads a revolt against the...

  • A Man For All Seasons picture
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    A Man For All Seasons (1966)

    Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) opposes Henry VIII's (Robert Shaw) appointing himself head of the...

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    Reds (1981)

    U.S. journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) and wife Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) witness the Russian...

  • Quo Vadis? picture
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    Quo Vadis?

    Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) burns Rome and puts a Roman commander's (Robert Taylor) Christian bride...

  • Amistad picture
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    Amistad (1997)

    U.S. lawyers (Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey) defend Africans who revolted against their...

  • Elizabeth picture
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    Elizabeth (1998)

    After succeeding her sister Mary to the throne in 1558, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) rules Britain...

  • Tora! Tora! Tora! picture
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    Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

    The history of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor is re-created from U.S. and Japanese...

  • The Fall of the Roman Empire picture
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    The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

    Decadent Commodus takes over and plays god after the poisoning of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec...

  • Richard III picture
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    Richard III (1955)

    Shakespeare's hunchbacked king (Laurence Olivier) works his mad way from the battlefield to the...

  • The Spirit of St. Louis picture
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    The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

    Charles Lindbergh attempts to become the first man to fly nonstop across the Atlantic to Paris in...

  • The Story of Mankind picture
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    The Story of Mankind (1957)

    A heavenly tribunal debates whether to allow man to destroy himself, and both the Devil and the...

  • The Mission picture
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    The Mission (1986)

    A Spanish slave trader (Robert De Niro) joins a Jesuit (Jeremy Irons) at a jungle mission in...

  • Queen Margot picture
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    Queen Margot (1994)

    The sister (Isabelle Adjani) of Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) of France must wed Protestant Henri...

  • The Hunchback picture
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    The Hunchback (1997)

    A young girl becomes the obsession of a minister, and can only be helped by a deformed bell ringer

  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age picture
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    Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

    Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) faces a threat to her rule from Spain's King Phillip II and...

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    Santa Fe Trail (1940)

    Dashing Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and his West Point classmates go to Kansas to stop abolitionist...

  • Cleopatra picture
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    Cleopatra (1917)

    The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the...

  • The Crusades picture
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    The Crusades (1935)

    Richard the Lion-Hearted (Henry Wilcoxon) heads for the Holy Land with his bride (Loretta Young) in...

  • Saffo, Venere di Lesbo picture
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    Saffo, Venere di Lesbo (1960)

    Top-heavy with wild action scenes and female pulchritude, this routine Italian costume adventure is...

  • The Alamo picture
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    The Alamo (2004)

    In 1836 Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) and more than 180 Texans hold...

  • 55 Days at Peking picture
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    55 Days at Peking (1963)

    Soldiers from 11 countries and a Marine major (Charlton Heston) guard a besieged compound during the...

  • Exodus picture
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    Exodus (1960)

    An Israeli nationalist (Paul Newman), a U.S. nurse (Eva Marie Saint) and 611 Jewish refugees break a...