Historical Film
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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...

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    Amistad (1997)

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

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    Elizabeth (1998)

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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    The Mission (1986)

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

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    Queen Margot (1994)

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

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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...

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    Cleopatra (1917)

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

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    The Crusades (1935)

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

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    Saffo, Venere di Lesbo (1960)

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

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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
    Movies

    55 Days at Peking (1963)

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

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    Exodus (1960)

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

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    Gandhi (1982)

    Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning portrait of the man whose policy of nonviolence won India's...

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    The Devils (1971)

    This film focuses on an outspoken priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century...

  • Fat Man and Little Boy picture
    Movies

    Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

    Gen. Leslie R. Groves (Paul Newman) and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz) head the...

  • The Naked Maja picture
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    The Naked Maja

    Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya (Anthony Franciosa) pines for an...

  • The Sand Pebbles picture
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    The Sand Pebbles (1966)

    Multiple Oscar nominations went to this tale of a cynical sailor's experiences on an American...

  • The Wind and the Lion picture
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    The Wind and the Lion

    An Arab chieftain (Sean Connery) abducts a U.S. widow (Candice Bergen) and her children; President...

  • The Diary of Anne Frank picture
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    The Diary of Anne Frank

    A German-Jewish girl (Millie Perkins) and her family spend two years in an Amsterdam attic hiding...

  • Marie Antoinette picture
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    Marie Antoinette (1938)

    The 18th-century Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) has an affair with a Swedish count (Tyrone Power)...

  • Abraham Lincoln picture
    Movies

    Abraham Lincoln (1930)

    The 16th U.S. president (Walter Huston) is portrayed as a lawyer, orator, husband and Civil War...

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    Desiree (1954)

    Spurned when poor by a woman (Jean Simmons) he loves, Napoleon Bonaparte (Marlon Brando) meets her...