Historical Film
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    Distant Drums (1951)

    After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the...

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    The Great Moment (1944)

    After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired...

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    Mary of Scotland (1936)

    Queen Elizabeth (Florence Eldridge) jails Queen Mary (Katharine Hepburn) for 18 years, then puts her...

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    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    A French peasant girl (Renee Falconetti) opposing occupying British forces is tried for heresy and...

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    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    Laughton won an Oscar for his portrayal of the 16th-century English monarch in Alexander Korda's...

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    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

    Matronly Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves the dashing Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn), but politics come...

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    The Tower of London (1939)

    The mad Duke of Gloucester becomes Richard III (Basil Rathbone) by having rivals removed by his...

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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)

    The first of two film versions of Thornton Wilder's novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey begins at the...

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    The Queen of Sheba (1952)

    Leonora Ruffo is the exotically garbed title character in the Italian costume spectacle The Queen of...

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    Joan of Arc

    Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc,...

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    Young Bess (1953)

    Henry VIII's (Charles Laughton) daughter Elizabeth (Jean Simmons) has a forbidden romance with naval...

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    A Walk With Love and Death (1969)

    Tragedy befalls young lovers during the Hundred Years' War in 14th-century Europe.

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    Jinnah (1998)

    The story of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

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    Vercingetorix

    A Gallic chieftain (Christopher Lambert) unites the tribes of his region to force Julius Caesar...

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    Chasing the Deer (1994)

    Set in 1745, the Jacobite army is planning an uprisal after a thirty year hiatus; and one man in...

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    Amen (2003)

    About a German SS officer who joins a Vatican priest in a failed attempt to convince Pope Pius XII...

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    Solomon and Sheba (1959)

    Biblical King Solomon (Yul Brynner) clashes with his brother (George Sanders) and charms the queen...

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    Goliath and the Barbarians (1959)

    When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against...

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    Movies

    Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)

    An abducted American Indian (Adam Beach) escapes traders and is taken in by friendly monks in 1600s...

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    Austerlitz (1960)

    Napoleon plans his strategy and confronts the Austro-Russian army in the famous battle of Austerlitz...

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    Danton (1982)

    French populist Georges Danton (Gérard Depardieu) clashes with Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak)...

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    Second Sight

    Set in the mid 14th century, a tale about a young girl who turns wild child when a plague--the Black...

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    The End of August

    Based on Kate Chopin's moving novel The Awakening, and set in the early 1900s, this drama chronicles...

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    Saint-Cyr

    Late 17th century France. Madame de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV, has founded Saint-Cyr, a boarding...

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    The Gallant Hours (1960)

    Adm. William F. ``Bull'' Halsey Jr. (James Cagney) outwits Japanese Adm. Yamamoto in the 1942...

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    Hannibal (1960)

    The Carthaginian general (Victor Mature) crosses the Alps by elephant with his army, invading Italy...

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    Movies

    Song Jia Huang Chao

    A melodrama that tells the tale of China's troubled history in the first half of the 20th century,...

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    The Thief of Paris (1967)

    When a young boy is bilked of his inheritance by a crooked uncle/guardian, he grows up to become a...

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    Movies

    Gates to Paradise

    Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival, this tragic historical film from...

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    The Far Horizons (1955)

    Explorers Lewis (Fred MacMurray) and Clark (Charlton Heston) survey the Northwest with young...