Historical Film
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    Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954)

    The courageous Roy Roy MacGregor leads a revolt of the Scottish clans against the English monarchy,...

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    Lafayette (1963)

    The Marquis de La Fayette (Michel Le Royer) offers Gen. George Washington (Howard St. John) his...

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    New World

    Filmed for British television in 1986, The New World made it to American shores in 1988. Bernard...

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    The Grey Zone (2002)

    At a Nazi death camp in 1944, Jewish prisoners (David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi)...

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    Attila (1957)

    Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourage of God", sweeps onto...

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    Duel of Champions (1961)

    Horatio (Alan Ladd) and his brothers fight the sons of Alba to settle a property dispute in ancient...

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    The Egyptian (1954)

    A tavern maid (Jean Simmons) loves Pharaoh Ikhnaton's physician (Edmund Purdom), but a Babylonian...

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    Richard II (2001)

    A modern-day, avant-garde version of Shakespeare's dramatization of the reign of King Richard II.

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    Alfred the Great (1969)

    Danish invader King Guthrum (Michael York) kidnaps the king of Wessex's (David Hemmings) queen...

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    Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

    Henry VIII (Richard Burton) leaves his wife (Irene Papas) and forms the Church of England to marry...

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    Kalabaliken i Bender

    This is a visually opulent story -- geared to a young adult level -- of King Charles the XII of...

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    Libertarias (1996)

    At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a homeless nun (Ariadna Gil) meets then joins a women's...

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    Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

    A reporter (Red Buttons), a scientist, his assistant (Fabian) and other Victorians cross Africa by...

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    Chouans!

    The conflicts of the French Revolution are explored with the story of one family torn apart by war.

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    The Deceivers (1988)

    In 19th century India, an English collector for the British East India Company discovers the...

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    Eleni (1985)

    A Greek-American journalist (John Malkovich) goes to Athens to investigate his mother's (Kate...

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    The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

    How the Spanish soldier Pizarro on his South American trek overcame the Inca god-king Atahualpa.

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    Steal This Movie (2000)

    In 1977, while still in hiding, Abbie Hoffman (Vincent D'Onofrio) tells his story of starting the...

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    Tirano Banderas

    A sweeping epic about a bizarre Latin American tyrant in the 1920s.

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    The Fool Killer (1965)

    In the post-Civil War Era, a young farm boy believes a mysterious drifter to be the psychotic serial...

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    Royal Flash (1976)

    The escapades of an adventurer land him in the arms of a notorious courtesan and on the wrong side...

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    Genghis Khan (1965)

    The Mongol conqueror (Omar Sharif) of central Asia opposes the tribal chieftain (Stephen Boyd) who...

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    Temptation of a Monk (1994)

    Set during the Tang dynasty. After inadvertently setting the stage for the assassination of the...

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    The Two-Headed Spy (1958)

    A British spy (Jack Hawkins) rises to general in Germany and feeds the Allies vital data during...

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    Shaka (1963)

    The life story of Buddha. Based on the book "Old Path White Clouds" by Buddhist Vietnamese monk...

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    Rikyu (1991)

    The Buddhist monk Sen-no Rikyu, tea master to the warrior Hideyoshi Toyotomi, is forced to commit...

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    Edward II (1992)

    The gay king of England (Steven Waddington) meets his doom in this update of Christopher Marlowe's...

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    Kaspar Hauser (1996)

    Based on the renowned, 19th-century German legend. Who was Kaspar Hauser? Kept in a dungeon his...

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    Revolution (1985)

    A trapper (Al Pacino) joins the fight against the British in 1776 after his teenage son is tortured...

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    Les Milles

    Based on under-publicized historical facts, a WWII story which centers on a French military officer...