Favorite Historical Movie

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I’ve gotten myself in trouble with some who think that King Arthur was an historical movie. What was your most favorite and fairly accurate historical movie? Gods and Generals comes to mind as an example of modern movie making. Gladiator was very good as well. The Battle of Agincourt was beautifully depicted in Sir Laurence Olivier’s Henry V. Eisenstien’s Alexander Nevsky gets a nod ( much better battle on the ice). Ben Hur is still my favorite movie of all time. The ABC movie Masada was right on. No stirrups. Any thoughts?
 
How about Full Metal Jacket?
Boys in company C…
Platoon
JFK
Glory…
Gladiator (you said that…one of my all time favorites)
the Passion of the Christ
the Battle of the Bulge
Pearl Harbor
Black Hawk Down
the Untouchables
Raging Bull
Malcolm X
Hurricane
ah…I am getting tired;…
 
Two PBS series in the 70’s
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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GREAT plays!! I own them both on video and watch them frequently.
Having read a good deal of history from that era, 1505 to 1601, I see them as very accurate and Keith Michell and Glenda Jackson were awesome in their respective roles.
 
Oh My! Both of those are one of my wife’s and I favorites. Did you ever see PBS’s program “Meeting of the Minds” from the same period?
 
Mel Brook’s History of the World, Part I, or Robin Hood, Men in Tights.
 
Braveheart
Ladyhawke
Rob Roy

anything with men at war killing each other with clubs and swords as God intended… 😉
 
Glory, Memphis Belle, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, We were Soldiers.
 
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Braveheart
Ladyhawke
Rob Roy

anything with men at war killing each other with clubs and swords as God intended… 😉
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Or at least a Man in a Kilt! Gotta love a MIK! 😉

Oh, movies… uh, I’ll get back to ya… 😃
 
I should never have studied history, it ruins every historical movie for me because detecting historical anachronisms and discprepancies can ruin the whole thing for me. Also comparing the book to the movie is tough, because movies don’t have footnotes.

Glory-best Civil War movie bar none
Gettysburg (good on chronology, weak on pop-psych protrayals, especially of Lee)
heaven Knows Mr Allison
the Longest Day-best war movie ever made in my book
Midway
(both the last 2 could be updated by more current sources)
Mini-series, and the book it came from: War and Remembrance and its sequel or prequel I forget which
From here to Eternity (movie better than the book)
They Were Expendable
Truman miniseries or TV movie with Gary Sinese

worst: anything on King Arthur, Camelot etc.
Troy
Alexander
Gone with the Wind, good story-telling, horrible history
most bible flics of the 40s & 50s
most Mel Gibson historical movies (have not yet seen the Passion) for injecting modern sensibilities, conversationals styles, into historical settings, and getting the small details right while ignoring the big picture
anything ever produced on the Kennedys
anything ever produced by Oliver Stone --Oliver Stone’s name should never appear in the same sentence with the words “history”, “biography”, or “documentary”
 
Oh My! Both of those are one of my wife’s and I favorites. Did you ever see PBS’s program “Meeting of the Minds” from the same period?
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No, I haven’t seen it but now my curiosity’s peaked. What’s it about and is it good history?
anything ever produced on the Kennedys
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Actually, PBS ran a four hour miniseries documentary on the American Experience on the Kennedys in 1992 that was excellent. It was entitled, appropriately enough, The Kennedys 1900 - 1980. I have that on video, along with the one they did on LBJ a short time afterwards.
 
Meeting of Minds showed on PBS in the late 1970’s. It was a production by Steve Allen. Some fairly well known actors took on the persona of historical characters such that you heard Aristotle arguing with Attila. It was erudite and witty. We have both of the books that came out of the series but it is not available to our knowledge on VHS or DVD.
 
PS. I am no longer a knight who says “Neicht!” I am a knight who says “Ekke,ekke, ekke, petuih, knee wong…sum boy”!.
 
Whoops! That was directed to Scott LaFrance to whom I dedicate a cup of Community Dark Roast!
 
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PS. I am no longer a knight who says “Neicht!” I am a knight who says “Ekke,ekke, ekke, petuih, knee wong…sum boy”!.
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Spoken like a True Monty Python fan! :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :bowdown2: :bowdown2: :bowdown2:
 
Historical NOT Hysterical?
  1. There is a 1932 (or was it 1934) movie with Frederick March called THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. It was about the early Church and the perscutions in Rome. Does anyone remember ever seeing it. I have it on VHS.
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is a film about WWI from the German point of view. It’s an American made film and for it’s time, it is highly ranked.
For The Hysterical Historical…I thought Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 THE GREAT DICTATOR was a great spoof of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. Now THIS was a movie that was really controversal in it’s time…now it just adds to the sarcasism. :rolleyes:

(I’m into the b/w classics and silents)
 
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