Historical Movies
 

Some favourites :
Doctor Zhivago.
Zulu.
Mutiny on the Bounty.

Does Forrest Gump count? That movie taught me a lot about the Cold War era :D

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Historical dramas as recommended by Mr Minio:

Amadeus (1984)
Agora (2009)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984)
Becket (1964)
Das Boot (1981)
Caligula (1979)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
The Red and the White (1967)
Of Gods and Men (2011)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Epilog Norymberski (1971)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Witches' Hammer (1970)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Markéta Lazarová (1967)
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
Red Psalm (1972)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Pianist (2001)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
I Am Cuba (1964)
Stalingrad (1993)
The Thin Line (1998)
The Valley of the Bees (1968)
Downfall (2004)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Vedreba (1967)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Waterloo (1970)
The Travelling Players (1975)
Alexander the Great (1980)
Agony (1981)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Ran (1985)
The Human Condition Trilogy (1959-1961)
Harakiri (1962)
City of Life and Death (2009)
A City of Sadness (1989)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
The Flowers of War (2011)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)




Missed a lot of other great flicks, but this is some essential stuff from the genre.

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A Dangerous Method? Seriously? :D O hope you liked it only because of Fassbender :D

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How are we defining "historical"? I mean, is historical accuracy of much import or do any period pieces count?

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It appears to be the latter.

Not only. Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley were good as well and I found the theme to be very interesting. A movie to me. Really worth giving it a try, especially if you're interested in Freud and Jung psychoanalysis.

One of my all time favourites is Cromwell. Richard Harris is excellent as the title character.

Well, if we take accuracy and throw it out the window, my favorites are:

Army of Darkness :D
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Casualties of War
Cold Mountain
Dances With Wolves
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Django Unchained
Gladiator
Glory
Gods and Monsters
The Help
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Inglourious Basterds
Interview With the Vampire
Inventing the Abbotts
Kinsey
L.A. Confidential
The Last Samurai
A League of Their Own
The Libertine
Milk
Now and Then
Of Mice and Men (Sinise, 1992)
Open Range
A Perfect World
The Quick and the Dead (Raimi, 1995)
Quills *
The Raven
The Reader
The Reckoning
The Robe
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Sandlot
Schindler's List
School Ties
Silverado
Sleepy Hollow
3:10 to Yuma (Mangold, 2007)
Tombstone
Tuck Everlasting (Russell, 2002)
Walk The Line
Zodiac


*If you watch only one of these movies, watch this one.

ETA: Mr. Minio - Since when does pornography qualify as "essential drama"?

No.

You got a problem with Quills?

(But not Caligula, apparently. That's essential.)

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I haven't seen it, but seeing it's your favourite movie I wanted to piss you off. :)

:rotfl:I saw this one coming a mile away!

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Yes, it's my favorite movie. But regardless of what you might think of me, you should consider the fact that it made both the 2010 MoFo Top 100 of All Time and the MoFo Millennium Top 100 lists.

If I recall correctly, even wintertriangles - who almost never sees eye to eye with me on films (or most things, really) - voted for it in the Millennium list.

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Why are you even trying to justify your taste? It's all up to you what movies you like. I was just teasing you. :)

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I'm not justifying anything. I'm telling you it's a great movie and that you should watch it.

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To me great movies are the ones I like the most, not the ones that appear on some lists, but yeah I see what are you hinting at and maybe I will watch it some time in the future.

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I mentioned the lists only to show that I'm not the only MoFo who appreciates the film. As it's pretty apparent that you and I have dissimilar tastes.

And I do like it the most, which is why it's my favorite and has held that position for at least a dozen years.

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Some more I liked :
Hotel Rwanda.
Lone Star.
The Man Who Would be King.
The Vikings.
Spartacus.

My favorite historical movies from the top of my head:

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Come and See (1985)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Great Escape (1963)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)