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Historical Film Movies of 2008

John Adams
Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hopper takes the helm for this epic, seven-part miniseries produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Color of the Cross 2: Resurrection
Color of the Cross director Jean Claude LaMarre ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Spirit of Frederick Douglass
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Historical Film Movies of 2007

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Director Yves Simoneau explores the plight of the American Indian in the later half of the 19th century in this docudrama exploring the ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Marco Polo
A journey that starts as a die-hard mission to net Christian converts soon evolves into the adventure of a lifetime, in the sweeping ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2006

Marie Antoinette
Writer and director Sofia Coppola puts a new spin on the life and times of one of Europe's most infamous monarchs in this lavish ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Amazing Grace
One man's role in the long battle to outlaw slavery in the United Kingdom sets the stage for this historical drama from director ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Crown Prince
Robert Dornhelm's epic-length period tragedy The Crown Prince takes as its dramatic inspiration the heart-rending and ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2005

Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The New World
Terrence Malick, the universally acclaimed American filmmaker responsible for the key 1970s ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
The shrewd, 44-year reign of coquettish Queen Elizabeth I is ... [ Historical Film movie ]
El Rey
Antonio Dorado Z. directs the Spanish-language ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2004

Troy
Homer's sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Spartacus
This television miniseries tells the familiar story of ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Alamo
Re-teaming Dennis Quaid with John Lee Hancock, the director of 2002's The Rookie, The ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Last King
When the forces of the English Revolution unseated -- and beheaded -- his father, Charles II fled to the ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2003

Julius Caesar
This ambitious, four-hour cable miniseries stars Jeremy Sisto (taking time off from his regular series Six Feet Under) as ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Lion in Winter
An elderly king must come to terms with his past as he plots ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Henry VIII
The life of one of Great Britain's most influential and feared monarchs is dramatized in this lavish production, ... [ Historical Film movie ]
To Kill a King
British filmmaker Mike Barker directs the political ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2002

Hero
Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak ... [ Historical Film movie ]
10,000 Black Men Named George
In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
If one is to believe this made-for-cable biopic, America's most notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold sold out his country primarily ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Amen
The collective crimes against humanity known as the Holocaust have been well-documented since the end of World War II, but lingering questions ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2001

The Affair of the Necklace
A director of contemporary comedies, Charles Shyer makes a genre leap into period costume drama with this lavish ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Musketeer
Director Peter Hyams brings the modern choreography talents of famed Hong Kong fight sequence designer Xin Xin Xiong to this ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Druids
The life of the fabled Gallic leader Vercingetorix is brought to the screen in this epic international production. Young ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Conspiracy
In January of 1942, 15 of Adolf Hitler's right-hand men gathered together for a special meeting in Wannsee, in which over the course of two hours ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 2000

The Patriot
Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the director/producer team responsible ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Vatel
A man hoping to win the favor of a King finds that ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
This miniseries details the complex real-life relationship between Thomas Jefferson (Sam ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Nuremberg
This TNT miniseries stars Alec Baldwin as Robert Jackson, the Supreme ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1999

The Crossing
Adapted by screenwriter Howard Fast from his own fact-based novel, this historical drama tells the story of one of the ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
In the 15th century, France is mired in the 100 Years War when a humble voice ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1998

Elizabeth
This British-made historical drama depicts the rise of ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Ill-Gotten Gains
A kidnapped African fights for his life rather than allowing himself to be sold ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1997

Miss Evers' Boys
Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Amistad
This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1996

Titanic
In 1912, the H.M.S. Titanic was the largest ocean liner built to date, and its designers had ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Crucible
When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1995

Apollo 13
"Houston, we have a problem." Those words were ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Braveheart
Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1994

The Madness of King George
Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the ... [ Historical Film movie ]
World War II: When Lions Roared
This made-for-TV historical drama focuses on the sometimes uneasy alliances ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1993

Gettysburg
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Sharpe's Rifles
In this action adventure, author Bernard Cornwell's fictional Major Sharpe is faced with the daunting task of teaching a ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1992

Edward II
Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1991

Black Robe
Adapted by Brian Moore from his own novel, The Black Robe is a sprawling recreation of a turbelent ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Mission of the Shark
When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1989

Henry V
Kenneth Branagh makes his feature film directorial debut with this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. After the Chorus (Derek Jacobi) ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Fat Man & Little Boy
"Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1988

The Deceivers
This historical drama, based on a novel by John Masters that was in turn inspired by ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Gore Vidal's Lincoln
Originally telecast in two parts on March 27 and 28 of 1988, Lincoln was ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1987

The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1986

The Mission
Featuring a majestic score by Ennio Morricone and lush Oscar-winning cinematography by Chris Menges, Roland Joffé's ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1985

Lady Jane
Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a 6-part British ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1984

The First Olympics: Athens 1896
Five Emmy nominations went to the two-part TV drama The First Olympics: Athens 1896. The story begins in 1894, ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Half Slave, Half Free is the reissue title for African-American director Gordon Parks' TV movie Solomon Northup's Odyssey. ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1982

Gandhi
It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Blue and the Gray
Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1981

Reds
Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and ... [ Historical Film movie ]
The Bunker
This exhaustive (and exhausting) 3-hour TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph ... [ Historical Film movie ]

Historical Film Movies of 1980

Masada
Wits and weapons clash in this 1981 epic chronicling a rebellion by Jewish ... [ Historical Film movie ]
Shogun
Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated ... [ Historical Film movie ]

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