MOVIES ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT

AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES

 

1650

Pocahontas

Disney

Story of an Indian girl and the Pilgrim father

Virginia

1650

The Man in the Iron Mask

Leonardo di Caprio

Louis XIV's sibling rivalry problems

France

1650s

Dangerous Liaisons

Glen Close, John Malkovich

Issues facing the aristocrats of Europe

France

1650

The Three Musketeers

Gerard Depardieu

Three pals from the famed story under Louis XIV

France

1680

Captain Blood

Errol Flynn

Story of James II, Glorious Revolution, high seas

England

1688

Cromwell

Richard Harris, Alec Guinness

The events up to the Glorious Revolution in England

England

1700

Gulliver's Travels

Ted Danson (Sam Malone)

Famous fantasy telling us about ourselves

Lilliput

1701

Peter the Great

Maximilian Schell / Vanessa Redgrave

Czar Peter turns Russia modern

Russia

1713

Rob Roy

Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange

A highlander must defend his family honor

Scotland

1750

Amadeus

Nobody Important

Mozart's humor and life

Austria

1750

When the Forest Ran Red

Nobody Important

Indian Wars and early settlers on the frontiers

Virginia

1750

Washington's First War

Documentary

About the French and Indian War

Pennsylvania

1750

Last of the Mohicans

Daniel Day Lewis

Story of Mohecians during the French-Indian War

Kentucky

1750

The Mission

Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons

Jesuits defending native rights in Brazil

Brazil

 

1760

The Northwest Passage

Spencer Tracy

White settlers searching for the NW Passage

Canada

1770

The Madness of King George

Nigel Hawthorne

King George III's manners

England

1770

Johnny Tremain

Disney

The story of the Sons of Liberty

Massachusetts

1775

Liberty

Documentary

The American Revolutionary Period

Massachusetts

1776

1776

Nobody Important

Musical of the Declaration of Independence

Pennsylvania

1776

Revolution

Al Pacino, Natassaja Kinski

An anti-revolutionary story from old America

Virginia

1777

Drums Along the Mohawk

Henry Fonda

Great story of people realizing they are Americans

Virginia

1777

The Patriot

Mel Gibson

An American defends his family, and wins his nation

Virginia

1777

John Paul Jones

Robert Stack

American naval hero of the Revolution

Virginia

1778

The Crossing

Jeff Daniels

Maricle of George Washington's Delaware crossing

Delaware

1780

Taras Bulba

Yul Brenner

Ultimate story of the Cossacks of Russia

Russia

1780

The Scarlet Empress

Marlene Dietrich

The story of Catherine the Great of Russia

Russia

1780

Young Catherine

Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell

Growing up as the future Catherine the Great

Russia

1785

Immortal Beloved

Nobody Important

Life of Beethoven

Austria

1792

Marie Antoinette

Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power

Life of the French Queen

France

1792

Danton

Andrej Wajda, Gerand Depardieu

Story of the French Revolutionary excesses

France

  

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