History Movies

Historical Movies!

Being a comprehensive list of films with historical themes made in the last 100 years

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TIME NAME OF FILM STARRING SYNOPSIS

prehistory	Walking with Monsters	Kenneth Branagh	everyday life during the Paleozoic Era
prehistory	Walking with Dinosaurs	Kenneth Branagh	everyday life during the Mesozoic Era
prehistory	Walking with Prehistoric Beasts	Kenneth Branagh	everyday life during the Centozoic Era
prehistory	Walking with Cavemen	Kenneth Branagh	everyday life of prehistoric men
prehistory	2001: Space Odyssey (1st 20 min)	Stanley Kubrick	australopithecines and the beginning of consciousness
prehistory	Quest for Fire	Documentary	prehistoric man's trials and tribulations
prehistory	One Million Years BC	Raquel Welch	tracing early man and womankind
prehistory	Clan of the Cave Bear	Daryl Hannah	Life before history began
prehistory	The Flintstones	Fred, Wilma, Barney	stylized depiction of life in the Stone Age

ANCIENT TIMES click to buy film

4000 bc	The Bible	John Huston, George C. Scott	Bible stories from the Book of Genesis
2000s bc	Noah's Ark	Noah	Story of Noah and his Ark
2500s bc	The Land of the Pharaohs	Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins	Pharaoh Khufu and the Great Pyramid
2500s bc	Pyramid	David MaCaulay	Building of the Great Pyramid
1600s bc	Abraham	Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey	Life of Abraham, the journey
1600 bc	In the Beginning	Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset	Bible stories from Genesis and Exodus
1500s bc	Jacob	Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle	Life of Jacob including wrestling with Angel
1500s bc	Joseph	Ben Kingsley	Life of Joseph, slavery in Egypt
1500s bc	Joseph: King of Dreams	Ben Affeleck	Life of Joseph animated, slavery in Egypt
1300s bc	The Egyptian	Jean Simmons / Peter Ustinov	Akenaton's Monotheism vs. Tradition
1200s bc	Faraon (Pharaoh)	Jerzy Zelnik / Barbara Brylska	A tale of Egypt from the time of Ramses

1200s bc	The Ten Commandments	Charlton Heston,Yul Brenner,Anne Baxter	Life of Moses, story of Exodus
1200s bc	The Prince of Egypt	Val Kilmer,Sandra Bullock,Patrick Stewart	Animated story of Moses and Exodus
1000s bc	Samson and Delilah	Elizabeth Hurley, Dennis Hopper	The warrior finds his weakness
900s bc	David	Lenord Nimoy, Nathanial Parker	Life of the King of Israel
900s bc	King David	Richard Gere	Life of the King of Israel
900s bc	David and Bathsheba	Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward	The Great Affair
900s bc	Solomon	Ben Cross, Vivica A. Fox	Life of the great king Solomon of Israel
900s bc	Solomon and Sheba	Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida	The visit of the Queen to Solomon's court
500s bc	The Story of Ruth	Elani Eden	Life of Ruth of the Bible, Jesus' relative
500s bc	Jeremiah	Patrick Dempsey, Klaus Maria Brandauer	Life of Jeremiah and Nebuchadnezzar
400s bc	Esther	Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham	Life of Esther, who saved the Jews

CLASSICAL GREECE (to 300 bc) click to buy film

1500 bc	The Clash of the Titans	Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier	Greco-Roman mythological fantasy
1400 bc	Hercules	Disney	Mythological figure of Hercules, animated
1200 bc	Jason and the Argonauts	Nobody Important	Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece
1200 bc	Troy	Brad Pitt	Story of the Trojan War
1200 bc	Helen of Troy	Sienna Guillory	The face that launched a thousand ships
1180 bc	The Trojan Women	Katherine Hepburn, V. Redgrave	Story of women after the fall of Troy
1180 bc	Ulysses	Kirk Douglas	Homer's famous epic of Odysseus' trip
1180 bc	The Odyssey	Nobody Important	Homer's famous epic
480 bc	The 300 Spartans	Richard Egan	Heroic stand of Sparta against Persia
480 bc	300	Gerard Butler	Heroic stand of Sparta against Persia
400 bc	Barefoot In Athens	Peter Ustinov	Life and death of Socrates
330 bc	In the Footsteps of Alexander	Documentary	Alexander's conquest of Asia and Egypt
330 bc	Alexander	Val Kilmer	Alexander's conquest of Asia and Egypt
250 bc	Asoka	Shah Rukh Khan	Rise to power of India's greatest ruler

CLASSICAL ROME (to 500) click to buy film

70bc	Spartacus	Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier	Story of the great slave revolt against Rome
50bc	Cleopatra	Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton	Life of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
50bc	Caesar	Marlon Brando / Charlton Heston	Life and death of Julius Caesar, emperor of Rome
27bc	Roman City	David MaCaulay	The building of a Roman city in conquered Gaul
20	Ben Hur	Charlton Heston	Story of a Jewish nobleman in the time of Christ
20	Life of Brian	Chapman, Gilliam, Jones, Idle	Story of a Jewish nobleman in the time of Christ
20	King of Kings	Jeffery Hunter	Life of Jesus Christ
30	The Passion of the Christ	Mel Gibson, James Caviezel	Last days in the life of Jesus Christ
35	The Robe	Richard Burton, Jean Simmons	Story of the robe Jesus wore when he was crucified
40	Caligula	Malcolm McDowell, Peter o' Toole	Life of the decadent Roman Emperor
60	Peter and Paul	Anthony Hopkins, Raymond Burr	Saint Peter and Saint Paul spreading the Word
60	Quo Vadis	Robert Taylor, Peter Ustinov	Rome in the time of Nero and St. Peter
60	Sign of the Cross	Fredric March, Elissa Landi	Nero's general falls in love with a Christian girl
70	Masada	Peter o'Toole	Roman attack on Judea, scattering of Jew diaspora
79	Up Pompeii	Frankie Howard, Barbara Murray	A look at Pompeiian life and times before the boom
79	The Last Days of Pompeii	Steve Reeves	What happens when Vesuvius decides to erupt?
180	Fall of the Roman Empire	Sophia Loren, Christopher Plummer	Transition between Marcus and Commodus, decline
180	Gladiator	Russell Crowe, Richard Harris	Beginning of decline after Marcus, Maximus's story
450	Atilla	Zowers Boothe, Tim Curry	How the Huns helped to destroy the Empire

MEDIEVAL TIMES (500's-1400's) click to buy film

600s	Merlin	Sam Neill, Helena B. Carter	In the time of King Arthur
600s	The Sword in the Stone	Disney	In the time of King Arthur, animated
600s	First Knight	Sean Connery, Richard Gere	King Arthur and Sir Lancelot in Camelot
600s	King Arthur	Nobody Important	Modern effects bring story to life!
700s	Monty Python & the Holy Grail	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones	Perhaps the funniest history movie ever
800s	The Thief of Baghdad	Alexander Korda	Fantasy of Abu, who covets a princess
800s	Stara Basn	Jerzy Hoffman	Legend from old Poland, a love story
900s	The Vikings	Kirk Douglas	Great story of these legendary plunderers
900s	The Long Ships	Richard Windmark, Sydney Poitier	Viking adventurers meet the Muslims!
1000	Arabian Nights	Lief Erickson, Jon Hall	The true grand stories of Scherahazade
1000	The 1001 Arabian Nights	Nobody Important	The famous stories of Scherahazade
1000	Aladdin	Disney	One of Scherahazade's 1001 stories
1000	Mulan	Disney	Story from China's Chin Dynasty
1050	El Cid	Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren	Spanish medieval epic
1095	The Crusades	Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxson	Christian vs. Muslim: The Crusades
1180	The Lion in Winter	Peter o'Toole, K. Hepburn, A. Hopkins	Epic of Royal life in Medieval England

1180	Becket	Peter o'Toole, Richard Burton	Conflict between Henry II and Becket
1190	Cathedral	David MaCaulay	The construction of a gothic cathedral
1190	Ivanhoe	Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor	Medieval Romance 3rd Crusade
1200s	The 13th Warrior	Antonio Banderas	An Arab meets the Vikings
1200	The Name of the Rose	Sean Connery, Christian Slater	Mystery in a Medieval Abby
1200	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland	Story of a band of merry men
1200	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Kevin Costner, Christian Slater	Story of a band of merry men
1250	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	Wallace and Scotland vs. England
1250	Castle	David MaCaulay	Construction of a medieval castle
1250	Alexander Nevsky	Sergei Eisenstein	Russian repulsion of German invasion
1300	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Charles Laughton	Story of a deformed man in France
1300	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	Story of the great Russian Icon painter
1400	Henry V	Laurence Olivier	Battle of Agincourt, Conquest of France
1410	Krzyzacy	r	Battle of Grunwald, Teutonic Knights
1420	Richard III	Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom	Story of the usurper of the English Throne
1450	The Messenger: Joan of Arc	Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich	Story of the French Heroine
1450	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Renee Maria Falconetti	Supreme 1920's film of Joan of Arc
1460	Dracula	Bram Stoker	Story of medieval Romania (Wallachia)

Renaissance, Colonial and Elizabethan Period (1500's-1700's) click to buy film

1492	1492 Conquest of Paradise	Gerard Depardieu, Sigorney Weaver	Story of Columbus and the Ocean Blue
1510	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison	Story of Michaelangelo
1530	Captain From Castile	Tyrone Power	Cortez and Spanish conquest of the Mexico
1536	Highlander	Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert	A Scottish Immortal fights for the prize
1540	The Six Wives of Henry VIII	Keith Mitchell	The entire debacle of Henry and his women
1540	Anne of a Thousand Days	Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold	Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII
1540	A Man for All Seasons	Paul Scofield	Thomas More and Henry VIII
1565	Mary Queen of Scots	Vanessa Redgrave	Story of Queen Mary
1565	Mary of Scotland	Katherine Hepburn	Story of Queen Mary
1575	Ivan the Terrible	Nikolai Cherkasov	Shows how Russia needed a strong leader
1585	Romeo and Juliet	Whiting, Olivia Hussey	Shakespeare's Famous Italian love story
1588	Fire Over England	Vivian Leigh, Laurence Olivier	Story of England and the Spanish Armada
1588	The Sea Hawk	Errol Flynn	Story of the Spanish Armada
1595	The Crimson Pirate	Burt Lancaster	Classic pirate adventure on the Spanish Main
1600	Hamlet	Mel Gibson	Shakespeare's Famous Danish story

1600	Elizabeth	Cate Blanchette	Story of Queen Elizabeth I
1602	Twelfth Night	Helen Bonham Carter	Shakespeare's witty play
1604	Othello	Lawrence Olivier	Shakespeare's Famous story from Italy
1605	MacBeth	Orson Welles	Shakespeare's Famous story
1620	Mayflower	Anthony Hopkins	The famed story of the ship that began a colony
1620	Squanto	Xavier Koller	The bold story of this Indian hero
1630	The Last Valley	Michael Caine	Germany during the 30 Years War
1648	With Fire and Sword	Jerzy Hoffmann, Henryk Sienkiewicz	Story of a Cossack uprising (Ogniem I Mieczem)
1655	The Deluge (Potop)	Jerzy Hoffmann, Henryk Sienkiewicz	Story of Swedish invasion of Poland
1660	Pan Wolodyowski	Jerzy Hoffmann, Henryk Sienkiewicz	Story of Turkish invasion of Poland
1660	Shogun	Richard Chamberlain	The amazing story of Feudal Japan
1650	The Black Swan	Tyrone Power	Colonial problems in the Caribbean
1692	The Crucible	Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Rider	Witch hunts in early America

Enlightenment and Revolutionary Period (1700's) click to buy film

1650	Pocahontas	Disney	Story of an Indian girl and the Pilgrim father
1650	The Man in the Iron Mask	Leonardo di Caprio	Louis XIV's sibling rivalry problems
1650s	Dangerous Liaisons	Glen Close, John Malkovich	Issues facing the aristocrats of Europe
1650	The Three Musketeers	Gerard Depardieu	Three pals from the famed story under Louis XIV
1680	Captain Blood	Errol Flynn	Story of James II, Glorious Revolution, high seas
1688	Cromwell	Richard Harris, Alec Guinness	The events up to the Glorious Revolution in England
1700	Gulliver's Travels	Ted Danson (Sam Malone)	Famous fantasy telling us about ourselves
1701	Peter the Great	Maximilian Schell / Vanessa Redgrave	Czar Peter turns Russia modern
1713	Rob Roy	Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange	A highlander must defend his family honor
1750	Amadeus	Nobody Important	Mozart's humor and life
1750	When the Forest Ran Red	Nobody Important	Indian Wars and early settlers on the frontiers
1750	Washington's First War	Documentary	About the French and Indian War
1750	Last of the Mohicans	Daniel Day Lewis	Story of Mohecians during the French-Indian War
1750	The Mission	Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons	Jesuits defending native rights in Brazil

1760	The Northwest Passage	Spencer Tracy	White settlers searching for the NW Passage
1770	The Madness of King George	Nigel Hawthorne	King George III's manners
1770	Johnny Tremain	Disney	The story of the Sons of Liberty
1775	Liberty	Documentary	The American Revolutionary Period
1776	1776	Nobody Important	Musical of the Declaration of Independence
1776	Revolution	Al Pacino, Natassaja Kinski	An anti-revolutionary story from old America
1777	Drums Along the Mohawk	Henry Fonda	Great story of people realizing they are Americans
1777	The Patriot	Mel Gibson	An American defends his family, and wins his nation
1777	John Paul Jones	Robert Stack	American naval hero of the Revolution
1778	The Crossing	Jeff Daniels	Maricle of George Washington's Delaware crossing
1780	Taras Bulba	Yul Brenner	Ultimate story of the Cossacks of Russia
1780	The Scarlet Empress	Marlene Dietrich	The story of Catherine the Great of Russia
1780	Young Catherine	Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell	Growing up as the future Catherine the Great
1785	Immortal Beloved	Nobody Important	Life of Beethoven
1792	Marie Antoinette	Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power	Life of the French Queen
1792	Danton	Andrej Wajda, Gerand Depardieu	Story of the French Revolutionary excesses

THE 19th CENTURY to 1860 click to buy film

1800's	The Merchant of Venice	Laurence Olivier	Reset Shakespeare in the 1800's, Jew problems
1800's	Billy Budd	Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan	Story of Law vs. Justice on the high seas
1800	The Bounty (Mutiny on the)	Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Olivier	The story of the famous voyage
1810	Master and Commander	Russell Crowe	Adventure on the high seas of the British Empire
1812	The Last Warrior	Nobody Important	Story of Tecumseh, the Indians last best hope
1812	Desiree	Marlon Brando	The amazing general of Revolutionary France
1812	Napoleon	Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossilini	The amazing general of Revolutionary France
1812	The Final Invasion	Documentary	The War of 1812
1812	Pan Tadeusz	Boguslaw Linda	Napoleon comes to Poland and the Poles join him
1812	War and Peace	Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda	Napoleon's Grand Armee is coming to Russia
1812	The Buccaneer	Yul Brenner	Battle of New Orleans, and pirates
1814	The Count of Monte Christo	Jim Caviezel	The Classic tale of Revenge in Napoleon's time
1815	Waterloo	Nobody Important	The great story of the final Napoleonic battle

1820	Amistad	Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins	Story of a revolt on a slave ship and the aftermath
1820	Mountain Men	Charlton Heston, Brian Keith	Story of fur trappers in the pristine Rockies, Indians
1840	The Alamo	John Wayne	The epic story of an American struggle with Mexico
1845	Jeremiah Johnson	Robert Redford	Epic of the Rocky Mountains, he lives there
1850	Unconquered	Gary Cooper	Indians and White Men on the frontier
1850	Man in the Wilderness	Richard Harris	He survives the nature of 19th Century America
1855	Charge of the Light Brigade	Errol Flynn	Crimean War between Russia and England
1855	Anna and the King	Jodie Foster	Story of Anna the American and the King of Siam
1860	Gone with the Wind	Vivian Leigh	The grand story of the Battle of Atlanta
1860	Glory	Denzel Washington, Matthew Brodrick	A Negro regiment fighting in the Civil War
1860	Gods and Generals	Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Daniels	Epic of the Civil War, first battles to Gettysburg
1862	Gettysburg	Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall	The greatest battle of the American Civil War
1864	The Red Badge of Courage	Audie Murphy	Civil War soldier's psychological heroism
1865	Birth of a Nation	WD Griffith	Story of the crushing of Dixie, Reconstruction

THE 19th CENTURY after 1865 click to buy the movie

1870	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	On the frontier of white and indian civilizations
1870	A Christmas Carol	George C. Scott	The Christmas classic from Victorian England
1870	Treasure Island	Bobbie Driscoll	The famous story of discovery and values
1870	Moby Dick	Gregory Peck	Captain Ahab and the famous great white shark
1870	The Outlaw Josey Wales	Clint Eastwood	Civil War vet reverts to warriorism to save his town
1875	The Man who would be King	Michael Caine, Sean Connery	Supreme story of Brits in India, in Kafiristan
1875	Son of the Morning Star	Nobody Important	General Custer and the last stand at Little Big Horn
1879	Shaka Zulu	Edward Fox, Robert Powell	The rise and fall of Africa's greatest native emperor
1879	Zulu Dawn	Peter o'Toole	The story of the worst defeat of the British Empire
1880	Zulu	Michael Caine	The British in southern Africa, fighting Zulu tribesmen
1880	Wyatt Earp	Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid	Classic lawman of the American west, Earp is human
1880	The Brothers Karamazov	Yul Brenner, William Shatner	Classic Russian story of intrigue
1880	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Gary Cooper	British Empire and the colonies in Hindustan
1880	Kim	Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell	Rudyard Kipling's boy growing up in British- India
1880	Gunga Din	Carey Grant	Rudyard Kipling's India again, halarious adventure!
1880	Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid	Robert Redford, Paul Newman	Life in the Old West for two outlaw friends
1880	Young Guns	Keifer Southerland, Charlie Sheen	Life in the Old West for a superhuman gunfighter
1880	Great Expectations	Anthony Hopkins	Classic tale of Pip in Victorian England
1880	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman	Tale of the old west... Eastwood style

1885	Carry on up the Khyber	Sid James, Kenneth Williams	Funny story of Imperial British India and Afghanistan
1885	Khartoum	Charlton Heston	Sudan during a holy war, British Empire and Islam
1885	A Passage to India	Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness	Coming face to face with colonial India
1886	Around the World in 80 Days	Nobody Important	A haughty British guy is bet he can't do it, can he?
1886	20000 Leagues Under the Sea	Kirk Douglas	Captain Nemo and the Nautilus's advanture
1890	Promised Land	Andzrej Wajda	A Polish city sees corruption come with industry
1890	Gangs of New York	Leonardo Di Caprio	The conflict between Irish Americans and new Irish
1890	Lord Jim	Peter o'Toole	British Imperial sailor in all ports of the old world
1890	Rio Bravo	John Wayne, Dean Martin	Three guys shootin the breeze in the Old West
1890	The Barbarian and the Geisha	John Wayne	A 19th C. American in Late Japanese culture
1890	The Last Samarai	Tom Cruise	An American's experience in a Japan on the brink
1890	Heart of Darkness	John Malkovich, Tim Roth	An English merchant on the rivers of colonial Africa
1890	The Four Feathers	Clements, Zoltan Korda, Miklos Rozsa	British soldier wants to stay home not go to Africa
1898	Rough Riders	Tom Berenger, Gary Busey	Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish American War
1900	Beau Geste	Gary Cooper	Three brothers in the Victorian era
1900	The Wind and the Lion	Sean Connery, Candice Bergen	Americans kidnapped in the desert of Morocco, TR
1900	The Drum	Zoltan Korda, Sabu	Grand epic from the British Empire' Indian Raj
1900	Flame over India	Kenneth Moore	A British officer must save a prince from Muslims

WWI-INTERWAR ERA (to 1935) click to buy movie

1905	Fiddler on the Roof	Topol, Norma Crane	Jewish life in pre-revolutionary Russian Empire
1905	The Battleship Potemkin	Sergei Eisenstein	Leninist propoganda about Russia 1905, poetical
1910	Metropolis	Fritz Lang	German futurism- organization and mechanized man
1910	Out of Africa	Meryl Streep, Robert Redford	Tale of a Danish noble who has a farm in Africa
1910	The Time Machine	Rod Taylor, H.G. Wells	Grand story of a Victorian transported to the future
1912	Titanic	Leonardo di Caprio, Kate Winslett	The tragedy of the grandest of all ships as it capsizes
1914	Legends of the Fall	Brad Pitt	American guys from the frontier off to WWI
1915	The African Queen	Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn	A story of love and war on the rivers of Africa
1915	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lew Ayres	A German deadened by WWI Trench war
1916	Paths of Glory	Kirk Douglas, Stanley Kubrick	A French war worn squad must take one last battle
1916	Gallipoli	Mel Gibson	Australian men fighting in Turkey in WWI
1917	Nicholas and Alexandra	Nobody Important	Story of the last Russian king and queen
1917	Rasputin	Alan Rickman	Story of the guy who, perhaps, brought Russia down
1917	Reds	Warren Beaty, Jack Nicholson	An American communist during the Russian Rev.
1917	Oktyabr (October)	Sergei Eisenstein	The ten days that shook the Russian world
1918	Red and the White	Miklos Jancso	Bolscheviks and Whites fighting post Revolution

1918	Dr. Zhivago	Omar Sharif, David Lean, Pasternak	Flashback from Russia... how it used to be
1918	Lawrence of Arabia	Peter o'Toole	Englishman helps Arabian tribes vs. the Turks
1920	Untamed	Tyrone Power, Susan Hayword	The Great Trek of the Boers of South Africa
1920	Intolerance	DW Griffith	A race against time (literally) to see if love conquers all
1925	The Untouchables	Kevin Costner, Sean Connery	The great film about the Chicago Capone gangsters
1927	The Spirit of St. Louis	James Stewart	The ultimate trip- first ever flight across the ocean
1929	The Keys of the Kingdom	Gregory Peck	Missionary in China, a Catholic Priest overcomes all
1930	The Grapes of Wrath	Henry Fonda	The dust bowl and the Great Depression
1930	Red Dust	Clark Gable	An African Safari and a love quadrangle
1930	Mogambo	Clark Gable	An African Safari and a love quadrangle
1930	The Naked Jungle	Charlton Heston	Carving out a plantation in South America
1930	I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Nobody Important	The story that awakened America's conscience
1932	Mr. Robinson Crusoe	Douglas Fairbanks	A can-do kind of guy winds up on an island
1934	Sanders of the River	Paul Robson, Zoltan Korda	Kenya during the British Empire, funny movie
1934	The Old Man and the Sea	Spencer Tracy	An old man has to come face to face with reality
1935	Bonnie and Clyde	Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway	Story of the famous depression era fugitives
1936	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	Story of a guy who faces modern times
1937	Chinatown	Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski	Story of organized crime in San Franscisco
1937	Lost Horizon	Frank Capra	Classic about British plane crash in the Hemalayas

THE ERA OF WWII (to 1945) click to buy film

1934	The Triumph of the Will	Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Goering	Unbelievable film of a real Nazi Rally in Nuremburg
1936	Land and Freedom	Ian Hart	Story of the Spanish Civil War
1936	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ingred Bergman, Gary Cooper	An American goes to Spain to help the Royalists
1937	The Eternal Jew	Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Jews	A Nazi propoganda movie depicting Jews as a 'cancer'
1938	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	What happened when the media became biased
1938	The Sound of Music	Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer	The noble Von Trapp family in Nazified Austria
1935	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Harrison Ford	Modern search for the Ark of the Covenant
1938	Indiana Jones: Last Crusade	Harrison Ford, Sean Connery	Modern search for the Holy Grail
1939	WWII: When Lions Roared	Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Hoskins	The diplomatic history: Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
1940	The Diary of Anne Frank	Millie Perkins	Famous story of a girl in Nazi controlled Holland
1940	The Pianist	Adrien Brody, Roman Polanski	A piano player lives through Nazi occupied Poland
1940	A Generation	Andrzej Wajda	Trilogy I: Youth helps people escape Warsaw Ghetto
1941	Kanal	Andrzej Wajda	Trilogy II: Polish soldiers try to escape through sewer
1941	The Battle of Britain	Michael Caine	History of a battle that saved England
1941	Twelve o' Clock High	Gregory Peck	WWII Americans in England, will they return home?

1941	Mrs. Miniver	Greer Garson	Great Britain when it fought alone for a year
1941	49th Parallel	Lawrence Olivier	Germans try to provoke Canada to war
1941	U-571	Matthew McConaughey	Americans try to sneak 'Enigma' to safety
1941	From here to Eternity	Burt Lancaster	Did American's think their country could be bombed?
1941	Pearl Harbor	Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale	The story of the Jap bombing of America
1941	Thirty Seconds over Tokyo	Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum	The Dolittle Raids after Pearl Harbor
1941	Empire of the Sun	John Malkovich, Christian Bale	Life gets turned upsidown in the Pacific after PH
1941	Wake Island	Brian Donlevy	The Marines here have no hope, and keep fighting
1942	Bridge over the River Kwai	William Holden, Alex Guinness	In Burma during Jap occupation, British troops live
1942	Midway	Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda	Story of American navy against the odds at Midway
1942	War and Remberance	Robert Mitchem, Jane Seymour	Epic miniseries of events inside the III Reich
1943	Patton	George C. Scott	The epic of the American general the Nazi's feared
1943	Casablanca	Humphry Bogart, Ingred Bergman	French un-occupied territory, a love triangle
1943	Stalingrad	A bunch of faceless foreign actors	The largest battle in human history
1943	Enemy at the Gates	Ralph Feinnes, Jude Law	Personal battle against the epic battle of Stalingrad

1943	Schindler's List	Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes	The unlikely hero for many during the Holocaust
1943	Lodz Ghetto	Jerzy Kosinski	The sembelancy of normalcy in the Lodz Ghetto
1944	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda, Zbigniew Cybulski	A Polish orphanage director in the wartime ghetto
1944	The Longest Day	Richard Burton	The definitive D-Day movie, from all perspectives
1944	Ballad of a Soldier	Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko	The Russian front in WWII: a soldier's story
1944	MacArthur	Gregory Peck	Life of Douglas MacArthur, flamboyant Anglo Gen.
1944	Saving Private Ryan	Tom Hanks	Personal story against the power and awe of D-Day
1944	Memphis Belle	Matthew Modine	WWII American pilots flying against the Luftwaffe
1944	Battleground	Van Johnson	The Battle of the Bulge, US Forces vs. Nazis
1944	Bataan	Robert Taylor	In the Philippines, Americans try to survive
1944	The Sands of Iwo Jima	John Wayne	The Army raises men to fight the war against Japan
1945	Fat Man and Little Boy	Paul Newman	The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
1946	Ashes and Diamonds	Andrzej Wajda	Trilogy III: Poland becomes a communist country

THE COLD WAR ERA (1945-1990)

1948	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci, John Lone	Tragedy of China's last emperor before communism
1948	Miracle on 34th Street	Maureen o'Hara, Edmund Gunn	After all this time, Santa Claus reveals himself
1948	Empire of the Sunr	Steven Spielberg, Christian Bale	A British boy during the cultural revolution in China
1948	Seven Years in Tibet	Brad Pitt	An Austrian soldier is friends with Dalai Lama
1948	Exodus	Paul Newman	Founding of Modern Israel by Jewish resistance
1948	Gandhi	Ben Kingsley, Sir Richard Attenbrough	Life of the man who made India Independent

1950	Its a Wonderful Life	James Stewart, Donna Reed	Christmas movie from postwar America
1950	Miracle on 34th Street	Maureen O'Hara	So there really is a Sant-y Claus huh?
1950s	Indochine	Catherine Deneuve	Story of French Indochine (Vietnam) in the 50's
1950s	Kundun	Martin Scorsese, Tserong	The true Dalai Lama, leader of now extinct Tibet
1950s	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	William Holden, Grace Kelly	The Korean War and the men who fought it
1950s	Pork Chop Hill	Gregory Peck	The hill didn't need to be taken in the Korean War
1950s	MASH	Donald Sutherland	A US medical unit during Korean War
1950s	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecarvo	Problems of France trying to run a 3rd world land
1950s	Battle Hymn	Rock Hudson	An American man during the Korean War
1950s	The Wild One	Marlon Brando	The new America of the Beat Generation
1950s	Rebel Without a Cause	James Dean	The new America of the Beat Generation
1950s	On the Waterfront	Marlon Brando	Mobsters in 1950's America
1950s	Evita	Madonna, Antonio Banderas	Life of the wife of Juan Peron, Eva, in Argentina
1950s	Cry the Beloved Country	James Earl Jones, Richard Harris	South Africa's segregated yet human Apartheid era
1950s	The World of Suzie Wong	William Holden, Nancy Kwan	Story from Hong Kong revealing that city's culture

196os	Atomic Cafe	Documentary	The duck and cover, hysteria about the atom bomb
196os	Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubric, George C. Scott	The surrealistic pounding of emotions over the bomb
196os	Malcolm X	Denzel Washington	The black civil rights activist portrayed
196os	Full Metal Jacket	Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine	From Paris Island to the jungles of Vietnam
196os	Platoon	Tom Barenger, Charlie Sheen	The jungles of Vietnam and two soldiers
196os	Hamburger Hill	Anthony Barille	The jungles of Vietnam and three soldiers
196os	Apocolypse Now	Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando	The unbelievable Mekong trip into Cambodia
196os	Good Morning Vietnam	Robin Williams	Saigon, Vietnam's favorite radio show
196os	Born on the 4th of July	Oliver Stone, Tom Cruise	Vietnam, paralyzed, return, anti-war man
196os	Forrest Gump	Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise	Montage of the last fifty years through an innocent
196os	George Wallace	Gary Sinise	This politican kicked political correctness out
1960s	Man of Marble	Andrzej Wajda	Polish communist police state in the 1960's
196os	The Russians are Coming!	Carl Reiner	A stray Soviet sub pays a visit to New England
196os	Rhodesian Kaleidoscope	Cecil Rhodes, Ian Smith	What is the story of Rhodesia? 1 2 3 4
196os	Dingaka	Stanley Baker, PW Botha	Black and White differences in South Africa

1970s	The Day of the Jackal	Nobody Important	Attempt on the life of Charles De Gaulle
1970s	Dirty Harry	Clint Eastwood	A cop that smashes murder cases
1970s	The Right Stuff	Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon	Story of the formerly great US space program
1970s	The Dukes of Hazzard	Bo and Luke Duke	Story of growin' up in Dixie, the American South
1970s	Apollo 13	Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon	With 60's proto-technology, they have to get home
1970s	Munich	Spielberg, IDF	The story the vengence if the Israelis over terrorists
1970s	Cool Hand Luke	Paul Newman	Vietnam Vet goes to Jail and gets harassed
1970s	From a Far Country	Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtela	The Poland of the communist period and before
1970s	Midnight Express	Brad Davis, Irene Miracle	True story of an American going to Islamic jail
1970s	Rhodesia: The War Years	Ian Smith	How part of the West became part of the Rest
1970s	Close Encounters of 3rd Kind	Richard Dreyfuss	Well, it finally happens.
1970s	Death Wish	Charles Bronson	When gangs kill his family, one man gets revenge

1980s	Uncommon Valor	Gene Hackman	A retired military man goes to Nam to find his son
1980s	The Gods must be Crazy	Jamie Uys, N! Xau	An African unaware of white culture finds some
1980s	Gulag	David Keith	An American in the Soviet Union gets captured
1980s	The Day After	Nicholas Meyer	Well they finally did it. Nuclear war USA/USSR
1980s	Man of Iron	Andrzej Wajda	Solidarity vs. the Government in Poland in 1980
1980s	Santa Claus: The Movie	Dudley Moor, John Lithgow	Santa Claus comes to New York, to help out
1980s	To Kill a Priest	Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris	The communists attack a favorite Polish Priest
1980s	Beverly Hills Cop	Eddie Murphy	An 80's cop from Detroit takes on crime in BH
1980s	Detroit Tigers: The Movie	Ernie Harwell, Kell, Kaline	An 80's retrospective of America's greatest sport
1980s	Wall Street	Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas	The wily world of wall street trading is revealed
1980s	The Hunt for Red October	Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin	A secret new Soviet weapon, an honorable captain
1980s	Roger and Me	Michael Moore, Roger Smith, GM	Result of GM's offshoring on the City of Flint, MI.
1980s	From a Far Country	Sam Neill	The Life of Pope John Paul II

1990's - 2007

(The new multi-polar world with the USA having but losing its status as the lone superpower politically,

while fighting a cultural war against itself to determine its future identity...)

1990s	Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett	Behind Somalian lines in Mogadishu, 4GW rages
1990s	Behind Enemy Lines	Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman	Behind Serbian lines in Yugoslavia ready to explode
1990s	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George, Xolani Mali	In Rwanda, in Africa, no one is safe
1990s	American History X	Edward Norton, Avery Brooks	The re-education of a non-multiculturalist
1990s	Mandela and DeKlerk	Michael Caine, Sydney Poitier	The transformation of SA from Aparthid to majority
1990s	Blood Diamond	Leonardo Dicaprio	Where do diamonds really come from? Africa?
1990s	City of Joy	Patrick Swayze	An American doctor goes to Calcutta, India to help
1990s	Lord of War	Nicholas Cage	The true story of the greatest arms dealer
2000s	World Trade Center	Oliver Stone	Two officers trapped in the rubble- arise
2000s	Tears of the Sun	Bruce Willis	Behind Nigerian lines, US must rescue a woman
2000s	The Constant Gardner	Rachael Weisz, Ralph Feinnes	In Kenya a 4GW situation is exposed
2000s	City of God	Rodriguez, Firmino	4th Generation Gangs in Rio de Janeiro Brazil

tomorrow	The Saint	Val Kilmer	Russia: The Balance of Power is about to Shift!
tomorrow	The Sum of All Fears	Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman	Islamic terrorists, go boom over Baltimore
tomorrow	Fight Club	Brad Pitt, Edward Norton	Surreal story of a modern man finding his roots
tomorrow	American Beauty	Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening	Modern Orgainization Man, finding his roots
tomorrow	Lost in Translation	Bill Murray	What happens when an American goes to Japan
tomorrow	Outbreak	Dustin Hoffman, Renee Russo	What happens when the new plague erupts?
tomorrow	Riki Oh, the Story of Ricky	Fan Siu Wang, Yukari Oshima	Overpopulation grips China, jails are privatized

Pending: jesus of nazereth kingdom of heaven Kagemusha lady jane queen christina la reine margot young bess 300 the queen last king scotland beau brummell lady caroline mrs. brown the scarlett empress breaker morant all the presidents men

a bridge too far downfall goodnight and good luck judgement at nuremburg the killing fields michael collins sink the bismarck sometimes in April young winston z the road to guantenamo above and beyond (abomb) abe lincoln in illinois

yankee doodle dandy the adventures of mark twain rublev la bamba aviator the sun (hirohito)

DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Civilisation	1968	Lord Kenneth Clark	The Blinking last farewell of the out of stock	13 v.
Art of the Western World	1994	Michael Wood	Updated series on art in context	8 v.
Inside The Vatican	1999	Peter Ustinov	A story of the development of the Church	4 v.

HOW MANY IN EACH TIME PERIOD?

Millennium

4th BC 1

3rd BC 4

2nd BC 17

1st BC 15

1st AD 28

2nd AD 300

3rd AD 4

Century

1st 15

2nd 02

3rd 00

4th 00

5th 02

6th 00

7th 04

8th 01

9th 02

10th 02

11th 10

12th 07

13th 02

14th 07

15th 13

16th 20

17th 20

18th 29

19th 65

20th 146

21th 04

Rendering a total of 363

If you begin now, watching 1 movie a week, you will finish in 6 years and 12 months. Better get started!

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