Good Historical Movies

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  1. Cyrene's Avatar

    Cyrene said:

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    Can anybody Suggest several Roman--->Medieval Era--->Early Modern Movies?
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  2. Posantio of Umbria's Avatar

    Posantio of Umbria said:

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    Roman Era

    Actually there are not a lot of really good movies about ancient Rome in my opinion. I can always find some fault with "Hollywood History" but with movies about ancient Rome it's the worst. There are a few entertaining one's though, but it's in (mini) series that ancient Rome comes of best:
    - Rome (series by BBC and HBO)
    - Ancient Rome, Rise and Fall of an Empire (series by the BBC, 5 or 6 episodes, must see)
    - Centurion (2010, movie)
    - I Claudius (series, BBC)
    - The Eagle

    Nice try but...:
    - most Spartacus movies
    - Atilla the Hun mini-series (Don't expect a true representation of the Late Roman Empire)
    - The Druids (for one, I can't stand the lisping "I should actually play the badguy" way of speaking of Christopher Lambert and the Roman uniforms were no doubt hand-me downs from the French Asterix movies. The Gauls looked quite acceptable...)
    - King Arthur (2004 movie)

    For laughs:
    - All Asterix movies, especially the animated ones.

    Medieval Times
    - Ironclad (2011, movie)
    - The Borgias (2011, series)
    - Arn, Knight Templar/The Kingdom at Roads end (Swedish mini-series of 2 movies)
    - Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986 series)
    - Kingdom of Heaven (though the producers thought the real history not exiting enough and changed some bits)

    if you can bite through absurd and toe-curling declarations of Russian Patriotism: the most recent Taras Bulba movie because the fight scenes look rad and the costumes and weapons are bad ass...

    Early Modern
    - The last of the Mohicans
    - Sharpe series (with Sean Bean)
    - The Battle of Waterloo
    - Hornblower series
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  3. Caesar Germanico said:

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    Gladiator and the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven are a must see even if you are not really interested in history.