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History Movies

Thanks to movies, history can come alive. But what is fact and what is fiction in these films?

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Kirk Douglas is Spartacus.

Inset:

Douglas, with wooden sword, and director Stanley Kubrick on the set of the 1960 movie Spartacus.




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Indexed A - Z. The list is by no means complete.

 

3    300, 2006


A  
A Bullet for the General, 1966
     aka El Chuncho, quien sabe?

     A Fistful of Dynamite, 1971
     aka Duck You Sucker

     Alexander, 2004

     All the President's Men, 1976

     Attila, 1954

     Attila, 2001


B  
Ben-Hur, 1959

     Braveheart, 1995


C  
Calamity Jane, 1953

     Camelot, 1982

     Centurion, 2010

     Companeros, 1970

     Conquest, 1937


D  
Duck You Sucker, 1971
     aka A Fistful of Dynamite


E  
Elizabeth, 1998

     Elizabeth I, 2005

     Excalibur, 1981


G  
Gandhi, 1982

     Gettysburg, 1993

     Glory, 1989

     Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005


H   Henry V, 1989

     Herod the Great, 1959

     Hotel Rwanda, 2004


J    JFK, 1991

       Joan of Arc Movies

      Julius Caesar, 1953


K   King Arthur, 2004

     Kingdom of Heaven, 2005


L  
Lady Godiva of Coventry, 1955

     Lawrence of Arabia, 1962


M  
Marie Antoinette, 2006

     Mata Hari, 1931

     Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975

     Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935


Q  
Queen Christina, 1933


R  
Rasputin, 1996

     Run, Man, Run, 1968


S   Saving Private Ryan, 1998

     Schindler's List, 1993

     Sign of the Pagan, 1954

       Spartacus, 1960


T  
That Hamilton Woman, 1941

    
The 300 Spartans, 1962

     The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957

     The Da Vinci Code, 2006

     The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959

     The Insider, 1999

     The Killing Fields, 1984

     The King's Speech, 2010

     The Libertine, 2004

     The Lion in Winter, 1968 and 2003

     The Professionals, 1966

     The Wild Bunch, 1969

    
Titanic, 1997

     Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970


V  
Viva Zapata! 1952

 


 

 

 

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