Your favourite "historical" film?

TheBoyBilly
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edited July 2008 in The bottom bracket
For me:
A Man For All Seasons
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  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    The Battleship Potemkin :twisted:
  • jellybellywmb
    jellybellywmb Posts: 1,379
    ZULU!!
    "BEER" Proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Treasure Island, 1953 (?) with Robert Newton. Includes best line ever: "It's them that dies'll be the lucky ones."

    Not "historical"? My BA Hons in History against yours says it is too, so there.
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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Fanny & Alexander
    Fellini's Casanova

    both sprint to mind. Oh hell Andrei Rublev.
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  • HungryCol
    HungryCol Posts: 532
    Schlindlers List
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Does Das Boot count?
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  • fizz
    fizz Posts: 483
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Does Das Boot count?

    Dunno, but thats a fantastic film.

    I'll add

    The Battle of Britain
    Reach for the Skies
    The Dambusters

    I really enjoy watching those I've bought them all on DVD and be re-watching them over the last few days.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    On Any Sunday
    Steve McQueen sooooo cooool
    Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?

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  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    Thunderbirds... oh sorry, wrong thread.

    Seriously, Zulu. It was the first film my late father took me to see when I was about 7 or 8 years old (if that). I now have it on DVD and I think I may watch it again tonight.

    Red Rock
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
    On Any Sunday
    (lol) I pictured the 70's and 80's American motocross flicks, still rather
    historical - err (sterical)
    .
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  • stjohnswell
    stjohnswell Posts: 482
    Lawrence of Arabia
  • Siechotic
    Siechotic Posts: 86
    Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • sing_for_absolution
    sing_for_absolution Posts: 1,908
    Der Untergang (Downfall). Good stuff.
  • rustychisel
    rustychisel Posts: 3,444
    'The Longest Day' (well another one I like)


    crappiest supposed historical 'A Bridge Too Far'
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  • coynie
    coynie Posts: 112
    Old Ealing comedy WHISKY GALORE :lol:
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  • ndodd
    ndodd Posts: 54
    ben hur
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    Ran

    Great music too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C58jxwu9 ... re=related
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  • robbarker
    robbarker Posts: 1,367
    Being an ex paratroop officer, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far have their moments, although my softer side quite enjoys Brief Encounter.

    Am I allowed to mention The Italian Job?
  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    ...another of my favourites is 'Ice Cold In Alex'
  • Ashley_R
    Ashley_R Posts: 408
    Totally fictional war film, but Where Eagles Dare does it for me!!

    8)
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  • BigG67
    BigG67 Posts: 582
    sing_for_absolution wrote:
    Der Untergang (Downfall). Good stuff.

    Another for Downfall, Bruno Ganz is incredible. His depiction of Hitler with generous and very humane atributes make the disgusting monster he was all the more terrifying.

    I normally don't watch foreign language films but this one is well worth it.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Above us the Waves. Standing on the deck of the Tirpitz being interrogated after having been captured and knowing that the explosives you planted are about to go off with an enormous BANG and saying "Ah dont be like that" with a stiff upper lip when threatened by a large German had a huge influence on what I believed war to be like as a kid. So Dad, when do we teach the Bosch how to play Cricket then?

    Das Boot, Der Untergang, Tora Tora Tora and of course the Battle of Britain are all top films that are on my list too.

    Spoof of Der Untergang, Hitler is a Sheff Wed fan and they are relegated 8)
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  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 992
    Barry Lindon

    The Duellists

    Oh what a lovely war.

    Catch 22
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    The Great Escape
    Jason and the Argonauts
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...Band of Brothers...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • Mark Alexander
    Mark Alexander Posts: 2,277
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Does Das Boot count?

    it get's my vote, or Schindler's List
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  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    Karate Kid III
  • Garry71
    Garry71 Posts: 96
    Escape To Victory. Tells it how it really was.

    Garry
    Cycling is too nice to waste it on getting to work.
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Das Boot still oozes quality and I find myself laughing at Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes no matter how many times I watch them.
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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEXCpDIrYM

    :roll:
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