Your favourite "historical" film?

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  • Ashley_R
    Ashley_R Posts: 408
    Garry71 wrote:
    Escape To Victory. Tells it how it really was.

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    Great film, but only went to prove that actors can't play football and footballers can't act!!
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  • ThatGuyOnABike
    ThatGuyOnABike Posts: 198
    bill and ted's excellent adventure
    totally historical!
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  • Salsiccia
    Salsiccia Posts: 405
    Another one for Das Boot

    and if Ben Hur can be counted as historical, another one for that
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  • peanut
    peanut Posts: 1,373
    fizz wrote:
    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.
    Excellent !...what about
    653 squadron ,
    Memphis belle,
    U571

    rare and little known film on a Russian Tank crew during the Afgan war
    The Beast. definitly one of my top 10 best films
  • tonyw43
    tonyw43 Posts: 249
    Another vote fro Zulu, remember hiding behind the sofa when it was on when I was a kid..
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  • jethro924
    jethro924 Posts: 49
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  • don key
    don key Posts: 494
    There was a war film I saw as a child, a number of children and women, no men I think, B&W, but then all telly was B&W then(1970).
    Anyway they were on a very long march with the Japanese all round them, being shot at constantly, strafed by a plane at one point, there were many tragedies in the movie but it was etched into my brain. My abiding memory is an overhead, possibly plane shot of the long narrow battered road along whivch they were trying to flee/escape.

    Any ideas as if you have I will check Youtube?
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    don key wrote:
    Any ideas as if you have I will check Youtube?

    Ingrid Bergman; "Inn of the Sixth Happiness"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051776/plotsummary
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  • Keithp88
    Keithp88 Posts: 58
    Great Escape, Gladiator or the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan (lose interest once they are off the beach).
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Posted on this thread before but forgot to mention Master & Commander, far side of the World. Wish I had seen it in the Cinema. Am now reading Post Captain, 2nd in the series of 21.

    Master & Commander is the first, far side of the World is the tenth.
  • Joe Powell
    Joe Powell Posts: 29
    One million years BC. Raquel Welch in a fur bikini :twisted:
  • Richard_D
    Richard_D Posts: 320
    I have a problem with Saving Private Ryan. I enjoyed it as a work of fiction but..Though I am sure American soldiers stormed and overran Machine gun posts on Utah and omaha the scene as shown matches word for word with a description of a VC one by a British NCO on Juno, also the bridge holding out behind enemy lines sounded remarkably like Pegasus bridge held by the British.
    The problem with a lot of the more recent world war 2 movies is that they had to have Americans doing all the hero stuff even if the hero in reality was British , Canadian , French, etc.
    AT least with "the longest day" they pointed out it was a joint operation.
    As for my preference for historical movie
    I think I would go for Gladiator
  • Richard_D
    Richard_D Posts: 320
    I have a problem with Saving Private Ryan. I enjoyed it as a work of fiction but..Though I am sure American soldiers stormed and overran Machine gun posts on Utah and omaha the scene as shown matches word for word with a description of a VC one by a British NCO on Juno, also the bridge holding out behind enemy lines sounded remarkably like Pegasus bridge held by the British.
    The problem with a lot of the more recent world war 2 movies is that they had to have Americans doing all the hero stuff even if the hero in reality was British , Canadian , French, etc.
    AT least with "the longest day" they pointed out it was a joint operation.
    As for my preference for historical movie
    I think I would go for Gladiator
  • SmellTheGlove
    SmellTheGlove Posts: 697
    "Long ago on a Dawes Galaxy far, far away..."

    Surely qualifies as historical?
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  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    I have a bit of a backlog just now, will answer later.

    I do like the starkness of post-war British films. No excessive sound track. Sometimes I think the sound track is there just to fill the gaps between dialogue.

    The masters of soundtracks had to be Leone/Morricone though........ <Snip>

    Recently added the BFI's "Land of Promise" compilation of British documentaries to the "To Be Watched" pile.
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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...The Time Bandits...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • matthewbradford
    matthewbradford Posts: 44
    Life of Brian, better than the book anyday
  • Roubaix Rider
    Roubaix Rider Posts: 29
    markos1963 wrote:
    On Any Sunday
    Steve McQueen sooooo cooool

    + 1 on that. Oscar winning stuff...
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 992
    Aguirre wrath of God is a superb film.
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