Historical Movies!
A comprehensive list of films with historical themes made in the last 100 years
Type here the title of any movie about history ever made, or scroll thorogh the full list below...
TIME NAME OF FILM STARRING SYNOPSIS
prehistory |
Walking with Monsters |
Kenneth Branagh |
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prehistory |
Walking with Dinosaurs |
Kenneth Branagh |
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prehistory |
Walking with Prehistoric Beasts |
Kenneth Branagh |
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prehistory |
Walking with Cavemen |
Kenneth Branagh |
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prehistory |
2001: Space Odyssey (1st 20 min) |
Stanley Kubrick |
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prehistory |
Quest for Fire |
Documentary |
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prehistory |
One Million Years BC |
Raquel Welch |
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prehistory |
Clan of the Cave Bear |
nobody important |
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prehistory |
The Flintstones |
Fred, Wilma, Barney |
ANCIENT TIMES click to buy film
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4000 bc |
The Bible |
John Huston, George C. Scott |
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2000s bc |
Noah's Ark |
Noah |
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2500s bc |
The Land of the Pharaohs |
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins |
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2500s bc |
Pyramid |
David MaCaulay |
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1600s bc |
Abraham |
Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey |
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1600 bc |
In the Beginning |
Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset |
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1500s bc |
Jacob |
Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle |
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1500s bc |
Joseph |
Ben Kingsley |
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1500s bc |
Joseph: King of Dreams |
Ben Affeleck |
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1300s bc |
The Egyptian |
Jean Simmons / Peter Ustinov |
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1200s bc |
Faraon (Pharaoh) |
Jerzy Zelnik / Barbara Brylska |
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1200s bc |
The Ten Commandments |
Charlton Heston,Yul Brenner,Anne Baxter |
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1200s bc |
The Prince of Egypt |
Val Kilmer,Sandra Bullock,Patrick Stewart |
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1000s bc |
Samson and Delilah |
Elizabeth Hurley, Dennis Hopper |
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900s bc |
David |
Lenord Nimoy, Nathanial Parker |
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900s bc |
King David |
Richard Gere |
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900s bc |
David and Bathsheba |
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward |
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900s bc |
Solomon |
Ben Cross, Vivica A. Fox |
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900s bc |
Solomon and Sheba |
Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida |
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500s bc |
The Story of Ruth |
Elani Eden |
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500s bc |
Jeremiah |
Patrick Dempsey, Klaus Maria Brandauer |
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400s bc |
Esther |
Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham |
CLASSICAL GREECE (to 300 bc) click to buy film
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1500 bc |
The Clash of the Titans |
Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier |
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1400 bc |
Hercules |
Disney |
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1200 bc |
Jason and the Argonauts |
Nobody Important |
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1200 bc |
Troy |
Brad Pitt |
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1200 bc |
Helen of Troy |
Sienna Guillory |
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1180 bc |
The Trojan Women |
Katherine Hepburn, V. Redgrave |
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1180 bc |
Ulysses |
Kirk Douglas |
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1180 bc |
The Odyssey |
Nobody Important |
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480 bc |
The 300 Spartans |
Richard Egan |
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480 bc |
300 |
Gerard Butler |
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400 bc |
Barefoot In Athens |
Peter Ustinov |
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330 bc |
In the Footsteps of Alexander |
Documentary |
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330 bc |
Alexander |
Val Kilmer |
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250 bc |
Asoka |
Shah Rukh Khan |
CLASSICAL ROME (to 500) click to buy film
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70bc |
Spartacus |
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier |
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50bc |
Cleopatra |
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton |
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50bc |
Caesar |
Marlon Brando / Charlton Heston |
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27bc |
Roman City |
David MaCaulay |
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20 |
Ben Hur |
Charlton Heston |
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20 |
Life of Brian |
Chapman, Gilliam, Jones, Idle |
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20 |
King of Kings |
Jeffery Hunter |
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30 |
The Passion of the Christ |
Mel Gibson, James Caviezel |
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35 |
The Robe |
Richard Burton, Jean Simmons |
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40 |
Caligula |
Malcolm McDowell, Peter o' Toole |
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60 |
Peter and Paul |
Anthony Hopkins, Raymond Burr |
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60 |
Quo Vadis |
Robert Taylor, Peter Ustinov |
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60 |
Sign of the Cross |
Fredric March, Elissa Landi |
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70 |
Masada |
Peter o'Toole |
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79 |
Up Pompeii |
Frankie Howard, Barbara Murray |
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79 |
The Last Days of Pompeii |
Steve Reeves |
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180 |
Fall of the Roman Empire |
Sophia Loren, Christopher Plummer |
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180 |
Gladiator |
Russell Crowe, Richard Harris |
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450 |
Atilla |
Zowers Boothe, Tim Curry |
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MEDIEVAL TIMES (500's-1400's) click to buy film
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600s |
Merlin |
Sam Neill, Helena B. Carter |
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600s |
The Sword in the Stone |
Disney |
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600s |
First Knight |
Sean Connery, Richard Gere |
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600s |
King Arthur |
Nobody Important |
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700s |
Monty Python & the Holy Grail |
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones |
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800s |
The Thief of Baghdad |
Alexander Korda |
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800s |
Stara Basn |
Jerzy Hoffman |
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900s |
The Vikings |
Kirk Douglas |
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900s |
The Long Ships |
Richard Windmark, Sydney Poitier |
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1000 |
Arabian Nights |
Lief Erickson, Jon Hall |
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1000 |
The 1001 Arabian Nights |
Nobody Important |
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1000 |
Aladdin |
Disney |
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1000 |
Mulan |
Disney |
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1050 |
El Cid |
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren |
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1095 |
The Crusades |
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxson |
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1180 |
The Lion in Winter |
Peter o'Toole, K. Hepburn, A. Hopkins |
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1180 |
Becket |
Peter o'Toole, Richard Burton |
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1190 |
Cathedral |
David MaCaulay |
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1190 |
Ivanhoe |
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor |
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1200s |
The 13th Warrior |
Antonio Banderas |
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1200 |
The Name of the Rose |
Sean Connery, Christian Slater |
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1200 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland |
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1200 |
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves |
Kevin Costner, Christian Slater |
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1250 |
Braveheart |
Mel Gibson |
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1250 |
Castle |
David MaCaulay |
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1250 |
Alexander Nevsky |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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1300 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Charles Laughton |
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1300 |
Andrei Rublev |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
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1400 |
Henry V |
Laurence Olivier |
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1410 |
Krzyzacy |
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1420 |
Richard III |
Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom |
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1450 |
The Messenger: Joan of Arc |
Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich |
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1450 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc |
Renee Maria Falconetti |
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1460 |
Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
Renaissance, Colonial and Elizabethan Period (1500's-1700's)
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1492 |
1492 Conquest of Paradise |
Gerard Depardieu, Sigorney Weaver |
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1510 |
The Agony and the Ecstasy |
Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison |
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1530 |
Captain From Castile |
Tyrone Power |
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1536 |
Highlander |
Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert |
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1540 |
The Six Wives of Henry VIII |
Keith Mitchell |
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1540 |
Anne of a Thousand Days |
Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold |
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1540 |
A Man for All Seasons |
Paul Scofield |
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1565 |
Mary Queen of Scots |
Vanessa Redgrave |
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1565 |
Mary of Scotland |
Katherine Hepburn |
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1575 |
Ivan the Terrible |
Nikolai Cherkasov |
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1585 |
Romeo and Juliet |
Whiting, Olivia Hussey |
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1588 |
Fire Over England |
Vivian Leigh, Laurence Olivier |
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1588 |
The Sea Hawk |
Errol Flynn |
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1595 |
The Crimson Pirate |
Burt Lancaster |
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1600 |
Hamlet |
Mel Gibson |
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1600 |
Elizabeth |
Cate Blanchette |
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1602 |
Twelfth Night |
Helen Bonham Carter |
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1604 |
Othello |
Lawrence Olivier |
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1605 |
MacBeth |
Orson Welles |
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1620 |
Mayflower |
Anthony Hopkins |
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1620 |
Squanto |
Xavier Koller |
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1630 |
The Last Valley |
Michael Caine |
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1648 |
With Fire and Sword |
Jerzy Hoffmann, Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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1655 |
The Deluge (Potop) |
Jerzy Hoffmann, Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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1660 |
Pan Wolodyowski |
Jerzy Hoffmann, Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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1660 |
Shogun |
Richard Chamberlain |
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1650 |
The Black Swan |
Tyrone Power |
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1692 |
The Crucible |
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Rider |
Enlightenment and Revolutionary Period (1700's) click to buy film
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1650 |
Pocahontas |
Disney |
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1650 |
The Man in the Iron Mask |
Leonardo di Caprio |
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1650s |
Dangerous Liaisons |
Glen Close, John Malkovich |
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1650 |
The Three Musketeers |
Gerard Depardieu |
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1680 |
Captain Blood |
Errol Flynn |
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1688 |
Cromwell |
Richard Harris, Alec Guinness |
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1700 |
Gulliver's Travels |
Ted Danson (Sam Malone) |
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1701 |
Peter the Great |
Maximilian Schell / Vanessa Redgrave |
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1713 |
Rob Roy |
Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange |
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1750 |
Amadeus |
Nobody Important |
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1750 |
When the Forest Ran Red |
Nobody Important |
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1750 |
Washington's First War |
Documentary |
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1750 |
Last of the Mohicans |
Daniel Day Lewis |
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1750 |
The Mission |
Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons |
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1760 |
The Northwest Passage |
Spencer Tracy |
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1770 |
The Madness of King George |
Nigel Hawthorne |
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1770 |
Johnny Tremain |
Disney |
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1775 |
Liberty |
Documentary |
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1776 |
1776 |
Nobody Important |
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1776 |
Revolution |
Al Pacino, Natassaja Kinski |
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1777 |
Drums Along the Mohawk |
Henry Fonda |
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1777 |
The Patriot |
Mel Gibson |
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1777 |
John Paul Jones |
Robert Stack |
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1778 |
The Crossing |
Jeff Daniels |
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1780 |
Taras Bulba |
Yul Brenner |
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1780 |
The Scarlet Empress |
Marlene Dietrich |
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1780 |
Young Catherine |
Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell |
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1785 |
Immortal Beloved |
Nobody Important |
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1792 |
Marie Antoinette |
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power |
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1792 |
Danton |
Andrej Wajda, Gerand Depardieu |
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THE 19th CENTURY to 1860 click to buy film
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1800's |
The Merchant of Venice |
Laurence Olivier |
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1800's |
Billy Budd |
Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan |
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1800 |
The Bounty (Mutiny on the) |
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Olivier |
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1810 |
Master and Commander |
Russell Crowe |
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1812 |
The Last Warrior |
Nobody Important |
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1812 |
Desiree |
Marlon Brando |
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1812 |
Napoleon |
Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossilini |
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1812 |
The Final Invasion |
Documentary |
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1812 |
Pan Tadeusz |
Boguslaw Linda |
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1812 |
War and Peace |
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda |
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1812 |
The Buccaneer |
Yul Brenner |
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1814 |
The Count of Monte Christo |
Jim Caviezel |
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1815 |
Waterloo |
Nobody Important |
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1820 |
Amistad |
Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins |
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1820 |
Mountain Men |
Charlton Heston, Brian Keith |
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1840 |
The Alamo |
John Wayne |
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1845 |
Jeremiah Johnson |
Robert Redford |
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1850 |
Unconquered |
Gary Cooper |
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1850 |
Man in the Wilderness |
Richard Harris |
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1855 |
Charge of the Light Brigade |
Errol Flynn |
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1855 |
Anna and the King |
Jodie Foster |
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1860 |
Gone with the Wind |
Vivian Leigh |
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1860 |
Glory |
Denzel Washington, Matthew Brodrick |
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1860 |
Gods and Generals |
Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Daniels |
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1862 |
Gettysburg |
Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall |
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1864 |
The Red Badge of Courage |
Audie Murphy |
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1865 |
Birth of a Nation |
WD Griffith |