List of historical drama films

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The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous persons. Some historical dramas attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds, such as Braveheart, which is loosely based on the 13th century knight William Wallace's fight for Scotland's independence, and Saving Private Ryan, a heavily fictionalised version of a search for a paratrooper of the US 101st Airborne Division during WW II.

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2 See also
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[edit] Examples

Some well-known historical drama films, by the historical era they are portraying, include:

[edit] Films set in Prehistorical times

Quest for Fire (1981)
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

[edit] Films set in Antiquity or the Middle Ages

Alexander, based on the life of Alexander the Great
Alexander Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky), a 13th century Russian leader)
Braveheart (William Wallace, a 13th century Scottish knight who fought for Scotland's independence)
Gladiator (set during the reign of Roman Emperor Commodus, who ruled from 180 to 192)
Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ)
Kingdom of Heaven, set during the Crusades in the 12th century
Spartacus, set during the Roman Republic
Troy, based on Homer's Iliad

[edit] Films set in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Anne of the Thousand Days (Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England during the 16th century, Queen Consort of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I)
Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell)
Elizabeth (Elizabeth I of England, the Queen in the 16th century)
Fire Over England (the Spanish Armada, a Spanish-controlled fleet which sailed against England in the late 16th century)
Henry V (Henry V of England)
Henry VIII and his Six Wives (Henry VIII of England)
Kagemusha (the Battle of Nagashino)
Lady Jane (Lady Jane Grey, the uncrowned queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in the mid-16th century)
The Lion in Winter (Henry II of England)
A Man for All Seasons (Thomas More)
Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary I of Scotland)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (Henry VIII of England)
Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein, a biographic movie about Ivan IV of Russia.
Queen Christina (Christina of Sweden, Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654)
La Reine Margot, set during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Richard III (best known version) (Richard III of England)
The Three Musketeers and its sequels, such as The Four Musketeers and The Return of the Musketeers (based on Alexandre Dumas, père novels), 1620s to 1660s
Young Bess (Elizabeth I of England)

[edit] Films set in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Beau Brummell (Beau Brummell, a 19th century arbiter of fashion in England who popularized the man's suit and necktie)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (the Charge of the Light Brigade)
Gone with the Wind (the American Civil War)
Glory (about one of the first official African-American units in the United States armed forces, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which fought in the American Civil War in the mid-19th century)
Lady Caroline Lamb (Lady Caroline Lamb, a novelist and British aristocrat active in the early 19th century)
The Madness of King George (George III of the United Kingdom, King of Great Britain and Ireland for the latter half of the 18th century.
Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria and John Brown)
Mutiny on the Bounty (set in 1789 during the mutiny on the Bounty, a British Royal Navy ship)
Roots (the slave trade)
The Scarlet Empress(Catherine II of Russia, the "enlightened despot" who reigned as Empress of Russia for in the latter half of the 18th century)
Waterloo (the Battle of Waterloo)