Your Favorite Historical Movie

[Sovereign _909]

"The Lost Battalion"-watched it in a Western Civ class, bought it the next day.
"Apollo 13"-Tom Hanks is amazing
"World Trade Center"-very tastefully done, focused on heros of that terrible day

*edit*
"Cinderella Man"- watch it if you haven't, it is one of the greatest movie of all times.

 

[Nieroshai]

Patton. George C. Scott is amazing.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

History of the World Part 1

Ninja.

Either Apollo 13 or The Alamo.

 

[Nieroshai]

I do, however, ask that all of you go out RIGHT NOW(!!!!!!!) and rent Caligula. Most historically accurate movie anywhere. And so not a fetishist porno.

 

[Ensiferum]

Where Eagles Dare with Clint Eastwood. It's about a group of Allied spies infiltrating a nazi castle so high up in the mountains it can only be reached by plane or cable car.

It was so awesome in fact that Iron Maiden made a song about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8p9JpDuQ-o

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Empire of the Sun.

I feel like such a wimp for saying it, but this movie made me cry buckets of tears.

 

[meowchef]

Dances With Wolves

 

[Zhukov]

Probably Kingdom of Heaven. Good stuff.

Full Metal Jacket also rates a mention.

 

[Nostalgia Ripoff]

No one mentions Forrest Gump? Son, I am disappoint.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Too many to think of....though right now I'd say "The Leopard".

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.

 

[seryoga]

i dont remember the name of the movie but its an old soviet film about a group of small town troublmakers in Ukraine i think who become partisans to fight off the german invasion, if uv heard of it please tell me the name i neeeeeeed to see it again

 

[fisk0]

Strike (1925), probably Sergei Eisenstein's best movie. A very fast-paced and action heavy depiction of one of the many factory strikes and uprisings that lead up to the 1917 russian revolution.
Cargo 200 (2007) insanely black depiction of Russia during the Soviet Afghanistan war, with a fantastic period soundtrack, some of the darkest humour ever and some really disturbing scenes guaranteed to scar you for life. And I mean it, I can't think of that movie without both feeling like laughing at the extreme blackness depicted in the film, and feel physically ill for what happened in it - and it's supposedly based on actual events.

 

[CK76]

Joyeux Noel - Takes place in 1914 on the western front during the christmas day peace. A remarkable true story, and the film does it justice of an event that gives hope even in man's darkest hour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaJcSNBh-ok

Think about the truly astonishing courage these men had to not shoot in this moment.

 

[Ashsaver]

Hmm. All quite at the western front?

 

[LemonMelon]

I am slightly ashamed to say this but being a total Marie Antoinette/Rococo geek, I am in love with the new Marie Antoinette movie with Kirsten Dunst.

I hated that they picked her and her stupid American accent for the part, and most of the movie was pretty bland, but I could stare for hours and hours and the decor of Versailles and the fashion.

I'm gonna go skulk off and obsessively drool over the ridiculousness of 18th century French decor now.

 

[KindOfnElf]

Kingdom of Heaven, the director's version. EPIC!

THIS!!!!

EPIC! No other word for it. It's just... nah, I won't try putting it in words. For those that still haven't seen it... Go! NOW! Make haste!!

EDIT: And how could I forgot! Le Reine Margot (Queen Margot).

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I would recommend this one: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Or maybe: Gangs of New York. I could name a bit more, but these pop into mind this instant.

 

[Betancore]

Schindler's List, I guess. I also like a lot of other war films (that are more centred on, you know, the fighting part) such as Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now. And I recall there being a bit of conflict of some kind in Pan's Labyrinth, which is another movie that I loved. Not sure if it actually happened in reality, though. Not something I bothered to check up on. I was more concerned with checking all the trees for fairies.