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Historical Drama

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Titles in the US and UK Classics collections were produced prior to 1980 and will appear in the decade search 1920-1970 inclusive.
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Breaker Morant

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Breaker Morant
(1980) [PG]


Hero or villian? His exploits shook an empire... and made him a legend. South Africa, 1901: The British war against the Boers has deteriorated into bitter guerilla warfare. A unit of the Bushveldt Carbineers made up mainly of Australians is ordered by the British High Command to fight the Boer on...  More


 
Joan Of Arc - The Messenger (1999)

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Joan Of Arc - The Messenger (1999)
(1999) [MA]


Starring Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and John Malkovich, director Luc Besson brings us Joan Of Arc - The Messenger, the epic story fo a woman who followed her own path and changed the course of history. In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King...  More


 
The Promise (Das Versprechen)

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The Promise (Das Versprechen)
(1994) [M]


Two lovers live in the same city yet they only see each other 3 times in thirty years. Konrad and Sophie are separated as they attempt to escape from East Berlin in 1961. From that point on, they live their lives in two diametrically opposing worlds. Sophie in the West, Konrad in the East. How...  More


 
Triumph Of The Will

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Triumph Of The Will
(1934) [PG]


The official record of the Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg in 1934. After World War II this film was banned because of general fears that it might inspire a new Nazi Party.

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the President of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the...  More


 
Satyricon

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Satyricon
(1969) [M]


"My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema," revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8? and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play....  More


 
The Last Emperor

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The Last Emperor
(1987) [M]


Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film tells the incredible story of Pu Yi, who in 1908 at the age of three became ruler of nearly half the world's population. He was the "Son of Heaven", "Lord of Ten Thousand Years" and the last emperor of China.

His reign was short and three years later a...  More


 
1900 (2 disc set)

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1900 (2 disc set)
(1976) [R]


Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (De Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by...  More


 
The Leopard: Director's Suite (2 disc set)

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The Leopard: Director's Suite (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]


Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic...  More


 
King Arthur (Director's Cut)

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King Arthur (Director's Cut)
(2004) [M]


King Arthur (Clive Owen) is a half-British, half-Roman leader and warrior who commands a brave team of knights for the Roman Empire, protecting Hadrian's Wall from the Woads (ancient Britons) in the North. Arthur and his Sarmatian knights, who include Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) and Bors (Ray...  More


 
Gone With The Wind-Special Edition: Part 1, The Restored Movie (Discs 1 & 2 of 4 disc disc Set)

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Gone With The Wind-Special Edition: Part 1, The Restored Movie (Discs 1 & 2 of 4 disc disc Set)
(1939) [PG]


David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking, Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said. And in Maltin's view, it looks better than it has in years. This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive...  More


 
The Legend of Suriyothai

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The Legend of Suriyothai
(2001) [MA]


Set in 16th century Thailand over the course of 57 years (1491-1548), this is an epic tale and political history of the Kingdom of Ayothaya, culminating in the story of Queen Phra Suriyothai (Bhirombhakdi), who rode into battle against the Burmese invasion to protect her husband at the Battle of...  More


 
Helen of Troy

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Helen of Troy
(1956) [M]


Robert Wise directs this swords and sandals epic. Young Trojan Prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) journeys to Sparta hoping to negotiate a peace treaty to end the war between Troy and Greece. Washed ashore following a storm, Paris meets the beautiful Helen (Rossana Podesta) and unaware that she is the...  More


 
Troy (2 Disc Set)

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Troy (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]


In ancient Greece, the passion of two of history’s most legendary lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. One man alone stands as the key to victory or defeat over Troy - Achilles (Brad Pitt),...  More


 
South: Sir Earnest Shackleton

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South: Sir Earnest Shackleton
(1919) [E]


When the Endurance was trapped by pack ice, the crew drifted on ice floes for months before Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a miraculous 850-mile boat journey to safety. One of the greatest epics in the history of exploration, this is the original 1919 film produced by Shackleton and...  More


 
90 Degrees South: Captain Robert Scott

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90 Degrees South: Captain Robert Scott
(1933) [E]


Captain Scott described photographer Herbert Ponting as 'an artist in love with his work' and, after the tragic outcome of the 1910 expedition which cost Scott and four of his companions their lives, Ponting resolved that the grandeur of the Antarctic and Scott's heroism should not be forgotten....  More


 
Henry VIII and His Six Wives

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
(1973) [PG]


Featuring a wealth of stars, this powerful period drama follows the illustrious life of King Henry VIII and his six wives. From his death bed Henry (Keith Michell) reminisces over his life and loves...  More


 
Kagemusha

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Kagemusha
(1980) [PG]


Shingen, a powerful warlord, has become as legendary as the motto emblazoned on his war banners: "Swift as the wind. Silent as the forest. Fierce as the fire. Immovable as the mountain." As he lies dying from his battle wounds, Shingen orders his clan to find a double to replace him - to keep his...  More


 
 
 

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