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History in 100 Movies

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261

6.8

7.3

Quest for Fire (1981)

Period: 300'000 years ago
Event: The control of fire by early humans
Historical Figure: -

6.6

Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

Period: 2560 B.C.
Event: Building of the Pharaoh's Great Pyramid of Giza
Historical Figure: Pharaoh Cheops

coroner's rating:

729

7.4

7.9

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Period: 1275 B.C.
Event: The Exodus
Historical Figure: Moses

coroner's rating:

6.9

6.1

Helen of Troy (1956)

Period: 1275-1240 B.C.
Event: Troy War
Historical Figure: Atreus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Helen, Achilles, Priam, Paris

coroner's rating:

408

7.9

7.7

Intolerance (1916)

First story:

Period: 539 B.C.
Event: Fall of Babylon
Historical Figure: Belshazzar, Nabonidus, Cyrus

coroner's rating:

6.5

The 300 Spartans

Period: 480 B.C.
Event: Battle of Thermopylae
Historical Figure: King Leonidas, Xerxes I

coroner's rating:

2107

5.4

5.6

Alexander (2004)

Period: 356-323 B.C.
Event: Fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Invasion of India
Historical Figure: Alexander, Philip

coroner's rating:

7.5

7.2

The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)

Period: 221 B.C.
Event: Unification of China
Historical Figure: Ying Zheng

coroner's rating:

114

7.3

7.1

Cabiria (1914)

Period: 216-201 B.C.
Event: Second Punic War
Historical Figure: Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Archimedes

1395

7.4

7.9

Spartacus (1960)

Period: 73-71 B.C.
Event: Gladiatorial War
Historical Figure: Spartacus, Crassus

coroner's rating:

568

6.8

Cleopatra (1963)

Period: 43-27 B.C.
Event: Africa made a Roman Province, Second Triumvirate, Battle of Actium
Historical Figure: Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Julius Caesar, Octavian

coroner's rating:

7.1

King of Kings (1961)

Period: 0-33
Event: Foundation of Christianity
Historical Figure: Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate, Herod Antipas

coroner's rating:

161

6.6

7.2

Quo Vadis (1951)

Period: 54-68
Event: Persecution of the Christians, Great Fire of Rome
Historical Figure: Nero

coroner's rating:

110

6.8

6.7

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

Period: 180-192
Event: Conspiracies and Decline of the Roman Empire
Historical Figure: Commodus

coroner's rating:

6.2

The Last Roman (1968)

Period: 526-548
Event: Ostrogothic Kingdom
Historical Figure: Belisarius, Justinian, Athalaric

7.2

8.1

The Message

Period: 570-633
Event: Conquest of Arabia, Foundation of the Islamic Faith
Historical Figure: Muhammad

coroner's rating:

144

6.7

7.1

The Vikings

Period: around 835-865
Event: Viking Age, Invasion of England
Historical Figure: Ragnar, Aelle

coroner's rating:

5.7

6.2

Kings of the Sun (1963)

Period: around 987
Event: Mayans Pursued by Toltec Invaders
Historical Figure: -

coroner's rating:

181

6.7

7.2

El Cid (1961)

Period: 1094
Event: Moors Invasion of Spain
Historical Figure: El Cid, King Ferdinand

coroner's rating:

295

7.8

7.9

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Period: 1154-1189
Event: Reign of Henry II
Historical Figure: Henry II

coroner's rating:

2406

6.6

7.2

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Period: 1178-1187
Event: The Third Crusade, Siege of Jerusalem
Historical Figure: Saladin

coroner's rating:

363

7.1

7.2

Mongol (2007)

Period: 1192-1206
Event: Rise of the Mongol Empire
Historical Figure: Genghis Khan

coroner's rating:

188

7.5

Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Period: 1242
Event: Battle of the Ice
Historical Figure: Alexander Nevsky

coroner's rating:

4853

7.6

8.3

Braveheart (1995)

Period: 1291-1305
Event: Wars of Scottish Independence
Historical Figure: William Wallace, Edward I

coroner's rating:

157

6.9

7.1

Henry V (1944)

Period: 1413-1422
Event: Battle of Agincourt
Historical Figure: Henry V

coroner's rating:

6.5

6.4

Saint Joan (1957)...

Period: 1429-1431
Event: Hundred Years' War, Siege of Orleans
Historical Figure: Joan of Arc, Charles VII, Henry VI

coroner's rating:

349

6.2

6.5

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

Period: 1491-1502
Event: The Discovery of the New World
Historical Figure: Columbus, Queen Isabella

coroner's rating:

218

6.9

6.7

Flesh & Blood (1985)

Period: 1501
Event: Story of Landsknechts
Historical Figure: -

coroner's rating:

228

6.5

Luther (2003)

Period: 1505-1530
Event: Protestant Reformation
Historical Figure: Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, Emperor Charles V, Frederick the Wise, Johann Tetzel

7.1

7.4

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Period: 1533-1537
Event: Separation from Rome
Historical Figure: Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn

coroner's rating:

877

8.2

7.8

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)

Period: 1536-1561
Event: The Conquest of the Americas by Spain, Search for El Dorado
Historical Figure: Lope de Aguirre, Gonzalo Pizarro, Brother Gaspar de Carvajal

coroner's rating:

6.3

Mary of Scotland (1936)

Period: 1542-1587
Event: Religious Divide, Battle of Langside
Historical Figure: Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth I

coroner's rating:

269

7.8

Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944)

Period: 1547-1562
Event: The Great Fire of Moscow, Conquest of Kazan
Historical Figure: Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich

coroner's rating:

1437

7.2

7.4

Elizabeth (1998)

Period: 1558-1559
Event: Revolt of the Northern Earls, Act of Supremacy
Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I, Mary of Guise

coroner's rating:

177

7.8

7.9

Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1958)

Period: 1563
Event: Persecution of the Boyars
Historical Figure: Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich

coroner's rating:

272

7.3

7.4

Queen Margot (1994)

Period: 1572-1574
Event: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
Historical Figure: Marguerite de Valois, Henri de Navarre, Charles IX, Caterina de' Medici

503

Kagemusha (1980)

Period: around 1575
Event: Sengoku Period, Battle of Nagashino
Historical Figure: Lord Takeda Shingen, Tokughawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga

coroner's rating:

1090

6.6

6.8

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Period: 1585-1599
Event: Anglo–Spanish War
Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I, King Philip ll of Spain, Mary Stuart

6.5

Cromwell (1970)

Period: 1640-1653
Event: English Civil Wars, Establishment of the Commonwealth, Irish Campaign
Historical Figure: Oliver Cromwell, King Charles I

6.9

Que la fête commence...

Period: 1719
Event: Cellamare Conspiracy, War of the Quadruple Alliance
Historical Figure: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

1550

7.3

7.7

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Period: 1757
Event: French and Indian War, Battle of Fort William Henry
Historical Figure: Col. Munro

coroner's rating:

5.4

5.3

Revolution (1985)

Period: 1777-1781
Event: American Revolutionary War, Battle of Yorktown
Historical Figure: George Washington

coroner's rating:

7.4

7.2

La Marseillaise (1938)

Period: 1789-1792
Event: French Revolution, Storming of the Bastille, Battle of Valmy
Historical Figure: Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, La Rochefoucauld

164

7.5

Danton (1983)

Period: 1793-1794
Event: French Revolution, Reign of Terror
Historical Figure: Danton, Robespierre

229

8.3

8.2

Napoleon (1927)

Period: 1792-1796
Event: Reign of Terror, First Italian Campaign
Historical Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte, Robespierre, Marat, Danton, Saint-Just

coroner's rating:

129

8.3

War and Peace (1965)

Period: 1812
Event: Invasion of Russia, Battle of Borodino
Historical Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte, General Mikhail Kutuzov, Czar Alexander I

5.9

6.5

The Buccaneer

Period: 1812
Event: Battle of New Orleans
Historical Figure: Jean Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson

coroner's rating:

176

6.7

6.8

The Alamo (1960)

Period: 1836
Event: Texas Revolution, The Battle of Alamo
Historical Figure: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Davy Crockett

coroner's rating:

1010

6.7

7.3

Amistad (1997)

Period: 1839-1842
Event: Abolitionism in the USA
Historical Figure: John Quincy Adams, Queen Isabella II, Secretary of State John Forsyth

coroner's rating:

6.7

6.6

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Period: 1853-1856
Event: Crimean War
Historical Figure: Earl of Cardigan, Lord Raglan

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100 movies not historically accurate, but certainly entertaining (sometimes also instructive and informative) :), listed by chronological order of the events.

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Period: time period covered by the movie
Historical Figure: portrayed by an actor (or in archive footage)