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Films set in Antiquity (until the fall of the Roman Empire)
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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La Donna dei Faraoni |
1961 | 3100 BCE | shortly after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt |
Land of the Pharaohs | 1956 | 2589-2566 BCE | based on the reign of Pharaoh Khufu
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Il Sepolcro dei re |
1960 | 2589-2566 BCE | based on the reign of Pharaoh Khufu
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Sudan | 1945 | 2558-2532 BCE | set during the reign of the pharaoh Khafra
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The Egyptian | 1954 | 2000 BCE | primarily based on the Hittite Empire, and iron technology, all of which require a much later date.
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Slave of Dreams | 1995 | 1544 BCE | set in Joseph
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Joseph | 1995 | 1544 BCE | Egypt, probably during the reign of Ahmose I |
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete | 1960 | ca. 1500 BCE | Minoan Crete
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Minotaur | 2006 | ca. 1500 BCE | loosely based on the legendary exploits of Iron age
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Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile | 1961 | ca. 1370-1330 BCE | Egypt; loosely based on Nefertiti |
Clash of the Titans | 1981 | ca. 1300? BCE | based on the Greek legends of Perseus. |
Hercules | 1958 | mid 13th century BCE | roughly a generation before the Trojan War (some of the characters in the Argonautica were fathers to heroes of the Trojan War) |
Hercules |
2005 | mid 13th century BCE | |
Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | mid 13th century BCE | the late and back |
Jason and the Argonauts |
2000 | mid 13th century BCE | |
Medea | 1969 | mid 13th century BCE | the immediate aftermath of the voyage of Argo |
Ifegeneia | 1977 | ca. 1200 BCE | Greece immediately before the soldiers set sail to attack Troy |
Helen of Troy | 1956 | ca. 1200 BCE | western Anatolia during the Trojan War |
Troy | 2004 | ca. 1200 BCE | western Anatolia during the Trojan War |
The Fury of Achilles | 1962 | ca. 1200 BCE | western Anatolia in the 9th year of the Trojan War |
Trojan Horse |
1961 | ca. 1200 BCE | western Anatolia in the 10th and final year of the Trojan War |
The Trojan Women | 1971 | ca. 1200 BCE | the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War |
The Avenger | 1962 | early 12th century BCE | Aeneas struggles to establish a new home-land in Italy for his fellow survivors of the Trojan War |
Electra | 1962 | early 12th century BCE | the daughter of the Greek king Agamemnon seeks revenge for her father's murder |
Ulysses |
1955 | early 12th century BCE | the ten year struggle of Odysseus to return home to Ithaca in Greece after the Trojan War |
The Odyssey |
1997 | early 12th century BCE | |
Pharaoh | 1966 | 1069 BCE | Egypt during the reign of a fictitious king "Ramses XIII" (there were only 11 by that name) |
King David | 1985 | ca. 1040-970 BCE | southern Levant |
Solomon and Sheba | 1959 | ca. 1011-931 BCE | southern Levant |
Sins of Jezebel | 1953 | 874-853 BCE | southern Levant during the reign of king Ahab |
I am Semiramis |
1962 | ca. 810 BCE | Assyria |
King Lear |
1971 | ca. 800 BCE | Celtic pre-Roman Britain |
King Lear |
1999 | ca. 800 BCE | Celtic pre-Roman Britain |
Duel of the Titans |
1961 | 753 BCE | based on the story of Romulus and Remus, and the founding of the city of Rome |
The Rape of the Sabine Women | (1962) | ca. 750 BCE | early Roman foundation myth |
Duel of Champions | 1961 | ca. 650 BCE | Horatii
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War Gods of Babylon | 1962 | ca. 627 BCE | Neo-Assyrian Empire; focusing largely on Sardanapalus (probably the Greek name for Ashurbanipal, but anachronistically including Zoroaster (11th-10th century BCE) and Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE) |
Queen of Babylon |
1954 | 600 BCE | Neo-Babylonian Empire |
Hero of Rome | 1964 | 509 BCE | combining the Roman legends of Gaius Mucius Scaevola and the expulsion of Tarquin, the last tyrant |
Coriolanus: Hero without a Country |
1964 | 493 BCE | Gaius Marcius Coriolanus
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Giant of Marathon |
1959 | 490 BCE | Greece: Battle of Marathon |
The 300 Spartans | 1961 | 480 BCE | Greece: Battle of Thermopylae |
300 | 2007 | 480 BCE | Greece: Battle of Thermopylae |
One Night with the King | 2006 | ca. 465-424 BCE | the biblical story of Esther set in the Achaemenid Empire |
Damon and Pythias | 1961 | ca. 400 BCE | Syracuse, Sicily |
Brennus, Enemy of Rome | 1963 | 387 BCE | the Gallic sack of Rome |
Alexander the Great | 1956 | 356-323 BCE | Greece and Persia |
Alexander | 2004 | 356-323 BCE | Greece and Persia |
Colossus of Rhodes |
1961 | 280 BCE | |
Asoka | 2001 | 304-232 BCE | Ashoka, the Mauryan Emperor in India |
Revak the Rebel | 1960 | ca. 218 BCE | Iberian Peninsula immediately before the Second Punic War |
Siege of Syracuse |
1960 | 214-212 BCE | the Siege of Syracuse during the Second Punic War
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The Secret Under the Rose | 2006 | 218-202 BCE | during the Second Punic War |
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal | 1937 | 202 BCE | Battle of Zama which ended the Second Punic War |
The Centurion |
1961 | 146 BCE | Battle of Corinth between Rome and the Achaean League |
Spartacus |
1960 | 73-71 BCE | the Third Servile War in Rome |
Spartacus |
2004 | 73-71 BCE | the Third Servile War in Rome |
Spartacus: Blood and Sand | 2010 | 73-71 BCE | the Third Servile War in Rome |
Julius Caesar |
2002 | 100-44 BCE | a bio-pic of Julius Caesar, not the Shakespeare play about his death and the aftermath |
Druids | 2001 | 58-51 BCE | the struggle between Julius Caesar and Vercingetorix in the Gallic Wars |
A Queen for Caesar |
1962 | 48 BCE | Egypt leading up to the arrival of Julius Caesar |
Julius Caesar |
1953 | 44-42 BCE | Shakespeare 's play about the death and aftermath of this famous dictator
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Julius Caesar | 1970 | 44-42 BCE | Shakespeare 's play about the death and aftermath of this famous dictator
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Cleopatra | 1963 | 48-30 BCE | Egypt and Rome - follows her relationships first with Julius Caesar and then with Mark Antony |
Cleopatra |
1999 | 48-30 BCE | |
The Cleopatras | 1983 | 305-30 BCE | Egypt - The entire Ptolemaic dynasty |
Rome | 2005-2007 | 52-30 BCE | from the end of the Gallic Wars to the death of Mark Antony and the beginning of the Principate |
Empire | 2005 | 1st century BCE | Rome |
Imperium: Augustus | 2003 | 49 BCE - 14 CE | Rome - the life of Augustus, the first emperor |
Massacre in the Black Forest |
1967 | 9 CE | Germany - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where the Cheruski ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions. |
I, Claudius | 1976 | 12 BCE - 54 CE | Julio-Claudian 's
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The Caesars | 1967 | 27 BCE - 68 CE | Julio-Claudian dynasty
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Ben-Hur | 1959 | ca. 26-35 CE | Roman Empire - mostly in the province of Judea |
The Inquiry | 2006 | ca. 37 CE | Roman province of Judea shortly after the death of Jesus |
Caligula | 1979 | 37-41 CE | Rome - the reign of the third emperor |
Boudica | 2003 | 60 CE | Britain - a rebellion shortly after the area had been conquered by Rome |
Nero | 2004 | 41-68 CE | Rome - spanning the reigns of Claudius and Nero |
Quo Vadis | 1951 | 54-68 CE | Rome during the reign of Nero |
Masada | 1981 | 72-73 CE | First Jewish-Roman War
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Dacii | 1967 | 86-87 CE | Dacia (modern Romania) -Domitian's Dacian War |
The Apocalypse | 2002 | ca. 90-96 CE | Rome - Ephesus |
Revolt of the Praetorians | 1964 | 96 CE | Rome - the assassination of Domitian |
Centurion | 2010 | 117 CE | Ninth Legion
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The Eagle | 2011 | 140 CE | Ninth Legion
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The Fall of the Roman Empire | 1964 | 180-192 CE | Rome during the reign of Commodus |
Gladiator | 2000 | 180-192 CE | Rome during the reign of Commodus |
The Magnificent Gladiator | 1964 | ca. 260-268 CE | Rome during the reign of Gallienus |
Sheba and the Gladiator |
1959 | ca. 260-273 CE | Rome and the Palmyrene Empire during the reigns of Aurelian and Zenobia |
Sebastiane | 1976 | ca. 288 CE | Rome Low-budget homo-erotic film about Saint Sebastian |
Katherine of Alexandria |
2011 | 307 CE | Egypt shortly before the legalization of Christianity
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Constantine and the Cross | 1962 | 306-312 CE | Rome's first Christian emperor from the death of Constantius Chlorus to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge |
Fabiola | 1949 | ca. 312 CE | Rome early in the reign of Constantine |
Augustine of Hippo | 1972 | 354-430 CE | Roman province of Africa |
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire |
2010 | 354-430 CE | Roman province of Africa - focusing on the life of Augustine of Hippo, and including the Vandal conquest of Carthage |
Roar | 1997 | 400 CE | Ireland - Celtic warriors attempt to repel a fictitious Roman invasion |
Agora | 2009 | ca. 360-415 CE | |
Revenge of the Barbarians | 1960 | 410 CE | the Visigothic sack of Rome |
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend | 2000 | 387-493 CE | Ireland and Roman Britain during the life of Saint Patrick |
Attila | 1954 | 406-453 CE | Rome - the Hunnic leader up to his retreat from the Po river |
Attila |
2001 | 406-453 CE | Rome - the life and death of the famous Hunnic leader |
Die Nibelungen | 1924 | ca. 450 CE | about the Germanic hero Siegfried, his murder, and his widow's vengeance |
Die Nibelungen | 1967 | ca. 450 CE | about the Germanic hero Siegfried, his murder, and his widow's vengeance |
Ring of the Nibelungs | 2004 | ca. 450 CE | about the Germanic hero Siegfried |
Films set in the Middle Ages (5th to mid-15th centuries)
Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages (5th to 11th centuries)
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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King Arthur | 2004 | early 5th century CE | the Battle of Mount Badon
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Hagbard and Signe | 1967 | 5th century CE | Scandinavia during the Germanic Heroic Age |
Arthur of the Britons | 1972-1973 | 5th century CE | Britain after the Roman withdrawal |
The Mists of Avalon |
2001 | ||
The Last Legion | 2007 | 476-490 | connecting (in heavily fictionalized fashion) the deposition of the last Roman emperor Battle of Mount Badon
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Teodora | 1919 | ca. 500-548 | Byzantine empress Theodora |
Theodora, Slave Empress | 1954 | ca. 500-548 | Byzantine empress Theodora |
Kampf um Rom I |
1968 | 527-565 | Byzantine emperor Justinian I's reign |
Kampf um Rom II | 1969 | 527-565 | Byzantine emperor Justinian I's reign |
Lovespell | 1981 | 6th century | Britain and Ireland- adaptation of the Welsh legend of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan + Isolde |
2006 | 6th century | Britain and Ireland - adaptation of the Welsh legend of Tristan and Iseult |
Grendel Grendel Grendel | 1981 | 6th century | animated film based on the 1971 novel Grendel, retelling the Anglo-Saxon peom from the monster's perspective |
Grendel | 2007 | 6th century | Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf
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Beowulf & Grendel | 2005 | 6th century | Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf
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Beowulf | 2007 | 6th century | Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf
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Hamlet | 1964 | 6th century | |
Prince of Jutland | 1994 | 6th century | Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age - legend of Amleth from the Danish Gesta Danorum |
Goliath and the Barbarians | 1959 | 568 | the Lombard invasion of Italy |
The Message |
1976 | 570-632 | Arabian Peninsula - the life of Muhammad |
Aszparuh |
1981 | 680 | foundation of the Bulgarian Kingdom |
Roland the Mighty | 1956 | 778 | Roland, a knight of Charlemagne's court who was killed at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass |
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval | 1993 | 768-800 | Charlemagne's reign up to his coronation as emperor in 800 |
An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God | 2003 | ca. 800 | Poland - the death of Popiel and the rise of Piast the Wheelwright |
The Last Viking | 1997 | 9th century | Viking Age |
Attack of the Normans | 1962 | early 9th century | set in England during the Viking Age ("Normans" in the title being used in its original continental sense, meaning "Vikings") |
Pope Joan | 1972 | 9th century | a possibly fictitious woman who supposedly disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the 9th century |
Pope Joan | 2009 | 814-855 | a possibly fictitious woman who supposedly disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the 9th century |
The Vikings |
1958 | 860s | highly fictionalized account of the death of Ragnar Lodbrok and the subsequent invasion of Northumbria by two of his sons |
Alfred the Great | 1969 | ca. 870-899 | unification of England
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The Saxon Chronicles | 2006 | ca. 871-899 | England - the reign of Alfred the Great |
A Viking Saga | 2008 | 870s | Oleg of Novgorod defeats Askold and Dir
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Boris I | 1985 | 852-889 | St. Boris I Michael (first half of the 9th century - 2 May 907), a Bulgarian tzar (King) who imposed Christianity in AD 865 and introduced the new Slavonic alphabets of Glagolitza and Cyrillic in the Kingdom of Bulgaria |
The Conquest | 1996 | 896 | Magyar settlement in Hungary
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When the Raven Flies | 1984 | 897 | Iceland in the Viking Age |
Útlaginn |
1981 | 9th century | Gisli Sursson
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Pathfinder | 1987 | ca. 900 | Sami legend
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In the Shadow of the Raven | 1988 | ca. 900 | Iceland in the Viking Age |
White Viking |
1991 | ca. 900 | Iceland in the Viking Age |
The 13th Warrior | 1999 | 922 | blends elements of the historical account of the travels of The Seven Samurai
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The Castilian |
1963 | 930-970 | Ferdinand Gonzalez: an early hero of the Spanish Reconquista
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Gniazdo | 1974 | ca. 972 | about Mieszko I of Poland
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The Viking Sagas | 1995 | late 10th, early 11th centuries | Laxdœla saga and Njáls saga
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The Ceremony of Innocence |
1970 | 978-1016 | a fictionalized version of the reign of Æthelred the Unready |
Njálssaga | 2003 | 960-1020 | Iceland - adaptaion of Njáls saga |
The Viking | 1928 | 999 or 1000 | Leif Ericsson and the expedition to North America
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Severed Ways | 2009 | 1007 | two Scandinavians left behind in North America after the settlements made by Leif Ericsson were abandoned
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High and Late Middle Ages (1000-1453)
Western Europe
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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MacBeth | 1971 | 1050s | Mac Bethad mac Findlaích
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MacBeth | 1997 | 1050s | Mac Bethad mac Findlaích
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Lady Godiva of Coventry | 1955 | 1050s | an English noble woman who allegedly rode naked through the streets of Coventry in protest of unfair taxation |
William the Conqueror | 1982 | 1066 | William the Conqueror, the Norman duke who conquered England |
Blood Royal: William the Conqueror | 1990 | 1066 | England during the conquest |
1066 | 2011 | 1066 | England during the conquest |
Hereward the Wake | 1965 | 1066-1087 | Hereward the Wake, the Anglo-Danish leader who led a resistance against Norman rule |
El Cid | 1961 | 1040-1099 | Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, an 11th century Spanish warrior known as El Cid |
The Raid of the Aegean | 1946 | 1096-1099 CE | the First Crusade |
The Mighty Crusaders |
1958 | 1096-1099 CE | the First Crusade |
Rytsarskiy roman | 2000 | 1096-1099 | the First Crusade |
The Crusaders | 2001 | 1096-1099 | the First Crusade |
Stealing Heaven | 1988 | ca. 1120 | France - Peter Abelard and Héloïse |
Didgori: Land of Sacrificed Knights | 2009 | 1121 | the Seljuks
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The Pillars of the Earth |
2010 | 1120-1170 | King Stephen and his cousin Maud
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Destiny | 1997 | 1126-1198 | about |
The Devil's Crown | 1978 | 1154-1216 | John
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Becket | 1964 | 1155-1170 | archbishop Thomas Becket, once a close personal friend of Henry II... |
Barbarossa | 2009 | 1176 | the Battle of Legnano |
The Lion in Winter | 1968 | 1183 | Henry II is in power as his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine plots with their sons |
The Lion in Winter | 2003 | 1183 | Henry II is in power as his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine plots with their sons |
Kingdom of Heaven | 2005 | 1183-1190 | events which led to the Third Crusade (the Battle of Hattin and the Siege of Jerusalem (1187)|Siege of Jerusalem]]) |
Soldier of God | 2005 | 1187 | a Templar who has survived the Battle of Hattin
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Saladin |
1963 | 1187-1192 | events leading up to and including the Third Crusade |
Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1923 | 1190 | based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman and set in the Third Crusade
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Knight Kenneth | 1993 | 1190 | based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman and set in the Third Crusade
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Arn – The Knight Templar |
2007 | 1179-1187 | a Swedish knight is sent to Jerusalem as penance while his lover languishes in a convent |
Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End | 2008 | 1187-1205 | following the Battle of Hattin, the knight returns home to Sweden and participates in the civil wars |
Ivanhoe | 1997 | 1192 | adaptation of the novel by Sir Walter Scott about the English knight who returns from the Third Crusade to find that his name has been falsely slandered
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Robin and Marian | 1976 | 1199-ca. 1201 | from the death of King John
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The Life and Death of King John | 1951 | 1199-1216 | King John
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The Life and Death of King John | 1984 | 1199-1216 | King John
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon | 1972 | 1181-1226 | St. Francis of Assisi
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Francesco | 1989 | 1181-1226 | St. Francis of Assisi
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Gates to Paradise |
1968 | 1212 | the ill-fated Children's Crusade |
Ironclad | 2011 | 1215 | the siege of Rochester Castle |
Eye of the Eagle | 1997 | 1218 | Denmark |
Knights of the Quest | 2001 | 1271 | French knights journey to Greece to retrieve the Shroud of Turin |
Marco Polo |
1982 | 1254-1325 | the Venitian explorer who traveled to the court of Kublai Khan |
The Virgin Spring | 1960 | late 13th century | adaptation of the 13th century Töres dotter i Wänge
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The Black Rose | 1950 | mid to late 13th century | the fictional exploits of a young Englishman who travells to China, falls in love along the way, and manages to return with a formula for gunpowder |
Braveheart | 1995 | 1272-1305 | William Wallace, a Scottish knight who fought for Scotland's independence in the 1290s |
The Bruce | 1996 | 1274-1329 | Robert the Bruce, who took over the rebellion against Edward "Longshanks" following the death of William Wallace in 1305
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Les Rois Maudits |
1972 | 1285-1328 | the later Capetian dynasty and the arrest of the order of the Knights Templar and the seizure of their wealth by the French crown in 1307 |
Les Rois Maudits |
2005 | 1285-1328 | the later Capetian dynasty and the arrest of the order of the Knights Templar and the seizure of their wealth by the French crown in 1307 |
Petri Tårar | 1995 | 1300 | a con-artist selling the "Tears of Peter," which are said to be a cure for any illness |
Tower of Nesle | 1955 | 1314 | Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France |
Tower of Screaming Virgins | 1968 | 1314 | Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France |
Anchoress | 1993 | 1325 | France - an anchorite |
The Name of the Rose | 1986 | 1327 | set in an Italian monastery |
Kristin Lavransdatter | 1995 | early to mid 14th century | Norway |
The Decameron |
1971 | 1348 | Italy |
Black Death | 2010 | 1348 | England during the initial outbreak of the plague |
The Seventh Seal | 1957 | 1349 | Sweden during the initial outbreak of the plague |
Second Sight | 1994 | 1349 | Norway during the initial outbreak of the plague |
A Knight's Tale | 2001 | 1356 | loose adaptation of Battle of Poitiers (1356))
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Inês de Castro | 1944 | 1357 | Pedro I of Portugal, who had her posthumously declared his wife and queen in AD 1357
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The Dark Avenger | 1955 | 1359 | Edward, the Black Prince
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The Canterbury Tales | 1972 | late 14th century | England |
The Canterbury Tales | 1998-2000 | late 14th century | England |
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star | 1984 | 1325-1384 | the life and teachings of Protestant Reformation
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Richard the Second | 1978 | 1367-1399 | Shakespeare's play about Richard II
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12 Paces Without a Head | 2009 | 1401 | medieval German folk-hero Klaus Störtebeker, a pirate captain in the Baltic Sea who was said to have walked 12 paces after being decapitated by officials of the Hanseatic League |
Henry V | 1944 | 1413-1422 | [[Henry V of England]'s wars in France |
Henry V | 1989 | 1413-1422 | [[Henry V of England]'s wars in France |
The Whore | 2010 | 1414-1415 | Germany |
John Hus | 1977 | 1415 | reformationist teachings prompted his conviction and execution for heresy, which would be the catalyst for the anti-imperial Hussite Wars which would plague central Europe in the 15th century
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Joan of Arc | 1948 | 1429 | Joan of Arc, the French heroin of the Hundred Years' War |
Saint Joan | 1957 | 1429 | Joan of Arc, the French heroin of the Hundred Years' War |
Joan of Arc | 1999 | 1429 | Joan of Arc, the French heroin of the Hundred Years' War |
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | 1999 | 1429 | Joan of Arc, the French heroin of the Hundred Years' War |
The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | 1429 | the trial and execution of Joan of Arc |
Judgement of | 1952 | 1433 | Germany |
Tirante el Blanco | 2006 | 15th century | France and Constantinople |
The Conclave | 2006 | 1458 | depicting the tense, politically charged Papal election
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Eastern Europe
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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Prince Vladimir | 2006 | 980-1015 | Vladimir I of Kiev
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Yaroslav the Wise | 1981 | 978-1054 | bio-pic about the Yaroslav I the Wise
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Mongol | 2007 | 1161-1206 | the earlier half of Genghis Khan's life |
Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | 1241 | Prince Battle of the Ice
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Valley of the Bees |
1968 | 13th century | Kingdom of Bohemia |
Kazimierz Wielki | 1976 | 1333-1370 | Casimir III the Great of Poland |
Boj na Kosovu |
1989 | 1389 | a battle between Medieval Serbia and the Ottoman Empire
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Mircea | 1989 | 1386–1418 | Mircea the Elder, who repelled the Ottoman Empire during his reign
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Andrei Rublev | 1969 | c. 1360-1430 | centered around the life of Andrei Rublev, who was considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of icons and frescoes |
Krzyzacy | 1960 | 1410 | the Battle of Grunwald |
Tirante el Blanco | 2006 | 15th century | adaptation of the 1490 romance, Tirant lo Blanc, about a French knight in the service of the Byzantine emperor in campaigns against the Ottoman Turks
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Vlad Tepes |
1979 | 1439-1476 | about prince Muslim Ottoman Empire throughout his reign
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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula | 2000 | 1439-1476 | about prince Muslim Ottoman Empire throughout his reign
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The Conquest of Constantinople | 1951 | 1453 | the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II |
Early Modern (1453-1700)
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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The Conclave | 2006 | 1458 | depicting this tense, politically charged Papal election
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Black Arrow | 1985 | 1455–1485 | adaptation of the novel about the Lancastrian hero in the Wars of the Roses
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Tower of London | 1939 | 1462-1483 | during the reign of Edward IV of England
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Richard III | 1955 | 1452-1485 | Richard III of England |
Tower of London | 1962 | 1483-1485 | during the reign of Richard III of England |
Christopher Columbus |
1985 | 1492 | the discovery and conquest of the New World by Christopher Columbus |
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | 1992 | 1492 | the discovery and conquest of the New World by Christopher Columbus |
1492: Conquest of Paradise | 1992 | 1492-1506 | the discovery and conquest of the New World by Christopher Columbus |
Princes in the Tower | 2005 | 1490s | the trial of prince Richard, rightful heir to the throne before his untimely death in the Tower as a child
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Los Borgia |
2006 | 1492-1503 | the family life and papacy of Rodrigo Borgia , widely considered to be the epitome of papal corruption of the era
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Luther | 2003 | 1483–1546 | Martin Luther |
The Agony and the Ecstasy | 1965 | 1508–1512 | the painting of the Sistine Chapel |
The Other Conquest | 1998 | 1521 | Mexico, depicting the secret adherence to traditional religious beliefs of the converted Aztec survivors |
Wara Wara | 1930 | 16th century | romance set at the time of the Spanish conquest of Bolivia |
The Headsman | 2005 | ca. 1525 | an executioner in Tyrol (part of the Holy Roman Empire) |
A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | 1525-1535 | Thomas More |
Anne of the Thousand Days | 1969 | 1525-1536 | Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I |
The Other Boleyn Girl | 2008 | 1525-1536 | Anne and Mary Boleyn |
Henry VIII and his Six Wives |
1972 | 1509-1547 | Henry VIII of England
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The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | 1509-1547 | Henry VIII of England
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Henry VIII | 2003 | 1509-1547 | Henry VIII of England
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The Tudors | 2007-2010 | 1509-1547 | Henry VIII of England
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Lady Jane | 1986 | 1553 | about Lady Jane Grey, the uncrowned queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days |
The Royal Hunt of the Sun | 1969 | 1532 | Pizarro's capture of Atahualpa |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 1972 | 1560 | Lope de Aguirre's ill-fated expedition down the Amazon |
Ivan the Terrible | 1944, 1958 | 1530-1584 | two-part film about Ivan IV of Russia
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Mary of Scotland | 1936 | 1542-1587 | Mary, Queen of Scots |
Mary, Queen of Scots | 1971 | 1542-1587 | Mary, Queen of Scots |
The Return of Martin Guerre | 1982 | 1548-1588 | France - a true case of late medieval identity theft |
Young Bess | 1953 | 1535-1558 | from the death of Elizabeth I of England
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Elizabeth R | 1971 | 1558-1603 | the reign of Elizabeth I of England
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Elizabeth | 1998 | 1558-15?? | the early reign of Elizabeth I of England
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age | 2007 | 1585-1590 | the Spanish Armada |
Fire Over England | 1937 | 1588 | the Spanish Armada |
The Virgin Queen | 2005 | 1558-1603 | the reign of Elizabeth I of England
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La Reine Margot | 1994 | 1572 | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Elizabeth I | 2005 | 1578-1603 | the last 25 years of Elizabeth I of England 's reign
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The Merchant of Venice | 2004 | ca. 1596 | Republic of Venice |
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | 2004 | 1542-1625 | the reigns of James I of England
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Mihai Viteazul |
1970 | 1593-1601 | Michael the Brave, prince of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania |
Shōgun |
1980 | 1600 | loosely based on the adventures of William Adams, an English sailor who travelled to Japan in 1600 and served as a samurai and advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu |
The New World | 2005 | 1608 | the colonization of Jamestown, Virginia |
1612 | 2007 | 1612 | Russia during the Time of Troubles |
Day of Wrath | 1943 | 1624 | using a fictitious witchcraft trial as a metaphor for the then current Nazi persecution of Jews
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The Devils | 1971 | 1634 | the life and trial of Urbain Grandier, who was convicted of witchcraft and burned |
Cardinal Richelieu (film) | 1935 | 1626-1642 | the life of the great seventeenth century French statesman Louis XIII of France
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Barbara | 1997 | 1640 | Faroe Islands |
The Last Valley | 1970 | ca. 1618-1648 | Thirty Year's war
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Queen Christina | 1933 | 1632-1654 | Queen Christina of Sweden
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With Fire and Sword | 1999 | 1648-1654 | the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine |
Cromwell | 1970 | 1640-1653 | the English Civil War and the dissolution of the Rump Parliament |
Witchfinder General | 1968 | 1640s | during the English Civil War |
To Kill a King | 2003 | 1648-1658 | the reign of Oliver Cromwell |
The Devil's Whore | 2008 | 1638-1660 | the English Civil War and the reign of Oliver Cromwell |
Molière | 2007 | 1622-1673 | the French playwrite Molière |
The Deluge | 1974 | 1655-1660 | Poland - the Second Northern War |
Colonel Wolodyjowski | 1968 | 1668 | the Ottoman invasion of Poland |
The Libertine |
2004 | 1647-1680 | life of the poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester |
Charles II: The Power and The Passion |
2003 | 1649-1685 | the reign of Charles II of England |
Le Roi danse |
2000 | 1632-1687 | Jean-Baptiste Lully |
The Man in the Iron Mask | 1977 | 1660-1667 | Louis XIV
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The Prince of Homburg | 1997 | 1675 | adaptation of the Heinrich von Kleist play fictionalizing the deeds of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg in the Battle of Fehrbellin against Sweden |
The Crucible | 1996 | 1692-1693 | dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay |
Tous les matins du monde |
1991 | late 17th century | Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe |
Peter the Great |
1984 | 1682-1725 | the reign of Peter I of Russia
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Films set in the 18th and 19th centuries
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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The Sovereign's Servant | 2007 | 1709 | Battle of Poltava |
Rob Roy | 1995 | 1713 | Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor
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Blackbeard |
2006 | 1718 | the infamous pirate Edward Teach |
The Cantor of St Thomas's | 1984 | 1685-1750 | Johann Sebastian Bach |
King of the Wind | 1990 | 1727 | England |
The Rise of Catherine the Great | 1934 | 1740s | early years of Catherine II of Russia
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The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | 1729-1796 | Catherine II of Russia , the "enlightened despot" who reigned as Empress of Russia
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Young Catherine | 1991 | 1744 | early years of Catherine II of Russia
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Catherine the Great | 1995 | 1729-1796 | Catherine II of Russia
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The Master of Ballantrae |
1953 | 1745-1746 | Jacobite Rising of 1745
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The Master of Ballantrae | 1984 | 1745-1746 | Jacobite Rising of 1745
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Treasure Island | 1934 | ca. 1750 | adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Treasure Island | 1950 | ca. 1750 | adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Treasure Island | 1972 | ca. 1750 | adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Treasure Island | 1990 | ca. 1750 | adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Chasing the Deer | 1994 | 1745-1746 | Jacobite Rising of 1745
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Casanova | 2005 | 1753-1757 | Giacomo Casanova |
Roots | 1977 | 1750-1880 | the slave trade |
Brotherhood of the Wolf | 2001 | 1764–1767 | based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend around the Beast of Gévaudan |
Barry Lyndon | 1975 | 1756-1789 | the Seven Years War , etc.
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The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | 1757 | French and Indian War |
Northwest Passage | 1940 | 1757 | Robert Rogers
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The Mission | 1986 | ca. 1760-1763 | Jesuit missionaries in South America
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Drums Along the Mohawk | 1939 | 1776 | settlers during the American Revolution |
The Crossing | 2000 | 1776 | the crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton |
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor | 2003 | 1776-1782 | Benedict Arnold, both an early hero of the American Revolution and a notorious traitor |
The Madness of King George | 1994 | 1788 | the deteriorating mental health of George III of the United Kingdom, King of Great Britain and Ireland
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Amadeus | 1984 | 1756-1791 | Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
A Tale of Two Cities | 1911 | 1755-1792 | England and France during the French Revolution |
A Tale of Two Cities | 1935 | 1755-1792 | England and France during the French Revolution |
A Tale of Two Cities | 1958 | 1755-1792 | England and France during the French Revolution |
A Tale of Two Cities | 1980 | 1755-1792 | England and France during the French Revolution |
A Tale of Two Cities | 1989 | 1755-1792 | England and France during the French Revolution |
Mutiny on the Bounty | 1962 | 1789 | the mutiny on the Bounty |
The Bounty | 1984 | 1789 | the mutiny on the Bounty |
Marie Antoinette | 1938 | 1774-1792 | French queen Marie Antoinette |
Marie Antoinette | 2006 | 1774-1792 | French queen Marie Antoinette |
The Affair of the Necklace |
2001 | 1780s | 'Courtesan takes revenge by scamming Cardinal de Rohan, and others, kindling flames of the French Revolution
|
The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1934 | 1792 | French Revolution |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1982 | 1792 | French Revolution |
Beau Brummell | 1954 | ca. 1795 | Beau Brummell, a 19th century arbiter of fashion in England who popularized the man's suit and necktie) |
Amazing Grace | 2006 | 1807 | William Wilberforce's campaign to abolish slavery in Britain |
Napoléon | 2002 | 1799-1815 | Napoléon I of France
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | 1803-1805 | during the Napoleonic Wars |
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. |
1951 | 1807 | the Napoleonic Wars |
War and Peace | 1956 | 1803-1815 | Napoleonic Era
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War and Peace | 2007 | 1803-1815 | Napoleonic Era
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War and Peace | 1972 | 1803-1815 | Napoleonic Era
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The Duellists | 1977 | 1804-1814 | the Napoleonic Wars |
Désirée | 1954 | 1799-1815 | the love story between Napoleon I
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Conquest | 1937 | 1806-1816 | the love story between Napoleon I
|
Waterloo | 1970 | 1815 | Battle of Waterloo |
Vanity Fair | 2004 | 1803-1814 | the Napoleonic Era
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Bright Star | 2009 | 1818-1821 | the last three years of poet John Keats' life |
Lady Caroline Lamb | 1972 | ca. 1810-1828 | aristocrat, novelist and Lord Byron 's lover
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Les Misérables | 1934 | 1815-1832 | Napoleon I
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Les Misérables | 1935 | 1815-1832 | Napoleon I
|
Les Misérables | 1995 | 1815-1832 | Napoleon I
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Les Misérables | 1998 | 1815-1832 | Napoleon I
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Les Misérables | 2000 | 1815-1832 | Napoleon I
|
Shaka Zulu | 1986 | 1816-1828 | Shaka, a Zulu chieftan |
The Count of Monte Cristo | 1934 | 1815-1838 | Napoleon I
|
The Count of Monte Cristo | 1975 | 1815-1838 | Napoleon I
|
The Count of Monte Cristo | 2002 | 1815-1838 | Napoleon I
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El Santo de la Espada | 1970 | 1821-1822 | José de San Martín and the emancipation of South America |
Bouboulina | 1959 | 1821-1829 | Laskarina Bouboulina, heroine of the Greek War of Independence |
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | 1974 | 1828-1833 | Germany - Kaspar Hauser |
Kaspar Hauser | 1993 | 1828-1833 | Germany - Kaspar Hauser |
The Young Victoria | 2009 | 1830s | focusing on her early reign and romance with Prince Albert
|
The Alamo | 1960 | 1836 | Battle of the Alamo |
The Alamo | 2004 | 1836 | Battle of the Alamo |
Amistad |
1997 | 1839-1841 | mutiny aboard a ship containing African slaves bound for the Cuba, and the subsequent trial |
Song of Love | 1947 | 1840-1856 | the marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann and their close friendship with Johannes Brahms |
The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1968 | 1856 | the disaster of the Crimean War known as the Charge of the Light Brigade |
Gone with the Wind | 1939 | 1861-1877 | Reconstruction
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Glory | 1989 | 1862-1863 | the American Civil War from the Battle of Antietem to the Second Battle of Fort Wagner |
Gettysburg | 1993 | 1863 | the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War |
Dances with Wolves | 1990 | ca. 1865-1870 | the American Civil War and shortly after |
Wild Bill | 1995 | 1876 | the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok |
Mrs. Brown |
1997 | 1861-1883 | Queen Victoria and John Brown
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The Last Samurai | 2003 | 1870s | |
Zulu Dawn | 1979 | 1879 | the Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War |
Zulu | 1964 | 1879 | the Battle of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | 1881-1892 | the end of Jesse James' career as a criminal and the man who eventually kills him, Robert Ford in 1882 |
Tombstone | 1993 | 1881-1884 | events leading up to and following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
Wyatt Earp | 1994 | 1881-1884 | events leading up to and following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
Khartoum | 1966 | 1884 | Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Siege of Khartoum |
The Four Feathers | 1939 | 1882-1888 | during the British army's Gordon Relief Expedition
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The Four Feathers | 2002 | 1882-1888 | during the British army's Gordon Relief Expedition
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Geronimo: An American Legend | 1993 | 1886 | events leading up to the capture of Geronimo |
Jack the Ripper |
1988 | 1888 | based on the famous unsolved series of murders that took place in Whitechapel, London |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | 2007 | 1890 | Wounded Knee Massacre |
Heaven's Gate | 1980 | 1892 | the Johnson County War |
Rough Riders |
1997 | 1898 | the Spanish-American War
|
55 Days at Peking | 1963 | 1900 | Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion
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Films set in the early 20th century
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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Breaker Morant (Harry "Breaker" Morant | 1980 | 1901 | an Australian Lieutenant who ordered the summary execution of several prisoners during the Second Boer War |
Young Winston | 1972 | 1874-1902 | the biography Winston Churchill before he became Britain's World War II-era Prime Minister |
The Battleship Potemkin |
1925 | 1905 | the Battleship Potemkin uprising
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | late 1890s-1908 | Harry Longabaugh
|
A Night to Remember | 1958 | 1912 | the Titanic disaster
|
Titanic | 1997 | 1912 | the Titanic disaster
|
All Quiet On The Western Front | 1930 | 1914 | World War I |
All Quiet On The Western Front | 1979 | 1914 | Western Front of World War I |
Flyboys | 2006 | 1914-1917 | American volunteer combat pilots in service for the Allies during World War I |
Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | 1916-1918 | T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt |
Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | 1912-1923 | World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War |
Michael Collins | 1996 | 1916-1922 | later life of Irish resistance leader Michael Collins and his participation in the Irish War of Independence |
The Wind that Shakes the Barley | 2006 | 1919-1923 | the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War |
Legionnaire | 1998 | 1920-1926 | Second Moroccan War
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Anastasia | 1956 | 1920s | based upon Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the activities of Anna Anderson |
Road to Perdition | 2002 | winter 1931 | |
The Legend of Bagger Vance | 2000 | 1931 | set in Savannah, Georgia |
Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | 1931-1934 | Bonnie and Clyde |
A Pearl in the Forest | 2008 | 1934-1938 | set during the Great Purges initiated by Joseph Stalin in Mongolia
|
The Hindenburg |
1975 | 1937 | the Hindenburg disaster |
Battle of Britain | 1969 | 1940 | the Battle of Britain |
Sink the Bismarck! | 1960 | May 1941 | World War II German battleship Bismarck |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Dec. 7 1941 | the attack on Pearl Harbor |
Pearl Harbor | 2001 | December 1941 | the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
Midway | 1976 | June 1942 | the Battle of Midway |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | 1942-1943 | construction of the Burma Railway by British prisoners of war during World War II |
The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Aug. 1942-Feb. 1943 | The Battle of Guadalcanal
|
Stalingrad | 1993 | winter 1942-1943 | The Battle of Stalingrad from a German perspective |
Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | winter 1942-1943 | Vasily Zaytsev in the Battle of Stalingrad |
Cross of Iron | 1977 | spring 1943 | Eastern Front |
The Dam Busters | 1955 | May 1943 | development of the Upkeep bouncing bomb and its use in Operation Chastise |
Memphis Belle | 1990 | May 1943 | a U.S. bombing mission over Germany during World War II |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | 2008 | 1944 | The Holocaust |
The Longest Day | 1962 | June 6, 1944 | the D-Day invasion
|
Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | June 1944 | D-Day and its aftermath
|
Valkyrie | 2008 | July 1944 | July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler
|
A Bridge Too Far |
1977 | September 1944 | Operation Market Garden |
Flags of Our Fathers | 2007 | Feb.-March 1945 | the Battle of Iwo Jima |
Letters from Iwo Jima | 2007 | Feb.-March 1945 | the Battle of Iwo Jima |
Downfall | 2005 | April-May 1945 | the last days of the Third Reich
|
Patton | 1970 | 1943-1945 | the exploits of General George S. Patton during World War II |
Schindler's List | 1993 | 1939-1945 | German industrialist concentration camps during World War II
|
The Good German | 2006 | July-Aug. 1945 | during the Potsdam Conference |
Nuremberg |
2000 | Nov. 1945-Oct. 1946 | the first of the Nuremberg Trials
|
Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | 1947 | the Judges' Trial |
Exodus | 1960 | 1947-1948 | foundation of Israel |
Gandhi | 1982 | 1869-1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
|
Evita | 1996 | 1919-1952 | Evita Peron
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Films set in the later 20th century
Title | Release date | Time period | Notes on setting |
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The Good Shepherd | 2006 | 1938-1961 | rise of Counter-intelligence leading up to the Bay of Pigs Invasion
|
The Right Stuff | 1983 | 1947-1963 | the Project Mercury space launches |
Good Night, and Good Luck. |
2005 | 1953 | the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
|
The Quiet American | 2002 | 1954 | early American covert involvement in Vietnam |
American Hot Wax | 1978 | 1950s | disc jockey Alan Freed's involvement in rock and roll |
Great Balls of Fire! | 1989 | 1956-1958 | rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis |
Quiz Show | 1994 | 1956-1958 | Quiz show scandals
|
The Battle of Algiers |
1966 | 1954-1960 | during the Algerian War of Independence
|
Thirteen Days | 2000 | October 1962 | the Cuban Missile Crisis |
JFK | 1991 | 1961-1966 | the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and subsequent investigation |
Z | 1969 | 1963 | the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis
|
Mississippi Burning | 1988 | 1964 | the U.S. Mississippi civil rights workers murders
|
Che | 2008 | 1955-1967 | Che Guevara |
We Were Soldiers | 2002 | Nov. 1965 | the Battle of la Drang in the Vietnam War
|
Bobby | 2006 | 1968 | the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy |
Platoon | 1985 | 1967-1968 | Vietnam War |
Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | 1965-1968 | Ron Kovic's experiences in the Vietnam War |
Heaven & Earth | 1993 | 1960s | Vietnam War |
Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | 1968 | Vietnam War |
The Doors | 1991 | 1964-1971 | |
Hamburger Hill | 1987 | 1969 | Battle of Hamburger Hill in the Vietnam War |
Apocalypse Now | 1979 | 1970 | Vietnam War |
Bloody Sunday |
2002 | January 1972 | Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland |
Nixon | 1995 | 1969-1974 | the political life of Richard M. Nixon
|
All the President's Men | 1976 | 1972 | the Nixon-era Watergate scandal |
Zodiac | 2007 | 1969-1975 | the Zodiac murders in the United States |
Missing | 1982 | 1973 | the coup d'état in Chile and the murder of Charles Horman |
The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | 1971-1976 | Ugandan President Idi Amin |
Cry Freedom | 1987 | 1972-1978 | Steve Biko and Donald Woods in the apartheid era of South Africa |
Munich | 2005 | 1972-1979 | Mossad efforts to avenge the murder of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics |
The Killing Fields | 1984 | 1973-1979 | the Khmer Rouge's genocide |
Frost/Nixon | 2008 | 1977 | the Frost Nixon interviews |
Summer of Sam | 1999 | 1977 | the Son of Sam murders in New York City |
Milk | 2008 | 1970-1978 | gay rights activist Harvey Milk |
Gracie | 2007 | 1978 | six years after the introduction of Title IX |
Miracle | 2004 | 1980 | the U.S. hockey team's gold medal victory at the 1980 Winter Olympics |
Wonderland | 2003 | 1981 | Wonderland murders |
Paid in Full | 2002 | 1985 | during the Crack Epidemic of the 1980s
|
Goodbye Bafana | 2007 | ca. 1980-1990 | Nelson Mandela's imprisonment |
Catch a Fire | 2006 | 1980-1994 | set during the early ANC's military wing in the apartheid era of South Africa
|
Charlie Wilson's War | 2007 | 1980-1989 | Soviet-Afghan War
|
Jarhead | 2005 | 1989-1991 | Gulf War |
Three Kings | 1999 | 1991 | 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein and aftermath of the Gulf War
|
Black Hawk Down | 2001 | 1993 | the Battle of Mogadishu |
Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | 1994 | Rwandan Genocide
|
Shooting Dogs | 2005 | 1994 | Rwandan Genocide
|
Sometimes in April | 2005 | 1994 | Rwandan Genocide
|
Invictus | 2009 | 1994-1995 | South Africa - the 1995 Rugby World Cup |
Savior | 1998 | ca. 1995 | during the Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia |
Behind Enemy Lines | 2001 | 1995 | the Mrkonjić Grad incident during the Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia
|
Blood Diamond |
2006 | 1996-1999 | during the Sierra Leone Civil War |
The Queen | 2006 | 1997 | a fictional account of the immediate events following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales |
Open Water | 2004 | 1998 | Tom and Eileen Lonergan
|
World Trade Center | 2006 | September 2001 | September 11 attacks |
W. | 2008 | 1966-2003 | The life and presidency of George W. Bush |
In the Valley of Elah | 2007 | 2004 | the murder of an Iraq War veteran and the subsequent investigation |
Lions for Lambs | 2007 | ca. 2005 | the War in Afghanistan
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