Posts Tagged ‘historical’

Misérables, Les (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Geoffrey Rush | Uma Thurman | Claire Danes | Hans Matheson | Reine Brynolfsson | Peter Vaughan | Christopher Adamson | Tim Barlow | Timothy Bateson | David Birkin | Václav Chalupa | Ian Cregg | Ben Crompton | Zdenek David
Directors: Bille August
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

To Hell and Back (1955)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Audie Murphy | Marshall Thompson | Charles Drake | Jack Kelly | Gregg Palmer | Paul Picerni | David Janssen | Richard Castle | Bruce Cowling | Paul Langton | Art Aragon | Felix Noriego | Denver Pyle | Brett Halsey | Susan Kohner
Directors: Jesse Hibbs
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True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Milland | John Wayne | Paulette Goddard | Raymond Massey | Robert Preston | Lynne Overman | Susan Hayward | Charles Bickford | Walter Hampden | Louise Beavers | Martha O'Driscoll | Elisabeth Risdon | Hedda Hopper | Victor Kilian | Oscar Polk
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
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In 1840, there’s work on the Florida Keys for honest salvagers (like the Claibornes) and outright pirates like King Cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. When Capt. Stuart’s ship is wrecked, Loxi Claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to Charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn’t his fault; company lawyer Steve Tolliver returns with them to Key West to investigate. Tolliver and Stuart’s rivalry for Loxi’s hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of Cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence.

Geronimo (1962)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Chuck Connors | Kamala Devi | Pat Conway | Armando Silvestre | Adam West | Lawrence Dobkin | John Anderson | Enid Jaynes | Ross Martin | Denver Pyle | Nancy Rodman | Amanda Ames | Eduardo Noriega | Claudio Brook | Joe Higgins
Directors: Arnold Laven
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Romance | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Madeleine Stowe | Russell Means | Eric Schweig | Jodhi May | Steven Waddington | Wes Studi | Maurice Roëves | Patrice Chéreau | Edward Blatchford | Terry Kinney | Tracey Ellis | Justin M. Rice | Dennis Banks | Pete Postlethwaite
Directors: Michael Mann
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In 18th century North America during the French and Indian War, a white man adopted by the last members of a dying tribe called the Mohicans unwittingly becomes the protector of the two daughters of a British colonel, who have been targeted by Magua, a sadistic and vengeful Huron warrior who has dedicated his life to destroying the girls’ father for a past injustice.

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Kirsten Dunst | Jason Schwartzman | Judy Davis | Rip Torn | Rose Byrne | Asia Argento | Molly Shannon | Shirley Henderson | Danny Huston | Marianne Faithfull | Mary Nighy | Sebastian Armesto | Jamie Dornan | Aurore Clément | Guillaume Gallienne
Directors: Sofia Coppola
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Based on Antonia Fraser’s book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, ‘Marie Antoinette’ tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.

Robin Hood (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian Bedford | Peter Ustinov | Phil Harris | Terry-Thomas | Monica Evans | Carole Shelley | Andy Devine | Roger Miller | Pat Buttram | George Lindsey | Ken Curtis | Billy Whitaker | Dana Laurita | Dora Whitaker | Richie Sanders
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
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Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies unpayable taxes upon the people.

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Sam Spruell | Peter Stebbings | Christian Camargo | Roman Podhora | Sam Redford | Steve Nicolson | Liam Neeson | Ravil Issyanov | Tim Woodward | Lex Shrapnel | Shaun Benson | Kristen Holden-Reid | Dmitry Chepovetsky | Christopher Redman | Tygh Runyan
Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
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The story of USSR’s first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine’s crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Hoskins | Christopher Lloyd | Joanna Cassidy | Charles Fleischer | Stubby Kaye | Alan Tilvern | Richard LeParmentier | Lou Hirsch | Betsy Brantley | Joel Silver | Paul Springer | Richard Ridings | Edwin Craig | Lindsay Holiday | Mike Edmonds
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a Toon (cartoon character). Rogers’ boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help.

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Kirsten Dunst | Julia Stiles | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Ginnifer Goodwin | Dominic West | Juliet Stevenson | Marcia Gay Harden | John Slattery | Marian Seldes | Donna Mitchell | Terence Rigby | Jennie Eisenhower | Leslie Lyles | Laura Allen
Directors: Mike Newell
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Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.