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The Agony and the Escatasy. The BBC Sharpe's Adventures series based on Bernard Cornwell's books, and anything resonably histrically accurate.
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I loved the Sharpe's series, also. I've never read any of the books even though I've enjoyed several of his other series.
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OOO historical dramas are some of my favorites! Some of the ones that top my list are
Elizabeth (with Cate Blanchett)
Braveheart
Mrs Brown (i think that was the title... judi dench played queen victoria... great movie!)
Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)
Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)
How The West Was Won
And i love samurai/feudal Japan/dynasty movies :)
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I can't even tell you how many times I have seen Braveheart. What about The Gladiator, Troy, Man with the Iron Mask, The Last Samurai...
I hadn't heard about Mrs. Brown - I'll be sure to check it out!
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You do know that BRAVEHEART was not even closely historically accurate. Great Scottish hero who was brutally Gibsonized all in the name of the almighty $$$.
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I have sooo many:
Gone With the Wind
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Lion in Winter
A Man for All Seasons
Lady Jane
Amadeus
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
Gladiator
Elizabeth
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
TV Mini Series or Movies:
Roots
I Claudius
Elizabeth I
The Tudors
The Thorn Birds
The Winds of War
Holocaust
Shogun
North and South
Lonesome Dove
Pride & Prejudice (Colin Firth)
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We were thinking about adding The Tudors to our Blockbuster queue... now you've confirmed it. Thanks, Ladyslott!
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Many are the same: Gladiator, Braveheart, Master & Commander, Ben Hur, Pride & Prejudice (BBC version), Robin Hood, Gone With the Wind, Mutiny on the Bounty (Clark Gabel version), The Patriot, and The last of the Mohicans
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Oh there are so many! I love most of the BBC adapations as opposed to Hollywood big budget versions. I did love Elizabeth though!
I love Pride & Prejudice (Firth version), Persuasion (Hinds version), Jane Eyre (Hinds version), Moll Flanders (BBC version) and Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Waddell version). My newest love is North & South(Richard Armitage version).
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I just finished watching John Adams on HBO and enjoyed it. I also loved The Queen with Helen Mirren. Band of Brothers although gory needs to be added as well.
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Mrs Brown (Judi Densch)
The Queen (Helen Mirren)
Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett)
Master & Commander (Russell Crowe)
Moll Flanders (Robin Wright Penn, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing)
The Lion in Winter (Katherine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins)
The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner)
Gone with the Wind
Longitude (Jeremy Irons), A&E
Robin Hood, current BBC series
The Flame Trees of Thika, PBS
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Moll Flanders
Gangs of New York
The Patriot
Master and Commander
Braveheart
Gladiator
Schindler's List
Papillon
Les Miserables
Saving Private Ryan
Hart's War
300
Man in the Iron Mask
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
The Passion
Elizabeth
Roots
I Claudius
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We totally like the same movies, Jesus Freak... that's just one other thing we have in common!
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I agree with you both I like these movies also. But, I forgot to add to my list Titanic, Gorillas in the Mist, and Cleopatra with Liz Taylor, and Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck
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Nancy
- Wednesday, May 28 2008
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Yay for North & South!
*The Scarlet Pimpernel (with Jane Seymore & Anthony Andrews)
*Ivanhoe (again Anthony Andrews is lookin good)
*The Phantom of the Opera (with Teri Polo) TV minnie series from 1990
*All time favorite: Shakespeare in Love!
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Ritu G
- Thursday, June 5 2008
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Shakespeare in Love.
Happy reading!
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Forgot about Shakespear in Love... love the story great movie and acting
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I have loved all these movies listed!
My favorites have been Elizabeth, Quills (about the Marquis de Sade), all the Jane Austen movies, Little Women (winona ryder), Amadeus, the Libertine (Johnny Depp) and the Kenneth Branagh versions of the Shakespeare plays. There are many more historical movies that I love, but I can't think of them right now!
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Most of these I enjoyed, but I rented Quills the other day and didn't like it at all ... totally creeped me out and left me feeling uncomfortable inside.
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Rob Roy is quite possible my favorite movie of all time. It was released in 1995 and was overshadowed by another great movie about a Scottish hero named William Wallace, of course I am referring to Braveheart. But Rob Roy is terrific with great writing and great acting, beautiful scenery. I just can not say enough great things about this movie. Also Tim Roth plays one of the best villains you could possibly imagine. That is my two cents worth anyway.
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OH my gosh, Chris, I'd totally forgotten about Rob Roy! I loved that movie .. Liam Neeson did an excellent job in it. I'm going to have to rent it again!
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I have to agree that Rob Roy was a fantastic movie. I liked Braveheart also. However, I think Liam Neeson was a more believable character.
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Lady Jane is another good one (starring Helena Bonham Carter, 1986) along with other English period pieces.
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Michael Mann's "Last of the Mohicans".
HBO's "John Adams" and "Rome".
Sharpe.
Hornblower.
The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes.
Cadfael.
The Patriot.
Black Robe.
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i'm new here so... my movies are
marie antoinette (kirsten dunst)
pride and prejudice (knightley)
the queen
gone with the wind
the ten commandments
jesus of nazareth
the patriot
ben hur
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One of my all-time favorites that I haven't seen listed is Dr. Zhivago.
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Vanity Fair
Gone With the Wind
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Lion in Winter
A Man for All Seasons
Lady Jane
Elizabeth
Elizabeth, the Golden Years
North and South ( English)
Little Women
Wind and the Lion
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Persuasion
The Man Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
Miss Potter
Copy Beethoven
The Last Legion ( pure fantasy but fun)
Amazing Grace
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Far Pavilions
The Four Feathers
A Room With A View
Ladies in Lavendar
Tristan Islode
Mrs Henderson Presents
The Importance of Being Ernest
Henry V
Much A Do About Nothing
Mrs Brown
Indiana Jones ( 1/3)
Lawrence of Arbia
Dr Zhivago
The Name of the Rose
The Quiet Man
The Molly Macquries
Rob Roy ( if only for the scenery)
CHASING THE RED DEER (excelent movie on the last Jacobite uprising)
Most of the Sharpe Series
Duchess of Duke Street series
I am sure there are more as I especially enjoy period pieces. Though I am a amatuer Scottish historian I really hated what Mel Gibson and Wallace did the story of William Wallace. Maybe it is because I am part of the Wallace family but story was so historically inaccurate it was terribly laughable. My goodness they couldn't even get the right pipe music: they show a piper on the great war pipe at the grave of his father/brother but what the audience hears is a uilean pipe from Ireland that isn't even close in looks or sound of a great war pipe. The inaccuricies were not poetic license but misrepresentation of the real history.
My all time favorite is THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS ( true story)
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Ohh there are so many! I really loved Braveheart, Pride & Prejudice, Gladiator, Titanic, North & South (with Richard Armitage), Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, Robin Hood, Legends of the Fall, A River Runs Through It, Ten Commandments, King Arthur, Glory, Tombstone, The Sting, Dances with Wolves, The Remains of the day, A League of their own, JFK, Apollo 13, Pearl Harbor, Hidalgo, The Civil War (Ken Burns documentary). I know there is a ton more to list but that is all I can think of right now! :)
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I loved Freedom Writers (with Hillary Swank, if that helps you recall it). I suppose that's not really historical. It's probably considered a current events film rather than historical fiction, but I think you'd all enjoy it anyway.
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To make up for my sort of off-topic comment (Freedom Writers isn't exactly historical, now is it?) I liked the Titanic. Now that's historical. ; )
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