Historical drama film
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The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based more or less accurately upon historical events and famous persons. See also period piece.
The following are examples of well-known historical dramas, and their subject matter.
- Alexander Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky)
- All the President's Men (the Watergate scandal)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (Anne Boleyn)
- The Battle of Algiers (the Algerian War of Independence)
- The Battleship Potemkin (the Battleship Potemkin uprising)
- Beau Brummell (Beau Brummell)
- Braveheart (William Wallace)
- 'Breaker' Morant (Breaker Morant)
- A Bridge Too Far (Operation Market Garden)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (the Charge of the Light Brigade)
- Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell)
- Elizabeth (Elizabeth I of England)
- Downfall (the defeat of Adolf Hitler)
- Fire Over England (the Spanish Armada)
- Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Gladiator (the reign of Commodus)
- Glory (the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry)
- Gone with the Wind (the American Civil War)
- Good Night, and Good Luck (Edward R. Murrow)
- Henry V (Henry V of England)
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Henry VIII of England)
- Hotel Rwanda (the Rwandan Genocide)
- Jesus of Nazareth (movie) (Jesus Christ)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (the Nuremberg Trials)
- Kagemusha (the Battle of Nagashino)
- The Killing Fields (the Khmer Rouge)
- Lady Caroline Lamb (Lady Caroline Lamb)
- Lady Jane (Lady Jane Grey)
- The Lion in Winter (Henry II of England)
- The Longest Day (D-Day)
- The Madness of King George (George III of the United Kingdom)
- A Man for All Seasons (Thomas More)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary I of Scots)
- Michael Collins (Michael Collins)
- Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria and John Brown)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (the mutiny on the Bounty)
- A Night to Remember (the Titanic disaster)
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (Henry VIII of England)
- Queen Christina (Christina of Sweden)
- Ragtime (New York City in the 1910s)
- Richard III (two versions) (Richard III of England)
- The Right Stuff (the Project Mercury)
- Roots (the slave trade)
- Saving Private Ryan (D-Day and its aftermath)
- Schindler's List (Oskar Schindler)
- Sink the Bismarck! (the German battleship Bismarck)
- Spartacus (Spartacus)
- Titanic (the Titanic disaster)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (the attack on Pearl Harbor)
- Waterloo (the Battle of Waterloo)
- Young Bess (Elizabeth I of England)
- Young Winston (Winston Churchill)
- Z (the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis)de:Historienfilm