Another Movie Thread - Based on History

[black_doug]

TCM has been showing some good movies that take place during the American Civil War. One was The Outlaw Jose Wales. I really enjoyed it.

Other movies I’ve enjoyed that are based on history are The Last of The Mohicans, and Lincoln, both with Daniel Day Lewis. He was also in some others. Gangs of New York was good.

I’ve come to realize that a lot of my favourite movies are historical. What other ones do you recommend?

 

[koen]

Life of Brian

 

[Ed Driscoll]

• Barry Lyndon
• Lawrence of Arabia
• A Night to Remember
• Dr. Zhivago

And if you're looking for a brilliant documentary on WWI, They Shall Not Grow Old.

 

[black_doug]

Life of Brian

My favourite from that zany gang.

 

[DougM]

I recently saw Harriet, about Harriet Tubman, and The Green Book, On the Basis of Sex, about the young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Marshall, about Thurgood Marshall, starring the late, great Chadwick Bozeman, are a few others I've seen recently that I though were very good. Of course, these weren't on TCM, but HBO or Showtime, I don't remember which.

 

[Injam]

TCM has been showing some good movies that take place during the American Civil War. One was The Outlaw Jose Wales. I really enjoyed it.

Other movies I’ve enjoyed that are based on history are The Last of The Mohicans, and Lincoln, both with Daniel Day Lewis. He was also in some others. Gangs of New York was good.

I’ve come to realize that a lot of my favourite movies are historical. What other ones do you recommend?

They found another Mohican, so they renamed the movie The Next to Last of The Mohicans.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

They found another Mohican, so they renamed the movie The Next to Last of The Mohicans.

Think of the sequels!

The Penultimate Mohican
The Antepenultimate Mohican
The Preantepenultimate Mohican

 

[Thoughtfree]

Spartacus
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
The Big Red One
Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World
... and many more

 

[BigDaddyLH]

The Big Short

 

[black_doug]

Of course there‘a all the movies about WWII.

 

[Fiesta Red]

...and that film about a young girl who travels to a distant land, kills the first person she meets and teams up with a ragtag band of outsiders to kill again...The Wizard of Oz

 

[Injam]

Band of Brothers. Not a movie but I liked it.

 

[spurgie79]

Tombstone

 

[black_doug]

...and that film about a young girl who travels to a distant land, kills the first person she meets and teams up with a ragtag band of outsiders to kill again...The Wizard of Oz

What world do you live in?

 

[nojazzhere]

TCM has been showing some good movies that take place during the American Civil War. One was The Outlaw Jose Wales. I really enjoyed it.

Other movies I’ve enjoyed that are based on history are The Last of The Mohicans, and Lincoln, both with Daniel Day Lewis. He was also in some others. Gangs of New York was good.

I’ve come to realize that a lot of my favourite movies are historical. What other ones do you recommend?

A lot of Daniel Day Lewis' movie roles are based on (fictional or not) historical sources. In addition to the ones you mentioned, there's There Will Be Blood, The Boxer, In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Bounty, and Gandhi.
I wonder how his new career as a cobbler (shoe maker) is going?

 

[Fiesta Red]

What world do you live in?

Texas

 

[black_doug]

A lot of Daniel Day Lewis' movie roles are based on (fictional or not) historical sources. In addition to the ones you mentioned, there's There Will Be Blood, The Boxer, In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Bounty, and Gandhi.
I wonder how his new career as a cobbler (shoe maker) is going?

One of my favourite actors. Not really historical but I just saw his last one last week, The Phantom Thread.

 

[Lake Placid Blue]

I recently saw Harriet, about Harriet Tubman, and The Green Book, On the Basis of Sex, about the young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Marshall, about Thurgood Marshall, starring the late, great Chadwick Bozeman, are a few others I've seen recently that I though were very good. Of course, these weren't on TCM, but HBO or Showtime, I don't remember which.

Plus 1 for Harriet. That was a great movie. My family really enjoyed it.

 

[Lake Placid Blue]

Think of the sequels!

The Penultimate Mohican
The Antepenultimate Mohican
The Preantepenultimate Mohican

If they have Antepenultimate Mohican then they’d better also have Uncle Penultimate Mohican just to be fair.

 

[DougM]

Plus 1 for Harriet. That was a great movie. My family really enjoyed it.

Harriet was played by Cynthia Erivo, who also plays the psychic investigator Holly on the HBO series The Outsider. She's amazing in that role too!