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    black_doug

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    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?
     
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    Life of Brian
     
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    • 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.
     
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    My favourite from that zany gang.
     
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    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.
     
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    They found another Mohican, so they renamed the movie The Next to Last of The Mohicans.
     
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    Think of the sequels!

    The Penultimate Mohican
    The Antepenultimate Mohican
    The Preantepenultimate Mohican
     
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    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
     
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    Of course there‘a all the movies about WWII.
     
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    ...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
     
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    Band of Brothers. Not a movie but I liked it.
     
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    What world do you live in? :)
     
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    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? ;)
     
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    One of my favourite actors. Not really historical but I just saw his last one last week, The Phantom Thread.
     
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    Plus 1 for Harriet. That was a great movie. My family really enjoyed it.
     
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    If they have Antepenultimate Mohican then they’d better also have Uncle Penultimate Mohican just to be fair.
     
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    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!
     
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