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American historical drama films

  • The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film)The 2008 film The Other Boleyn Girl left out Hever Castle, the Boleyn family's real home.
  • Oppenheimer (film)The teaser for the film Oppenheimer, released on the 28th of July 2022, carried a live countdown to 5:29 a.m. Mountain time on the 16th of July 2023. That hour marked the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic weapon.…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)Hattie McDaniel was barred from the premiere of Gone with the Wind by Jim Crow laws, then won an Oscar.
  • The Beguiled (1971 film)The Beguiled posters showed Clint Eastwood with a gun, but the film has almost no action.
  • Apollo 13 (film)The Apollo 13 film's famous line "Failure is not an option" was never spoken by Gene Kranz during the real mission.
  • Gods and Generals (film)Gods and Generals, a 2003 American Civil War film written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, grossed $12.8 million at the box office. That sum fell far short of what the project had swallowed. Most of the money came from one man, the media…
  • Macbeth (1948 film)Orson Welles filmed his 1948 Macbeth in just 23 days. He used leftover Western sets at Republic Pictures.
  • Frankenstein (2025 film)Frankenstein, the 2025 film directed by Guillermo del Toro, began as an act of avoidance. In 2016 del Toro confessed that part of him had for more than 25 years "chickened out of making it." He felt that finishing the film would end the…
  • Sinners (2025 film)Sinners is a 2025 horror film from the writer, director and producer Ryan Coogler. It opens with someone describing a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future.' The film then spends the rest of…
  • Wuthering Heights (2026 film)The 2026 film Wuthering Heights is a romantic period drama that Emerald Fennell produced, wrote and directed. It is only loosely based on the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë. Fennell did not set out to make a faithful retelling. Her stated aim…
  • Glory (1989 film)The film Glory shows a soldier being flogged, but no such flogging of Black troops ever happened.
  • Flesh and Blood (1985 film)The hero of the manga Berserk was designed after Rutger Hauer's mercenary in the film Flesh and Blood.

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