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English-language historical drama films

  • The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film)In the year 1527, King Henry VIII of England stood before his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. Their marriage had produced no male heir to secure the…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)Gone with the Wind premiered on the 15th of December 1939, and on that single night, roughly 300,000 people packed the streets of Atlanta for seven miles…
  • The Beguiled (1971 film)The Beguiled arrived in theaters on the 28th of May 1971, a film so strange and unsettling that Universal Pictures struggled to figure out what to do with it.
  • Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his…
  • Anne of the Thousand DaysThe year 1948 marked the Broadway premiere of Maxwell Anderson's play at the Shubert Theatre. H. C. Potter directed a production that ran for 288…
  • Free State of Jones (film)The year 1863 marked a turning point in Jones County, Mississippi. Confederate soldiers seized crops and livestock from struggling neighbors who were already…
  • Gods and Generals (film)Ted Turner personally financed the 2003 film Gods and Generals after Warner Bros. Pictures rejected his initial pitch in 2000.
  • Macbeth (1948 film)Orson Welles shot Macbeth in 23 days. Not 23 weeks, not 23 months. Twenty-three days to film an entire Shakespeare tragedy, on sets borrowed from cowboy…
  • The Name of the Rose (film)The Name of the Rose arrived in cinemas in 1986 with a puzzle at its heart: how do you turn a labyrinthine medieval novel into a film people will actually…
  • The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a Nation arrived in American theaters in 1915 and immediately changed what cinema could do. D. W. Griffith directed this silent epic, and within…
  • Glory (1989 film)Kevin Jarre stood in Room 421 of the Gramercy Park Hotel during a few weeks in 1988. He wrote the screenplay for Glory on spec while staring at the Robert…
  • Lincoln (film)In the freezing air of January 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stands in a dimly lit room within the White House. He stares at a map of Virginia while his…
  • Flesh and Blood (1985 film)Flesh and Blood, released in August 1985, arrived in American cinemas on the 16th of August of that year, opening only in Los Angeles and New York City.