The Alamo comes out on Christmas Day and I hope that this is a really good, historically accurate movie. I only hope that they follow it up with San Jacinto so that the last thing we see are not the Texans their asses kicked by the Mexicans.
If we're doing the Russians as related to posts, I say The Idiot....no, wait. I'm sorry. I'm thinking of...
Because they hated it, or they were on the verge of puking after seeing a guy carry his own arm that had been blasted off?
We should have grouped these by several classifications: Twentieth Century War -- Patton; Tora! Tora! Tora!; the Great Escape, and Sergeant York. (I omitted Saving Private Ryan because too much of the story was invented, although I agree with MacBeth's assessment of the first 20 minutes. Each of my uncles wept bitter tears, and I know my late father would have, since they were all participants.) Non-Twentieth Century War: War and Peace (10-hour Russian masterpiece); Glory; and Dr. Zhivago. English Royal History: A Lion in Winter (who cares about accuracy, the dialogue among Hepburn, O'Toole etc. is insanely delicious); A Man for All Seasons; Becket; Anne of the Thousand Days; Elizabeth and Mary (right title?). English War History: Lawrence of Arabia; Bridge Over the River Kwai: and Zulu! Non-War Histories: Amadeus; Apollo 13; and The Right Stuff.
No, no. Thank you. Gave me an opportunity to show off yet another example of my wealth of useless knowledge, which is really the only good it does me in the day to day world.
I think Gladiator was obviously a very well put together Historical Film, the ending is just breath-taking to say the least. Ridley Scott at his finest.
"Once Were Warriors"...it's not a historical movie, but it was quoted as being a great representation of the typical living conditions in New Zealand's poor neighborhoods. Most people probably have not seen it, but I think it won some awards.
School Ties. Its not so much historical, but it is pretty accurate in that aspect. And Sarafina. Completely depressing, but darn accurate.
In terms of historical accuracy, "Gladiator" was a massive, steaming turd. "Suburban Commando" starring Hulk Hogan was a more accurate representation of Roman times. There was a mini-series on TNT about Julius Caesar a few months back that was actually rather true to events - of course the dramatizations around those events were just dramatizations (we have no way of knowing those details), but the events and the sequence of events was true to the sources.
You are mixing up your Zulus. Shaka was way before the Battle of Rorke's Drift. The two that usually go hand in hand are Zulu and Zulu Dawn (which is about the bigger battle right before - of Isandawala or something - where the British suffered their largest defeat ever). Also, I don't know if I would call it a Zulu uprising since the British started it by concocting reasons to attack the Zulu. Nobody has mentioned Barry Lyndon...
"From the Earth to the Moon" (mini-series) was pretty true to the whole space program. It went beyond the missions and looked into the lives of the people who worked on the project. It even went as far as looking at how the space program broke up the astronaut's marriages and family life.
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That movie made me sleepy, for some reason. I never finished it. I hate Julian Schnabel. He was an ass to and about Basquiat until he directs the movie and tries to portray himself in a nice light. That and Basquiat = overrated.
