Kategorilere Göre Tarihi Filmler Listesi - Forum TurkceAltyazi.org (2024)

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What do the X's mean? The X's just indicate the ones I either have not watched or I have watched but have no review or a puny review. It's just a way to keep me from buying two copies of the same movie. I buy a bunch at a time and then watch them all. Then I buy another batch, etc. It's hard to remember what I have done and what I have not done, hence the X's. patrick L cooney

Table of Contents

I. ANCIENT MAN (hominids and man some 4 million years old; dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago).

II. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS.

II.1 Egypt (Nile River Valley)

II.2. China (Yellow River Valley)

II.3. India (Indus River Valley)

II.4. Iraq (Tigris-Euphrates River Valley)

III. LATER CIVILIZATIONS.

III.1. Greek Civilization.

III.2. Roman Civilization.

III.2.1. Foundation of the Roman Republic.

III.2.2. Foundation of the Roman Empire.

III.2.3. Rise of Christianity.

III.2.4. Fall of the Roman Empire.

III.3. Byzantine Empire (476-1453).

III.4. Islam. (and Spain)

IV. MEDIEVAL AGES (5th c. to early 16th c.).

IV.1. Europe.

IV.1.1. England, Scotland, Ireland.

IV.1.2. France.

IV.1.3. Italy

IV.1.4. Russia, Poland, Turkey, Bulgaria.

IV.2. China and Mongolia.

IV.3. India.

IV.4. Japan

V. RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, CATHOLIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION.

V.1. Renaissance - Italy.

V.2. Reformation and Religious Conflict.

V.3. Catholic Counter-Revolution.

V.4. England to the American Revolution.

V.5. France & Holland to the French Revolution.

V.6. Spain & Portugal.

V.7. Germany.

V.8. Poland.

V.9. Russia & Turkey to the French Revolution & Beyond.

V.10. India.

V.11. Japan.

VI. AGE OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT.

VI. 1. Early Exploration.

VI.2. Settlement of Mexico.

VI.3. United States of America & Canada to American Revolution.

VI.4. Latin and South America.

VI.5. Australia.

VII. REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH.

VII.1. American Revolutionary War, 1775-1782.

VII.2. French Revolution, 1789.

VII.3. Age of Napoleon.

VII.4. Early Years of the United States of America.

VII.5. Victorian England to WWI.

VII.6. France.

VII.7. Crimean War.

VII.8. Italy (1789-1867)

VII.9. American Civil War.

VII.10. Siam (Thailand) & Burma (Myanmar)

VII.11. USA: Post-Civil War Period.

VII.12. Mexico under Juarez (president 1858-1872)

VII.13. France.

VII.14. Russia and Turkey.

VII.15. Workers' Struggle.

VIII. AGE OF IMPERIALISM.

VIII.1. Spanish-American War.

VIII.2. Africa.

VIII.3. India.

VIII.4. China & French Indo-China.

VIII.5. Japan

IX. PRE-WORLD WAR I PERIOD.

IX.1. Italy.

IX.2. USA.

IX.3. Mexican Revolution/Civil War.

IX.4. Germany and Austria.

X. WORLD WAR I AND AFTERMATH.

X.1. World War I.

X.2. Russian Revolution, Civil War & the Soviet Union.

X.3. Independence for Ireland.

XI. INTERIM PERIOD BETWEEN WORLD WARS.

XI.1. USA: 1920s.

XI.2. Great Depression: USA.

XI.3. Great Britain & Australia.

XI.4. Black Experience in USA.

XI.5. Hitler's Rise.

XI.6. Rise of Mussolini.

XI.7. Fascism in Another Corner -- Argentina.

XI.8. Pre-War Japan.

XI.9. Pre-War Greece & Macedonia.

XI.10. Spanish Civil War.

XII. WORLD WAR II.

XII.1. The Fight against Germany and Italy.

XII.1.1. Germany.

XII.1.2. Naval Warfare.

XII.1.3. Germans Kicked out of Africa.

XII.1.4. Allied Invasion of Italy.

XII.1.5. Russian Front.

XII.1.6. Allied Invasion of France.

XII.1.7. German Counter-Attack (Battle of the Bulge)

XII.1.8. Air War.

XII.1.9. Others.

XII.1.10. Hitler's Last Days.

XII.1.11 Italy's Last Days of Fascism.

XII.1.12. Holocaust.
XII.2. THE FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN.

XII.2.1. The War in China and Burma.

XII.2.2. The USA Finally Gets into the War.

XIII. POST-WAR PERIOD.

XIII.1. POST-WAR JAPAN.

XIII.2. POST-WAR CHINA.

XIII.3. POST-WAR PHILIPPINES.

XIII.4. POST-WAR ENGLAND.

XIII.5. POST-WAR GERMANY.

XIII.6. POST-WAR ITALY.

XIII.7. POST-WAR FRANCE.

XIII.8. POST-WAR GREECE & MACEDONIA.

XIII.9. POST-WAR SPAIN & PORTUGAL.

XIII.10. POST-WAR SOVIET UNION.

XIII.11. POST-WAR INDIA: INDEPENDENCE

XIII.12. POST-WAR ALGERIA: INDEPENDENCE.

XIV. FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM I.

XIV.1. USA -- LOSS OF CHINA, KOREAN WAR & MCCARTHYISM DURING COLD WAR

XIV.2. TEEN REBELLION & ROCK AND ROLL

XV. THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

XV.1. CIVIL RIGHTS -- USA

XV.2. CIVIL RIGHTS -- NORTHERN IRELAND

XV.3. CIVIL RIGHTS -- GREAT BRITAIN

XV.4. CIVIL RIGHTS -- SOUTH AFRICA

XV.5. CIVIL RIGHTS -- CANADA

XV.6. CIVIL RIGHTS -- AUSTRALIA

XV.7. CIVIL RIGHTS - SPAIN

XVI. THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM II.

XVI. 1. AMERICAN STRUGGLE TO STOP ALL LEFTISTS IN LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA

XVI.2. VIETNAM WAR

XVI.3. HIPPIE ERA.

XVII. THE TRIUMPH OF THE REACTIONARIES IN THE U.S.A. (1968-2008)

XVII.1. BACKLASH: NIXON & THE 70's (Nixon, the last Keynesian conservative for a long while)

XVII.2. POST-WAR VIETNAM

XVII.3. RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENCY, 1979-1987: MORE BACKLASH (and Thatcher in Great Britain)

XVII.4. GEORGE BUSH I PRESIDENCY, 1989-1993

XVII.5. BILL CLINTON PRESIDENCY, 1993-2000: a brief respite from reactionary conservatism

XVII.6. GEORGE BUSH II, 2001-2009: MORE INEQUALITY, BACKLASH, SEMI-FASCISM, ANOTHER

EXPENSIVE WAR AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

XVIII. STIRRINGS OF REVOLT AND FREEDOM IN THE SOVIET BLOC

XIX. BOSNIA-KOSOVA-SERBIA WAR

XX. TROUBLES IN AFRICA.

XXI. AMERICANISM VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM

XXII. REJECTION OF THE SECOND AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS IN THE U.S.A.

I. ANCIENT MAN

X Quest for Fire (1981)

X One Million Years B.C. (1966) -- Raquel Welch

X When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)

X Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

II. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Back to Chapter II Back to Contents

II.1. EGYPT Back to Chapter II Back to Contents

X La donna dei faraoni (The Pharaoh's Woman) (1960) -- Giorgio Rivalti, Italy; 31st century BC love story just after r the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

Land of the Pharaohs (1955) -- building of the Pharaoh's Great Pyramid of Giza, 2560 B.C.

X Sudan (1945) -- following the murder of her father, Queen Naila of Khemis is enslaved

X The Egyptian (1954) -- story of physician Sinuhe in Akhenaten's reign, 1352 B.C.

Nefertiti, regina del Nilo (Queen of the Nile) (1961) -- Queen Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaaten1

X Faraon (Pharoah) (1966) – Polish film set in Egypt in 1069 BC

X El Mamalik (Revolt of the Mamalukes) (1965) -- royal bodyguard in the 13th century; in 1250 a Mameluke, Qutuz, came to the Egyptian throne; Mameluke sultans ruled Egypt; conquered by the Ottomans in 1517

X Princess of the Nile (1954) -- an Egyptian princess tries to drive out the Bedouin conquerors.

II.2. CHINA (UNIFICATION OF CHINA). Back to Chapter II Back to Contents

western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC)

eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC)

Warring States period (475-221 BC)

Muk gong (A Battle of Wits) (2006) -- film set amid the Warring States period

Qin Dynasty (221- 207 BC)

Jing ke ci qin wang (The Emperor and the Assassin) (1998) - 221 B.C. unification of China

The Emperor's Shadow (Qin Song) (1999) - unification of China

Hero (2004) -- four assassins plot to assassinate the King of Qin (who has the potential to unify the warring states into a nation)

X Qin yong (A Terra-Cotta Warrior) (1990) – in the Qin Dynasty the emperor builds an army of terra-cotta warriors

Han Dynasty (206 BC - 8 AD)

X Xi chu bawang (The Great Conqueror's Concubine) (1994) -- Xian Yu and Liu Pang depose Qin Dynasty ($117; used for $30))

Xin Dynasty (9-25 AD)

Han Dynasty continuation/Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)

Chi bi (aka Red Cliff; Battle of Red Cliff) (2009) -- Prime Minister Cao Cao plans to usurp the Han dynasty throne after he defeats any possible allies of the Han Emperor, but that will prove a difficult task (winter of 208/209)

II.3. INDIA. Back to Chapter II Back to Contents

Magadhan Kings (c. 1700 BC - 550 AD)

Shakya Dynasty (c. 650-500 BC)

Nanda Dynasty (424-321 BC)

Mauryan Empire: 321-185 B.C.

X Samrat Chandragupta (1958) -- Indian emperor befriends, but then defeats Alexander the Great, establishing the Maurya Empire (321 - 185 BC)

X Samrat Chandragupta (1945) -- ancient, pre-Islamic India; ruler from 320-298 BC

X Chandragupta (1934) -- founder of Mauryan Empire, originating from Magadha kingdom in modern Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bengal in e. India

Asoka (2001) -- India after the age of Alexander the Great, Emperor Asoka (273-232 B.C.)

Shunga Dynasty (185-73 BC)

Kanva Dynasty (73-26)

Western Kshatrapas

Gupta Dynasty (c. 240-550 AD)

II.4. IRAQ. Back to Chapter II Back to Contents

THE BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT

X Genesis: The Creation and The Flood (1994, Ermanno Olmi) TV

In the Beginning (2000) -- from creation to Moses

X The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) -- first 22 Books of Genesis (Adam & Eve, Noah, Tower of Babel, Abraham, Sarah and Isaac)

X The Bible (1966) Italian

Abraham (1994) -- Abraham, the founding patriarch of the Israelites, through his son Isaac (some time between 2000 and 1700 B.C.)

X Abraham Our Patriarch (1933, George Roland)

X Noah's Ark - The Story Of The Deluge (1928, Michael Curtiz)

X Noah's Ark (1999, John Irvin) -- TV

X Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) --

X Sodom and Gomorrah (1922, Michael Curtiz)

Jacob (1994) TV

X Jacob, the Man Who Fought With God (1963)

X Giacobbe ed Esau (Jacob and Esau) (1963) –

X The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) TV -- Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Joseph

Joseph (1995) TV --

X Joseph and His Brethren (1960, Irving Rapper)

X Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1932, George Roland)

X Ten Commandments (1956) -- Charlton Heston as Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt, around 1275 B.C.

X The Ten Commandments (1923, Cecil B. DeMille)

X Moses the Law Giver (1975) --

Moses (1995) --

X Prince of Egypt (1998) -- animated version of the story of Moses

Samson and Delilah (1949) -- Cecile B. DeMille with Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr, somewhere between 1200 and 1000 B.C.

Samson and Delilah (1984) TV -- Delilah betrayed by evil Sidka, governor of Gaza

Samson and Delilah (1996) TV --

The Story of Ruth (1960) -- grandmother of King David

David and Goliath (1960) -- David kills the giant Philistine

X King David (1985) -- King of Israel (ruler from 1000 -960 B.C.)

David (1997) -- David survives King Saul, adultery and internal divisions in his family to bring his son Solomon to be king after him

X Koning David (1965) – Dutch film about King David

X Saul e David (aka Saul and David) (1964) -- David's life with King Saul

X David and Batsheba (1951) -- King David steals himself a wife

X The Story of David (1976, David Lowell Rich, Alex Segal) TV

X Solomon and Sheba (1959) -- supposed relationship between King Solomon (960-928) & the Queen of Sheba

X Solomon and Sheba (1995) -- Halle Berry as the Queen of Sheba

X Menelik l (2008) – Queen of Sheba, King Solomon and their son, Menelik

La Regina di Saba (Queen of Sheba) (1952) -- Italian black & white that should have been called Rehoboam and Sheba

X Solomon (1997, Roger Young) TV

Giuditta e Oloferne (aka Head of a Tyrant) (1959) -- girl gives herself to cruel Assyrian tyrant who has conquered her city in order to overthrow him

X Cortigiana di Babilonia (Queen of Babylon) (1956) -- Babylonia rebels against the Assyrian empire, 626 B.C.

Jeremiah (1998) TV -- the prophet beginning 628 B.C.

Intolerance (1916) -- first of four stories deals with intolerance in Babylon that leads to its fall to the Persians, 539 B.C.

Esther and the King (1960) -- Esther saves the Jews of 4th c. B.C. Persia

X Esther (1999) -- remake of Esther and the King

X Esther (1985, Amos Gitai)

X One Night With the King (2006, Michael O. Sajbel) -- Esther saves the Jewish nation

X The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979) -- ABC one-hour special

X Liken: Esther and the King (2006) – mother tells her daughter about the great Esther

III. LATER CIVILIZATIONS. Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

III.1. GREEK CIVILIZATION. Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

Mycenaean Period (1600 BC to about 1100 BC) Mycenae when Mycenae dominated much of southern Greece

Crete:

X Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960) – Italian film legendary exploits of supposed Athens founder Theseus in Minoan Crete. c. 1,500 BC.

X Minotaur (2006) – loosely based on the legend of Theseus (set in the iron age instead of the bronze, c. 1,500 BC)

Fight against Troy:

Helen of Troy (2003) -- Troy falls to the Greeks (with Sienna Guillory)

Helen of Troy (1956) -- with Rossana Podesta

X La guerra di Troia (The Trojan Horse (1961) -- stars Steve Reeves and Edy Vessel

X The Trojan Women (2004) -- with Shelley Delayne

The Trojan Women (1971) -- grieving women after fall of Troy (with Irene Papas)

X Troy (2004) -- Troy VII (1275-1240 B.C.) with Diane Kruger

X Troy (2004) -- starring Brad Pitt

X The Odyssey (1977)

X The Odyssey (1997) TV miniseries -- based on the return voyage of the Greeks from Troy

Ulysses (1954)

Persian-Greek Wars:

Giant of Marathon (1959) – actor Steve Reeves as Phillipides in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC)

300 (2006) -- Spartan King Leonidas and a force of 300 Spartans fight the Persians (under King Xerxes) at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

The 300 Spartans (1962) -- Greeks stand against the Persians at Thermopylae

Golden Age of Greece (Age of Pericles) (448 to 429 BC):

X Socrates (1970) TV -- last days of Socrates, a philosopher who was a social gadfly in Athens

X Barefoot in Athens (1966) TV -- Socrates

Battles between Athens, Sparta and Thebes:

Seven from Thebes (1964) -- a group of Thebans fight to rid Thebes from the control of Sparta,, 382-379 BC

Alexander the Great (336 to 323 BC):

X Alexander the Great (1968) -- the great Macedonian empire builder (with William Shatner); made for TV

Alexander the Great (1956) -- with Richard Burton

Alexander the Great (2004) -- with Colin Farrell

X Sikander (Alexander the Great) (1941) -- Alexander the Great's conquests in North-Western India. 326-225 BC (in Urdu language)

Il colosso di Rodi (The Colossus of Rhodes) (1961) – 280 BC a Greek military hero joins a group of rebels to overthrow the tyrannical King Serse on Rhodes

III. 2. ROMAN CIVILIZATION. Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

III.2.1. FOUNDATION OF A ROMAN REPUBLIC Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

Orazi e Curiazi (Duel of the Champions) (1961) -- Roman leader (673-642 BC) challenges forces of Alba Longa

Hero of Rome (1964) – the exile Tarquin, the last tyrant of Rome, 509 BC, tries to get back in power

X Coriolanus: Hero without a Country (1964) – Coriolanus, Roman general at siege of the Volscian city of Corioli, 493 BC

Hannibal (1959) -- the great Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (Carthage vs. Rome), 218-201 BC

Cabiria (1914) -- a young girl's odyssey at the time of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) -- focus on n. African front

X Siege of Syracuse (1960) – Roman siege (214-212 BC) in Second Punic War

X Scipione l'africano (Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal) (1937) -- Roman general defeats Hannibal ($30)

X Scipione detto anche l'africano (Scipio the African) (1971) -- ancient Roman warrior Scipio Africanus ($60)

Cartagine in fiamme (Carthage in Flames (1960) -- Rome vs. Carthage during Third Punic War, 149-146 B.C.

The Centurion (Conqueror of Corinth) (1961) – Battle of Corinth (146 BC)

X Spartacus (1960) -- slave revolt in 71 B.C.; with Kirk Douglas

X Spartacus (2004) -- TV mini-series

Spartaco (or Sins of Rome) (1953) -- Italian version of Spartacus

Gli invincibili dieci gladiatori (Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators) (1964) – story of Spartacus

III.2.2. FOUNDATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

Julius Caesar:

Julius Caesar (2002) -- solid telling of the Caesar tale; Jeremy Sisto as Julius Caesar & Samuela Sardo as Cleopatra

X Julius Caesar (1984) -- Janet Baker as Caesar; Valerie Masterson as Cleopatra; made for TV

X Julius Caesar (1970) -- Charlton Heston as Caesar; no Cleopatra

X Julius Caesar (1953) -- Shakespeare's play with Marlon Brando as Julius Caesar (48-44 B.C.); no Cleopatra

Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie (Caesar the Conqueror) (1962) -- Caesar conquers Gaul; with Cameron Mitchell as Caesar

Vercingétorix (Druids) (2001) -- story of the battle of the Gauls against the tyranny of Rome; Klaus Maria Brandauer as Caesar

X Die Verschwörung (1969) – Caesar and assassination; made for German TV

X Rome (2005) -- Julius Caesar & Company; Ciarán Hinds as Caesar & Lyndsey Marshal as Cleopatra

Cleopatra:

Cleopatra (1999) -- with Leonor Varela

Cleopatra (1963) -- with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Cleopatra (1934) -- love affairs with Caesar (to 44 BC) and Mark Antony (second triumvirate, 43-27 BC) (with Claudette Colbert)

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) -- British film with Vivian Leigh as Cleopatra

X Antony and Cleopatra (1974) -- Janet Suzman as Cleopatra

X Antony and Cleopatra (1972) -- with Hildegard Neil

X Antony and Cleopatra (1983) -- Shakespeare version ; Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra

X The Cleopatras (1983) – miniseries of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305-30 BCE) in Egypt

Il sepolcro dei re (Cleopatra's Daughter) (1960) – total fiction

Rome after Caesar:

Imperium: Augustus (2003) -- the great emperor of Rome, 27 B.C. to 14 A.D.

Empire (2005) -- rise of Octavius (the future Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire)

X Massacre in the Black Forest (1967) – Germanic Cheruski ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions in 9 AD

X Caligula (1980) -- 37 to 42 A.D., very wicked emperor of Rome after Tiberius, 14-37 AD

X Caligola: La storia mai raccontata (Caligula: The Untold Story) (1982) – with lots of hardcore sex

I, Claudius (1976) -- handicapped emperor of Rome after Caligula, 42 to 54 AD

Messalina Venere imperatrice (Messalina Imperial Beauty) (1960) -- incredibly ambitious wife of Claudius who will do anything to get power for herself

Centurion (2010) -- devastation of the 9th Legion of Rome by the Picts in modern Scotland

Imperium: Nerone (Nero) (2004) -- 54-68 A.D., emperor of Rome after Caligula

Titus (1999) – Shakespeare story of "extraordinary human violence" after Roman general Titus Andronicus returns from his war on the northern Goths (note this is not the Roman Emperor Titus who ruled 79 to 81 A..D. )

X Dacii (1967) – King Decebalus of Dacia fought three wars without being eliminated against Rome under two emperors, but Rome in 105 seeks revenge

III.2.3. RISE OF CHRISTIANITY Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

Erode il grande (Herod the Great) (1959) -- governor of ancient Judea , 37-04 BC

Salome (1953) -- the dancer and John the Baptist, executed 33 AD

X The Passion of the Christ (2004)

X Jesus of Nazareth (1977) -- crucified 30 AD

X El redentor (The Redeemer) (1959) – life of Jesus

X Golgotha (1935) -- Jesus

X Jesus (1999) --

X Jesus (1979) --

X Jesús, el nio Dios (1971) --

X Jesús, María y José (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) (1972) --

X Karunamayudu (Ocean of Mercy) (1978) – Indian cast in Indian movie about the life of Jesus

X King of Kings (1961) -- Jesus

X Mary Mother of Christ (2010) --

X Mary and Joseph (1979)

X Per amore, solo per amore (For Love, Only for Love) (1993) – Mary and the nativity from Joseph’s point of view

X The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

X The Sword and the Cross (1958) -- story of Mary Magdalene (prostitute or disciple?)

X Mary Magdalene (1993) -- ditto

X Judas (2004) -- the story of the man who betrayed Jesus of Nazareth

X The Revolutionary II (1996) -- Jesus of Nazareth

X Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) – Jesus as a Marxist

X Barabbas (1961)

X The Robe (1953)

X Peter and Paul (1981) -- Peter may have been the rock, but it was Paul that spread Christianity to the non-Jewish world

X Life of St. Paul (1938) -- popularizer of Christianity

X Life of St. Paul Series (1949) – ditto

The Da Vinci Code (2006) -- the Catholic church fights and murders to prevent the world from knowing that Jesus was mortal and had actually married Mary Magdalene

X Gli amici di Ges - Maria Maddalena (Mary Magdalene) (2000) –John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene

X Quo Vadis (1951) -- Christian persecution under Emperor Nero

Sign of the Cross (1932) -- Christians in Rome under Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) are blamed and persecuted for the Great Fire of 64 A.D.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- a proud Jew named Ben-Hur and his boyhood Roman friend Messala become in adulthood bitter enemies.

X Gladiator (2000)

Fabiola (1949) -- love story between a Roman woman and a gladiator and persecution of the Christians

Masada (1981) -- 70 A.D. Jewish Revolt against Roman rule

X San Giovanni - L'apocalisse (The Apocalypse) (2002) -- the apostle St. John tries to save Christianity from Roman Emperor Domitian, 90 AD

Pompeii:

X Last Days of Pompeii (1984) -- Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. and covered (thereby preserving) the Roman village of Pompeii

X Ultimi giorni di Pompei, Gli (Last Days of Pompeii) (1960) -- volcanic eruption (under emperors Vespasian 69-79 & Titus, 79-81 AD)

X The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) -- Mt. Vesuvius erupted 79A.D.

X Anno 79: La distruzione di Ercolano (The Destruction of Herculaneum) (1962) – intrigues in the court of Roman Emperor Titus Flavius

III.2.4. FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (180-476) Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)-- Sophia Loren; troubles under Emperor Commodus (who ruled from 180 to 192)

X Nel Segno di Roma (Sign of the Gladiator) (1959) -- Queen of Palmyra, Zenobia, revolts against Rome & is captured (under Emperor Aurelian, 270-275) (currently unavailable)

Constantine and the Cross (1962) -- early 4th c. A.D. emperor battling Romans

Ágora (2009)-- Davus, a slave of the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, falls in love with her; she was killed in 415 by a Christian mob involved in anti-Jewish antics

X Agostino d'Ippona (Augustine of Hippo) (1972) Italian -- story of St. Augustine (354-430)

Attila (2001) -- the famous barbarian (died 453)

Attila (1954) -- with Sophia Loren

X Sign of the Pagan (1954) Attila the Hun threatening Rome

III.3. BYZANTINE EMPIRE (476-1453). Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

X Last Roman (1968) -- Gothic kingdom falls to famous Byzantine General Belisarius (under Emperor Justinian, 527-565)

X Teodora Imparatrice Di Bisanzio (Theodora Queen of Byzantium) (1954) Italian -- Teodora (500-548), wife of Emperor Justinian I (483-565)

III.4. RISE OF ISLAM. Back to Chapter III Back to Contents

Mohammed, Messenger of God (1977) -- Mohammed (570-633), founder of the Islamic faith

X Fajr al islam (Dawn of Islam) (1971) – son of a powerful sheik meets the prophet Mohammed and converts to the new religion, but runs afoul of his father

Rashidun (rightly guided) Caliphs -- first four Caliphs (632-661):

Ummayad Empire -- a series of Caliphates (662-750): Arabs move into southern Spain ( 711); Umayyad Caliphate in Spain collapsed (1031) followed by age of petty kingdoms

Abbasid (750-1260) -- al-Mansur (754-775); Abd ar-Rahman I establishes an independent caliphate in Spain (756); Harun al-Rashid (786-809); al-Ma'mun (809-813); Aghlabid Caliph deposed by Shiite Fatimid dynasty (909)

X Abu Zayd al-Hilali (1947) --- 10th century Islamic Egyptian hero leader Abu Zayd al-Hilali; he and his wife break away from his father's tribe; later the two tribes engage in battle and son and father have to fight it out (in Arabic)

El valle de las espadas (The Castilian) (1963) -- Spanish film of the first independent Count of Castile, 931-970, who opposed the Moors

Seljuq Turks (a Muslim Turkish clan moved into Persia) take power (1055):

El Cid (1961) -- 1094, takes Valencia from the Moors

X La Spada del Cid (Sword of El Cid) (1962) -- based on the hom*onymous poem and other documents from the epoque

X I cento cavalieri (Son of El Cid; Hundred Horsem*n) (1964) -- El Cid's son Diego Rodríguez killed fighting invading Muslim Almoravids from North Africa at Battle of Consuegra, 1097

X al Massir (aka Destiny) (1997) -- the story of Islamic philosopher Averroes (1126-1198) in Spanish province of Andalusia

Ottoman Empire (1250-1517) -- Mongol Empire brought down the Abbasid period in 1250:

X King Conqueror (2009) -- James I of Aragon (reign 1213-1287) part of the Reconquista (c. 718 and lasting around 800 years)

X La conquista de Albania (1984) – second marriage of Louis of Navarre (1341-1376) gives him the rights to Durazzo and the Kingdom of Albania and Louis strives for their recovery

IV. MEDIEVAL AGES (5th Century to Early 16th Century) Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

IV.1. EUROPE. Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

IV.1.1. Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland. Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

King Arthur

Boudica (2003) -- Boudica (died 60 or 61 AD) unites the tribes of Briton against the Roman invaders

The Viking Queen (1967) -- Druids battle occupying Romans in ancient Britain/(Boudica-like character)

X King Arthur (2004) -- the legend

X Camelot (1967) -- King Arthur and Court (legend)

X Knights of the Round Table (1953)

X Siege of the Saxons (1963) – Arthur repelling an invasion of the Saxons

X Sword of Lancelot (1963)

Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) (1974) -- French film about Lancelot

Excalibur (1981) -- King Arthur and Court (legend)

Merlin (1998) -- Merlin fights Queen Mab who tries to destroy Arthur to save the old ways before the coming of Christianity

X First Knight (1995) -- life at Camelot

X Arthur the King (1985)

X World of Lancelot (1963) -- Cornel Wilde

House of Wessex, 802-1016:

X Alfred the Great (aka A King is Born) (1969) 9th century uniter of most of what became England

X The Saxon Chronicles (2006) -- Alfred has to flee from the Vikings

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007) -- in 1007 Vikings mistakenly leave two men behind and the men have to struggle with nature, Irish monks, Abenaki natives and their own natures to try to get back to the Viking settlement

The Vikings, in England the House of Denmark, 1013-1042:

X The Vikings (1958) -- the scourge of Ireland and England/Scotland as well as elsewhere

Valhalla Rising (2009) -- year 1000 A.D., discovery of the new world

Gil Invasori (Erik the Conqueror or The Invaders) (1961) -- 8th-9th century Vikings attack Britain

The Norseman (1978) -- 11th century Viking prince sailed all the way to North America in search of his lost father

The Viking Sagas (1995) -- battles for the chieftainship in Viking Iceland

X A Viking Saga (2008) -- Viking story

X White Viking (1998) -- continuation of the Icelandic Sagas around 1,000 AD and the reign of King Olaf, who holds the wife of Askur hostage ($70)

The Long Ships (1964) -- Vikings against the Moors in search of a huge all gold bell

L’ Ultimo dei Vikinghi (The Last Viking ) (1961) -- Norwegian Vikings try to overthrow the tyrant Sveno

Den sidste Viking (The Last Viking) (1997) -- Danish movie from boy Harald's perspective about a mad king out to confiscate all the ships of his village

Thirteenth Warrior (1999) -- 10th century Arab shocked by Viking behavior in Russia

X Utlaginn (The Outlaw) (1981) – an Icelandic film about and accurately depicting the peoples involved in a Viking blood feud (based on the Icelanders' Sagas called the Gísla saga)

X Den rde kappe (Red Mantle) (1967) – Icelandic Viking saga

X I Tartari (The Tartars) (1961) -- after the death of his brother Togrul in a battle with the Slavs, Burundai becomes the Tartar leader ; Vikings capture Togrul's daughter

X Michel Strogoff (1956) -- French film of a hero who fought the Tartars

House of Wessex (restored), 1042-1066:

Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) -- during reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066); Norman conquest of England 1066

1066 (2009) -- Norman conquest of England in 1066 along with some Viking trouble

House of Normandy , 1066-1154:

The War Lord (1965) -- a Norman knight in the 11th century sent to built a defensive castle falls in love with a local maiden which leads to big problems

X Wilhelm Cuceritorul (William the Conqueror) (1982) -- Norman Conqueror of England, 1066

House of Plantagenet, 1154-1399 and the Crusades

Angevins: 1154-1399

X The Lion in Winter (1968) -- 1154-1189 Henry II and his estranged wife, Eleanore of Aquitaine

X The Lion in Winter (2003) TV -- ditto

Becket (1964) -- under Henry II, 1154-1189

Kingdom of Heaven -- the Third Crusade, involving Richard the Lion Hearted, among others

X El Naser Salah el Dine (Saladin)(1963) -- movie about the great Kurdish leader of the Arabs, Saladin

Soldier of God (2005) – a Knight Templar must re-examine his life after a disastrous defeat by the Saracens in 1187

X Vägen till Jerusalem (The Road to Jerusalem) (1998) – trilogy about a fictional Swedish Knights Templar named Arn Magnusson

Arn – Tempelriddaren (Arn – The Knight Templar) (2007) – part of a trilogy

X Arn – Riket vid vägens slu*t (Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End) (2008)– part of a trilogy

X Lionheart: The Crusade (2003) – Richard the Lion Hearted

X Lion-Heart (1987) -- Richard the Lion Hearted, son of Henry II, who ruled 1189-1199 -- ($25)

X Richard Ivinoye serdtse (Richard the Lion-Hearted) (1992) -- Russian film

X Rytsar Kennet (Knight Kenneth) (1993) -- Richard the Lion-hearted

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) -- Christian Richard I of England faces off with Moslem Saladin

X Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) -- with Errol Flynn

The Crusades (1935) -- historical drama from Cecil B. DeMille

Crusaders (2005) -- two young men swept up in the Crusades

X Prince of Thieves (1948) -- Robin Hood against King John (1199-1216)

X Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)

X Robin and Marian (1976) -- Robin Hood

X Robin Hood (1991) -- starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman

X Black Death (2010) – bubonic plague enters England, 1348

X Richard of Bordeaux (1955) -- Richard II (ruled 1377-1399) who took the throne at age 10 and overthrown by future King Henry IV

X König Heinrich IV (King Henry IV) (1975) – William Shakespeare adaptation

Scotland

X MacBeth (1948)

X MacBeth (1971) -- 1040 Shakespeare

Brave Heart (1995) -- story of William Wallace, 1297, Scottish independence leader

X The Bruce (1996) -- story of the Bruce where Braveheart ends

Edward II (1991) -- 1307-1327, anti-gay bias ruins his rule; directed by Derek Jarman

Edward II (1970) -- Edward II deposed and murdered because of his going overboard for his hom*osexual love Piers Gaveston

X Auld Lang Syne (1937) -- story of Scottish poet Robert Burns

Ireland

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000) (TV) -- English slave who became the founder of Christianity in Ireland, 5th century

House of Lancaster (1399-1471)

X Richard of Bordeaux (1955) -- Richard II (ruled 1377-1399) who took the throne at age 10 and overthrown by future King Henry IV

X Henry V (1989) -- Henry V (1413-1422) with Kenneth Branagh

X Henry V (1945)

House of York (1471-1485)

Princes in the Tower (2005) -- story of Perkin Warbeck who claimed to be the heir to the British throne during the reign of King Henry VII (ruled, 1485-1509), first monarch of the Tudor dynasty

X Richard III (1955) -- Shakespeare version of King Richard III, 1483-1485

Richard III -- Shakespeare version set in 1930s England

X Looking for Richard (1996) -- Richard III, that is

X Tower of London (1939) -- questionable story of Richard III with Boris Karloff and Vincent Price

X Tower of London (1962) - remake of the 1939 film

IV.1.2. Medieval France to Age of Discovery Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

Charlemagne, Charles the Prince (1995) -- early unifier of Frankish kingdoms,. ruled 768 to 814

Carolingian Dynasty (843 to 987)

Capetian Dynasty, Direct Capetians (987 to 1328)

X Yaroslavna, koroleva Frantsii (Yaroslavna, Queen of France) (1978) – Anna Yaroslavna, a Princess of Kiev, was the queen consort of France as the wife of Henry I (1027-1060) & regent for her son Philip I

X Gates to Paradise (1968) -- 1212, launching of the Children's Crusade; set in France

X Les rois maudits (The Cursed Kings) (2005) -- King Philippe IV (ruled 1285-1314) tries to plunder the Knights Templar and other organizations

Capetian Dynasty, House of Valois (1328-1589)

House of Lancaster (1422-1453)

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) -- 1428; under Charles VII (ruled 1422-1461); Hundred Year's War with England (1337-1453)

Joan of Arc (1999) -- with Leelee Sobieski

X Joan of Arc (1948) -- with Ingrid Bergman

X Le passion de Jeanne d'arc (Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) -- French film

X Das Mädchen Johanna (Joan of Arc) (1935) – German movie about Joan of Arc

X Ciocârlia (The Lark) (2002) – Romanian film about Joan of Arc

X Wired Angel (1999) -- very "different" approach to telling the Joan of Arc story

X Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons) (1994) – Joan of Arc

X Beatrice (1988) -- set during the Hundred Year's War (1337-1453), a revisionist view of the noble Knights

Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre) (1982) -- fascinating film about Medieval France

X Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) -- 1483 Louis XI Notre Dame de Paris

X Quentin Durward (The Adventures of Quentin Durward) (1955) – in 1465 Quentin Durwood travels to France for an arranged marriage to suit King Louis XI ($200)

Capetian Dynasty, Valois-Orléans Branch (1498-1515)

Capetian Dynasty, Valois-Angoulme Branch (1515-1589)

The Sword and the Rose (1953) -- English King's sister Mary Tudor married to King Louis XII, who ruled from 1498-1515

IV.1.3. Medieval Italy and Germany Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

The Flame and the Arrow (1950) -- 12 c. Lombardy under German overlord

Der Name der Rose (The Name of the Rose) (1986) -- 1327, not a true story, but a good depiction of monastery life of the time; set in Italy

X Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen (Iron Hand) (1979) – Germany in the Middle Ages

IV.1.4. Medieval Russia, Poland, Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

Russia:

X Legenda o knyagine Olge (The Legend of Princess Olga) (1983) – one of the founders of Christianity in Russia

X Rus iznachalnaya (1986) -- VI century Russian tribes unite to repel the Khazar invaders & the Byzantine empire collaborators

Thirteenth Warrior (1999) -- 10th century Arab shocked by Viking behavior in Russia

X I Tartari (Tartars) (1961) -- Burundai, head of Tartar invasion of Volga River area

X Didgori: Land of Sacrificed Knights (2009) – 1121 AD, 56,000 Georgian warriors under King Davit IV battle 500,000 Seljuk Turks on the Didgori battlefield

Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevskey) (1938) -- 13th century attack of the Teutonic Knights on Russia (Sergei M. Eisenstein director)

X Aleksandr. Nevskaya bitva (aka Alexander: The Neva Battle) (2008) -- Battle of Neva, 1240; Swedes invade Novgorod controlled territory

Grand Princes of Moscow, Rurik Dynasty (1283-1547):

Andrei Rublev (1969) -- 15th century Russian icon painter (1360?-1430?)

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1943) -- 1533-1584; Ottoman Empire troubles, among others; by Sergei Eisenstein

Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946) -- Sergei Eisenstein

X Tsar Ivan Grozny (Tsar Ivan the Terrible) (1993) -- Ivan the Terrible

Poland:

Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem (An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God) (2003) -- 9th century in what became Poland; inhabited by numerous Slavic tribes

Piast Dynasty (9th century - 1305):

X Gniazdo (The Nest) (1974) – first Christian Polish monarch, Mieszko I (reign 906?- 992) and the battle of Cedynia , 972

Boleslaw Smialy (aka King Boleslaus the Bold) (1972) -- 1079, struggle between the king of Poland, Boleslaus the Bold (reign 1076-1079), and the Bishop of Cracow; the Polish Becket

X I lancieri neri (Charge of the Black Lancers) (1962) -- set after the Mongol-Tartar invasion of Poland and the Battle of Legnica (1241), lost by High Duke of Poland, Henry II (1238-1241)

Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) (1976) -- a Piast king of Poland (1333-1370) who doubled his country in size (mostly through addition of lands in the Ukraine)

Jagiellon Dynasty (1386-1572)

Krzyzacy (Black Cross; Knights of the Teutonic Order) (1960) -- under Ladislas II (1386-1434), defeat of the Order of Teutonic Knights of Prussia by the Polish and Lithuanians at Battle of Grunwald (1410)

X Barbara Radziwillówna (Love or a Kingdom) (1936) – Sigismund II, Augustus I, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (reign 1530-1572)

X Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwillówny (An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill) (1983) – Barbara in 1547 married Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Sigismund II August

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1574-1795):

Zelazna reka (The Iron Hand) (1989) -- story of right-hand warrior to Stefan Batory, ruler 1576-1586, of the noble Hungarian Báthory family; one of the greatest elected Kings of Poland

Romania:

X Mircea (Proud Heritage) (1989) -- 1393, Ottoman Empire had to go through Romania; King Mircea of the Old Romanian Principate of Valahia decides to fight

Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)-- 1456-1476 Vlad Dracula of Transylvania fights Ottoman Turks; Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)

X Intoarcerea lui voda lapusneanu (The Return of Prince Lapusneanu) (1979) -- 1564, Moldavia, the Prince seeks revenge for his Turkish exile

Mihai Viteazul (aka Michael the Brave) (1970) -- the king who united three provinces into Romania in the 17th century despite opposition from the Ottoman and Austrian Empires

X Nemuritorii (The Immortals) (1974) -- warriors of Romanian lord Mihai (1611) attacked by Turks while bring the lord's battle flag back from Austria

X Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

X Stefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great) (1974) – Stephen the Great or the 'Saint' ruled Moldavia, 1457-1504; fought the Ottoman Empire and Hungary

X Alexandru Lapusneanu (????) – Alexandru Lăapuşsneanu was Prince of Moldavia 1552-1561 and 1564-1568

X Neamul Soimarestilor (The Hawk; The Soimaresti Family) (1965) – war in 1600s Romania (Moldova)

X Horea (Castles Aflame in Transylvania) (1984) -- Revolt of Horea, Cloşsca and Crişsan (November 1784 - February 1785) against feudal serfdom in Transylvania, Romania

Bulgaria:

X 681 Величието на хана (681 AD: The Glory of Khan) (1981) -- 681 foundation of Bulgarian medieval state by Khan Asparuh

X Aszparuh (aka Khan Asparoukh) (1981) -- first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh

Serbia (& others):

X Boj na Kosovu (translation Battle of Kosovo) (1989) – a Serbian film that depicts the historical Battle of Kosovo between Medieval Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, 1389

X Banovic Strahinja (1983) – late 14th century. medieval Serbia. attacked by Ottoman invaders; nobleman Banovic Strahinja searches for his kidnapped wife

X Seljacka buna 1573 (1975) -- peasant revolt of 1573 in Croatia and Slovenia (being heavily taxed to fight off the Turks)

X Konjanik (2003) – Croatian film about a Muslim girl and a Christian guy fall in love despite it being forbidden; set in 18th c. on the border of Bosnia and Dalmatia, Ottoman Empire and Venetian Republic

X Timocka buna (1983) -- set at the time of the Timok Rebellion, 1883, in Serbia; nationalist peasant anarchism

Turkey:

X Gültekin amazon kizlara karsi (1969) – 1400s Turkey Medieval period

X Istanbul'un fethi (The Conquest of Constantinople) (1951) – Turks attack and take Constantinople of the Byzantine Empire, 1453

X Suleiman the Conqueror (1961) -- Suleiman the Magnificent, leader of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century

Hungary:

c. 858-895 -- High Prince Álmos (first Hungarian leader)

c. 895-907 -- Árpád (led the Magyars into Central Europe)

X Honfoglalás (The Conquest) (1996) – 896 AD, Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes comes out of the steppes and into the Carpathian basin

997-1038 -- Stefan 1 (last Grand Prince and first King of Hungary)

X Szent Gellért legendája (1994) – 11th century Hungary

X Árpád népe (2006) – 11th century Hungary

X István király (1992) – first king of Hungary, King Stephen (1001-1038)

X István, a király (1984) -- King Stephen of Hungary

1047-1061 -- Andrew I, Árpád dynasty restored; lasted to 1301

X Bánk bán (1987) – 13th century Hungary

1310-1342 -- Charles I, establishes the Angevin dynasty in Hungary; lasts until 1386

1446-1453 -- John Hunyadi serves as regent of Hungary

X The Black Knight (2009) -- General John Hunyadi defends Hungary from the Turks in the mid-15th century

X Ítélet (1970) – 1500s Peasant Revolution in Hungary

1608-1619 -- Matthias II

Bathory (2008) – Countess Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614) of Hungary, accused serial killer, was a modern Renaissance woman

X Csínom Palkó (1973) –1700s Hungarian history

1848-1916 -- Francis Joseph

Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk (Flowers of Reverie) (1984) -- after Russians beat down the 1848-1849 Hungarian revolution, Hungarian soldier wrestles with his accepting a forced enrollment into the Austrian army

Other:

X Marketa Lazarová (1967) – Czech film account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity

X Mestari Patelin (1985) -- Medieval Finland

IV.2. CHINA & MONGOLIA. Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

Three Kingdoms Period (220-280)

Saam gwok dzi gin lung se gap (Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon) (2008) -- story of a fantastic warrior of the Shu Kingdom and his less accomplished friend who keep on fighting only to find themselves going around in circles

Jin Dynasty (265-420)

Sixteen Kingdoms Period, 304-439 -- collection of numerous short-lived sovereign states in China and its neighboring areas

Northern Wei Dynasty, 386-534 (not one of the Sixteen Kingdoms)

X Mulan Joins the Army (1939) – during the Northern Wei dynasty, a young woman disguises herself as a man in order to take her father's place in the army

Mulan (1998) -- the Disney version of the Mulan story

Tang Dynasty (618-665)

Zhou Dynasty (665-705)

Empress Wu Zetian (1939) -- Chinese biopic of the empress who interrupted the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with her behind her husband and sons in the First Zhou Dynasty (665-690) and in her own right in the Second Zhou Dynasty (690–705)

Tian di ying xiong (Warriors of Heaven and Earth) (2003) -- an imperial agent has to escort a caravan carrying an extremely valuable item to the capital, while fighting off the Turks and their allies; action drama;year 700 in the Göktürk Empire which controlled the lucrative Silk Road trade

Tang Dynasty continuation (710-907)

Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003) -- an imperial agent has to escort a caravan carrying an extremely valuable item to the capital, while fighting off the Turks and their allies

Yôkihi (Princess Yang Kwei-fei) (1955) – a poor young woman is used by General An Lushan in his rebellion plans against Emperor Xuanzong (ruled 712-756)

Five Dynasties and Six Kingdoms Period

Song Dynasty (960-1279)

X Dun-Huang (The Silk Road) (1988) -- in western China in 1026, students are shanghaied by crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the Silk Road

X Shi si nu ying hao (The Fourteen Amazons) (1972) – Sung dynasty warriors defending against invading Mongolians (with coverage of Yang Family tragedy)

X Shi er jin pai (Twelve Gold Medallions) (1970) -- ditto

960-1125 Song Dynasty (960-1127 Northern Song; 947-1125 Liao Dynasty; 1127-1279 Southern Song)

1125-1234 Jin Dynasty

1234-1279 Transitional Period of Growing Mongolian Control

1279-1368 Yuan Dynasty (Mongolian Control)

The Mongol (2007) – Genghis Khan's slow rise to power

X Gibel Otrara (The Fall of Otrar) (1991) – the incident in Otrar that unleashed Genghis Khan and his hordes

X Genghis Khan (1998) -- Genghis Khan

X The Fall of Otrar (2002) – Genghis Khan

X Aoki Ôkami: chi hate umi tsukiru (aka Genghis Khan: To the Ends of Earth and Sea; The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea) (2007) – a Japanese-Mongolian depiction of the life of Genghis Khan

X Genghis Khan (1965) -- 1206-1227

Conqueror (1956) -- Mongols under Genghis Khan vs. Tartars and others

The Mongols (1961) -- Jack Palance plays the role of the son of Genghis Khan with Anita Ekberg as his mistress

X Genghis Khan - Historical TV Series (10 DVD Set) (2007) --

X Po veleniyu Chingiskhana (By the Will of Genghis Khan) (2009) –

Marco Polo (2007) -- the adventures, including love ones, of Marco Polo

Marco Polo (1998) -- 1295 with Kublai Khan, opening up the east to trade with the west.

X Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon (Marco Polo: The Missing Chapter) (1996) – Polo returns to Venice in 1295 to find Venice and Genoa at war; he is soon imprisoned by the Genoans and used as a political pawn

X Marco Polo (1962) --

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) -- 1275, in China

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

IV.3. INDIA (Medieval Period: 711-1526) Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

X Pritviraj-Samyukta (1946) – Prithviraj Chauhan (1168-1192), second-to-last Hindu to rule Delhi & unifier of Rajputs against Muslim invasions, & his wife Samyukta

Islamic Sultanates (1206-1596)

X Ambikapathy (1937) – 1083, story of the poet Kambar in the time of Kulothunga Chola (1070-1120) of the s. Indian Chola Empire (300s BC-1279)

Vijayanagara Empire (1336-1660)

X Sri Krishnadevaraya (1970) -- Krishnadevaraya (1509-1529); most famous king of Vijayanagara Empire, presided over the empire at zenith

X Joymati (1935) – in 17th century an Ahom princess is killed for refusing to betray her husband; film calls for cooperation between hills and plains people

X Khalsa (1999) -- Khalsa (Punjabi for "Pure") all baptized Sikhs; founding of the religion & Sikh history

X Anokhe Amar Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji (2006) -- based on Sikh history

IV.4. Japan (Early Medieval Period: 711-1526) Back to Chapter IV Back to Contents

The Asuka period (538-710)

X Shotoku taishi (Prince Shotoku) (2001) – established a centralized government; aka Prince Umayado; his existence is disputed

Heian period, 794-1185:

Shin heike monogatari (The Taira Clan Saga) (1955) -- an unpaid special forces commander under Emperor Toba who ruled Japan from 1107-1123

Kamakura period, 1185-1333 and Kemmu restoration, 1333-1336:

Muromachi period, 1336-1573:

X Kikuchi sembon-yari: Shidonî tokubetsu kôgeki-tai (Thousand Spears of Kikuchi: Sydney Special Attack Unit) (1944) -- Nanbokucho wars in Nanboku-cho period, 1336-1392, with Northern Imperial Court founded by Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto & Southern Imperial Court established by Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino

Furin kazan (Under the Banner of Samurai; Samurai Banners) (1969) -- Yamamoto Kansuke (1501-1561),Japanese samurai and General who planned the victory at the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima against Uesugi Kenshin

V. RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION & CATHOLIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

V.1. RENAISSANCE, ITALY. Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

House of Habsburg (1437-1657)

Maximilian I (1483-1519)

Borgias:

Lucrezia Borgia (1935) -- good story of the many political marriages of Lucrezia Borgia used by her family as a political pawn

Prince of Foxes (1949) -- Cesare Borgia (1475-1507) plays politics with who his sister will marry

X Bride of Vengeance (1949) -- Cesare Borgia

Lucrce Borgia (1953) – Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) born near Rome

X Il Duca Nero (The Black Duke) (1963) -- Cesare Borgia starring Cameron Mitchell ($32)

X The Borgias (1981) -- BBC miniseries

X Las noches secretas de Lucrecia Borgia (Secret Nights) (1982) -- don't bother; it's more about sex than anything else

X Le notti di Lucrezia Borgia (The Nights of Lucretia Borgia) (1959) --

Los Borgia (The Borgias) (2006) -- Spanish film with English subtitles about the Borgia family

X The Borgias (2011) -- Showtime miniseries

Others:

Flesh and Blood (1985) -- 1501 story of Landsknechts (mostly German mercenaries including pikemen & supporting foot soldiers, late 15th to late 16th century)

Charles V, Holy Roman Empire (1530-1556)

X Il Diavolo nero (The Black Devil) (1957) -- as Carlos I of Spain (1516-1556) and as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (1519-1556) the monarch tries to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitors

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) -- Michelangelo (1475-1564) fights with Pope Julius II; based on Irving Stone novel

X Titan -- Story of Michelangelo (1950)

X Il mestiere delle armi (The Profession of Arms) (2001) – first victim of modern artillery Captain Giovanni De' Medici, who fought in the war of Charles V against the Pope, first half of 1500s -- (not available)

Rudolph II (1575-1612)

Caravaggio (2007) -- Italian Renaissance painter 1593-1610; proto-Baroque style

X Caravaggio (1986) -- ditto

Artemisia (1997) -- Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most accomplished early Baroque painters in the generation; influenced by Caravaggio

Dangerous Beauty -- a courtesan (Catherine McCormack) becomes the most desired woman in 16th century Venice, but faces criticism, humiliation and the Holy Inquisition

X Galilée ou L'amour de Dieu (2005) – Galilée and the Inquisition

Galileo (1975) -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Galileo Galilei (1969) -- Italian film

X Pietro Micca (1938) -- soldier becomes national hero in the defense of Turin (1706) against French troops during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

X Casanova (2005) -- yes, even Casanova got dumped; 18th century

X Adventures of Casanova (1948) --

X Les aventures de Casanova (Loves of Casanova) (1947) --

X Fellini's Casanova (1976) -- not for historians; erotic adventure

V.2. REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

Luther (2003) -- of the Reformation

X Luther (1973) -- of the Reformation, 1520

X Der Reformator (1968) – German film about Martin Luther

X Martin Luther (1953) -- of the Reformation

X Fru Inger til strt (Lady Inger of Ostrat) (1975) -- 1528, Norwegian noble woman seeking independence for the nation in the time of the Kalmar Union (1396-1537) involving Sweden, Denmark and Norway

Karin Mnsdotter (1954) – 1550–1612, started as mistress and ended as Swedish Queen to Eric XIV (reign 1560-1568)

X Queen Christina (1933) -- 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden; Greta Garbo

The Abdication (1974) – Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates; what happened to Queen Christina when she converted to Catholicism

X Snapphanar (Scanian Guerilla ) (1941) – Scanian War, 1676-1679, between Sweden and Denmark

X Karl XII (1925) -- Charles XII of Sweden (reigned 1697-1718); Great Northern War (1700-1721)

X Epitaph für einen König (1969) – Epitaph for a King; King Karl XII of Sweden (1697-1718)

X Kustaa III (1964) – Finnish film, Strindberg play adaptation; Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-1792) when Finland was part of Sweden

X Gustav III (1974) – assassination of Sweden’s King Gustav III (ruled 1771-1792)

X Lockfgeln (The Decoy) (1971) – on his death-bed, a father asks his son to kill King Gustav III

Gustav III:s äktenskap (The Marriage of Gustav III) (2001) – Gustav III of Sweden, nine years into his marriage

X Behöriga äga ej tillträde (1988) – 1890s Sweden

X General von Döbeln (1942) -- Swedish general who fought in the Russian War, Finnish War and Second War Against Napoleon

X Korkein oikeus (1998) – the "Cudget War" was a peasant rebellion in the late 16th century Finland

X Kolme katku vahel (1970) – Livonian War, 1558–1583, where Russia tried to take Livonia (today’s Estonia a& Latvia) and was opposed by varying Allies

X General Crack (1930) – John Barrymore speaks! takes place at the palace of the Archduch*ess Maria of the Holy Roman Empire

Barry Lyndon (1976) -- Stanley Kubrik; set against the 7 Year's War 1756-1763

X Amadeus (1984) -- 1762, Mozart, musical genius

Mozart (a.k.a., Life and Loves of Mozart) (1956) -- Mozart and his wife, his former mistress and his new mistress

X Motsart i Salieri (Mozart and Salieri) (1962)

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X Il Mestiere delle Armi (Profession of Arms) (2000) -- Giovanni de Medici, captain in Charles V's war against the pope & fought the Protestant Reformation

X The Cardinal (1936) -- Cardinal de Medici

X Catherine de Médici (1989) -- French movie about Catherine (1519-1589) who was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559

X La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (Princess of Cleves) (1966) – the princess in the royal court of Henry II of France; she marries but loves another who she thinks has been unfaithful

X Il Diavolo nero (The Black Devil) (1957) -- As Carlos I of Spain (1516-1556) and as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (1519-1556) the monarch tries to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitors

X That Lady (1955) -- story of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, and Prince Philip (who became Philip II of Spain, 1556-1598)

X La conjura de El Escorial (The El Escorial Conspiracy) (2008) - deceit and betrayal in the court of King Philip II of Spain

X Seville, 1640 (2004) --

The Last Valley (1971) -- set in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

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Renaissance, Reformation and Religious Conflict

John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984) -- Wycliffe (mid-1320s to 1384) -- early English dissident from Roman Catholic Church ; founder of Lollard Movement, predecessor to Luther

House of Tudors: 1461-1603

Henry VIII

Princes in the Tower (2005) -- story of Perkin Warbeck who claimed to be the heir to the British throne during the reign of King Henry VII (ruled, 1485-1509), first monarch of the Tudor dynasty

X The Tudors (2007)-- mini-series with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII

X Henry VIII (2003) -- 250 minutes

X Henry VIII (1991) -- 200 minutes

X Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1973)

X Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) -- of England, 1509-1547

X Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) mini-series --

The Sword and the Rose (1953) -- Henry VIII uses his sister Mary Tudor's marriage prospects as a pawn in international politics

X The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary (2008) -- Mary Tudor as tragic figure

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) -- struggle between the two Boleyn women to marry King Henry VIII

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) -- Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII & mother of Queen Elizabeth

X A Man for All Seasons (1966) -- Sir Thomas More won't compromise

X A Man for All Seasons (1988) -- Sir Thomas More (1509-1547) gets in deep trouble with Henry VIII

Lady Jane (1986) -- tragedy of Lady Jane Grey, immediate predecessor of Mary, Queen of England

X Nine Days a Queen (aka Tudor Rose) (1936) -- Lady Jane Grey's short life ($95 for a new VHS tape)

The Pearl of York (2007) -- first woman to die for her religious beliefs following the start of the Reformation

Elizabeth I

X Elizabeth (1998) -- Elizabeth I, 1558-1603,daughter of Anne Boleyn and niece of Mary, Queen of England

Elizabeth I -- HBO drama focusing on the private life of the "Virgin" Queen

X Young Bess (1953) Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger

X The Virgin Queen (1955) -- Bette Davis

X The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Elizabeth R (1971) -- miniseries about Queen Elizabeth I starring Glenda Jackson

Elizabeth: the Golden Age (2007) -- Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and the Spanish Armada; starring Cate Blanchett

X Drake of England (or Elizabeth of England) (1935) -- privateer Sir Francis Drake brings lots of money into England

X Seven Seas to Calais (1962) -- Sir Francis Drake

X Drake's Venture (1980) -- Sir Francis Drake

Mary of Scotland (1936) -- with Katherine Hepburn

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) -- executed by Elizabeth for plotting against her

The Sea Hawk (1940) -- Spanish Armada (with Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)

Fire Over England (1937) -- British-Spanish conflict of 1500s

The Stuarts (1603-1649) and the Commonwealth (1649-1659):

To Kill a King (2003) -- Cromwell, General Fairfax, Mrs. Fairfax and Charles I struggle over the future of England

Cromwell (1970) -- English Puritan leader, 1655

X The Crimson Blade (1963) -- love affair in the time of Cromwell's struggle

By the Sword Divided (1983) -- in the English Civil War the Lacey family supports King Charles I and the related by marriage Fletcher family supports Oliver Cromwell (BBC series)

Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm) (1968) -- Matthew Hopkins tours the land searching for and finding witches

X The Moonraker (1958) -- the Moonraker, the Earl of Dawlish, travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape of the future Charles II

Winstanley (1975) -- Gerard Winstanley leads the religious sect the Diggers to reclaim land for the poor, around 1649

The Stuarts (restored): 1660-1707

X Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003) -- the restoration of the absolute monarchy for a brief time following the reign of Cromwell

X The Exile (1947) -- story of the restoration of Charles II to the English throne -- (discontinued by the manufacturer)

Restoration (1995) -- in the reign of Charles II of England 1660-1685

Forever Amber (1947) -- one of the many mistresses of Charles II

Nell Gwyn (1934) -- one of Charles II mistresses who enjoyed her great liveliness

Stage Beauty (2004) -- first woman to play the role of a woman on the stage in England under Charles II

The First Churchills (1969) -- John Churchill and his wife Sarah Jennings, ancestors of Winston Churchill

Libertine (2004) -- 17th century British poet who leads a life of debauchery

Black Swan (1942) -- Captain Morgan in Jamaica

Captain Blood (1935)-- set in the transition between James II and the reign of William and Mary

early years of House of Hanover: 1714-1901

Sarabande for Dead Lovers (1948) -- Sophie Dorothea seeks out Swedish Count Philip Konigsmark when her husband. the future King George I of Great Britain wants nothing to do with her

The Madness of King George III (1994) -- of American Revolutionary War fame

X Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

Amazing Grace (2006) -- 1807, William Wilberforce is the main force behind the passage of the bill eliminating the slave trade in the British Empire

X John Wesley (1954) -- John Wesley (1703-1791), founder of Methodism

X The Massacre of Glencoe (1971) -- massacre of the Macdonald Clan by the Campbell Clan, 1692

Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) -- British film about Prince Charles of 18th century Scotland

X The Battle of Culloden (1964) -- Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated at this 1746 battle

Chasing the Deer (1994) -- last Jacobite uprising; death of the Highland clans at Culloden Moor, 1746

Rob Roy (1995) -- 18th century Scotland

X Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954) ($34)

Blackbeard (2006) -- Lt. Robert Maynard of the Royal navy is sent to the Bahamas to end Blackbeard's reign of terror

X Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)

X Morgan the Pirate (1961) --

X Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) -- 1787 mutiny on trip to get the breadfruit plant

X Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) -- the fictionalized story

X The Bounty (1984) -- the true story with Mel Gibson

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) -- not only what happened on the Bounty, but what also happened afterwards

A Royal Scandal (1996) -- King George IV (ruling from 1820-1830) and Princess Caroline of Brunswick weave a tale of infidelity, illegitimacy and mistresses

X Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947) -- married the future George IV in 1785

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Reformation & Religious Conflict

Capetian Dynasty, Valois-Angoulme Branch (1515-1589)

X Diane (1956) -- mistress of King Henri II, first emperor of the French Renaissance (rule from 1547 to 1559) -- ($59)

Queen Margot (1994) -- sister of Frances's Charles IX (ruled 1560-1574) weds in 16th c; marries the future King Henri IV

X Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003) -- Charles IX sends Catholic Baron to Protestant representatives (includes St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572)

Capetian Dynasty, House of Borbon (1589-1792)

X Les samedis de l'histoire: Henri IV (1977) – story of Henri IV of France (reign 1589-1610) who enacted the Edict of Nantes for religious freedom

Louis XIII

X Cardinal Richelieu (1935) -- Cardinal Richelieu oppresses French Protestants, known as Huguenots (under King Louis XIII, 1610-1643)

X Under the Red Robe (1937) -- Cardinal Richelieu

X The Three Musketeers (1935) -- the Musketeers fight against the forces of Cardinal Richelieu.

X The Three Musketeers (1939)

X The Three Musketeers (1948)

X The Three Musketeers (1973) -- King Louis XIII of France, 1610-1643

X The Three Musketeers (1993)

La Kermesse Héroique (aka Carnival in Flanders) (1935) – a French comedy set during the 1616 Spanish invasion of Flanders

Alatriste (2006) -- heroic Spanish soldier fighting in Flanders in 17th century has to look after a dying friend's son in Madrid

Matka Joanna od aniolów (Mother Joan of the Angels) (1961) -- 1630s; womanizing priest Grandier executed for sorcery & the next priest tries to heal the nuns

X Cautio Criminalis oder Der Hexenanwalt (1974) – German movie; witchcraft

The Headsman (Shadow of the Sword) (2005) -- 16th century Tyrol, Austria; of two childhood friends one becomes a friar and the other an executioner, but both are involved in witch hunting

Le moine et la sorcire (Sorceress) (1987) – supposed witchcraft in 13th century France

The Devils (1971) -- witchcraft in 17th c. France

Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) (1943) -- accusations of witchcraft in a 17th c. Danish village

Witches' Hammer (1970) -- witch hunting in Czechoslovakia

X Posledná bosorka (The Last Witch) (1957) – a painter of a nude model angers the clergy so they condemn the model as a witch

The Hour of the Pig (aka The Advocate) (1993) -- a lawyer defends animals accused of being involved in witchcraft

Rembrandt (1936) -- 1630 Dutch painter

Rembrandt (1940) --

Rembrandt (1999) --

X Rembrandt fecit 1669 (Rembrandt - 1669) (1977) --

Nightwatching (2007) -- Rembrandt's romantic and professional life

X Rembrandt: Fathers and Sons (1999) --

Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Louis XIV

La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV) (1966) -- Louis XIV (1643-1715)

X Versailles, le reve d'un roi (Versailles: The Dream of a King) (2008) – Louis XIV

X Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (2006) – mistress of King Louis XIV

Vatel (2000) -- in 1671, Prince de Condé hosts Louis XIV for three days of excess

X Saint-Cyr (The King's Daughters) (2000) -- France under the rule of Louis XIV (including his lady friend and his mistress)

X Louis, enfant roi (Louis, the Child King) (1993) -- formative years of the young king Louis XIV

X Liselotte von der Pfalz (The Private Life of Louis XIV) (1935) – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatine (or Pfalz) marries brother of Louis XIV of France and becomes known for her correspondence

X Liselotte von der Pfalz (1966) -- ($40)

X La reine et le cardinal (2009) – Mazarin functioned as co-ruler of France with Queen Anne during the regency for young King Louis XIV; later Mazarin directed French policy with the monarch

X Voltaire (1933)

Louis XV

Cartouche (1962) -- French Robin Hood during the time of the Régence, 1715-1723, the regent part of the reign of King Louis XV (1715-1774)

Que la fête commence... (Let Joy Reign Supreme) (1975) -- the Regent over Louis XV, France

X Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (2006) – mistress of King Louis XIV, 1745-1764

Madame du Barry (aka Passion) (1917) -- mistress of King Louis XV of France

Madame du Barry (1954) -- 1768 Louis XV and the Countess Du Barry

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Muslim Era (8th to 15th century):

X King Conqueror (2009) -- James I the Conqueror (reign 1213-1276), King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier

X Ins de Castro (1944) – loved one of Pedro I of Portugal (1357-1367); she had a tragic ending

X Ins de Portugal (1997) -- ditto

Imperial Spain (16th to 17th centuries): under Habsburg Empire: Kings Charles I (1516-1556); Philip II (1556-1598); Philip III (1598-1621); Philip IV (1620-1665); Charles II (1665-1700)

X O Judea (The Jew) (1996) -- the Portugal Inquisition (1497 to l821) tries a converso (i.e., a Jew who had converted to Catholicism)

X Torquemada (1989) -- Spanish Inquisition

X La conjura de El Escorial (The El Escorial Controversy) (2008) -- deceit and betrayal in the court of 16th century King Philip II of Spain who reigned 1556-1598

X Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (2005) -- bad relations between King Philip II of Spain and his son Don Carlos

X Cervantes (1980) -- Cervantes (1547–1616), later author of Don Quixote, persuades Philip of Spain to join the Holy League and then becomes a soldier

X Expulsados 1609, la tragedia de los moriscos (2009) -- 1609 Moors expelled from Spain

X El Greco (2007) – a Greek film about the Greek painter (1541–1614) of the Spanish Renaissance

X El Greco (1966) -- about the Greek painter of the Spanish Renasissance

Alatriste (2006) -- heroic Spanish soldier fighting in Flanders in 17th century has to look after a dying friend's son in Madrid; King Philip IV depicted

X Esquilache (1989) -- Spain under troubled reign of Charles II (1665-1700); (specifically ,the Esquilache Riots of March 1766) (Spanish only)

Spain under the Borbons (18th century): Philip V (1700-1724); Louis I (1724); Philip V (1724-1746); Ferdinand VI (1746); Charles III (1746-1788)-; Charles IV (1746-1808); Ferdinand VII (1808)

V.7. GERMANY Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

X Zwölf Meter ohne Kopf (12 Paces without a Head) (2009) -- 1401, German sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels

Il Principe di Homburg (The Prince of Homburg) (1997) -- Prince disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge against the Swedes and is court-martialed during 17th century Prusso-Swedish Wars (Hitler's favorite play?)

X Der Choral von Leuthen (The Anthem of Leuthen) (1933) -- German film depicting Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1740–1786) (no subtitles)

X Maria Theresia (1951) -- (1717-1780) the Archduch*ess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and a Holy Roman Empress by marriage to Francis I; son Joseph II ; daughter Marie Antoinette

X Maria Theresia (1980) -- ditto

X Der große König (The Great King) (1942) – Nazi film glorifying Prussian King Friedrich II during the battle of Kunersdorf (Russians and Germans versus Austria)

V.8. POLAND Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1574-1795):

1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (aka 1612) (2007) – Russian film set in the Time of Troubles and the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) (under Polish King Sigismund III (1587-1632))

Taras Bulba (1962) -- fictional character; Cossack life in the Ukraine, once part of Poland

X The Rebel Son (aka The Barbarian and the Lady or The Rebel Son of Taras Bulba) (1938) – earlier fictional film of the Taras Bulba story

Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1961) Cossacks vs. Poles; first part of a trilogy set in mid-17th century (1648-1649); under Ladislas IV (1632-1648) & John II Casimir (1648-1668)

Potop (The Deluge) (1975) -- second part of the trilogy; Swedish army invades Poland and a warrior fights for the heart of Olenka; lasted 1665-1660 under John II Casimir

Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowski) -- third part of the trilogy; Turkish invasion of Poland; (1668-1670) under Polish Kings John II Casimir (1648-1668) and Michael I (1669-1673)

X August der Starke (King August the Strong) (1936) – King August II The Strong (1697-1733) Polish monarch, abdicated 1706, king again 1709

X Virtuti Militari (1995) -- the history of Poland's "Virtuti Militari" medal, awarded for bravery since the Polish-Russian war of 1792

Kings of the Kingdom of Poland ("Congress Poland"), 1815-1917

Pan Tadeusz (2000) -- Poland's attempt to free itself from Russian rule in Napoleonic times, 1803-1815

X The Wedding (1972) -- national drive toward self-determination after the Polish uprisings of 1830 and 1863

X Jaroslaw Dabrowski (1976) -- Dabrowski (1836 – 1871) a Polish revolutionary, Nationalist and general who became involved in the preparation of the January Uprising; arrested August 1862

On the Banks of the Niemen (1986) -- 1863 uprising against Russian occupation

Wierna rzeka (The Faithful River) (1987) – only survivor of a unit in the 1863 insurgency in Poland is taken care of by a land steward's daughter

X Wierna rzeka (1936) -- ditto

X Szwadron (Squadron) (1992) – Russian soldier finds out the little insurrection in 1863 Poland is a lot bigger than he expected

X Goraczka (Fever) (1981) – in 1905 Polish anarchists try to assassinate the Tsarist Governor-General

V.9 RUSSIA & TURKEY TO FRENCH REVOLUTION & BEYOND Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

Tsars of Russia (1547-1721):

Rurik Dynasty (1547-1598): second part of Ivan the Terrible's reign & reign of Feodor I

X Borus Godunov (1986) -- de facto regent of Russia , 1584-1598, and then the first non-Rurikid tsar, 1598 to 1605

X Mest shuta (A Fool's Revenge) (1993) -- 1500s Russia

Times of Troubles (1598-1613):

Gudonov Dynasty (1598-1605): Boris Gudonov & Feodor II

Usurper I: False Dmitry I (1605-1606)

1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (aka 1612) (2007) – Russian film set in the Time of Troubles and the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)

Shuysky Dynasty (1606-1610): Vasily IV Shuysky

Usurper II: False Dmitry II (1607-1610)

Council of Seven Boyars (27 July 1610 – 4 November 1612)

House of Vasa -- Włladysłlaw IV Vasa (1595-1610)

Council of All the Land (17 April 1611 – 26 July 1613)

House of Romanov (1613-1721):

Peter the Great (1689-1725):

Peter the Great (1986)-- 1689-1725, Russian Czar; 1710-11 war with Ottoman Empire

X Yunost' Petra (Peter's youth) -- young Peter the Great

V nachale slavnykh del (At the Beginning of Glorious Days) (1981) -- Peter the Great and the build up of the Russian Navy

X Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereign's Servant) (2007) -- 1709 during war between Russian and Sweden (The Great Northern War, 1700-1721) -- (currently unavailable)

X Epitaph für einen König (1969) – epitaph for a king; Karl XII of Sweden (1697-1718)

X Isoviha (1939) – story set in 18th century Finland when the country was occupied twice by Russia, during the Great Northern War (1700-1721) and the Lesser Wrath (1741–1742)

Catherine the Great (1762-1796):

X Young Catherine (1991) 1762-1796, Catherine the Great of Russia; 1768 war with Turkey ($46)

The Scarlet Empress (1934) -- Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great (1934) -- with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Flora Robeson

X Caterina di Russia (Catherine of Russia) (1963) -- Italian film

X Catherine the Great (1995) -- with Catherine Zeta-Jones

A Royal Scandal (1945) -- love life of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great (with Tallulah Bankhead)

X Tempest (1959) -- Pugachev peasant uprising during the reign of Catherine the Great

X Russkiy bunt (Captain's Daughter) (2000) -- during the Pugachev uprising, the love of Masha Mironova and Petr Grinev is threatened.

X Kapitanskaya dochka (The Captain's Daughter) (1959) --

Turkey and others:

X Estergon kalesi (Estergon Castle) (1972) – Estergon Castle in Hungary conquered by Turkish Invaders under Sultan Suleiman II in 1543

Nomad (2005) -- a young fellow in 18th-century Kazakhstan unites the country's disunited tribes

V.10. India. Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

The Mughal Period: 1526-1757

Humayun (1945) -- Mughal emperor Humayun (1530-1539), son of emperor Babar

Jodhaa Akbar (2008) -- Akbar the Great (ruled 1556-1619) and his Hindu wife Jodhabai

Mughal-e-Azam (1960) -- 16th century war between crown prince Saleem and his father, the great Moghul emperor Akbar (1556-1605), over a beautiful court dancer named Anarkali

Anarkali (1953) -- Shahenshah Jalaudin Akbar, grandson of Babbar and son of Humayun, rules Hindustan justly, but has big problems with a rebellious son in love with the gypsy Anarkali

X Akbar Saleem Anarkali (1978) -- story of Arnakali and Saleem

Noor Jahan (1931) -- a Mughal empress (1577-1645), 20th and favorite wife of Emperor Jehangir (1605-27)

Taj Mahal (2005) -- Moghul ruler Shah Jahan (1628-1658) builds a monument to eternal love in honor of his deceased wife

X Taj Mahal: A Monument to Love (2003) -- ditto

X Ranadheera Kanteerava (1960) -- Mysore kingdom was a golden age in Kannada .literature; Mysore royalty’s intrigues & Kannada national chauvinism; King Ranadheera Kanteerava Narasaraja Wodeyar (1638-1659), a devotee of music and literature

Maratha Empire 1674–1818

X Bajirao Mastani (1925) -- prime minister Baji Rao I (1719-17400) to the Maratha Empire; extended the empire

X Ghashiram Kotwal (1976) – story of Nanasaheb Phadnavis, the prime minister and real power of the Peshwa Maharaja, 1773-1797

V.11. JAPAN Back to Chapter V Back to Contents

Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568 to 1603:

Kagemusha (1980) -- Takeda clan, one of three warlord clans, 16th century

Ugetsu (1953) -- two peasants in search of success in war-torn Japan, 16th century

Ran (1985) -- (Akira Kurosawa) Japanese lord finds his kingdom disintegrating as his sons go to war with each other (adaptation of King Lear & life of Mōri Motonari), 16th century

X Mōri Motonari (1997) -- NHK's TV drama

Rikyu (1989) -- Buddhist priest and improver of the tea ceremony runs afoul of Lord Hideyoshi Toyotomi

X Sekigahara (1981) -- drama set in the time when the Eastern and Western Armies met in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600

Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868):

James Clavell's Shogun (1980) -- based on the achievements of the first Englishman in Japan, early 17th century

Seven Samurai (1954) (Akira Kurosawa) -- wandering ronin (i.e., unemployed samurai) defend a peasant village from bandits, 17th century

Makai tenshô (Samurai Resurrection) (2003) – the Shimabara Rebellion of mostly Christian peasants,1637–1638, during the Tokugawa era against rising taxes

The Samurai Trilogy (1967) -- based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone With the Wind, 17th century

Life of Oharu (1952)

Hara-kiri (1962) -- Japanese period film 1630, dealing with the plight of the poor end of the samurai spectrum

Ako-Jo danzetsu (aka Swords of Vengeance) (1978) -- Ronin revolt against 5th Togukawa shogun (Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, reign 1680-1709) in honor of their master Lord Asano

X Ô-oku: The Movie (2006) – 1713, scandal of a power struggle between Ietsugu's concubine mother and the late Shogun's official wife

Goyokin (1969) -- 1831,debts owed by a small province to the Tokugawa Shogunate causes province leaders to stealing goyokin (gold and silver) from mining sites on Sado Island & worse (e.g., massacre)

X Silence (2010) -- Jesuits meet violence and persecution in closed Japan

X Chinmoku (Silence) (1971) --two Portuguese missionaries face torture and death in closed Japan ($34)

X Sekigahara (1981) -- Ieyasu Tokugawa

X Sen-hime to Hideyori (1962) – based on Princess Sen, daughter to Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and wife of Toyotomi Hideyori Masahiro Makino

Shinsengumi (1969) – band of ronin devoted to the Tokugawa shogun fights to protect the Shogun when he confers with the Emperor on expulsion of foreigners; 1863-1864

VI. AGE OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT. Back to Chapter VI Back to Contents

VI.1. EARLY EXPLORATION. Back to Chapter VI Back to Contents

Imperial Spain (16th to 17th centuries): under Habsburg Empire: Kings Charles I (1516-1556); Philip II (1556-1598); Philip III (1598-1621); Philip IV (1620-1665); Charles II (1665-1700)

Apocalypto (2006) -- Mayan Rambo just before the arrival of the Spanish

Kings of the Sun (1963) -- Mayans pursued by Toltec invaders

X La princesa de los ursinos (Princess of the Ursinos) (1947) – French lady (d. 1722) prominent for a decade and a half at the court of the first of the Spanish Borbons, Philip V (reign 1700-1724)

X La espada negra (The Black Sword) (1976) – love story of Ferdinand and Elizabeth of Spain

X Retorno a Aztlan (1991) -- an ancient Indian empire in what became Mexico faces a severe drought and the priest prays for relief

X Christopher Columbus (1949) -- discoverer of America, not a short cut to India (with Fredric March and Francis Sullivan)

X Christopher Columbus (1985) -- mini-series starring Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Oliver Reed

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) -- with Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) -- Christopher Columbus

X Alba de América (Dawn of America) (1952) -- account of discovery of America

Captain from Castile (1947) -- serves with Cortez in conquest of Mexico

X El juicio de Martin Cortes (1974) -- mestizo son of Cortez represents fundamental dilemma of Mexican society

La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest) (1998) -- Aztec resistance to Christianization by the Spanish under Cortez

X Tribu (1935) -- conquest of North America

Cabeza de Vaca (1992) -- 1528, explored parts of the future USA and Mexico

Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) -- Francisco Pizarro and the conquest of Peru

X Los conquistadores del Pacífico (1963) -- inspired by Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean

X Juana la loca (Locura de amor; Mad Love) (2001) -- Juana's devotion to her husband of an arranged marriage becomes an obsession; remake of Locura de Amor

X Locura de Amor (Love Crazy) (1948)-- Spanish movie about Joanna the Mad or Joanna of Castile (1479-1555) who ruled jointly with her husband Philip the Handsome ($2

X Perlas ng silangan (1969) -- Spanish colonization of the Philippines (languages Filipino/Tagalog)

X Damong ligaw (199&) -- Filipino-Spanish War (languages Filipino/Tagalog)

Spain under the Borbons (18th century): Philip V (1700-1724); Louis I (1724); Philip V (1724-1746); Ferdinand VI (1746); Charles III (1746-1788)-; Charles IV (1746-1808); Ferdinand VII (1808)

X Sangre de mayo (Blood of May) (2008) -- love story set against reign of Fernando VII of Spain ($29)

VI.2. SETTLEMENT OF MEXICO Back to Chapter VI Back to Contents

X Kino (1993) -- Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645–1711) Catholic priest explores and works primarily in northern Sonora, Mexico and the future southern Arizona establishing 24 missions & country chapels

Seven Cities of Gold (1955) -- Portola's expedition to California in 1769 for the cities of gold and Father Junipero Serra and the founding of the California missions

Yo, la peor de todas (I the Worst of All) (1990) -- Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz of Mexico is punished for her writings by the Inquisition

Spain: House of Borbon (First Restoration) -- 1813-1868 Ferdinand VII (1813-1833) and Isabella II (1833-1868 deposed)

X Zorro marchese di Navarra (Zorro, the Navarra Marquis) (1969) -- Zorro makes sure the exiled King Ferdinand VII (ruled 1808 & 1813-1833 after got rid of Joseph Bonaparte) gets back to Spain

Spain: House of Savoy -- Amadeo (1870-1873)

VI.3. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & CANADA TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION Back to Chapter VI Back to Contents

Black Robe (1991) Canadian-Australian film about Jesuit in 17th century Quebec among the Indians

X Hudson's Bay (1941) -- Canada's early history

First Landing (2007) -- Christian Broadcasting Network story of Jamestown settlement in Virginia, 1607 with the main focus on the life of the chaplain of the expedition

X Plymouth Adventure (1952) -- story of the voyage of the "Mayflower", 1620

X Plymouth Adventure (1945) --- early settlers in America

X Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) -- 1650 dictatorial Governor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant in future New York City has outspoken newspaperman arrested

The New World (2005) -- Pocohontas & Captain John Smith

Pocahontas: The Legend (1955)

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)

X Penn of Pennsylvania (or The Courageous Mr. Penn) (1941) -- founds the future state of Pennsylvania

The Crucible (1996) -- 1692 witch hunts in Salem

X Les Sorcières de Salem (The Witches of Salem) (1956) -- French version of Arthur Miller's play about the scandal in Salem, Massachusetts

X The Scarlet Letter (1926) -- bad old American Puritanism

X The Scarlet Letter (1934) --

X Der scharlachrote Buchstabe (The Scarlet Letter) (1973) – German film with Senta Berger

The Scarlet Letter (1995) -- evil effects of Puritanism (with Demi Moore)

X The Broken Chain (1993) -- end of the Iroquois Confederacy in the 1700s ($39)

X Last of the Mohicans (1936)

Last of the Mohicans (1971) -- Masterpiece Theatre version

X Last of the Mohicans (1992) -- Daniel Day Lewis -- French and Indian War, 1756-1763; best version

X Winners of the Wilderness (1927) -- wilderness fighter loves daughter of the commander of the French forces during the French and Indian War; Indians, under Pontiac, capture the daughter

Northwest Passage (1940) -- French & Indian War

X Northwest Passage (1958) -- adventure series of 26 episodes about Roger's Rangers in the French and Indian War

Mohawk (1956) -- Indians attack a frontier outpost; Scott Brady

X Frontier Times (1987) -- swashbuckler set during the French and Indian War

X Young Daniel Boone (1950)

Daniel Boone (1936) -- Daniel Boone leads settlers to the future Boonesborough

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)

Battles of Chief Pontiac -- failure to capture Fort Detroit, 1763

Unconquered (1947) -- Captain Holden and Abbey try to save Fort Pitt (in future Pittsburg) during Pontiac's War

Captain Kidd (1945)

X Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)

Canada:

Nouvelle France (Battle of the Brave) (2004) -- love story set in period 1758-1761, from the collapse of New France to the British take-over in Canada

X Secret Nation (1992) -- search for a possible conspiracy surrounding the referendum by which Newfoundland joined Canada

VI.4. LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA Back to Chapter VI Back to Contents

Mexico:

X Getrudis (1992) – Mexican War of Independence ($40)

Cuba:

La Última cena (The Last Supper) (1976) -- slavery in Cuba

Tamango (1957) -- an African slave on a Dutch slave ship heading to Cuba revolts, capturing the captain's mistress, thereby forcing a showdown

X El otro Francisco (The Other Francisco) (1975) -- Cuban abolitionists were not primarily motivated by humanitarianism but had real economic motives & misrepresented the nature of slavery in Cuba

Puerto Rico:

A Show of Force (1990) -- two young independence supporters are killed by government agents, accused of trying to blow up a communication centers, but the story doesn't make sense

Colombia:

Bolívar soy yo (2002) -- an actor playing the Liberator Simon Bolivar starts working to complete Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia"

X Simón Bolívar (1942) -- the Great Liberator (may be a documentry)

Venezuela:

X Francisco de Miranda (2006) – Venezuelan freedom fighter considered forerunner of Simon Bolivar

X Simón Bolívar (1969) -- the Great Liberator

Brazil:

X O Descobrimento do Brasil (1937) -- old film about the armada of Pedro Álvares Cabral discovering Brazil

The Mission (1986) -- Jesuits in Brazil try to protect natives

X Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) -- a lost 1540s expedition from Peru to the Amazon

X O Quinto Império - Ontem Como Hoje (The Fifth Emipire) (2004) – King Sebastian of Portugal, reigned 1554-1578 (currently unavailable)

X El Dorado (1988) -- 1560 expedition down Amazon River by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado

Xica (1978) -- slavery in Brazil

Cafundó (2005) – life of black slave in Brazil Joo de Camargo (1858-1942) who led an exemplary life to attain his freedom

X Vendaval Maravilhoso (1949) – Castro Alves, poet of slave liberation in 19th century Brazil

X Desmundo (2002) -- set in 1570 Brazil a young and religious Portuguese woman travels from Portugal to marry a sugar-cane plantation owner

X Quilombo (1984) -- illegal towns composed of renegade slaves and others at the bottom that whites just have to destroy ($66)

X Ganga Zumba (1963) -- a runaway slave founds a Quilombo, Palmares, an escaped slave community

Argentina:

X El santo de la espada (1970) – Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin

X Güemes - la tierra en armas (1971) – wars of independence in Northern Argentina

X Felicitas (2009) -- Felicia Antonia Guadalupe Guerrero y Cueto (1846-1872) who was considered the most beautiful woman in the Republic of Argentina

X La revolución es un sueo eterno (translation: The Revolution is an Eternal Dream) (2008) – May Revolution in 1810 which brought about the first local government not designated by the Spanish Crown

Others:

X Lydia Bailey (1952) -- love story set in Haiti, 1802, Toussaing L'Overture, the black president versus the French trying to retake possession of the country

VI.5. AUSTRALIA Back to Chapter VI Back to Contents

Captain James Cook (1987) -- 1770 voyage discovers east coast of Australia

Against the Wind (1978) -- TV mini-series about the life of a transported convict in the colony of New South Wales, Australia

Botany Bay (1953) -- in 1787 prisoners are shipped from Newgate Jail to a new penal colony in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia

X Eureka Stockade ( Massacre Hill) (1949) -- Australians battle the government during the 1854 miners' revolt

X Heritage (1935/I) – disappointing overview of 150 years of Australian history

VII. REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

VII.1. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1775-1782. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

John Adams (2008) -- miniseries of John Adams and the first 50 years of the USA

Adams Chronicles (1976) -- life of 4 generations of the Adams family of Massachusetts

The Howards of Virginia (1940) -- the run-up to the Revolution in Virginia

X Choosing Revolution (1999) -- brothers of the well-known Randolph family of Virginia choose different sides during the time of revolution

Allegheny Uprising (1939) – colonials in Pennsylvania have an uprising even before the American Revolution

X The Bastard (1978) -- first part of John Jakes' novels: poor French man and his mother come to the 13 colonies and get involved with the events leading up to the American Revolution (based on John Jakes's novels)

X The Rebels (1979) -- second part of John Jakes' novels, not as good as The Bastard

Johnny Tremain (1957) -- a young fellow caught up in the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington & Concord

X April Morning (1988) -- Battle of Lexington & Concord,1775, war starts before Dec. of Independence ($125 for a new DVD)

1776 (1972) -- musical about the political maneuvering in order to produce an acceptable-to-all Declaration of Independence

John Paul Jones (1959) -- Robert Stack as the naval hero

The Crossing (2003) -- Delaware River crossing by George Washington, December 25, 1776

X George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986) -- miniseries with Barry Bostwick as Washington; interesting too because it is Viggo Mortensen's first film ($80)

La Fayette (1961) -- the Frenchman who fought for American independence

X Kosciuszko pod Raclawicami (1938) -- Polish soldier who served in the American Revolution and also battled in Poland

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) -- Mohawk Valley, New York frontier in the Revolution

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003) -- the infamous American traitor (1779)

The Scarlet Coat (1955) -- for money Benedict Arnold wants to offer up West Point to the British

The Patriot (2000) -- Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina, January 17, 1781 (with Mel Gibson)

Revolution (1985) -- set within the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, the winter encampment at Valley Forge and the Battle of Yorktown (starring Al Pacino)

"Disneyland" The Birth of the Swamp Fox (1959, 1960) -- South Carolina revolutionary guerrilla leader (with Leslie Nielsen)

X Yorktown (2006) -- reenactment by the Brigade of the American Revolution of the final battle of the Revolutionary War, September-October, 1781

X The World Turned Upside Down (1985) – struggle of a family who supported Britain in the American Revolution; emigration to Canada may be the only answer

Revolution in South America:

Bolívar soy yo (2002) -- an actor playing the Liberator Simon Bolivar starts working to complete Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia"

VII.2. FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789 Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Louis XVI

Ridicule (1966) -- wit proves the key to social success at the court of Louis XVI (1774-1792)

Marie Antoinette (2006)

X Marie Antoinette (Shadow of the Guillotine) (1956) -- Marie-Antoinette

X Marie Antoinette (1938) -- daughter of Francis II of Austria; wife of Louis XVI

The Affair of the Necklace (2001) -- with Hilary Swank

X Le collier de la reine (The Queen’s Necklace) (1929) -- affair of the necklace reflects badly on innocent Marie Antoinette

X L'autrichienne (1990) – last days of Queen Marie Antoinette

The Beloved Rogue (1927) -- French poet-patriot Francois Villon battles wits with King Louis XI

X Galgenfrist (2008) – French poet, vagabond Francois Villon convicted of murder

Jefferson in Paris (1995) -- Jefferson's experiences as French ambassador along with his love life

La Marseillaise (1938) -- French Revolution

X La Révolution française (1989) -- the French Revolution

X l'cavaliere di Maison Rouge (The Glorious Avenger) (1953) -- French Revolution

A Tale of Two Cities (1980) -- French Revolution

X A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

X A Tale of Two Cities (1935) -- with Ronald Coleman

Reign of Terror (The Black Book) (1949) -- 1789 French Revolution (DVD with poor production quality)

Scaramouche (1952) -- only set in the 1789 French Revolution

Danton (1982) -- radical but pragmatic leader in the French Revolution

X Danton (1932) -- Georges Jacques Danton (1759–1794)

L' Anglaise et le duc (The Lady and the Duke) (2001) -- Scottish courtesan observes and writes about the French Revolution

X Nuit de Varennes (That Night in Varennes) (1982) -- French film about stagecoach passengers who get caught up in the arrest of King Louis XVI in the town of Varennes (new for $190)

X Sade (2000) -- 1794, Marquis de Sade faces execution by Robespierre's regime

Quills (2000) -- Marquis de Sade at the Charenton Mental Asylum

X Lady Oscar (1979) -- in her youth a female guard to Marie Antoinette loved Andre, but they meet again at the assault on the Bastille on opposites sides ($2

Dangerous Exile (1957) -- fate of ten year old Louis XVII, who died in 1795, (many thought he escaped from his French revolutionary captors)

X Caroline chérie (Dear Caroline) (1968) -- French Revolution

X Madame Guillotine (1931) -- French Revolution

X Madame Recamier; Or, The Price of Virtue (1923) – Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélade Bernard Récamier (777-1849) was a leader of the literary/political circles of the early 19th century

X Madame Récamier (1928) --

X Le diable boiteux (The Lame Devil) (1948) – the French diplomat Talleyrand (1754–1838) worked successfully under the following: Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe

VII.3. AGE OF NAPOLEON. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

X Napoleon (2003)

Napoleon (1955) -- film made by the French

X Napoleon (1927)

X Joséphine (2006) – Napoleon and Josephine

X A Royal Divorce (1938) -- Napoleon and Josephine

Passion in the Desert (1997) – young French officer in Egypt during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign to capture the country

X Adieu Bonaparte (1985) -- reactions of three Egyptian brothers to French Occupation and crushing of Mameluke rule

X Raffl (1984) -- Franz Raffl betrays the great rebel leader Andreas Hofer fighting the French and Bavarians and becomes the "Judas of Tyrol", 1809

X Das Heilige Land Tyrol (2010) -- Katharina and her husband escape from Bavaria to Tyrol and get into a revolutionary hotspot with leader Andreas Hofer

X Austerlitz (1960) -- Napoleon

X Kolberg (Burning Hearts) (1945) – Napoleon’s troops in Germany have isolated Kolberg, but the citizens refuse to surrender; French prepare massive bombardments (April-July 1807) ($5

Napoleon in Russia:

War and Peace (1956) -- Napoleon's invasion of Russia, 1812 (from Tolstoy's great novel)

X War and Peace (1972) -- ditto, but with Anthony Hopkins

X Война и мир; Vojna i mir (War and Peace) (1968) -- expensive Russian version of War and Peace

X Pushkin: Poslednyaya duel (2006) – Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), considered greatest Russian poet

X Poslednyaya doroga (The Last Road) (1986) – death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin

X 1814 (2007) -- mystery story in the time of Pushkin

After Russian Defeat:

Venere imperiale (Imperial Venus) (1963) -- Italian/French production of story of Paolina Bonaparte, sister of Emperor Napoleon I

Madame Sans-Gene (Madame) (1962) -- wife of Marshal Lefebvre, one of Napoleon's generals and Marshal of France, who constantly gets him into trouble

Waterloo (1970) -- Napoleon in his second romp defeated in this 1815 battle

Eagle in a Cage (1971) – Napoleon's exile on St. Helena

Monsieur N. (2003) – conjecture that Napoleon did not die on St. Helena

X Betzi (1978) – imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena

X N (Io e Napoleone) (Napoleon & Me) (2006) – the librarian on Elba Island hates Napoleon, but learns to respect him

Conquest (1937) -- a Polish countess (played by the great Garbo) becomes the mistress of Napoleon in an attempt to gain freedom for her country

X Le destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (Mlle. Desiree) (1942) – Désirée Clary once the fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte and later Queen of Sweden & Norway as wife of King Charles XIV John

Desiree (1954) -- the future queen and king of Sweden and Napoleon; a seamstress loves Napoleon, but his marriage to aristocrat Josephine spoils her dreams

Madame Bovary (1991) -- the then scandalous portrait of a bored middle-class married woman engaging in adultery

The Duellists (1977) --- one man is obsessed with killing another, duel over a period of fifteen years covering the Napoleonic era

Napoleon and Love (1974) -- love life of Napoleon

X Fanny Elssler (1937) -- Metternich has Fanny Elsser keep the Duke of Reichstadt (future Napoleon II, ruled 1815) out of French politics, but the two fall in love

X L'aiglon (translation: The Eaglet) (1931) -- Napoleon

English Opponents of Napoleon:

X H. M. S. Defiant (1962) -- based on the Spithead and Nore mutinies, in the form of strikes for better pay and conditions, by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797 during war with the French Revolutionary government

X Sea Devils (1953) -- woman working as a double agent for England in France and the English fishermen turned smuggler who loves her

X The Nelson Affair (1973) -- British film on the Lord Nelson-Lady Hamilton affair; Nelson puts an end to Napoleon's naval threat

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hart Hamilton 1801

The Divine Lady (1929) -- silent about Nelson, Lady Nelson and Emma Hart in a triangular affair

X A Bequest to the Nation (1973) -- the relationship between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton

I Remember Nelson (1982) -- TV mini-series presenting Nelson as seen from viewpoints of his wife, his mistress's husband, Captain Hardy and a common seaman

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) -- English naval ship against a more powerful and faster French ship during the Napoleonic Wars, 1805

X Sharpe's Waterloo (2006) -- Battle of Waterloo, 1815

The Iron Duke (1934) – historical drama about the Duke of Wellington starring George Arliss ($80)

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) -- novelist famous for a tempestuous affair with Lord Byron in 1812; (was also involved with the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon)

Byron (2003) -- the famous English poet who led a scandalous existence

X Shelly (1972) -- famous British author

Becoming Jane (2007) -- early love affair of Jane Austen that affected her later writing

Les Enfants du siecle (Children of the Century) (1999) -- love affair between George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset

X Chopin: Desire for Love (2004)

Impromptu (1991) -- novelist George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin

X Mlodosc Chopina (Young Chopin) (1952) --formative years between 1825 and 1831

A Song to Remember (1945) -- Frederic Chopin

X Preußische Liebesgeschichte (A Prussian Love Story) (1938) – Frederic Chopin

X Abschiedswalzer (Farewell Waltz) (1934) – Frédéric Chopin and George Sand

X La chanson de l'adieu (Farewell) (1934) – Frederic Chopin and George Sand

Spanish Opposition to Napoleon: House of Bonaparte: Joseph Bonaparte (1808-1813)

The Pride and the Passion (1957) -- Spanish Revolution Against Napoleon 1810

Goya in Bordeaux (1999) -- Spanish painter Francisco Goya

Volavérunt (1999) -- Goya and the duch*ess of Alba, Goya's "Naked Maja"

Goya's Ghosts (2006) -- Goya and the Spanish Inquisition

X Augustina (2010) -- "Spanish Joan of Arc" Agustina de Aragón (1786-1857) defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814)

X Agustina de Aragón (1950) -- ditto

Other:

X Nezrimyy puteshestvennik (1999) – December of 1825, last days of the Russian Emperor Aleksandr I (known for the victory over Napoleon in 1812)

X Der Herzog von Reichstadt (1931) – story of King Napoleon II, who ruled less than a month in 1815 (aka Herzog von Reichstadt), son of Napoleon I and second wife, Marie Louise of Austria

X L'agonie des aigle (The Death Agony of the Eagles) (1933) -- Napoleon II of France

Immortal Beloved (1994) -- speculation on loves of Beethoven (1795-1815)

X Beethoven's Great Love (1936)

X Spring Symphony -- composer Robert Schumann

X Mazeppa (1993) – biography of French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) who painted the controversial "Raft of the Medusa" (1819) (new for $29)

X The House of Rothschild (1934) -- biography of the Rothschild family of financiers whose fortune was laid during the latter stages of the Napoleonic Wars

X I megali stigmi tou '21: Papaflessas (1971) – the Greek revolution against the Turks (1821)

VII.4. EARLY YEARS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & CANADA. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

X Alexander Hamilton (1931) George Arliss as first Secretary of the Treasury of the US

The Hamilton-Burr Duel (1976) -- July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr initiates and carries out duel with Alexander Hamilton in Weehawken, New Jersey

Jefferson in Paris (1995) -- Jefferson's experiences as French ambassador along with his love life

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)

The Far Horizons (1955) -- Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the west of the USA

X Tripoli (2011) -- Barbary pirates

X Tripoli (1950) -- US Marines battle Barbary pirates in 1805

Little Old New York (1923) -- silent movie; 1807, Robert Fulton and his steamboat run into some nasty opposition

Magnificent Doll (1946) – Dolly Payne Todd is torn between Aaron Burr and James Madison

The Mutiny (1952) -- a mutiny on a ship is motivated by greed to get the gold France has given the USA to help their fight against the British in the War of 1812

X The Buccaneer (1938) -- pirate-hero Jean Lafitte, who aids American cause in Battle of New Orleans, War of 1812 (temporarily out of stock)

The Buccaneer (1958) Andrew Jackson relies for help in the Battle of New Orleans on the pirate Lafitte

X Buccaneer's Girl (1950) New Orleans's singer helps free pirate-friend from prison

X Belizaire the Cajun (1986) -- persecution of the Cajuns/Creole culture in the South ($118)

X The President's Lady (1953) -- Andrew Jackson criticized for his wife with a past

The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) -- a relationship between John Eaton and the innkeeper's daughter results in trouble for both of them and President Andrew Jackson

The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) -- trouble for Napoleon exiles in Demopolis, Alabama

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

X Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)

Western Union (1941) -- building of the first transcontinental telegraph system; Robert Young

X Wells Fargo (1937) -- 1840s development of alternative to the US Post Office

Jeremiah Johnson (1972) -- mountain man who had his own personal war with the Crows

Mountain Men (1980) -- story of mountain men who led many of the settlers into the West

X Tomahawk (1951) --- in 1864 mountain man Jim Bridger builds the Bridger Trail from Wyoming to the gold fields in Montana

Canada:

X Random Passage (2002) -- refugees from destitution from Ireland and England head for St. Johns, Canada, but land up in a little place called Random, Canada

Mormans:

X American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith (1999) – Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. the Mormons)

Emma Smith: My Story (2008) – story of the wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith

Brigham: Savage Journey (a.k.a. Savage Journey) (1983) -- Brigham Young leads the Mormons (Latter Day Saints) out to today's Salt Lake City, Utah

Brigham Young (1940) -- ditto

September Dawn (2006) -- Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 in which Mormons massacre a wagon train of settlers

Handcart (2002) – man marries a Mormon woman and becomes part of the ill-fated journey of Martin Handcart Company in 1856 heading to Salt Lake valley, in which 150 people died of cold and starvation

The Republic of Texas and the Mexico-America War

Texas (1994)-- history of Texas from its settlement via Stephen Austin to statehood

X The First Texan (1956) -- based on life of Sam Houston (starring Joel McCrea) ($40)

Houston: the Legend of Texas (Gone to Texas) (1986) -- story of Sam Houston (including battle at the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto)

X Man of Conquest (1939) -- Sam Houston

The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956) (TV) -- TV series based on the life of Jim Bowie

X Travis (1991) -- a teenager watches the courage of Col. Travis at the Alamo

X Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1988)

X Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987) --

The Alamo (1960) -- 1836

X The Last Command (1955) Jim Bowie and the Alamo

X Heroes of the Alamo (1937) --

X One Man's Hero (1999) -- Irish Americans mistreated in the US army go over to the Mexican side

Santa Anna: Su alteza serenisima (2001) -- the last three days in the life of Santa Anna (1794-1876)

X The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936) -- Joaquin Murrieta in California seeks revenge on the men who killed his wife and brother (possible source for Zorro character)

X The California Conquest (1952) -- 1840s, the push for statehood for the future California, then part of Mexico (currently unavailable)

Seminole Wars

X Drums of Destiny (1937) -- American army captain in 1815 Florida (then under Spanish control) must save his brother

Distant Drums (1951) -- Seminole Indians on warpath in early 19th c Florida

Seminole (1953) -- Seminole Indians and help from a cavalry officer

Gold Rush

Roughing It (2002) -- teenaged Mark Twain out West during the "Gold Rush" days

X Mark Twain: Adventures in the Holy Land (2008) – tourist adventures

VII.5. VICTORIAN ENGLAND TO WWI. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

X The First Gentleman (Affairs of a Rogue) (1948) -- romance between the future King Leopold I of Belgium & the daughter of the Prince of Wales (later George IV), Princess Charlotte

X Victoria the Great (1937) -- Queen Victoria (ruled 1838-1901)

X Sixty Glorious Years (1938) -- Queen Victoria

Victoria and Albert (2001) -- love story of Victoria and Albert

X Network First: Victoria and Albert (1997) -- TV miniseries

The Young Victoria (2009) -- very charming love story of Victoria and Albert

Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Victoria in Dover) (1954) -- Victoria becomes the Queen of England and falls in love in Dover

Mrs. Brown (1997) -- Queen Victoria after death of husband Albert

X The Mudlark (1950) -- Queen Victoria after death of husband Albert

Disraeli (1978) -- the political career of Benjamin Disraeli

X The Prime Minister (1941) -- story of rise of Benjamin Disraeli who came to be the Prime Minister in 1868 and then from 1874-1880

Disraeli (1929) -- Conservative Party prime minister. George Arliss play Disraeli

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974) -- Jennie Jerome's life with Lord Randolph Churchill; parents of Winston Churchill

X Little Dorrit (1988) – novelist Charles Dickens' political indictment of early 19th century England

River Queen (2005) -- in the 1860s a young Irish woman and her family find themselves torn between the British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand

Utu (1983) -- in the 1870s, Te Kooti's War, a Maori soldier seeks revenge after the British army destroys his home village and kills his uncle

X The Last Stand (1938) -- Maori girl helps her people in a last stand against the British

The Four Feathers (2002) -- man declared a coward has to go to Sudan to fight the Mahdi's forces to prove he is not a coward

X In Desert and Wilderness (1973) -- two kids kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan

X In Desert and Wilderness (2001) --

X Jack the Ripper (1960) -- serial killer in Victorian England 1888

X Jack the Ripper (1988)

X From Hell (2001) – Jack the Ripper

Wilde (1997) -- hom*osexual writer and brilliant social critic; height of career 1895

X Oscar Wilde (1960)

X The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)

X Salome's Last Dance (1988)

X Feasting with Panthers (Broadway Theatre Archive) (1974) -- Oscar Wilde in prison

Lillie (1978) (mini) -- story of beautiful British actress Lillie Langtry admired by Prince of Wales and Oscar Wilde

X Topsy-Turvy (2000) -- Gilbert and Sullivan

X Elephant Man (1980) -- John Merrick with terribly disfiguring disease finally treated with some dignity (becoming a favorite of Queen Victoria)

Edward VII (1901-1910)

Edward the Seventh (a.k.a. Edward the King) (1975) -- the life of Queen Victoria's son who became Edward VII

George V (1910-1936):

Carrington (1995) -- love affair between painter Dora Carrington and gay author Lytton Strachey

VII.6. FRANCE. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Capetian Dyanasty, House of Borbon Restored (1815-1830):

Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999) -- the mother, the work and the loves of a founding father of realism in European literature

Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI, ruled 1815-1824

Charles X -- ruled 1824-1830

Louis-Philippe I of the July Monarchy (1830-1848) -- the last king to rule France

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte of the Second Republic (1848-1852) -- became Emperor Napoleon III

Emperor Napoleon III (Louis Bonaparte), the Citizen King, (ruled late 1852 to 1870) -- Second Empire restored

X Suez (1938) -- Leon Ames plays Napoleon III, although Loretta Young as Eugenie is much more highlighted

X Juarez (1939) -- Claude Rains portrays him as a weak man ready to betray Maximilian in Mexico

X The Song of Bernadette (1943) -- Jerome Cowan plays Napoleon III

X Maytime (1936) -- Guy Bates Post plays Louis Napoleon

X Spy of Napoleon (1936) -- Napoleon III that is

X La contessa di Castiglione (2006) – Italian courtesan & secret agent Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (1837–1899); as mistress of Emperor Napoleon III she used her influence to soften his response to Italian unification

X La contessa di Castiglione (1954) –

Edward the Seventh (a.k.a. Edward the King) (1975) -- contains many references to Louie Bonaparte

VII.7. CRIMEAN WAR -- Russia (under Nicholas I & Alexander II) vs. Turkey (Ottoman Empire), England and France (under Napoleon III) Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) -- Crimea, 1854-1856

Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) -- love triangle in India solved by British involvement in the Crimean War

X Charge of the Lancers (1954) -- affairs set against the Crimean War

Florence Nightingale (1986) -- the great nurse at work during the Crimean War fighting against prejudice to be of service to the soldiers

Lady with a Lamp (1951) -- nurse-crusader Florence Nightingale

X The White Angel (1936) -- Florence Nightingale ($45)

X Bronte (1983) -- Irish film

X Les Soeurs Bronte (Bronte Sisters) (1979) French film

X Devotion (1946) -- Bronte sisters

X The Brontes of Haworth (1973)

VII.8. ITALY (1789-1867) Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1805–1814)

Napoleon I (1805-1814)

X Fuoco su di me (Fire at my Heart) (2006) – story of young soldier of the Napoleonic army in 1815 in Napoli after the era of Gioacchino Murat, King of the Two Sicilies (1808 to 1815)

Ferdinando e Carolina (Ferdinando and Carolina) (1999) -- King Ferdinando I of Naples (reign 1816-1825) weds Mary Caroline of Austria, daughter of Empress Mary Theresa, in a political marriage

X L'ultima carica (1964) – set in 1820s war of independence in southern Italy

Wars of Italian Independence --three wars between Italian states and Austrian Empire 1848-1866 ending with conquest of entire Italian peninsula

X Viva l'Italia! (1961) -- about Giuseppe Garibaldi of Italian unification fame (director is Rossillini)

In nome del papa re (In the Name of the Pope King) (1977) – in 1867 the papal court fights to prevent Garibaldi's forces from taking power and bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom

X Noi credevamo (2010) -- Italy's battle for unification in the 19th century

X In nome del popolo sovrano (In the Name of the Sovereign People) (1990) – 1849, Ciceruacchio declares Independent Republic of Rome, but French & Austrians try to block it by bringing back the Pope to Rome

X Senso (1968) -- Italy 1855, Austrian military occupation

X Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato (Liberty) (1972) — Italian War of Independence

X I vicer (2007) – 19th century Italian wars

X Ovod (The Gadfly) (1955) -- Russian film about 1800s Italy ($30)

X 'O re (The King of Naples) (1989) – 1860 overthrow of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies; the deposed king and queen adapt to their new lives

VII.9. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Prequel:

Adanggaman (2000) -- role of black Africans in supplying the human beings for the European slave trade

Slavers (1978) -- slave trade in east Africa around 1884

Amistad (1997) -- slave ship rebellion leads to 1839 court room drama

Ill-Gotten Gains (1997) -- slave revolt aboard the ship Argon Miss

X Ascension Day (2007) -- Nat Turner rebellion in 1831

Roots (1977) -- TV mini series on slavery from more of a black perspective

Alex Haley's Queen (1993) -- in this mini-series the writer of Roots tells the story of his paternal grandmother, whose father was a Civil War-era slave owner

A Woman Called Moses (1978) -- Harriet Tubman helps slaves escape via the underground railroad

X Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) -- based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel published in 1852

Race to Freedom: Underground Railroad (1994) TV -- slaves escape to Canada and freedom via the Underground Railroad

X Scarecrow (2009) -- partly about underground railroad

X Stand Up and Fight (1939) -- a northerner and a southerner try to stop the kidnapping of black freemen for reselling

Solomon Northup's Odyssey: "Twelve Years a Slave" (1984) -- a free black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York is kidnapped and taken to Louisiana to work as a slave

X Freedom Bound (2009) -- stories covering three centuries, including slavery

Enslavement: The Story of Fanny Kemble (2000) -- artist disturbed by southern slavery

X Dixie (1943) -- composer of Dixie, pioneer minstrel Dan Emmett

I Dream of Jeanie (1952) -- the story of popular song-writer Stephen Foster

X Swanee River (1939) -- mostly fictional biopic of Stephen Foster

Bloody Kansas:

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) -- for vengeance joins "Bloody Bill" Anderson's gang, a pro-southern gang of "outlaws" or better said "war criminals"

Quantrill's Raiders (1958) -- psychopath leading outlaws with a pro-southern slant ($40)

Kansas Raiders (1950) -- Jesse James joins Quantrill's Raiders

Dark Command (1940) -- Civil War Kansas; Quantrill's Raiders

Ride with the Devil (1999) -- the war in bloody Kansas and Missouri

The Jayhawkers! (1959) -- a government agent infiltrates the vigilante group the Jayhawkers (bushwhackers were pro-South and Jayhawkers were pro-union, non-military guerilla raiders)

X Seven Angry Men (1955) -- John Brown (Raymond Massey)

Santa Fe Trail (1940) -- on trail of John Brown; 1856 Pottawatomie Creek massacre; 1859 Harper's Ferry

Civil War Begins and Ends:

X Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) -- Raymond Massey as Lincoln

X Lincoln (2005) --

X Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- John Ford director

Abraham Lincoln (1930) -- directed by D. W. Griffith

X The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (Broadway Theatre Archive) (1976) --

X Just a Man (2008) -- a bit of recovery for the distraught Mrs. Lincoln

X Tad (1995) -- Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad

X Tap Roots (1948) – very loosely based on farm owner reacting to the attempt by his Jones County to secede from Mississippi

X Class of '61 (1993) -- graduates of West Point enter the Civil War with the Battle of Bull Run

X Journey to Shiloh (1968) -- April 6-7, 1862

X Ironclads (1991) -- the CSS Virginia versus the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862

Hearts in Bondage (1936) -- battle between the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack) and the USS Monitor

X John Ericsson - segraren vid Hampton Roads (Ericsson, The Great John) (1937) – designer of the iron-clad ship the Monitor to fight the ironclad Confederate ship the Merrimack

Gods and Generals (2003) -- pro-Southern film about early Confederate victories: Fredericksburg, Chancelorsville that led to excessive hubris in Gen. Lee

X "Disneyland" Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders (1967) -- pro-Southern film about young boy who joins the pro-Confederate Mosby Raiders -- Mosby captured Union General Stoughton March 1863

The Horse Soldiers (1959) -- set in Vicksburg campaign; John Ford and John Wayne

X Gettysburg (1993) -- 1863 battle, high water mark of the Confederacy

X The Perfect Tribute (1991) (TV) -- young boy and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Wicked Spring (2002) -- Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - May 7 1864

The Gangs of New York (2002) -- ethnic tensions between Irish immigrants and native Americans leads to infamous New York City draft riots of 1863

The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) -- during Atlanta campaign, Yanks steal a Reb locomotive and try to tear up the track

Gone With The Wind (1939) -- Battle of Atlanta

X Louisiana (1984) -- woman loses her house in the aftermath of the Civil War and vows to recoup her plantation

True Women (1997) -- lives of three women through the Texas Rebellion ,Comanche raids, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond

Glory (1989) --- 54th Massachusetts, first black army unit in the US

X The Hunley (1999) -- 1864 submarine in Charleston, SC for Turner Network

Andersonville (1996) -- made for cable movie about infamous Confederate prison

Lincoln (aka Gore Vidal's Lincoln) (1988) -- reveals more of the inner family problems faced by Lincoln

X The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998) -- assassinated at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

X They've Killed President Lincoln (1971) – simulated documentary footage to examine the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

X Prince of Players (1955) – great American stage actor Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth

Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)-- Dr. Samuel Mudd unjustly found guilty of helping in the Lincoln assassination

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980) -- Dr. Mudd accused of helping John Wilkes Booth get away after killing President Lincoln

Hellgate (1955) -- remake of Prisoner of Shark Island

The Blue and the Gray (1982 ) -- the families of two brothers divided between the North and the South fight for different sides

X Cold Mountain (2003) -- interesting question of just how unjust were the civil defense bands in the South

VII.10. SIAM (THAILAND) & BURMA (MYANMAR) Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Burma:

X Kyan Sit Min (King Kyan Sit) (2005) -- Burmese film based on Kyanzittha, the 43rd king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1084 to 1112

Thailand:

Ayutthaya Kingdom (1350-1767)

2nd Suphannaphum Dynasty (1409-1569)

The King Maker (2005) -- in 1547 the Portuguese soldier of fortune Fernando De Gama comes to Thailand and finds adventure

The Legend of Suriyothai (2001) -- reign of King Chakkraphat (1548-1568); Queen Suriyothai dies 1548.

Sukhothai Dynasty (1569-1629)

X Naresuan (2006) -- King Naresuan the Great (1590 to 1605); a follow-up to The Legend of Suriyothai

X Tamnaan somdet phra Naresuan maharat: Phaak prakaat itsaraphaap (The Legend of Naresuan: Declaration in Independence) (2007) -- the war for the independence of Siam (Thailand) from Burma

Prasat Thong Dynasty (1630-1688)

Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty (1688-1767)

Bang Rajan (2000) -- Burmese invaders of 18th century Thailand

Thonburi Period, 1768-1781

Ratanakosin Period, 1782- ?

King Rama IV (1856-1868)

X Anna and the King (2000) -- Thailand during American Civil War; Jody Foster

X The King and I (1999) -- animated version

X The King and I (1956) --

X Anna and the King of Siam (1946)-- Thailand

VII.11. USA -- POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD. Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

USA - RECONSTRUCTION & SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

Gone With the Wind (1939)

X Birth of a Nation (1915) -- the Southern version of "truth" by Southerner D. W. Griffith (a great film for racists)

Booker -- youth of Booker T. Washington, later supporter of "separate but equal" racist system (but who also supported the NAACP in secret)

The Toast of New York (1937) -- story behind the Financial Panic of 1869

USA -- COWBOYS

X Donner Pass -- The Road to Survival (1984) -- some of the settlers stranded in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains near Truckee, California in the winter of 1846 turn to cannibalism to survive

Lonesome Dove (1989) -- c. 1866, based on cattle drivers Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight

Red River (1948) -- 1867, Chisholm Trail to Abilene, John Wayne

Abilene Town (1946) -- at the end of the Chisholm Trail

Wild Bill Hickok

Wild Bill (1995) -- Hickok that is; 1866-1871, marshal in Kansas cowtowns, including Abilene

Young Bill Hickok (1940) -- B western

X Calamity Jane (1953) -- friend of Hickok

The Plainsman (1936) -- Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane and George Armstrong Custer

Jesse James

X Jesse James: American Outlaw (2007) --

American Outlaws (2001) -- James and Younger gangs

The Long Riders (1980) -- James, Younger, Miller and Ford brothers

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) -- ill-fated 1876 bank robbery by James and Younger gangs

X Young Jesse James (1960)

The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

X The Great Jesse James Raid (1953)

X The Great Missouri Raid (1950) -- Jesse James and Youngers

X Jesse James Rides Again (1947) --

Jesse James (1939) -- bank and train robber and a very bad man; 1866-1882

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) -- shows James as a bit of a psychopath, but still portrays him somewhat sympathetically

X The Plot to Kill Jesse James (2006) --

X I Shot Jesse James (1949) --

X Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958) -- with Frank Lovejoy; revenge, romance and a trial

X Bad Men of Missouri (1941) -- the Youngers

The Daltons

When the Daltons Rode (1940) -- Dalton gang in Indian Territory; 1891, first train robbery

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979) -- Dalton gang of bank robbers

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp (1994) -- 1876-1879 marshal of Dodge City, Kansas

Tombstone (1993) -- Wyatt Earp in Arizona; gunfight at O.K. Corral

X Dodge City (1939) -- composite fictional hero

X Hour of the Gun (1967) -- Earp & Doc Holliday form a posse to hunt Ike Clanton and his gang

Gunfight at O.K. Corral (1957) -- gunfight in 1881 Tombstone, AZ

X My Darling Clementine (1946) Henry Fonda

X Frontier Marshal (1939) -- Wyatt Earp and the fight at the O.K. Corral

Billy the Kid

X Billy the Kid (1930) -- first kill 1877

Billy the Kid (1941) -- with Robert Taylor

X The Left-Handed Gun (1958) -- Billy the Kid

X Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

X Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid (1989)

Chisum (1970) -- the Lincoln County War, involving Billy the Kid, in what became New Mexico

X Young Guns (1988) -- six boys, including Billy the Kid, are hired as "regulators" for a rancher

X Young Guns 2 (1990) -- Billy the Kid plans an escape from jail

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) -- bank robbers; 1896 forms the Wild Bunch

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)

Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley

Buffalo Bill (1944) -- Buffalo Bill Wild West Show formed 1883

Buffalo Bill and the Indian, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

X Pony Express Days (1940) -- Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (which lasted from April 1860 to October 1861)

Annie Get Your Gun (1950) -- sharpshooter in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show

Annie Oakley (1935) -- ditto

Australia:

X Burke & Wills (1987) -- the 1860 expedition across Australia

Ned Kelly (2003) -- Australian gang of bank robbers active in the 1870s

Ned Kelly (1970) -- ditto

Mad Dog Morgan (1976) -- Australian outlaw active around the 1880s Australian gold rush

Others:

Union Pacific (1939) -- first transcontinental railroad, 1869

The Invasion of Johnson County (1976) -- large ranch cattle men hire a private army to kill or hang the small ranchers, who they consider as "cattle rustlers" in Johnson County, Wyoming

The Lawless Breed (1953) -- infamous Texas gunman John Wesley Hardin

X Belle Starr (1941) -- outlaw; originally from Missouri; marries Sam Starr in 1880

X Montana Belle (1952) -- Jane Russell as Belle Starr, the bandit queen

Il mio corpo per un poker (The Belle Starr Story) (1968) --

The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959) -- very loosely based on Ford County sheriff Bat Masterson

X The Woman of the Town (1943) -- story of murder of Dora Hand by Jim Kennedy, who was partly captured by Bat Masterson

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) -- c. 1882

X The Westerner (1940) -- Judge Roy Bean of Texas

X Texas Rangers (2001) --

"Disneyland" The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1958) -- a Mexican-American becomes a hero law officer in Socorro, New Mexico and later becomes a lawyer

The Story of Jack London (1943) -- Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and the stories that rose from it

& INDIANS

X Kit Carson (1940) -- army scout, guide for explorer Fremont, 1843-1846, and conqueror of the Navajo

X Kit Carson and the Mountain Men (1977) --

Comanche and Cheyenne:

X Rio Grande (1950) -- Col. Ranald Mackenzie's 1873 raid against the Comanche and Kiowa hiding in Mexico; part of John Ford's cavalry triology

X Comancheros (1961) -- fight against outlaws selling guns to the Comanche

Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -- Cheyenne return from relocation

Centennial (Vols. 1-12) (1978) -- historic development of state of Colorado as seen in the story of one town

Soldier Blue (1970) -- fictionalized account of the Chivington November 1864 Sand Creek Massacre

Custer and the Sioux:

A Man called Horse (1970) -- English nobleman must prove himself to the Sioux by surviving torturous rituals

X Tomahawk (1951) --- in 1864 mountain man Jim Bridger builds the Bridger Trail from Wyoming to the gold fields in Montana

They Died With Their Boots On (1941) -- Custer, 1876

Little Big Horn (1951) -- Battle of, 1876

X Seventh Cavalry (1956) -- officer must prove he did not desert Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn

X The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) Custer's last stand

X Custer's Last Stand (1936) -- feature version of the Rex Lease serial

X Custer of the West (1968)

X Glory Guys (1965) -- thinly veiled Custer Story (director, Sam Peckinpah)

Little Big Man (1970) -- hero meets Marshall Bill Hickock & General Custer at Battle of Little Big Horn

Son of the Morning Star (1991) -- Custer

X Chief Crazy Horse (1955) --

X Crazy Horse (1996) -- Sioux warrior who fought Custer at Little Big Horn

Crazy Horse and Custer -- no connection with historical truth at all

Sitting Bull (1954) -- Sioux chief at the Battle of Little Big Horn

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) -- bad history, but cavalry movements instructive , part of John Ford's cavalry trilogy

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) -- from the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) to the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890

Canadians (1961) -- Americans as the bad guys in more peaceful Canada

Saskatchewan (1954) -- spring 1877, Canadian Mounted Police deal with the Sioux and the Cree after the Custer massacre

Riel (1979) -- 19th Century Canadian founder of the province of Manitoba and rebel leader Louis Riel

North West Mounted Police (1940) -- Texas Ranger caught up in the Riel rebellion (or Northwest Rebellion)

Apache:

X Conquest of Cochise (1953) -- 1850s southwest

Broken Arrow (1950) -- 1870s Apache Chief Cochise (Jeff Chandler) and ex-Army man and peace negotiator (played by James Stewart)

Fort Apache (1948) -- loosely based on the fight against Cochise and Custer's Last Stand; part of John Ford's cavalry trilogy

X Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

X Geronimo (1939) -- 1886 leader of Apache revolt in the southwest

X Valley of the Sun (1942) -- Geronimo

X I Killed Geronimo (1950)

X Outpost (1951) -- Geronimo

X Indian Uprising (1952) -- Geronimo

X The Battle at Apache Pass (1952) -- Geronimo

Walk the Proud Land (1956) -- Indian Agent John P. Culm at Arizona's San Carlos Reservation and Geronimo

X Geronimo (1962)

X Geronimo (1993)

X Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

X Ulzana's Raid (1972) -- Apache raider

Arrowhead (1953) -- partly based on Army Scout Al Sieber

Apache (1954) -- the last Apache warrior, Massai

Major Dundee (1965) -- Dundee on an expedition to hunt down and kill an Apache warrior group raiding in Texas during the Civil War

Other:

Buffalo Soldiers (1997) -- chasing Apaches

Sergeant Rutledge -- buffalo soldier on trial

I Will Fight No More Forever (1975) -- Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce

X Dances with Wolves (1990) Kevin Costner's tribute to the Native Americans living on the mid-West plains

X Witness the Healing (2009) -- a young woman learns how California's early policies toward the Native Americans influenced her family's fortunes

X Chinaman's Chance (2008) -- 1870's, a. Chinese immigrant is falsely accused of murdering a white woman and has to deal with prejudice and injustice

Mexico under Juarez (president 1858-1872) Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Juarez (1939) -- Mexican leader against Napoleon III's man in Mexico

X Aquellos años (1973) -- Benito Juarez

Major Dundee (1965) -- Dundee hunts down an Apache warrior group raiding in Texas during the Civil War & runs into French troops in Mexico

Vera Cruz (1954) -- Americans try to steal the gold while escorting a countess to Vera Cruz and Emperor Maximilian; Juaristas also want the gold

Mexicanos, al grito de guerra (Mexicans, to the Cry of War) (1943) -- a soldier defends Mexico against the French while in love with the French ambassador's daughter

The Undefeated (1969) -- a group of Confederate soldiers from USA decide to establish a new life in Mexico under French Emperor Maximilian

X Guadalupe La Chinaca (1938) – a love story set during French Intervention in Michoacán

X La paloma (1937) -- Emperor Maximilian and the war for independence

VII.13. FRANCE Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Third French Republic (1870-1940)

Untel père et fils (Heart of a Nation) (1943) -- the Froment family of Montmartre, France from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 to Nazi occupation in World War II

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) – conquering Germans throw their weight around in occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, while French nobles kiss their posteriors

La commune (Paris , 1871) (2000) -- story of the Paris Commune of 1871, which briefly ruled France; semi-documentary (so I have just a little summary of the film's start)

X 1871 (1990) – the rise and fall of the Paris Commune

X Champ d'honneur (Field of Honor) (1987) – Franco-Prussian War; a fellow sells his high draft lottery number and takes the place of the son of a rich man

Total Eclipse (1995) -- French poets struggle with relationships, 1871

X Camille Claudel (1989) -- in 1883 France, sculptor Auguste Rodin meets sculptress Camille Claudel and they begin a relationship

Lust for Life (1956) -- 1885-1891, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (friend of painter Paul Gauguin)

Vincent and Theo (1990) -- the two Van Gogh brothers

Moulin Rouge (1952) -- painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Félix Faure (1895-1899):

The Life of Emile Zola (1937) -- involved in the anti-Semitic Dreyfus Affair

X I Accuse! (1958) -- Zola and the Dreyfus Affair

Prisoner of Honor (1991) -- anti-Semitic Dreyfus affair, 1894

X L'affaire Dreyfus (Dreyfus Affair) (1995) – French film of the Dreyfus Affair

X L'affaire Dreyfus (Dreyfus Affair) (1965) – French film of the Dreyfus Affair

X Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Case) (1930) -- German film about the Dreyfus affair

X Affäre Dreyfus (Dreyfus Affair) (1959) – German film

X Affäre Dreyfus (Dreyfus Affair) (1968) – German film

French Art Scene: birth of modern art

Impressionists (2006) -- story of Monet and the creation of Impressionism which began in 1860s among Paris-based artists

Modigliani -- Amadeo, the painter

X Montparnasse 19 (Modigliani of Montparnasse) (1993) – life of the painter Amadeo Modigliani

Surviving Picasso (1996) -- Spanish painter Pablo Picasso

La Mome (La Vie en Rose) (2007) -- very rough life of Edith Piaf, one of the world's greatest singers

Waiting for the Moon (1987) -- a few months in the life of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein

VII.14. RUSSIA AND TURKEY Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

Alexander II (1855-1881):

X Nas venchali ne v tserkvi (We Weren’t Married in Church) (1982) – love story of young woman wanting to get away from her small town and join a revolutionary group (as the one in Petersburg named "chaikovtsy", 1869-1874)

X Geroite na Shipka (Heroes of Shipka) (1955) -- Bulgarian/Soviet Union film about the Battle of Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-7

X Yuliya Vrevskaya (1978) – for reasons of love Russian nurse Yuliya Vrevskaya follows the troops in the war between Russia and Turkey (1877-1878)

X V nachale slavnykh del (At the Beginning of Glorious Days) (1981) -- Russo-Turkish War

X Pervye radosti (1977) – life in Saratov, Russia before the Bolshevik revolution

X Pervye radosti (No Ordinary Summer) (1956) -- intellectual joins a revolt and then becomes a professional revolutionary

Others:

X Dmitriy Kantemir (1974) -- Moldavia, 1700s

X Trandafirul galben (The Yellow Rose) (1982) – outlaw fights corrupt politics in 1800s Romania

X Drumul oaselor (1980) -- 1848 Romania (revolution in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania)

X Manto Mavrogenous (1971) – she (1796 - July 1848) was a heroine of the Greek War of Independence(1821-1829)

VII.15. WORKERS' STRUGGLE Back to Chapter VII Back to Contents

X Comrades (1989) – British farm laborers imprisoned in Australia in 1834 for forming an unauthorized union

X La Révolte des enfants (The Children's Rebellion) (1992) -- drama set in France around the abuse of child labor ($32)

Daens (1993) -- Father Adolf Daens works in Belgium of the 1890s & champions the workers' cause

Sub Terra (2003) -- coal miners strike for better pay and conditions in 1897 Lota, Chile

X Ah! Nomugi toge (Oh! The Nomugi Pass) (1979) -- abuse of women workers in silk industry in Japan in early 1900s

X Los mineros (The Miners) (1991) -- Mexican-American copper miners fight for better terms 1903-1946 which shapes the course of Arizona history (currently unavailable)

X The Triangle Shirt Factory Fire Scandal (1979) -- 1911 sweatshop fire in New York City (near New York University, Manhattan)

Desertir (The Deserter) (1933) -- labor struggle in Germany and Russia

Stachka (Strike) (1925) -- 1912 strike in Russian locomotive factory; directed by Sergei Eisenstein

X Ådalen 31 (Adalen 31 or Adalen Riots) (1969) -- in 1931 Swedish military opens fire on peaceful labor demonstrators in Adalen

X Joe Hill (1971) -- labor organizer

Frida (1986) -- the life and paintings of Frida Kahlo (married to the great muralist Diego Rivera)

Frida (2003) -- two left-wing Mexican artists interact with the Rockefellers

X Tina in Mexico (2002) -- life of photographer Tina Modotti and her contacts with intellectual circles (including Diego Rivera)

Raíces de sangre (Roots of Blood) (1979) -- the fight for unionization of the fabric factories around the US/Mexican border

Cradle will Rock (1999) -- actor Orson Wells has big trouble trying to put on a theatrical production of a musical about a steel strike

Matewan (1987) -- violent confrontations between company thugs and coal miners in 1920's West Virginia, USA; with Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones

X Sacco e Vanzetti (Sacco and Vanzetti) (1971) -- 1920, the unjust trial of two Italian-American anarchists for a crime they did not commit; documentary

Norma Rae (1979) -- true story of a woman textile worker (Sally Field) being radicalized by New York City labor organizer (Ron Leibman)

Harlan County War (2000) -- a Kentucky coal miner's wife spearheads a 1970s union strike to close the mine and force contract negotiations

Sudor Amargo (Bitter Sweat) (Bitter Sweat) (2004) -- mysterious death of a supervisor during the Star Kist Caribbean Plant closure in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Salt of the Earth (1953)-- 1950 zinc mine workers go on strike in Silver City, New Mexico; black listed in Hollywood for making the film were the director, actor Will Geer, producer Paul Jarrico & screenwriter Michael Wilson

Molly McGuires (1970) -- violence used by Irish coal workers to fight the owners

X Strikebound (1983) -- worker struggle in the Gippsland coalfields during 1930’s Australia

X The Organizer (1963) -- labor strike in Italy at turn of the 20th century against a 14-hour work day

The Bad Sleep Well (1963) -- Kurosawa's film about a man seeking revenge against the Japanese company that murdered his father

X F.I.S.T. (1978) -- interesting theory that managers and their hired thugs used so much violence that the American labor movement had to turn to organized crime to survive and thereby was corrupted

X Northern Lights (1978) -- early 20th century popular take-over of government in USA northern plains

On the Waterfront (1954) -- fighting corruption on the docks of New York City

X Työväenlaulaja (1973) -- labor troubles in Finland

X Schwabenkinder (2003) -- a child sent away as a laborer, now an adult, tells his story to his now dying father (currently unavailable)

X La Patagonia rebelde (The Patagonian Rebellion) (1974) -- in Patagonia farm workers try to get better conditions of work

VII.16. RACE TO THE POLES (North and South)

Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (The Flight of the Eagle) (1982) -- Swedish film about S. A. Andrée setting out in hydrogen balloon "The Eagle" to be the first man at the North Pole, 1897

X Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983) -- American Frederick Albert Cook claims to have reached the North Pole April 21, 1908; Am. Robert Peary claims he reached the pole first April 6, 1909

Glory and Honor (1998) -- black man Mathew Henson who accompanied Peary to the North Pole (Peary claimed to have been the first person tot he North Pole, on April 6, 1909)

Scott of the Antarctic (1948) -- Robert F. Scott's trip to be the first man to reach the South Pole (1910-1912)

The Last Place on Earth (1985) -- mini-series about the race to the South Pole between Norwegian Roald Amundsen and British Capt. Robert F. Scott, 1910-1912

Shackleton (2002) -- Shackleton's journey to the South Pole and the crew's harrowing return trip, 1914-1915

VIII. AGE OF IMPERIALISM. Back to Chapter VIII Back to Contents

VIII.1. IMPERIALISM: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR Back to Chapter VIII Back to Contents

Spain: First Spanish Republic (1873-1874):

Spain: House of Borbon (Second Restoration) --1874-1931: Alfonso XII (1874-1885); Alfonso XIII (1886-1931)

José Rizal (1998) -- Filipino hero who is unjustly tried for treason by the colonial government

X Rizal sa Dapitan (1997) -- the Philippine national hero as a messianic figure

X Ang buhay at pag-ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal (The Life and Love of Dr. Jose Rizal) (1956) -- Filipino hero

X El vibora (1972) – Artemio Ricarte, a Filipino patriot, fought against the Spanish and then the Americans; he was later supported by the Japanese

X Los últimos de Filipinas (The Last Ones in the Philippines) (1945) – Spanish-American War; Spanish soldiers are pushed out of the Philippines

X Sisa (2008) -- Narcisa "Sisa" Dalangin is a young Filipina during the Spanish Occupation & is a childhood friend of Jose Rizal

X Citizen Kane (1941) -- William Randolph Hearst & yellow journalism start a war w/ Spain

X The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985) -- Hearst and actress Marion Davies ($39)

X The Cat's Meow (2001) -- movie producer Thomas Ince dies after yachting with William Randolph, Charlie Chaplin & Marion Davies

X The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (1983) -- the bull moose, President Theodore Roosevelt

Rough Riders (1997) -- 1898, with Theodore Roosevelt

Newsies (1992) -- musical about the 1899 newspaper boy strike against Pulitzer and Hearst in NYC

X Mambí (1998) – the Cubans loyal to Spain called the insurgents the Mambies, named after the black Spanish officer, Juan Ethninius Mamby, who was a freedom fighter in the Dominican Republic

The White Legion (1936) -- the medical search for the cure for yellow fever killing so many workers on the Panama Canal

Cavalry Command (1963) -- after the war's end, in 1902 an American cavalry brigade is sent to quell guerilla resistance in the Philippines

X Emilio Aguinaldo (2000) -- had a key role in Philippine independence during the Philippine Rev. against Spain & the Philippine-American War against American occupation

X Hen. Gregorio del Pilar (1949) – Philippine hero of the Philippine-American War (Filipino | Tagalog )

The Real Glory (1939) -- doctor in Philippines after Spanish-American War, in second phase of the Philippine-American War, 1906

X The Wind and the Lion (1975) -- Morocco 1904, Pres. TR & political kidnapping

Lillian Russell (1940) -- singing bombshell sensation wooed by Diamond Jim Brady among others

X The Florodora Girl (1930) -- early 1900 Broadway girls

Flame of the Barbary Coast (1945) -- San Francisco's Barbary Coast and the 1906 Earth Quake

San Francisco (1936) -- love triangle set against the San Francisco earth quake

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) -- beautiful girl Evelyn Nesbit, architect Stanford White, murdering husband Harry Thaw

X Titanic (1997) -- 1912 sinking of the passenger ship Titanic

X S.O.S. Titanic (1979)

X Titanic (1953) -- 1912 sinking

X A Night to Remember (1958) -- 1912, sinking of the Titanic

X Atlantis (1930) -- fictionalized story of Titanic

X Atlantik (1929) -- fictionalized story of Titanic

X The Unsinkable Molly Brown -- 1912, lively survivor of the sinking of the Titanic

Jim Thorpe (1951) -- native American star of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden

X Stars & Stripes Forever (1952) -- march composer and Marine Corp band leader John Philip Sousa

X Hawaiians (1970) -- the U.S. Dole Pineapple Company takes over Hawaii.

Hawaii (1966) -- an extremely anal retentive, moralistic minister makes it hard for everyone: natives, whites and even his own family

X Tandang sora (1947) – a heroine of Philippine history (Filipino/Tagalog)

X Tirad Pass: The Story of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar (1997) -- story of the Filipino Revolution to oust the USA from the Philippines

X Sakay (1993) -- Filipino American War

VIII.2. IMPERIALISM: AFRICA Back to Chapter VIII Back to Contents

Mountains of the Moon (1990) -- expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.

Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)-- 1871; Am. newspaperman finds "lost" humanitarian (discontinued by the manufacturer)

X Al-Mummia (aka The Night of Counting the Years, The Mummy) (1969) – an Upper-Egyptian clan in 1881 has been robbing a cache of mummies near Kurna

Khartoum (1966) -- 1884

Outpost in Morocco (1949) -- French Foreign Legion and colonialism in Morocco

Morocco (1930) -- Foreign Legion film (with Marlene Dietrich)

Beau Geste (1939) -- French Foreign Legion

Legionnaire (1998) -- the Foreign Legion's battles against Spanish Moroccan Berbers

March or Die (1977) -- French Foreign Legion against the Arabs in Morocco

Fort Saganne (1984) -- 1911,the adventures of Charles Saganne in the French Foreign Legion when he is posted to the Sahara in Algeria (& a little of WWI)

Chocolat (1989) -- colonial racism in Cameroon

Camp de Thiaroye (1987) -- in WWII African men fight bravely for France but are screwed by their oppressors once it is time for them to be discharged

Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color) (1976) -- French and German colonialists learn WWI has been on for seven months

Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1975) -- life in a French colony in Africa

Rachida (2002) -- a look at terrorism in the Algerian civil war through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.

X Sarraounia (1986) -- troops from the French Sudan in 1899 go up against the black Sultan Rabah in Cameroon

X Carl Peters (1941) -- colonialism, Tanzania

X Battle of the Three Kings (1953) – 1894, Portuguese conquer Mozambique to counter the Vatuas insurgency

X 'Non', ou A V Glória de Mandar (No, or the Vain Glory of Command) (1990) -- 1963 to 1975, Portugal fights to maintain its colonies (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau) (currently unavailable)

X La batalla de los Tres Reyes (The Battle of the Three Kings) (1990) – (?) aka The Battle of Alcácer Quibir was fought in n. Morocco in 1578 pitting Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi & King Sebastian of Portugal against Moroccan army under the new Sultan of Morocco

South Africa:

X Shaka Zulu (1987) -- 1816-1828, feared leader of the South African Zulus

Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior (2005) -- follow up to Shaka Zulu (1987)

Zulu Dawn (1979) -- prequel to Zulu; massacre of the British

Zulu (1964) -- 1879 defense of the British Army outpost at Rorke's Drift against the Zulus

X Rhodes of Africa (1936) -- British imperialist and developer of South Africa, Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia

X Rhodes (1996) TV -- Cecil Rhodes

X Untamed (1955) -- Boer trek through hostile S. African county

Breaker Morant (1980) -- 1901 in the Transvaal, South Africa; during Boer War

Torn Allegiance (1984) -- in the Boer War, a British Lieutenant is upset that he has to burn out Boer farms and crops

X The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) -- an old soldier relives his life from the 1902 Boer War through World Wars I and II

X Young Winston (1972) -- Churchill that is

Gandhi (1982) -- first part deals with the early Gandhi, before 1915

Gandhi, My Father (2007) – Gandhi and his eldest son's bad relationship ( in South Africa and India)

Kenya:

X The Flame Trees of Thika (1982) -- life in colonial Kenya

X The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) -- two man-eating lions delay the building of the railroad in 1899 Tsavo, Kenya

X Out of Africa (1985) -- Kenya, early 20th century with Danish writer Isak Dinesen

Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) (2001) -- Jewish refugees establish a new life in Kenya during the Hitler reign

Something of Value (1957) -- the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya

Kitchen Toto (1987) -- Mau Mau in Kenya

X Hemingway, the Hunter of Death (2001) -- Hemingway goes on a scientific expedition to Mt. Kenya during Mau-Mau rebellion

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) -- Hemingway's story based on his own life experiences

VIII.3. IMPERIALISM: INDIA Back to Chapter VIII Back to Contents

British Period: 1757-1947

X Clive of India (1935) -- Robert Clive (1725-1774) who secured British rule in India

Jhansi Si Rani (1952) -- in the 1800s, first native revolt against the British in India

Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players) (1977) -- a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Oudh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India

Gunga Din (1939) -- 19th Century Punjab India, Thuggee cult (followers of Kali)

The Deceivers (1988) 1825 India, with Brosnan as British officer infiltrating Thuggee cult

Sunghursh (1968)) -- Indian film accurately depicting the Thuggee cult

Sabaka (1954) --

Kranti (1981) – an Indian family fights to drive the British out of India circa 1825 to 1875 AD

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) -- battles between British and Afghan guerillas

X The Bengal Brigade (1954) -- British work to thwart the Sepoy rebellion in India -- 1857

X Storm over Bengal (1938) -- battles between the British and Indians in Bengal (currently unavailable)

X The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005) -- hero of an uprising against the British, the Sepoy Mutiny c. 1857

X Brigand of Kandahar (1965) -- British army fights off an uprising in the 1850s

North West Frontier (a.k.a., Flame over India) (1959) -- 1905, fighting between Muslims and Hindus & trying to safe an important young Hindu Prince

A Passage to India (1984) - 1920's clash between English racist colonialism and the native Indians

Cotton Mary (1999) -- racism and its effects in post-colonial India

The Jewel in the Crown (1984) -- set against the final years before India gained independence

The Far Pavilions (1984) -- mini-series about forbidden love between a British cavalry officer and an Indian princess

X Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) -- Hindi movie about the effect of British injustices on a small Indian village of peasants

X Immadi Pulakeshi (1967) -- actor Dr. Rajkumar film

The Rains Came (1939) -- British colonial love stories set against floods in Boroda, India, 1938

VIII.4. IMPERIALISM: CHINA & FRENCH INDO-CHINA Back to Chapter VIII Back to Contents

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Musa (The Warrior) (2001) -- 1375, Korean Koryo warriors band together to help save a Princess of the Ming dynasty from the Mongols of the former Yuan Dynasty

Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)

Dream of the Red Chamber (1962) – semi-autobiographical story of Cao family in the 18th c. during the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty (1644-1912) founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro in Manchuria

X Hong lou meng (A Dream of Red Mansions) (1962) -- musical of the fall of the 18th-century clan ($6

X Tai Pan (1986) -- the First Opium War (1839-1842)

X Yapian zhanzheng (The Opium War) (1997) – 1839, British opium merchants to be executed in Guangzhou, China; start of the Opium War

X Lin zexu (The Opium Wars) (1959) – young man wants to end the trade in opium partly because his relatives are addicts

Qing quo ging cheng (The Empress Dowager) (1975) -- Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty who was the de facto ruler of China, 1861-1908

Tau ming chong (The Warlords) (2007) -- Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), a large-scale revolt against the Qing Government by the army and civil administration

X Noroshi wa Shanghai ni agaru (aka Signal Fires of Shanghai) (1944) -- Taiping Rebellion

Jia wu feng yun (Naval Battle of 1894) (1962) -- naval battles of the First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)

55 Days at Peking (1963) -- 1898-1901 Boxer Rebellion in China

X Da taijian Li Lianying (Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch) (1991) -- Li Lianying was a eunuch who held enormous power in the waning days of the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty

Hong he gu (Red River Valley; aka The Tale of the Sacred Mountain) (1999) -- British incursion into Tibet in 1904

X Xiang xiang gong zhu (aka Princess Fragrance) (1987) -- kung-fu movie about an uprising in Qing dynasty China (17/18th Century AD)

Wo zhe yi bei zi (This Life of Mine) (1950) – Beijing policeman and his family experience a very rough 50 years of life in China, 1900-1950

Republic of China (1911-1949)

The Soong Sisters (1997) -- the lives of three sisters who all married among the highest rank of officials in the Republic of China (1911-1949).

X Guo fu Sun Zhong Shan yu kai guo ying xiong (The Story of Dr. Sun Yat-sen) (1986) – Sun Yat-sen

X Ye Ming (Road to Dawn) (2007) -- segment of the life of revolutionary Sun Yat-sen

The Sand Pebbles (1966) -- 1926 China; an American gun boat, Chiang Kai-shek against the warlords and the move toward civil war

X Yego zovut Sukhe-Bator (His Name Is Sukhe-Bator) (1942) – 1919, commander-in-chief of the Mongolian Peoples' Revolutionary Army defeated China's attempt to retake Mongolia

X Shanghai Triad (1995 )-- Chinese singer gets mixed up with gangsters in 1930s Shanghai

X The Lover (1992) -- a relationship between a young French teen-ager and wealthy Chinese heir in French Indochina causes problems

X Indochine (1992) -- political upheaval in French Indochina in the 1930s to the defeat of the French in 1954

VIII.5. IMPERIALISM: JAPAN Back to Chapter VIII Back to Contents

Late Tokugawa Shogunate, 1853-1867:

Bushido Blade (1981) -- a drama set around 1854, US Naval Commodore Matthew Perry opens up Japan to trade with the West

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) – in 1850s US President Pierce sends to Japan the first U.S. Consul-General

Eijanaika (1981) -- rocky road for a love relationship set against carnival atmosphere in 1867 and 1868 for the approach of the Meiji Restoration

The Last Samurai (2003) -- American civil war veteran hired to teach the Emperor's troops how to defeat the last of the samurai, late 19th century

Anatsu (Assassination) (1964) -- Kiyokawa Hachiro & initial phase of Shinsengumi, the Shogun's corp of ex-ronin fighting anarchy in the Imperial capital Kyoto

X Gohatto (Taboo) (1999) -- Shinsengumi men fall in love with a girlishly attractive young man which causes great instability in a local militia

Mibu Gishiden (When the Last Sword is Drawn) (2003) -- a poor samurai joins the Shinsengumi under economic duress in last days of the shogunate

X Hitokiri (Tenchu) (1969) -- one of the famous assassins of the Bakumatsu era

X Okami yo Rakujitsu o Kire (The Last Samurai) (1974) -- the Bakumatsu and the involvement of men on different sides in the fighting

Kedamono no ken (Sword of the Beast) (1965) -- Japanese period film shows how the clan system used and betrayed the samurai

X Tokugawa ichizoku no houkai (1980) -- Matsudaira Katamori (1836-1893), a samurai & the Military Commissioner of Kyoto who fought against the Meiji Government armies

Director Yoji Yamada Trilogy:

The Twilight Samurai (2002) -- lower samurai helped by the merchants, end the Tokugawa government and make way for the Mejii government

Kakushi ken oni no tsume (The Hidden Blade) (2004) -- set in the late Tokugawa era, dealing with the dissatisfied lower samurai who brought an end to the era, a clan makes a samurai kill his friend

Bushi no ichibun (Love and Honor) (2006) -- problems between husband and wife when the samurai poison taster is actually poisoned; about the lower samurai

Korea:

Silla (57 BC – 935 AD) -- Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustained dynasty in Asian history

The Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392)

X Taejo wanggun (Wang-Gun the Great) (1970) -- General Wang-gun overthrows the usurper Ku-jin who slew the last king of the Shilla Dynasty and becomes king, starting the new dynasty

Musa (The Warrior) (2001) -- 1375, Korean Koryo warriors band together to save the Yuan dynasty

Ssang-hwa-jeom (A Frozen Flower) (2008) – hom*osexual relationship between king and his bodyguard Chief is complicated by the necessity to get the Queen pregnant (a task the King gives to the Chief)

Joseon Dynasty (1392 – 1910)

X Taejo Lee Seong-gye (King Taeho) (1965) – a general overthrows the old king and founds the Joseon Dynasty

X Sejong daewang ( Sejong the Great) (1978) -- Sejong the Great (1418-1450) of the Joseon Dynasty faces increasing hostility from Ming China

X Disturbance in Her Barroom -- set in 1724 against back drop of gangster culture of Joseon Dynasty

X Mi-in-do (Portrait of a Beauty) (2008) -- painter Shin Yun-bok (pen name Hyewon), born 1758, known for his realistic depictions of daily life, is thought to be a woman

Chihwaseon (Painted Fire) (2002) -- famed Korean painter paints while Japan and China fight over Korea

Goongnyeo (Shadows in the Palace) (2007) -- fictionalized account of court maids during Joseon era

X Cheon-gun (Heaven's Soldiers) (2005) – South Korean action and humorous film, but with some historical parts (currentlyunavailable)

IX. Pre-World War I Period. Back to Chapter IX Back to Contents

IX.1. ITALY: BEFORE WWI. Back to Chapter IX Back to Contents

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Victor Emmanuel II (1861-1878)

X Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 (aka 1870) (1971) – 1870 Italy

Umberto I (1878–1900)

Leopard (1936) -- Sicily after Italian unification

Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)

1900 (1976) -- the rise of the Black Shirts

Time of Indifference (1964) -- moral & social decay in 1920s Italy

IX.2. USA: BEFORE WWI Back to Chapter IX Back to Contents

Wilson (1944) -- President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

X The Great White Hope (1971) -- black Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion (beats Tommy Burns in 1908)

X The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978) -- story of the Wright Brothers who had the first flight in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Women's Rights and Suffrage:

Iron Jawed Angels (2004) -- Alice Paul and Lucy Burns fight for the right to vote for women

X Sofya Kovalevskaya (1956) – first woman in Russia to become a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the obstacles she had to overcome

X Sofya Kovalevskaya (1985) -- ditto; made for TV

IX.3. MEXICAN REVOLUTION/CIVIL WAR (1910-1917) ( 1,000,000 dead) Back to Chapter IX Back to Contents

Dictator General Porfirio Diaz (1876-1880) and (1884-1911)

Madera (president 1911-1913)

El Cometa (The Comet) (1999) -- a young Mexican girl wants to get the collected money to San Antonio, Texas to support Madero in his fight against dictator General Porfirio Diaz

Cuartelazo (military uprising) (1977) -- General Vitoriano Huerta overthrows Madera in a plot with US ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson; he was president 1913-1914

X Mexico de mis recuerdos (My Memories of Mexico) (1944) -- (no English subtitles) remembrances of Mexico under Diaz

X Mexico de mis recuerdos (My Memories of Mexico) (1963) -- (no English subtitles) remembrances of Mexico under Diaz

X Thunder over Mexico (Que viva México) (1933) -- excesses of the powerful in the days of dictator Porfirio Diaz

Pancho Villa (leader of the northern forces)

Viva Villa! (1934) -- Pancho Villa, head of the army of the North, 1916, Mexico

Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936) -- a group of 6 men from the same village decide to join the Villa forces

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) -- Pancho Villa raises money by agreeing to let the Americans film his battles

X Villa! (1958) dull; Mexican revolutionary

Villa Rides! (1968) -- an American pilot becomes involved with Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution

The Old Gringo (1989) -- about the writer Ambrose Bierce who at 70 was a volunteer with Villa

Pancho Villa (1972) -- non-historical comedy

La soldadera (Soldier's Woman) (1966) -- (no English subtitles) a wife becomes a soldier's woman when her husband is conscripted into the Mexican Revolution

Reds -- journalist John Reed interviewed Villa

X Reed, México insurgente (1973) -- American journalist John Reed and the Mexican Revolution ($1,000 for VHS tape)

Caballo prieto azabache (Midnight Stallion) (1965) -- (no English subtitles) shelters Villa in his early days after he killed a landowner and then Villa repays a debt

X El principio (2007) -- (no English subtitles) an artist joins the forces of Villa

Un Dorado De Pancho Villa (1966) -- (no English subtitles) a Villa supporter finds a rich man, steals his sweetheart and Villa is asked for help

X El tesoro de Pancho Villa (The Treasure of Pancho Villa) (1957) -- Mexican Revolution (currently unavailable)

X Flor Silvestre (Wild Flower) (1943) -- set against the Mexican Revolution, class differences between a rich man and poor woman leads to family divisions

Los de abajo (1940) -- farm worker joins Pancho Villa General; fights in takeover of Zacatecas; promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel

X Los de abajo (1978) --

La muerte de Pancho Villa (The Death of Pancho Villa) (1974) -- (no English subtitles) the murder of Pancho Villa, 1923

X Under Strange Flags (1937) -- Pancho Villa prevents some Americans from getting their mined-in-Mexico silver

They Came to Cordura (1959) -- story of courage or the lack of it set during raiding activities of Pancho Villa along the Mexico/USA border

Zapata (leader of the southern forces)

Viva Zapata (1952) -- Marlon Brando 1916, Mexico

X Emiliano Zapata (Zapata) (1970) -- played by Antonio Aquilar

Zapata: Amor en Rebeldia (2004) -- Zapata in a three-way relationship

X Zapata: El sueño de un héroe (2004) -- Emiliano Zapata, leader of the southern forces fighting the Mexican Revolution

El Compadre Mendoza (1934) -- a wealthy land owner survives the revolution by playing friends to both governmental and Zapata forces

Lucio Vasquez (1968) -- (no English subtitles) a close comrade to Zapata wants revenge for the killings of Zapata and his father

La casta divina (1977) -- the Yucatan aristocracy on the eve of the Mexican Revolution

X Trini (1976) -- East German movie involving the Mexican Revolution

Other:

Cannon for Cordoba (1970) -- soldiers against Mexican bandits on the Texas border ca. 1912

X La Sombra del caudillo (1960) -- corrupt politics in post-revolutionary Mexico

X Peregrina (El asesinato de Carrillo Puerto Mexico - (subtitle)) (1974) -- (no English subtitles) love affair between journalist Alma Reed and Governor of Yucatan, Felipe Carillo Puerto during time of Obregon (pres 1920-1924)

X La Guerra Santa (1979) -- (no English subtitles) a poor pottery maker is coerced into fighting with the Christian army in the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929)

X De todos modos Juan te llamas (The General's Daughter) (1975) -- (no subtitles) centers on the Cristero movement, an uprising of Catholic fundamentalists

IX.4. GERMANY & AUSTRIA: BEFORE WWI Back to Chapter IX Back to Contents

Fall of Eagles (1974) (TV miniseries) -- part of it deals with Bismarck and the unification of Germany and the fall of the Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary

X Bismarck (1940) -- about Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) (done by the Third Reich)

X Bismarck (1990) -- West German TV mini-series

X Die Entlassung (The Dismissal) (1942) – about Bismarck (sequel by the Third Reich)

X 80 huszár (80 Hussars) (1978) – Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849

A Hídember (The Bridgeman) (2002) -- story of Istvan Szechenyi, the nineteenth-century Hungarian revolutionary

X Szabadságharc Szebenben (2007) – 1860s Hungary

X A komáromi fiú (1987) – 19th century Hungry

Sissi (1955) -- first of a trilogy about the Austrian princess Elizabeth (a.k.a., Sissi) who married Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria

Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (Sissi: The Young Empress) (1956) -- second of a trilogy about Austrian Empress Elizabeth (a.k.a., Sissi)

Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress) (1957) -- third of a trilogy about the Empress Elizabeth

X Elisabeth Kaiserin von Österreich (1972) -- Elizabeth married Emperor of Franz Joseph of Austria in 1854

X Friedrich III. '...gestorben als Kaiser' (1970) – German emperor in the Year of the Three Emperors, 1888

X Mayerling (1936) -- 1889, Austrian, Crown Prince Rudolph, son of Emperor Franz Joseph

Mayerling (1969) -- wants to marry Mary Vetsera even though is already married

Kronprinz Rudolf (The Crown Prince) (2006)-- the woman Crown Prince Rudolph really wants to marry is not suitable according to his father and mother

X Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (Mayerling) (1956) -- German movie about Crown Prince Rudolph

X Der Engel mit der Posaune (The Angel with the Trumpet) (1948) – Austrian history from the late 19th century to post-World War II as seen in the fortunes of Vienna piano-makers

X Chopin: Desire for Love (2000) -- ditto above

X Lisztomania (2000) -- Hungarian composer Franz Liszt

X Szerelmi álmok - Liszt (The Loves of Liszt) (1970) – Liszt in Russia

Lola Montes (1955) -- love affairs with Liszt and King Ludwig I of Bavaria

X Song without End (1960) – Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt is involved in a romantic scandal with a married Russian princess

Wagner (1982) -- Hitler's favorite composer

Ludwig (1972) --Ludwig II, Mad King of Bavaria, friend of Wagner & cousin of Sissi

X Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (Mad Emperor: Ludwig II) (1955) – Ludwig II (reign 1864-1886)

X Rosa Luxemburg (1986) -- labor agitator in Germany

X Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? (Wither Germany?) (1932) -- left-wing politics in Weimar Germany (written by Bertolt Brecht); banned by the Nazis -- (currently unavailable)

Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer (The Farewell) (2002) – Bertolt Brecht's last summer and the women in his life with the Stasi watching it all

Other:

X Mis Ston (Miss Stone) (1958) -- elderly American woman travels in Macedonia when held by the Ottoman Empire, which will soon disappear

X. WORLD WAR I & AFTERMATH. Back to Chapter X Back to Contents

National Leaders: Germany (Wilhelm II, 1888-1918); France (Pres. Raymond Poincaré, 1913-1920); Britain (George V, 1893-1936); Russia (Nicholas II, 1894-1917); United States (Pres. Woodrow Wilson)

X.1. World War I. Back to Chapter X Back to Contents

Fall of Eagles (1974) (TV miniseries) -- fall of Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov dynasties in WWI

X De Mayerling a Sarajevo (From Mayerling to Sarajevo) (1940) -- lead-up to the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand and his wife

Sarajevski atentat (The Day that Shook the World) (1975) -- events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand

X Sarajevski atentat (1972) -- events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand

X Sarajevski atentat (1968) -- events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand

X Gavre Princip - Himmel unter Steinen (Death of a Schoolboy) (1990) –assassin of Archduke Ferdinand

X Weltuntergang (1984) – a local doctor is put in charge of the investigation into the assassinated of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by Gabriel Princip

Austeria (The Inn) (1983) -- a Polish inn at the border with Russia at the start of WWI

Colonel Redl (1985) -- Austrian-Hungarian Empire

And the Ship Sails On (1983) -- Serbian war refugees

The African Queen (1951) -- the classic with Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) -- horrifying effect of trench warfare and its impact on a small cohort of young German soldiers

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) -- ditto

Time Regained (1999) -- life of French writer and critic Marcel Proust, most famous for his In Search of Lost Time begun in 1909

Harem Suare (Last Harem) (1998) -- effects of the decline of the Ottoman Empire on the harem

Gallipoli and Turkey

Gallipoli (1981) -- British, New Zealander and Australian troops against Turkey (Ottoman Empire), 1915

X Chunuk Bair (1997) -- a New Zealand film about the Wellington Regiment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli (currently unavailable)

1915 (1982) -- two Australian country boys vie for the same girl, but their world changes when they land in Gallipoli

X The Battle of Gallipoli (Tell England) (1931) -- Battle of Gallipoli 1915

ANZACs: the War Down Under (1985) -- Australian-New Zealand Army Corps head for disaster in Gallipoli and then on to France and the battles of Ypres and Amiens, among others

X The Battle of Broken Hill (1981) -- prelude to Gallipoli; a mass killing near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia on January 1, 1915 carried out by Muslims to support the Ottoman Empire

Son Osmanli Yandim Ali (The Last Ottoman: Yandim Ali) (2007) -- veteran wants to meet Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who wants to start a resistance against the occupiers

X Cumhuriyet (The Republic) (1998) – foundation of Turkish Republic between the years of early 1920's to 1933 -- ($42)

X 1922 (1978) -- Asia Minor Disaster and Asia Minor Greeks, arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims

X Abdul the Damned (1935) -- in Turkey, 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid resists the Young Turk party

1916 onwards

Passchendaele (2008) -- Battle of Passchendaele (June-November 1917) in which 10th Battalion of 1st Canadian Division set record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle

All the King's Men (1999) -- a military company from the estate of the mother of King George V just seems to disappear

X Magyar rapszódia (Hungarian Rhapsody) (1979) – an examination of pre-revolutionary (pre-communist) Hungary around the time of World War I through the eyes of an aristocratic Captain that bonds with the peasants

Ararat (2002) -- Turkish atrocities committed against Armenians

X Sayat Nova (Color of Pomegranates) (1991) – life of Armenian poet Aruthin Sayadin (a.k.a. Sayat-Nova) (1712-1795)

X Huso astgh (Star of Hope) (1978) -- David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet lead the Armenian liberation movement , XVIII century

Behind the Lines (a.k.a., Regeneration) (1998) -- Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important WW1 poets

Lighthorsem*n (1987) -- charge on Beersheba, events after Gallipoli for the Australian troops

Forty Thousand Horsem*n (1941) -- Australian cavalry at the Battle of Beersheba

Britannic (2000) -- sinking of the sister ship of the Titanic, November 1916

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -- Arab revolt against Turkey (Ottoman Empire) 1916

Paths of Glory (1957) -- French generals hide their own incompetence by declaring their own soldiers cowards, 1916

The Trench (1999) -- 1st of July 1916, "The day British idealism died "

Mata Hari (1932) -- Greta Garbo as the spy Mata Hari executed in 1917

X Mata Hari (1972) -- the spy Mata Hari

X Mata Hari, agent H21 (1964) -- with Jeane Moreau (currently unavailable)

Untel père et fils (Heart of a Nation) (1943) -- the Froment family of Montmartre, France from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 to Nazi occupation in World War II

Capitaine Conan (Captain Conan) (1996) -- during the last days of the WWI, French Capitaine Conan is an excellent warrior, but finds he is unsuited for peacetime duty in Bucharest

X Legends of the Fall (1994) -- very good WWI trench combat scenes

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (2004) -- a French woman has to become a detective in her search for her fiancé who is missing in action, not dead

My Boy Jack (2007) -- Author Rudyard Kipling pushes to get his son into the army; son is reported missing, probably wounded; Mrs. Kipling moves heaven and earth to learn the truth about what happened

Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) (2006) -- soldiers on both sides call a Christmas truce and are punished for it

X Moonzund (1987) – Russian film of Battle of Moon Sound in autumn 1917 between Russia and Germany

X Baruto no Gakuen (The Ode to Joy) (2006) – a Japanese film of the Japanese Bando Prisoner of War camp in World War I depicting friendship of German/Austrian-Hungarian POWs with the camp director

X Padurea spânzuratilor (Forest of the Hanged) (1964) -- Romanian in service of Austro-Hungarian military refuses to fight the Romanians

X Vsadniki (aka Guerilla Brigade; Riders) (1939) -- Ukrainian resistance against Germans in 1918

USA Finally Gets into the War

X The Man I Killed (1932) --

A Farewell to Arms (1932) -- with Helen Hayes & Gary Cooper

X A Farewell to Arms (1957) -- with Jennifer Jones & Rock Hudson

X Force of Arms (A Girl for Joe) (1951) -- updating of "A Farewell to Arms" (with William Holden)

In Love and War (1996) -- true story behind "A Farewell to Arms" with Sandra Bullock and Chris O'Donnell

X Sergeant York (1941) -- American World War I hero, 1918

X The Man I Killed (1932) --

A Farewell to Arms (1932) -- with Helen Hayes & Gary Cooper

X A Farewell to Arms (1957) -- with Jennifer Jones & Rock Hudson

X Force of Arms (A Girl for Joe) (1951) -- updating of "A Farewell to Arms" (with William Holden)

X Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) -- 1906-1917, American patriotic popular music composer George M. Cohan

The Fighting 69th (1940) -- Irish-American unit sent to fight in WWI

Company K (2004) -- man struggles with writing a history of his US Marine Corps company in WWI

X The Yanks are Coming (1974) -- college buddies in France

The Lost Battalion (2001) -- Americans caught behind enemy lines, Argonne Forest, 1918 (October)

Canada:

X Sam Hughes's War (1984) -- Canada in World War I

X Two Solitudes (1978) -- 1917 Conscription Crisis in Canada

The Air War:

The Blue Max (1966) -- the air war

Der Rote Baron (The Red Baron) (2008) -- Baron Manfred von Richtofen with 80 kills

Von Richthofen & Brown (a.k.a. The Red Baron) (1971) -- Baron Manfred von Richtofen, the German air ace during the World War I

X Captain Eddie (1945) -- Captain Eddie Rickenbacker becomes an American flying ace with 26 kills

Flyboys (2006) -- US pilots in France's legendary Lafayette Escadrille

Crimson Romance (1934) -- fly the World War I sky with the Luftwaffe

Dawn Patrol (1938) -- Errol Flynn; air war

X Eagle & Hawk (1933) -- air war

X Lafayette Escadrille (With You in My Arms; Hell Bent for Glory) (1958) -- a young American joins the French Air Force early in the war ($29)

Aces High (1976) -- RAF squadron and its high turn-over