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The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based more or less accurately upon historical events and famous persons. See also period piece.

The following are examples of well-known historical dramas, and their subject matter.

• Alexander Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky)
• All the President's Men (the Watergate scandal)
• Anne of the Thousand Days (Anne Boleyn)
• The Battle of Algiers (the Algerian War of Independence)
• The Battleship Potemkin (the Battleship Potemkin uprising)
• Beau Brummell (Beau Brummell)
• Braveheart (William Wallace)
• Breaker Morant (Harry "Breaker" Morant)
• A Bridge Too Far (Operation Market Garden)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (the Charge of the Light Brigade)
• Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell)
• Elizabeth (Elizabeth I of England)
• Downfall (the defeat of Adolf Hitler)
• Fire Over England (the Spanish Armada)
• Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)
• Gladiator (the reign of Commodus)
• Glory (the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry)
• Gone with the Wind (the American Civil War)
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (Edward R. Murrow)
• Henry V (Henry V of England)
• Henry VIII and his Six Wives (Henry VIII of England)
• Hotel Rwanda (the Rwandan Genocide)
• Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (the Nuremberg Trials)
• Kagemusha (the Battle of Nagashino)
• The Killing Fields (the Khmer Rouge)
• Lady Caroline Lamb (Lady Caroline Lamb)
• Lady Jane (Lady Jane Grey)
• The Lion in Winter (Henry II of England)
• The Longest Day (D-Day)
• The Madness of King George (George III of the United Kingdom)
• A Man for All Seasons (Thomas More)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary I of Scotland)
• Michael Collins (Michael Collins)
• Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria and John Brown)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (the mutiny on the Bounty)
• A Night to Remember (the Titanic disaster)
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (Henry VIII of England)
• Queen Christina (Christina of Sweden)
• Richard III (two versions) (Richard III of England)
• The Right Stuff (the Project Mercury)
• Roots (the slave trade)
• Saving Private Ryan (D-Day and its aftermath)
• The Scarlet Empress (Catherine II of Russia)
• Schindler's List (Oskar Schindler)
• Sink the Bismarck! (the German battleship Bismarck)
• Spartacus (Spartacus)
• Titanic (the Titanic disaster)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (the attack on Pearl Harbor)
• Waterloo (the Battle of Waterloo)
• Young Bess (Elizabeth I of England)
• Young Winston (Winston Churchill)
• Z (the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis)

[edit] External links

• History on Film - A historian looks at how Hollywood has presented historical events in the movies.da:Historiske film

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