Your top 10 historical films?

Not necessarily a true story but films set at least 20 years or so before they were made and don't contain any supernatural / sci-fi elements.

A lot to remember but for me it's something like...

1. Django Unchained
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows (2011)
4. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
5. Gladiator
6. Apocalypto
7. The Godfather
8. Wu Xia (Dragon)
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Ip Man

Honourable mentions: Braveheart, Ip Man 2, Black Death, the Sergio Leone films.

Top 10 sci-fi

Top 10 fantasy

Top 10 horror

Top 10 dystopian

Top 10 revenge

Top 10 comedy

Top 10 crime

Top 10 animated

Top 10 mystery

Top 10 CBM

Top 10 martial arts

• Django Unchained
• Hateful Eight
• Ip Man Films
• Fury
• Both Sherlock Holmes films
• Inglorious Basterds

All that come to mind at the moment not in any order

1. Unforgiven (1992)
2. The Searchers (1956)
3. Red River (1948)
4. Rashomon (1950)
5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
6. Seven Samurai (1954)
7. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
8. Amadeus (1984)
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
10. For a Few Dollars More (1965)

@discipulus: Very nice. Unforgiven and a Few Dollars more are the only ones I've seen of these, I've been told to watch Seven Samurai many times though.

@general_disarray: Thanks! Films 4, 6 and 7 on my list are all directed by the same man (Akira Kurosawa), and so if you ever get around to watching Seven Samurai and like it, I highly recommend Rashomon and The Hidden Fortress. The latter film actually served as something of a template for Star Wars!

• Free State of Jones
• Lawrence Of Arabia
• Gandhi
• Kingdom of Heaven (directors cut)
• Black Hawk Down
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Das Boot
• All Quiet on the Western Front (70s version)
• The Godfather
• The Godfather II

In no order

@discipulus: I like your list!

There's so many to choose from, here's a few in no particular order that spring to mind:

• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Once Upon A Time In The West
• Schindler's List
• Gandhi
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Saving Private Ryan
• Seven Samurai
• Ran
• The Shawshank Redemption

Etc

Good to see this film getting love, it's often overlooked but I think it definitely deserved to beat E.T for Best Picture.

@bullpr: Thanks!

@thorthunder98: we have similar taste, although i'm on the fence about Fury

@general_disarray: Yea I really enjoyed it thought they all gave great performances and I love all the actors from the tank crew

Also I'd add Shutter Island too because I think that qualifies if I'm correct about when it was set

Kingdom of Heaven

Saving Private Ryan

Ganhdi

Schindler List

Gangs of New York

Braveheart

Full Metal Jacket

Gladiator

The Great Escape

Zero Dark Thirty

.…would be my 10, in no order

Dances With Wolves

Patton

Saving Private Ryan

Braveheart

The Crucible

The Last Samurai

The Lost Battalion

Tora Tora Tora

Schindler's List

Citizen X

I wanted to try and avoid loading this list up with war films, because I am hoping there might be a separate thread for that soon. Even so, a few films which take place during wars still made the cut. For these movies, the war is the setting, it is not the focus. So here they are in no particular order:

• The Last Emperor (1987)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Hugo (2011)
• Yojimbo (1961)
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• A Knights Tale (2001)
• The Seven Samurai (1954)
• War of the Arrows (2011)

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I've seen very few "historical" films that are all that accurate, but I like these anyway even with their glaring inaccuracies...some are better than others though.

1. The Alamo (the new one)
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Enemy At The Gates
4. The Patriot
5. Henry V (Kenneth Brannaugh version)
6. Platoon
7. Braveheart
8. Glory
9. Patton
10. The Last Emporer

@general_disarray: Again in no order:

• 12 Years a Slave
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Barry Lyndon
• The King's Speach
• Casablanca
• The Dictator
• Mulan
• Imitation Game
• Gorillas in the Mist
• Sweeny todd
• The Schindler's List
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Gandhi
• Amadeus
• Gangs of New York
• Doctor Zhivago
• Dances with Wolves
• The Pianist
• Cold Mountain
• Munich
• Hotel Rwanda
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Ben Hur
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• The Name of the Rose
• A Dangerous Method