Good Historical Films

[Speaker to Animals]

Apocolypto grows on you

[C-Mag]

Apocolypto grows on you

It does.

[heydaralon]

Apocolypto grows on you

It does.

I love Apocolypto. Better than Braveheart! Heartbreak Ridge was kind of a let down. Gibson needs to up his game a bit imo.

[Speaker to Animals]

Serious contribution: Stalag 17

[heydaralon]

Oh shit I forgot to add The Killing Fields to my list. Its an 80's film that covers Khmer Rouge and the journalist who ended up in the Bernie Bro Concentration Camp in Cambodia. Really excellent film!

[brewster]

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Possibly the most accurate age of sail film ever made. No fucking exploding cannon balls or cannon bores you can fit a man in like the idiotic Pirates movies. The 2 stars are miscast IMO, but you can't have everything. The ca 2000 TV films of Horatio Hornblower starring Ioan Gruffudd are pretty good too, and lets not forget the whole series of TV movies starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe.

Did Gallipoli and Breaker Morant get mentioned? The former is by the same director as M & C, Peter Weir.

[Speaker to Animals]

Master and Commander is really good.

[C-Mag]

Serious contribution: Stalag 17

That's one of my Top 5 Best Films of all time.

[heydaralon]

Billy Wilder made a lot of great films. Sunset Blvd and the Apartment also come to mind

[brewster]

Master and Commander is really good.

Have you read the books? They're almost a genre unto themselves.