The ten best historical films
Balancing factual precision and authentic entertainment, historical films often bring out the best of filmmakers around the world, pushed to their limits to create great cinema while doing justice to the real stories and the people who make up their subject matter. Here are ten of the best historical films of all time. Lawrence of […]
The best historical films that are also (for the most part) accurate
84C MoPic (1989) Mel Gibson did a pretty good job of making a Vietnam War movie with We were soldiers (2002), but you can’t beat Patrick Sheane Duncan’s first indie footage, 84C MoPic. Shot on a low budget in California, the POV film follows a reconnaissance mission in enemy territory, and it’s the only film […]
why a good story is more important than the facts
Ridley Scott’s 2005 epic film Kingdom of Heaven about the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 has been widely criticized by historians for its lack of precision. Even when the film was still in production, Cambridge historian Jonathan Riley-Smith called it “nonsense” and “Osama bin Laden’s version of the story,” while Michael Haag wrote […]