Movie History of Britain continued

[dreamshark]

minnehaha gave me this great link which kind of makes my little project look like a moot point : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_drama_films



Aieee. Since they have already collected every possible contribution to this list, the project turns to weeding them out. Anybody see anything on this list that they would enthusiastically recommend?

In my original list I didn't include Anne of 1000 Days, the Other Bolyen Girl , Man For All Seasons or the zillions of other 16th Century offerings because I'd already pretty much covered that century with The Tudors and Elizabeth R. I'm still looking for more coverage of the 14th, 15th and 18th Centuries. And early 19th, I guess. Whatever was going on between George III and Victoria.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Well, Robin and Marion, but I'm a Richard Lester fan (not to mention Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn). I haven't seen El Cid but it's supposed to be all Charlton Heston crunchy.

I would repeat the recommendation for Great because it's, well, great. And historically accurate, though Queen Victoria didn't actually sing to Elvis.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

What on earth is Great?

I saw Robin and Marian when it came out and didn't like it as well as I expected to. Can't quite remember why, however.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Look at my original reply for link. It won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short in the 70s, and well chosen. (Most Oscars are meaningless or worse, but the Foreign Film and Animated Short awards are usually worthy.)

If you've never heard of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, you should. And Great is a great intro.

Robin and Marian isn't as good as other Lester films, notably The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, but the latter are set in France and outside the purview of this thread.