Epic Historical & Period Adventures

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Sweeping stories from the great eras of war, royalty, exploration and honour, on the grandest scale.

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Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

1962 · 3h 47m · Movie

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

PG
8.6
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Braveheart

Braveheart

1995 · 2h 58m · Movie

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

R
8.1
3
Gladiator

Gladiator

2000 · 2h 35m · Movie

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

R
8.4
4
The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1992 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three Mohican trappers agree to protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.

R
7.5
5
Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

2005 · 2h 24m · Movie

Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.

R
7.3
6
The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

2003 · 2h 34m · Movie

In 19th century Japan, Nathan Algren, a US army captain, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Captain Algren finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.

R
7.7
7
Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

1990 · 3h 1m · Movie

A lieutenant assigned to a remote Civil War outpost starts questioning his purpose after making contact with a neighboring Sioux settlement.

PG-13
7.9
8
Apocalypto

Apocalypto

2006 · 2h 19m · Movie

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.

R
7.8
9
1917

1917

2019 · 1h 59m · Movie

April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

R
8.2
10
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

2017 · 1h 46m · Movie

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

PG-13
7.7
11
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

2003 · 2h 18m · Movie

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.

PG-13
7.7
12
The Revenant

The Revenant

2015 · 2h 36m · Movie

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

R
7.9
13
Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall

1994 · 2h 13m · Movie

In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.

R
7.4
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Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

1959 · 3h 32m · Movie

A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

G
8.1
15
Spartacus

Spartacus

1960 · 3h 17m · Movie

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.

PG-13
7.9
16
The Mission

The Mission

1986 · 2h 5m · Movie

Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

PG
7.4
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Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

1975 · 3h 5m · Movie

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

PG
8.6
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Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

1954 · 3h 27m · Movie

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

Not Rated
8.9
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Ran

Ran

1985 · 2h 40m · Movie

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

R
8.7
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Hero

Hero

2002 · 1h 34m · Movie

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.

PG-13
7.9
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000 · 2h 0m · Movie

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

PG-13
8.0
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The New World

The New World

2005 · 2h 15m · Movie

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

PG-13
7.1
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The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

1986 · 2h 10m · Movie

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

R
7.6
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The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor

1987 · 2h 43m · Movie

Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.

PG-13
7.7
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Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965 · 3h 17m · Movie

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Approved
7.9
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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957 · 2h 41m · Movie

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

PG
8.3
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Zulu

Zulu

1964 · 2h 18m · Movie

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.

Approved
7.7
28
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

1995 · 2h 19m · Movie

In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite.

R
6.9
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The Northman

The Northman

2022 · 2h 17m · Movie

A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder.

R
7.5
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Napoleon

Napoleon

2023 · 2h 38m · Movie

An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

R
5.9
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The Duellists

The Duellists

1977 · 1h 40m · Movie

France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with the hot-headed and irrational, Lieutenant Feraud; their disagreement ultimately resulting in scores of duels spanning seve...

PG
7.6
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Excalibur

Excalibur

1981 · 2h 20m · Movie

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.

PG
7.5
33
Troy

Troy

2004 · 2h 43m · Movie

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces.

R
7.1
34
300

300

2007 · 1h 57m · Movie

In the ancient battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fight against Xerxes and his massive Persian army.

R
7.3
35
Outlaw King

Outlaw King

2018 · 2h 1m · Movie

A true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.

R
6.8
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The King

The King

2019 · 2h 20m · Movie

Young Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.

R
7.1