Best "historical" film - nominations

[chickenfeet]

In support of the discussion on what makes a good "historical" film, I thought it might be fun to have a poll because everybody loves polls. So, I am inviting nominations for the film which you think best combines succeeding as a movie with historical fidelity.

I'm going to start the list with :

The Duellists
The Name of the Rose
Master and Commander
A Bridge Too Far

[Poll #1001261]
Multiple nominations permitted.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

There ain't enough space in the form!!! I have plenty more nominations!

- La Bataille d'Alger
- Die Marquise von O.
- The Last Emperor
- Gladiator (oh, heck, it was fun)
- The Lion in Winter
- A Man For All Seasons (the Paul Scofield one!)
- Andrei Rublev
- Barry Lyndon
- Amadeus
- The Madness of King George III
- Lola Montès
- The Exile
- La Vie et Rien d'Autre
- Que la Fête Commence
- Le Juge et l'Assassin
- La Prise du Pouvoir par Louis XIV
- Ran
- Kagemusha
- Mephisto
- Colonel Redl
- Napoléon (by Abel Gance, natch)
- Ludwig
- Senso
- 1900
- Allonsanfan
- Coup de Torchon
- Out of Africa
- Gandhi
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Il Gattopardo
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die
- Stavisky
- The Assassination of Trotsky
- The Go-Between
- Death in Venice
- Cabaret
- Il Conformista
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Cristo non si è fermato a Eboli
- Pascali's Island
- El Sur
- Schindler's List
- Roma, città aperta
- Conspiracy
- Lacombe Lucien
- Die Ehe der Maria Braun
- Le Crabe-Tambour
- The Year of Living Dangerously
- The Mission

... and I must be forgetting LOTS...

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

I loathed Master and Commander for deveral reasons. They cast an [expletive deleted] Hobbit as Barret Bonden, prizefighting champion of the Meditteranean fleet. It was a Frankensteinian hodgepodge of good scenes from a nineteen-book series. They gutted one of the two main characters, turning him into a comic sidekick; in comparison, Gimli's treatment in the LotR flicks was gentle.

Grrrr....

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

I am coming up blank!

I should learn to read your posts twice before replying!

[parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com]

Sorry, if I had read properly, I would have added to the list, not re-confirmed one of your choices...heh blame 9AM and no coffee yet!

I would nominate :
Gallipoli
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia (HA! Just kidding...)

The movie I most *wish* was historically accurate:
Braveheart

....but then, while Father was English, Mother was Scottish, so I should be forgiven that transgression....

...and I loved The Name of the Rose too, by the way.