No one could calculate the number of historical movies that get everything wrong: it’s all of them. To take one at random, John O’Farrell, in his 2007 book An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, ...

When Hollywood runs out of ideas, they can always mine history for a compelling narrative. Some of the best movies in cinematic history — Titanic, Schindler’s List, 80 for Brady — were based on ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook History lovers, take heart: over the next year and change, there are a slew of historical movies ...

International Women's Day, in one form or another, has existed since around 1909—placing the holiday's inception roughly in line with the early days of film. It seems fitting, then, to take a look at ...

Few films have received as much incoherently contradictory reception as Ken Hughes’ Cromwell. The British historical drama made its silver-screen debut in July 1970. It was promptly criticized by ...

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history over the years. Often it's a re-imagining of major events like wars, but ...