Movies In History: The List

We introduced this topic on our main page some time ago, and will continue to run the movie reviews that we do there, not here.  This thread only lists them for the easy use of those who may want to browse them without hitting the category Movies In History that appears below those films, although that's an easy way to do it as well.

When we introduced this topic on the main page, we ran this item which we repeat here:

Movies getting it right in time and place

Movies, for good or ill, shape our view of the past, so I thought it might be interesting to note those that seem to get a certain topic or era just right.  That is, in the historical and cultural context.

That's probably something that's not accomplished as much as it's accomplished.  Films frankly tend to reflect the era that they're made in more than any other era, so "modern" views and even styles of dress and behavior are projected back as having existed on earlier ones.  That is probably generally the rule, and up until recently, at least for the most part, movies made very little effort to actually get detailed material and cultural items correct.  Generations, for example, of Western movie goers watched movies that almost universally failed in terms of correctness to material and cultural details, with rare exception.
Anyhow, given that, it might be interesting to note films here that get it right.  They're not all great films, I'd note, but rather films whose portrayals of an era are well done.
Our logic in this series of films listed here remains the same. The reviews, however, have gotten somewhat longer and more detailed over time.  Originally some of the movies were all on a single threat, when we used to update some individual threads more often, but they were later separated and made individual, on August 2, 2014.  We hope you enjoy perusing our historically focused reviews.
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All the Pretty Horses.

 The Americans

American Graffiti
American Sniper.

Anatomy of a Murder 

 Animal House

Apocalypse Now

 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Babylon Berlin 

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 Band of Brothers.  

Barry Lyndon

Battleground.

Bat 21

The Best Years of Our Lives. 

















Peaky Blinders






The Wonder Years
1898:  Our Last Men In the Philippines

 1917

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Last updated:  August 21, 2023

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