Historical Epics

[Sharpieman]

I just got home from watching Troy, which was OK. As with many historical epics it was very inaccurate, but what am I supposed to expect? It got me to thinking and actually wondering what are some great historical/psuedo historical epics out there? So which movies are your favorite historical epics?

Mine:
Not a movie, but a mini-series, Band of Brothers. My favorite of all-time much better than any WWII movie I have ever seen. It showed the heroics of those who served.

Gettysburg: Saw this back in 1996 or 1994 I think, still one of my favorite movies.

Others that I really liked: Patton, Braveheart, Apocalypse Now.

One that I would really, really love to see. An Historical Epic/Biography on William the Conqueror of Normandy. He did what neither Napoleon nor Hitler could do; successfully invade and conqueror England.

[Dutch]

Now all you have to do is read the book, Band of Brothers. Powerful. You can follow that up with Pegasus Bridge which is less-refined, but still fantastic book that deals with the British at the northern most point of the Normandy foothold.

Then.....if you can muster the time, read D-Day and Citizen Soldier, both by Ambrose, and you will get the stories from Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers from the beginning of America's entry into WW2 ETO through to the end of the war. Amazing ammount of information from the soldiers who fought the war.

(Saving Private Ryan was part Hollywood, part Stephen Ambrose). The entire first scene was a potpourri of events that were pulled straight from Ambrose's book 'D-Day'.)

[mordhiem]

Das Boot is an absolute classic.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

I would like to see an epic movie on The fight in Belleau Woods during the last days of WW I and a movie on The Forgotten Heroes of Bataan would be a nice.

[Draft Dodger]

Das Boot is an absolute classic.

I agree.
Coincidentally, tomorrow...

Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Das Boot (The Original Uncut Version) for 1st June 2004 with a retail price of $39.95. Director Wolfgang Peterson's Das Boot was originally created as six 50-minute episodes for German TV and can now be seen as was originally intended in its complete 293-minute version (4 hours 53 minutes) for the first time on this two-disc set that offers collectible packaging and the following features...


Anamorphic Widescreen
German and English DD5.1 Surround
Original Extended Version is almost 5 hours long!
Includes a making-of featurette and the Director's Cut!
Includes restored original stereo audio and newly created 5.1 audio from the original stereo

[clintl]

I liked Gandhi a lot when I saw it, but that was many, many years ago.

[Fritz]

for Epics, I suggest Lawrence of Arabia.

With Troy, what was it inaccurate to?

[Dutch]

My wife was just telling me a couple of days ago that we should watch Ghandi sometime. I think we will have to check it out.

Das Boot was a great movie. The one thing I really didn't like about that and "Stalnigrad" was their insistance to use English dub overs that made some of the Germans sound to light and feathery (if you catch my meaning). Anyway, besides that, they were top notch in every other aspect.

[Draft Dodger]

Das Boot was a great movie. The one thing I really didn't like about that and "Stalnigrad" was their insistance to use English dub overs that made some of the Germans sound to light and feathery (if you catch my meaning). Anyway, besides that, they were top notch in every other aspect.

I can't watch it dubbed. Subtitles only (although I think in the case of Das Boot, the Captain did his own English dub). We tried to watch Crouching Tiger with English dubs, and it was like watching a really bad Bruce Lee movie; we just couldn't watch without laughing.

[Dutch]

I can't watch it dubbed. Subtitles only (although I think in the case of Das Boot, the Captain did his own English dub). We tried to watch Crouching Tiger with English dubs, and it was like watching a really bad Bruce Lee movie; we just couldn't watch without laughing.

I did watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with subtitles....maybe when we get the DVD, I will go "native" and watch with subtitles there too. :)

[sabotai]

I watch a lot of anime but I can not watch it on TV because of the dubs (I watch the DVDs with subtitles). I hate watching dubbed movies and TV shows. It just ends up looking stupid.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Das Boot was a great movie. The one thing I really didn't like about that and "Stalnigrad" was their insistance to use English dub overs that made some of the Germans sound to light and feathery (if you catch my meaning). Anyway, besides that, they were top notch in every other aspect.

Hmmm... I have seen Das Boot a few times. Every time I saw it in the theater, or on VHS/DVD there were subtitles. No dubbing. Never seen the dubbed version. The subtitled version exists.