Best history films · 1001 canon

Made of facts, shaped like fiction

The historical films in the canon range from Lawrence of Arabia's sweep to Schindler's List's unblinking specificity. Their job is to make the past feel inhabited rather than recited.

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Made of facts, shaped like fiction

Oppenheimer

The Color Purple

Raging Bull

The Elephant Man

Mirror

The Color of Pomegranates

Andrei Rublev

Judgment at Nuremberg

Throne of Blood

The Ten Commandments

Pather Panchali

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Day of Wrath

Young Mr. Lincoln

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Cabiria

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