It combines qualities that are seldom found in one work: Scrupulous scholarship, a fund of personal experience, a sense of drama and characterization and a broad grasp of the era's great historical issues.

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

* The Cardinal ( 1936 film ), a British historical drama

* The Conspirator, a historical drama film from 2010, directed by Robert Redford

Goya in Bordeaux ( 1999 ) Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya.

The series took some liberties with historical accuracy for the sake of drama, including a depiction of angry Australian fans burning a British flag at the Sydney Cricket Ground, an event which was never documented.

The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business / commerce, among others.

Many aspects of modernist design still persist within the mainstream of contemporary architecture today, though its previous dogmatism has given way to a more playful use of decoration, historical quotation, and spatial drama. In other arts such pragmatic considerations were less important.

Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong focus on human and romantic relationships and emotions.

* List of historical drama films of Asia

REED examines the historical manuscripts that provide external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres.

* A Royal Affair ( Danish: En kongelig affære ) 2012 Danish historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel

* Hara ( film ), a forthcoming Indian 3D computer animated historical drama film

In late 1959, historian and Beijing Deputy Mayor Wu Han published a historical drama entitled Hai Rui Dismissed from Office.

I Take This Woman with Hedy Lamarr was a critical and commercial failure, but the historical drama Northwest Passage — Tracy's first film in Technicolor — proved popular.

Tracy followed it with Plymouth Adventure ( 1952 ), a historical drama set abroad the Mayflower, co-starring Gene Tierney.

* Amaya ( TV Series ), a historical fiction and period drama set in pre-Hispanic Philippines produced by GMA Network.

Premiere of Forman's newest historical drama in France based on the novel by Georges-Marc Benamou and written by Forman and Georges-Marc Benamou is expected in 2012.

" The gourd-resonated, equal-ratio heptatonic-tuned mbila of Mozambique is typically played in large ensembles in a choreographed dance, perhaps depicting a historical drama.

* List of historical drama films

* List of historical drama films of Asia

It also appears in " The campaign of 1346, an historical drama " by Christopher Godmond.

Laughton's early success in The Private Life of Henry VIII established him as one of the leading interpreters of the costume and historical drama parts for which he is best remembered ( Nero, Henry VIII, Mr. Barrett, Inspector Javert, Captain Bligh, Rembrandt, Quasimodo and others ); he was also type-cast for arrogant, unscrupulous characters.

The juries consisted of over 1, 500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the film ’ s popularity over time, historical significance and cultural impact.

Its urban settings and historical legacy have made it a popular location for international film productions.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

The Viking Queen is a 1967 Hammer Films adventure film set in ancient Britain, in which the role of Queen Salina is based upon the historical figure of Boudica.

In 1994, the biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, alleged that Wood and the filmmakers stole the mechanical octopus ( previously used in the film Wake of the Red Witch ) from the Republic Studios backlot, while failing to steal the motor which enabled the prop to move realistically, although, by the director's admission, the film preferred narrative interest over historical accuracy.

Marker begins the film with the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin, which Marker points out is a fictitious creation of Eisenstein which has still influenced the image of the historical event.

A feature-length historical film Caligula was completed in 1979, in which Malcolm McDowell played the lead role.

* Artemi, Eirini, The historical inaccurancies of the film Agora about the murder of Hypatia, Orthodox Press, τεύχ.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

They regard true film noir as belonging to a temporally and geographically limited cycle or period, treating subsequent films that evoke the classics as fundamentally different due to general shifts in filmmaking style and latter-day awareness of noir as a historical source for allusion.

In 1923, Wray appeared in her first film at the age of 16, landing a role in a short historical film sponsored by a local newspaper.

* In modern times, the historical figure lent his name to Imhotep, the title character of the 1932 film The Mummy and its 1999 remake along with a sequel.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

James Crossley, however, has argued that the film makes the distinction between Jesus and the character of Brian to make a contrast between the traditional Christ of both faith and cinema and the historical figure of Jesus in critical scholarship and how critical scholars have argued that ideas later got attributed to Jesus by his followers.

" What the film does do is place modern stereotypes in a historical setting, which enables it to indulge in a number of sharp digs, particularly at trade unionists and guerilla organisations ".

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart.

In the 20th century, the ' New French School ' of paleographers, especially Jean Mallon, gave a new direction to the study of scripts by stressing the importance of ductus ( the shape and order of the strokes used to compose letters ) in studying the historical development of scripts.

Boccaccio ’ s text is mainly used for Parts I and II of the book, while Part III is more reliant upon Jean de Vignay ’ s Miroir historical ( 1333 ).

Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.

The French word troubadour was first recorded in 1575 in an historical context to mean “ langue d ' oc poet at the court in the 12th and 13th century ” ( Jean de Nostre Dame, Vies des anciens poetes provençaux, p. 14 in Gdf.

She also features prominently in the book The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy, in the short story " Antickes and Frets " by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan, and is the main character in the Jan Westcott historical / biographical fiction novel The Tower and The Dream.

Today, Soissons is a commercial and manufacturing centre with the 12th century Soissons Cathedral and the ruins of St. Jean des Vignes Abbey as two of its most important historical buildings.

* Rosamund is a character in the historical fiction novel The Courts of Love: The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Jean Plaidy

Eleanor is the protagonist of The Queen From Provence, a historical romance by British novelist Jean Plaidy which was published in 1979.

In 1884 he graduated with two theses, one on Simon de Montfort translated as Simon de Montfort: Earl of Leicester, 1208-1265 ( 1930 ), without the thesis ' appendices of historical documents, and La Condamnation de Jean Sansterre ( Revue historique, 1886 ).

Hämeenlinna () is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Häme in the south of Finland and is the birthplace of composer Jean Sibelius.

His starring role in the historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) brought him international recognition.

* Jean Bardin ( 1732-1809 ), historical painter

One of the earliest historical references to Dalkeith is found in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart.

Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte and several non-fiction books which include Éloge de la créolité ( In Praise of Creoleness ), co-authored with Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant.

Jean Hardouin then suggested that many ancient historical documents were much younger than commonly believed to be.

The nearby villages are La Ferté-Alais ( aerodrome of Cerny-Jean Baptiste Salis: Annual international meeting ) and Milly-la-Forêt ( house of Jean Cocteau, historical village ).

The 20th century saw more purely historical inquiries, free of sectarian bias ; an early historicist classic in this field of study was Jean Seznec's The Survival of the Pagan Gods: the mythological tradition and its place in Renaissance humanism and the arts.

Norman Cantor recognized three books as most important to Strayer's legacy: Feudalism ( 1965 ), which summarized three decades of his research and thinking on the topic ; On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State ( 1970 ), in which he shows the relevance of medieval historical institutions to modern governmental institutions ; and The Reign of Philip the Fair ( 1980 ), representing over 30 years of archival research and the most comprehensive work on the topic in any language-other than Jean Favier's Philippe le Bel ( 1978 ).

* Jean Daugis, " À propos du Velay " historical notes ( in French )

Jeanne () is a French female name, equivalent to the English Joan, Jane, Jean and several historical figures in English named Joanna.

Jean de Florette () is a 1986 French historical drama film directed by Claude Berri, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol.

The story itself is so touching that many readers have believed that Elzéard Bouffier was a genuine historical figure and that the narrator of the story was a young Jean Giono himself, and that the tale is part autobiographical.