... found those earlier this year. A very brave thing to attempt! Well done! I have amended them and organised them a bit better. The pantheons are at...
... magic is a no-no (the cults comment got me thinking along these lines). Later than period, but the stoic and epicurean philosophies (both very influential...
"I still think a RQ version of the Ancient Greek deities would be useful." Oh me too, I don't want straight history every time - in fact I did a version myself...
Having seen Troy a while ago and House of Flying Daggers and Alexander recently, I have to say that Hollywood needs to watch some Chinese films to see how to...
I see there is a remake of Spartacus in my local video shop, will have to take a look. Never even knwe they were making it agains, so I wonder if it will be...
... Hmmm, thanks for the mini-reviews. I haven't seen any of these yet myself. A while back I actually started a reference list of relevant films for this...
Troy - The Iliad without the gods, pretty much misses the point. Nice ... Rather liked Troy myself, but then I'm a sucker for Greek style armour and heroics....
I'm all for a good historical review of movies! As a 400AD re-enactor, there was nothing that I could see in King Arthur that set it in that period. Nothing at...
... Here's the ones I've got some background with (having watched most of them multiple times). I won't speak to their 100% accuracy in all cases, but I think...
Just a quick plug for the novel of the same name that the Long Ships was made from. You won't recognize more than a couple of names, but it is an excellent...
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Impressive list. I would add to that (Don't know the dates): Quo Vadis Spartacus Clash of the Titans A funny thing happened on the way to the forum (classic...
but its a decent fantasy film I suppose - with a nice battle on a frozen lake. I didn't even like it as Fantasy, I'm afraid. The lake battle was good though. ...
To the Historically accurate movie list I would like to add for general interest purposes though of a later time period (I reenact 15th, 16th, & 17th century...
To the Historically accurate movie list I would like to add for general ... Sounds fascinating. I didn't know about St Augustine, hadn't in fact known the...
I also wonder about the Zulu question (me living in the same country as they settled in). I reckon that a decent roman legion would easily have crushed them in...
All the talk of classic movies got me searching eBay UK for some decent region 2 DVD material. I see there is a series called The History of Warfare which...
... Thought provoking. In this vein the Shaka Zulu miniseries from the early 80s is another good atmosphere piece. Even if the timeframe presented is a bit...
... provoking "Alternate Earth" material I thought, ancient Bushido colliding with a different culture. I enjoyed The Last Samurai. I thought that it was very...
Florida was discovered in 1513 and back than La Florida encompassed all of North America. Slave traders though had been working the coastlines since the 1490s....
Ian Winterbottom: <snip> ... It didn't go into the bushido way enough for my liking, but the similar TV mini series, whose name I have forgotten, did it...
Do you mean "Shogun"? It was an awsome mini-series. Gregory ... ===== "I have sworn, upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...
Hi Tony. Think you could be right about the Romans; mainly because no armour, no engineering, no building &c. Against what they faced the Zulu were supreme, a...
Hi gang ... Speaking of which, there are countless excellent Chinese films and TV series which are either historical or near-historical. Most of them never...
From: Simon Phipp <Snip -> Also, can anyone based in Britain remember the TV series based in King Arthur's time? It was on ages ago, before Robin of Sherwood...
I recall one called Arthur of the Britains, by ITV? (From Wales?). Half hour ... I recall it too hearing mention of it, I think it starred a young Oliver ...
Thats the series, Oliver Tobias was Arthur. It was very Anglo Saxon/ Celtic orientated. I imagine that somewhere there are videos, or even dvds of it!...
... *Sigh* Probably. It would be nice to get hold of them. There are quite a few TV series I remember with nostalgia, either from my childhood or much later, ...
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