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- DirectorCarol ReedStarsCharlton HestonRex HarrisonDiane CilentoThe biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.Based on Irving Stone's biographical novel of the same name dealing with Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo.
He was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in Rome by Pope Julius II (5 December 1443 – 21 February 1513), nicknamed "The Fearsome Pope" (Il Papa Terribile) and "The Warrior Pope" (Il Papa Guerriero), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513. His papacy was marked by an active foreign policy, ambitious building projects, and patronage for the arts. - DirectorJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneRichard WidmarkLaurence HarveyIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.The Battle of the Alamo (23 February – 6 March 1836) - San Antonio, Texas USA.
- DirectorJohn Lee HancockStarsDennis QuaidBilly Bob ThorntonEmilio EchevarríaBased on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas.The Battle of the Alamo (23 February – 6 March 1836) - San Antonio, Texas USA.
Plus the Texians defeat the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on 21 April 1836, which ended the revolution. - DirectorLewis GilbertStarsAnthony SteelJack WarnerRobert BeattyIn 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.Albert R.N. was a dummy constructed by John Worsley (1919–2000) in Marlag O, the prisoner of war camp in northern Germany for naval officers. It was used as a stand-in for a head count while a prisoner escaped and was used on two separate occasions.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskij (30 May 1220 – 14 November 1263) proclaimed Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolite Macariy in 1547, was the Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the city's history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Rus, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over the German and Swedish invaders while employing collaborationist policies towards the powerful Golden Horde.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsRichard BurtonFredric MarchClaire BloomThe life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon (July 20/21, 356 - June 10/11, 323 B.C.), commonly known as Alexander the Great.Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great - By the age of thirty he had created the largest Empire in Ancient History.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.The main story is a thinly disguised version of the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsSean PennJude LawKate WinsletBased on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.All the King's Men had previously been adapted by Robert Rossen in 1949. Although it does not follow the 1949 film's narrative and is more faithful to the novel than the earlier movie, the 2006 film is often considered a remake of the 1949 version. According to IMDb, Zaillian never saw the original film, and adapted the screenplay solely from Warren's novel.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Based upon the lives and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsDenzel WashingtonRussell CroweChiwetel EjioforAn outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.Adapted from a New York magazine story "The Return of Superfly", by Mark Jacobson, about Frank Lucas, a real-life gangster from Harlem who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War and Richie Roberts, a detective attempting to bring down Lucas's drug empire.
- DirectorAndy TennantStarsJodie FosterChow Yun-FatBai LingThe story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.Anna Leonowens (26 November 1831–19 January 1915) was a teacher of Anglo-Indian background who became famous as a travel writer, educator, and social activist. She worked in Siam from 1862 to 1868, where she taught the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsRichard BurtonGeneviève BujoldIrene PapasKing Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.Anne Boleyn (c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. She was executed on charges of treason and adultery, which allowed Henry to marry Jane Seymour.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyBusby BerkeleyStarsBetty HuttonHoward KeelLouis CalhernThe story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.Annie Oakley (13 August 1860 – 3 November 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter who rose to fame and a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, where she became the first American female superstar.
After missing on his 25th shot, marksman Francis E. Butler (25 February 1852 – 21 November 1926) lost a shooting match to her and a $100 side bet. He began courting Oakley, and they married on 20 June 1882. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate BeckinsaleA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.The film is about Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (24 December 1905 – 5 April 1976) during the late 1920s to 1947, when he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, whilst simultaneously developing a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- DirectorPeter MarkleStarsGene HackmanDanny GloverJerry ReedDuring the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.During the last days of the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. Hambleton, United States Air Force, was the sole survivor of the crew of an EB-66 electronic warfare aircraft, downed by a surface to air missile over enemy territory.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykDuilio ColettiStarsRobert MitchumPeter FalkRobert RyanAnzio: one of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead--four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.This film is an account of 'Operation Shingle', the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II. The film was adapted from the book 'Anzio' by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who was the BBC war correspondent during the battle.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineTrevor HowardHarry AndrewsIn 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.An account of the Battle of Britain, fought during the summer and autumn of 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsHenry FondaRobert ShawRobert RyanA dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.The film is an account of the battle that stretched across parts of Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg and lasted nearly a month during December 1944.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsCharlton HestonHenry FondaJames CoburnA dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.The film is an account of the sea and air battle between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that took place during the 4 to 7 June 1942.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsJohn GregsonAnthony QuaylePeter FinchIn the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.The Battle of the River Plate (Rio de la Plata) was the first naval battle in the Second World War. It took place between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and one of the Royal Navy hunting groups comprising three cruisers, HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles. The group found and engaged their quarry at the estuary of the River Plate off the coast of Argentina and Uruguay in South America on the 13 December 1939.
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsRichard BurtonPeter O'TooleJohn GielgudKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.Thomas Becket (also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket; circa 1118 – 29 December 1170).
He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. - DirectorCraig LahiffStarsRobert CarlyleCharles DanceKerry FoxRecreation of the landmark 1958 South Australian Court trial of young aboriginal Max Stuart.This Australian movie is based on real events, telling the story of Max Stuart (Ngoombujarra), a young aboriginal man, sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of a nine year old girl on what was considered questionable evidence. It follows the fight by his lawyers David O'Sullivan and Helen Devaney to save Stuart from execution.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (1 October 1910 – 23 May 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (24 March 1909 – 23 May 1934) were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who travelled around the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.The film, as well as the book by Lothar G. Buchheim on which it's based, are both loosely adapted from the wartime career of the Type VIIC boat U-96, and its skipper, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. In late 1941, Buchheim, who was then a war correspondent in the German Navy's propaganda office, joined the crew of U-96 for one tour in the Battle of the Atlantic.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. BarryThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.Based upon the memoirs of Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born 4 July 1946) who is an anti-war activist, army veteran and writer who was paralysed in the Vietnam War.