Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection; Francois Duhamel/Fox Searchlight; Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty 'Master and ...

Historian Dan Snow reviews the top five historical movies of all time, as voted for by the public in a History Hit poll. First up, he reviews famous scenes from the Ridley Scott masterpiece Gladiator ...

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To understand the historical epic genre, one must first break it down. Obviously, the "historical" portion means the movie is about a series of true events that occurred in the past, though it is ...

Some of the best plots in movie scripts come from landmark moments in world history, from the Crusades to the American Civil War, which have been repeatedly retold and reexamined through film. Many ...

'Master and Commander,' '12 Years a Slave,' 'Lawrence of Arabia' If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. Luckily, the movies are always here to tell ...