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Movies: Best "revisionist history" Movies


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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood(2019)

R
| 2h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 5,896 votes)

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski….

BlacKkKlansman(2018)

R
| 2h 15min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 3,391 votes)

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

The Countess(2009)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 71 votes)

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.

Caligula with Mary Beard(2013)

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests?

The Legend of Ben Hall(2016)

2h 19min | Western
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.

Directed by Matthew Holmes

I Vicerè(2007)

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family – whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands – fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.

We Believed(2010)

2h 50min | History, Drama
3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

Nineteen Eighty-Four(1954)

3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.

The Pity of War(2014)

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrophic error that unleashed an era of totalitarianism and genocide.

The Voyage That Shook the World(2009)

52min | Documentary
0.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The Voyage That Shook the World traces Darwin's journey, exploring the places and discoveries crucial to formulation of his publication of his seminal work On the Origin of Species.

Directed by Steve Murray

1984(1953)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. Episode 1 of Season 6 of Studio One's anthology series.

Directed by Paul Nickell

Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution(2018)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books….

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Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth(2013)

1h 40min | Documentary, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society? Norwegian organist and researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have a solid theory on the subject. Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton decides to travel to Norway to meet him.