English-language historical films

2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh

1965 film by Carol Reed

2015 Chinese film directed by Daniel Lee

1936 film by Michael Curtiz

1968 film by Edward Dmytryk

1978 film by Michael Crichton

1976 film directed by Jack Smight

1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough

2017 film directed by Angelina Jolie

2019 film directed by John Lee Hancock

1993 film by Agnieszka Holland

1941 American Western film

1965 American Civil War film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen

1960 film by John Ford

2012 film directed by Cate Shortland

2014 film by Tom Harper

2012 film by Margarethe von Trotta

1968 film by Karel Reisz

1991 film directed by John Irvin

1952 film by Fritz Lang

2007 film by Gillian Armstrong

Sommersby is a 1993 period romantic drama film directed by Jon Amiel from a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, adapted from the historical account of the 16th-century French peasant Martin Guerre. Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, the film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Clarice Taylor, Frankie Faison, and R. Lee Ermey in supporting roles. Set in the Reconstruction era, it depicts a farmer returning home from the American Civil War, with his wife beginning to suspect that he is an impostor while also falling in l

1938 American film

2011 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud

Chisum is a 1970 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring John Wayne in the title role, and adapted for the screen by Andrew J. Fenady from his short story "Chisum and the Lincoln County War". The supporting cast features Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Andrew Prine, Bruce Cabot, Patric Knowles, Richard Jaeckel, Lynda Day, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., John Agar, John Mitchum, Ray Teal, Christopher Mitchum, and Hank Worden, with Geoffrey Deuel and Pamela McMyler receiving "introducing" credits. The picture was filmed in Panavision and Technicolor.

2000 television film

1945 film by Tay Garnett

2008 film by Roger Spottiswoode

2004 film by John Duigan

2007 film directed by Michael Radford

1932 film by Sidney Franklin

1966 film by Edward Dmytryk

1979 film by Douglas Hickox

1941 US film by Raoul Walsh, B. Reeves Eason

1952 film by Charles Vidor

1954 film directed by David Lean

1950 film directed by Henry Hathaway

1968 British film by Tony Richardson

1998 film by Jamil Dehlavi

2022 film directed by Sean McNamara

1980 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

2004 film by Richard Eyre

2005 film by Charles Sturridge

1952 film by Howard Hawks

2018 film directed by Joe Penna

1945 film by Sam Wood

1996 film by Christopher Hampton

1958 film by Ralph Thomas

1969 British musical film directed by Richard Attenborough

1951 film by Raoul Walsh

1906 film

2006 film

1994 film by Brian Gilbert

1941 film by René Clair

1944 film by Jacques Tourneur

1981 Nigerian film by Sharad Patel

1950 film by Fritz Lang

1976 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

1955 film by Rudolph Maté

1971 film by Don Medford