British History Movies

Once Vladislav Alexandrovich Soloviev (that's me!) was a student of the Faculty of History and thought that he would become a great historian. Alas, I didn't have to become a historian (only a blogger, but this is not the same thing). But I still have a love for everything connected with history. That's why I really liked this movie. It seems to me that this is a completely reliable and objective view of British history. Many facts that I did not know about before. I recommend viewing!

British history is shown in this film inseparably from the history of the rest of the world. This is a very important point! That is, Britain does not seem like some kind of island from another planet, some kind of fantasy country, but it is part of Europe and the history of this country is inextricably linked with the history of other European states.

Britain has history and lots of it. Some of it might be far away from the facts such as King Arthur or Robin Hood.

Mark Kermode examines British History Movies, a never ending field that is always ripe to be mined. Get it right as Helen Mirren, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Olivia Colman, Paul Schofield, Judi Dench and Charles Laughton did and there might be an Oscar in it.

The Private Life of Henry VIII made in 1933 was the first British talkie to be a hit in the American box office. It was a prestige production and Charles Laughton won the best actor Oscar.

Kermode looks at movies from the Roman invasion onwards to the Vikings, Medieval times, the Tudors, the Elizabethan age the English civil war, the Restoration period, the Victorian era and to the 20th century which had two world wars.

There are detours courtesy of the Carry On team and Monty Python and even more bizarrely Pier Paolo Pasolini's saucy romp The Canterbury Tales.

The Hammer Horror films got mileage from The Witchfinder General set during the civil war period. Mel Gibson got critical acclaim with his Scottish epic William Wallace. Sean Connery went autumnal as an older Robin Hood who was past his prime.

Kermode notes that in recent years, British History has turned to pop music for inspiration with biopics on the band Queen and Elton John.