Best Ancient / Medieval Military History Movies: I'll start...

[Noctivagant]

7 Samurai http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/
Mongol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5K84ikK6Hg#t=2m53s) Especially charge of that 40 horsemen against thousand is epic. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/


I hate Kingdom of Heaven
Reason 1 : Orlando Bloom
Reason 2 : A blacksmith? seriously?

I hate 300 too
Only reason : Its unfortunate to see Battle of Thermopylae got ridiculed like that.

[Christo]

300 is not simply about the historical Battle..

It's based.. on a GRAPHIC NOVEL.

That's why we see mythical creatures, WTF unarmored Spartans and a Xerxes that made me lol the first time I saw it.

[Thucydides]

Immortals

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JK

[Franke]

I think you cannot call 300 a historical movie, although based on the historical battle. Xerxes' army is a heavily armed freak-show. It's indeed only a comic book as movie...

[ordunin]

FUCK YOU ALL.
No one has mentioned the original 300 yet. That was a good movie. The new 300 however, well, it sucked balls.

Also I'm going to have to vote Hercules verses the Moon men as the best titled "historical" movie.

My favorite movie that hasn't already been mentioned is Red cliff.
 

[Christo]

FUCK YOU ALL.
No one has mentioned the original 300 yet. That was a good movie. The new 300 however, well, it sucked balls.

Imdb page please.

[Tristan]

I liked the new 300 movie. Not as a historical movie, but as great visual entertainment.

[Franke]

I liked the new 300 movie. Not as a historical movie, but as great visual entertainment.

+1

[Ujin]

Flesh and Blood (also named Flesh+Blood) is a pretty good late medieval movie.  It's fucking grim, realistic, brutal, and features a naked girl in most scene. Rutger Hauer is in it as a flamberge wielding mercenary that doesn't give a shit. It is directed by the glorious Paul Verhoeven, who is a fucking badass.

One of my favorite movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VOy1JZBH5c

oh yeah i have this one, it's  always fun to watch =). Also while being completely fictional, it somehow manages to show the medieval life in a more or less realistic way.

[Leesin]

Anyone who takes '300' seriously and complains about it being historically incorrect is an idiot, it's based on a comic book which is fictional and fantasy, not everything has to be based on reality, 300 is a good movie and it's entertaining, it's not meant to be historically accurate and educational.

[Thucydides]

they could have done the phalanx better though

[Joker86]

Anyone who takes '300' seriously and complains about it being historically incorrect is an idiot, it's based on a comic book which is fictional and fantasy, not everything has to be based on reality, 300 is a good movie and it's entertaining, it's not meant to be historically accurate and educational.

You are right, of course.

I think the OP should edit his first post to create some kind of list, based on the recommendations of this community.

What I would do is to divide the list into sections like "Historically very accurate movies (The Name of the Rose)", "Entertaining with good historical accuracy (Kingdom of Heaven)", "Entertaining with low historical accuracy (King Arthur)" and "Fantasy/Fictional historic movies (300/The last Legion)".

So everyone knows what kind of film it is, because simple attributes like "good" and "bad" don't apply to everyone, because everyone judges things differently. Links to imdb.com would help, too.

[Franke]

You are right, of course.

I think the OP should edit his first post to create some kind of list, based on the recommendations of this community.

What I would do is to divide the list into sections like "Historically very accurate movies (The Name of the Rose)", "Entertaining with good historical accuracy (Kingdom of Heaven)", "Entertaining with low historical accuracy (King Arthur)" and "Fantasy/Fictional historic movies (300/The last Legion)".

So everyone knows what kind of film it is, because simple attributes like "good" and "bad" don't apply to everyone, because everyone judges things differently. Links to imdb.com would help, too.

If differing between sections, I would only list "Historically accurate", Entertaining with historical accuracy" and "Low or no historical accuracy". I, for my part, can see no realy difference regarding historical accuracy between "King Arthur" and "Last Legion"...

[Keshian]

Man, these forums are inactive.  latest post for this and 6 threads above me.

[Draggon]

Watched "Red Cliff" on Netflix a couple nights ago.  Godam that's a great movie.  "Three Kingdoms" was also pretty good, but not as epic as "Red Cliff".  100% badass.
They show alot of battlefield strategy, counter-tactics and trickery, etc.  The combat action is also done very well.  At least they weren't flying thru the air - lol.

As for the historical accuracy I really have no clue.  My Chinese military history knowledge sucks balls.