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Guide | Film Listing
Action & Adventure - Period, Costume, Historical
For those who like their history served with a large helping of high-octane action and excitement this genre is packed with great stories set during fascinating periods of history. Often epic works, they draw on real historical events and characters, frequently taking inspiration from literature, they can educate as well as entertain.
1950,
Michael Gordon, DVD
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A cinematic adaptation of Rostand's classic romantic play based on Savinien Cyran...
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1959,
William Wyler, DVD
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100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and, in its day, the biggest budget in movie history. Ch...
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2000,
Ridley Scott, DVD
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Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) and Stanley Kub...
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1951,
Carol Reed, DVD
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Based on a Joseph Conrad story, Outcast of the Islands stars Trevor Howard (in magnificent form) ...
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1965,
Henry Levin, DVD
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Omar Sharif plays the Mongolian chieftain Genghis Khan in this spectacular re-telling of the warl...
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1965,
Alexander Mackendrick, DVD
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An acclaimed pirate adventure classic for the whole family, A High Wind in Jamaica is based on th...
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2010,
Takashi Miike, DVD
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Mercilessly entertaining, 13 Assassins is Takashi Miike's larger-than-life samurai adventure set ...
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2011,
Han-min Kim, DVD
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With its non-stop action and excitement, War of the Arrows brings archery to new cinematic height...
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2010,
Luc Besson, DVD
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Adapted from the comic book series of Jacques Tardi and directed by Luc Besson, T...
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1945,
Frank Borzage, DVD
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RKO's first film in three-strip Technicolor, The Spanish Main stars Paul Henreid as dashing pirat...
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1964,
John Gilling, DVD
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An English Civil War adventure, The Scarlet Blade is a historical adventure from Hammer Film Prod...
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1962,
Akira Kurosawa, DVD
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The films of Akira Kurosawa, one of the cinema’s greatest auteurs, have had a pro...
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1958,
Ralph Thomas, DVD
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Based on the stormy Dickens novel, this is one of the last great British literary...
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1965,
Franklin J. Schaffner, DVD
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One of the finest historical adventure films ever made, The War Lord dramatises with uncommon int...
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1965,
John Gilling, DVD
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Oliver Reed continues his villainous streak in The Brigand of Kandahar, a Hammer ...
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1961,
Anthony Mann, DVD
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Anthony Mann's epic stars Charlton Heston as the legendary 11th Century Spanish patriot El Cid, w...
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1952,
Raoul Walsh, DVD
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A 1950s Hollywood pirate yarn, Blackbeard the Pirate stars Robert Newton as Blackbeard, terror of...
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1947,
Richard Wallace, DVD
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Classic Technicolor swashbuckler that sees the suave Sinbad the Sailor (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) emb...
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2010,
Takashi Miike, Blu-ray
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Mercilessly entertaining, 13 Assassins is Takashi Miike's larger-than-life samurai adventure set ...
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2010,
Kevin Macdonald, DVD
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A lavish historical action adventure based on the children's novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Ro...
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1982,
Douglas Camfield, DVD
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An adaptation of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in which noble knight Ivanhoe returns to ...
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Genghis Khan
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2.
Fanfan La Tulipe (1952)
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Hanzo The Razor Trilogy
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The Iron Mask
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The War Lord
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