what's the best hollywood movie depicting an historical event?

Question

Pearl Harbor? Glory? Schindler's List? Saving Private Ryan.....ect.

Best as in your opinion. Also, I just named these movies and they just happend to be war movies....I know other genres are great too, don't get me wrong!

Thanks for the answers everyone! I hope to see more..!

Answer 1

Robin,

There is no hollywood movie that actually depicts complete historical events. Directors, writers, and producers all take liberties to juice up their film product to make it more interesting.

If best equals realistic, then the answer is the scene from Saving Private Ryan at the beginning of the movie when they land on the Normandy beaches. WW II veterans who actually lived through that landing are quoted as saying that that particular scene is the only accurate portrayal of what happened on that terrible day.

Most other movie scenes are dramatizations. When the guys who were there say a scene was real, then it must be the best.

Thanks for the fun question.

Answer 2

There were a lot of best movies...It depend on individual taste...here is the best of in all genres....look for ur favourite among this....
Best Action/Adventure-Indiana Jones Trilogy
Best Adaptation- Spiderman Trilogy
Best Animation-Shrek 1&2
Best Biopic-The Ten Commandments (1956)
Best Classics-Gone With the Wind (1939)
Best Comedy-Dumb and Dumber(1994)
Best Crime/Gangster-The Godfather Trilogy
Best Documentary-The Fog of War (2003)
Best Drama-Schindler's List(1993)
Best Historical Epic-Ben-Hur (1959)
Best Kids/Family -E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Best Musical- The Sound of Music (1965)
Best Religion-The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Best Remake-King Kong (2005)
Best Romance-Titanic (1997)
Best Science Fiction-Starwars(all six!!)
Best Fantasy-Lord of the Ring Trilogy
Best Sequel -Back to the Future II(1989)
Best Sports-Rocky Anthology
Best Suspense/Horror- Ringu Of Terror (2005)
Best Teen-American Pie Trilogy
Best Thriller-Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Best War-Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Best Western-The good, the bad and the Ugly(1968)
Best Monster-Aliens qualilogy
Best disaster-The day after tomorrow(2004)

Those were unforgettable classic.....highly recommanded

Answer 3

There was a movie called "Conspiracy" starring Kenneth Branaugh and Stanley Tucci which dealt with the Germans having a meeting in which they discussed several options on how to deal with the Jews. The whole movie took place primarily in the one room but was very well acted and certainly holds your interest.

Answer 4

Well that all depends on what you mean "best". Do you mean what the critics liked? How many Oscars the movie won? How the audiences liked it? Or are you interested in what individual people liked? So far the highest Oscars won for a historical movie was Ben Hur, personally I don't like it, I can't stand that Charlton Heston. The thing about Hollywood is that it always exaggerates history for its own means or for the American audiences. For therefore I can't really say what would be the "best" historical movie.

Answer 5

I found "The Affair of the Necklace" (Christopher Walken, Hillary Swank) to be a remarkably accurate account of Marie Antionette and that whole scandal

Answer 6

Kingdom of Heaven

Answer 7

No offense, but none of the above, in my opinion.

I, as any others here will offer, can only offer an opinion, and given that thousands of movies have had impact on viewers, I have to say BEST is relative and subjective,,,However, if I had to pick one, I'd pick "Gettysburg."

I do notice though that you note only WAR type movies, and coincidently so did I. I suspect it's the nature of the "beast" to do so,,, but you know as well as I, that many other genres could be counted as enjoyable films, of equal impact.

I chose Gettysburg because it relates to self destruction, and hopeful ressurection of a species, and ideals, free of bias, prejudice, living one day in harmony, accepting and tolerating,,, Compromising and striving,,, unwilling to UN-evolve.

Steven Wolf,,, Exiting stage left

Answer 8

In my opinion, "The Longest Day". It was a movie full of stars and can never be made again with the payrolls of todays actors.

Answer 9

The Alamo, it gives a good look at the past history of Texas before it became a state.

Answer 10

Titanic? The only thing historically accurate was that the boat sank.

The Sands of Iwo Jima has been called the best historically accurate movie, but I haven't had a chance to see it yet.