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List added by coroner on 30 November 2008 06:47
History in 100 Movies |
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 51  6.4  7.4 Period: 300'000 years ago
Event: The control of fire by early humans Historical Figure: - 
12 6 6.6 Period: 2560 B.C.
Event: Building of the Pharaoh's Great Pyramid of Giza Historical Figure: Pharaoh Cheops coroner's rating:
 
187 7.2 7.9 Period: 1275 B.C.
Event: The Exodus Historical Figure: Moses coroner's rating:
 
8 4.8 6.1 Period: 1275-1240 B.C.
Event: Troy War Historical Figure: Atreus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Helen, Achilles, Priam, Paris coroner's rating:
 
72 8.2 8.2 First story:
Period: 539 B.C. Event: Fall of Babylon Historical Figure: Belshazzar, Nabonidus, Cyrus coroner's rating:
26 6 6.7 Period: 480 B.C.
Event: Battle of Thermopylae Historical Figure: King Leonidas, Xerxes I coroner's rating:
 
690 5.2 5.4 Period: 356-323 B.C.
Event: Fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Invasion of India Historical Figure: Alexander, Philip coroner's rating:
25 8.2 7.3 Period: 221 B.C.
Event: Unification of China Historical Figure: Ying Zheng coroner's rating:
13 7.8 6.3 Period: 216-201 B.C.
Event: Second Punic War Historical Figure: Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Archimedes 
386 7 8 Period: 73-71 B.C.
Event: Gladiatorial War Historical Figure: Spartacus, Crassus coroner's rating:
112 6.2 6.8 Period: 43-27 B.C.
Event: Africa made a Roman Province, Second Triumvirate, Battle of Actium Historical Figure: Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Julius Caesar, Octavian coroner's rating:
11 6.8 7 Period: 0-33
Event: Foundation of Christianity Historical Figure: Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate, Herod Antipas 
25 5.8 7.2 Period: 54-68
Event: Persecution of the Christians, Great Fire of Rome Historical Figure: Nero coroner's rating:
21 5.7 6.6 Period: 180-192
Event: Conspiracies and Decline of the Roman Empire Historical Figure: Commodus coroner's rating:
1 3 6 Period: 526-548
Event: Ostrogothic Kingdom Historical Figure: Belisarius, Justinian, Athalaric 
3 5 8.1 Period: 570-633
Event: Conquest of Arabia, Foundation of the Islamic Faith Historical Figure: Muhammad 
28 6.8 7 Period: around 835-865
Event: Viking Age, Invasion of England Historical Figure: Ragnar, Aelle coroner's rating:
3 5 6.1 Period: around 987
Event: Mayans Pursued by Toltec Invaders Historical Figure: - coroner's rating:
38 6.3 7.2 Period: 1094
Event: Moors Invasion of Spain Historical Figure: El Cid, King Ferdinand coroner's rating:
79 7.3 8.1 Period: 1154-1189
Event: Reign of Henry II Historical Figure: Henry II coroner's rating:
806 6.3 7.1 Period: 1178-1187
Event: The Third Crusade, Siege of Jerusalem Historical Figure: Saladin coroner's rating:
98 7.1 7.4 Period: 1192-1206
Event: Rise of the Mongol Empire Historical Figure: Genghis Khan 
32 8.1 7.8 Period: 1242
Event: Battle of the Ice Historical Figure: Alexander Nevsky coroner's rating:
1583 7.5 8.4 Period: 1291-1305
Event: Wars of Scottish Independence Historical Figure: William Wallace, Edward I coroner's rating:
26 7.3 7.5 Period: 1413-1422
Event: Battle of Agincourt Historical Figure: Henry V 
3 7 6.2 Period: 1429-1431
Event: Hundred Years' War, Siege of Orleans Historical Figure: Joan of Arc, Charles VII, Henry VI coroner's rating:
100 6.3 6.2 Period: 1491-1502
Event: The Discovery of the New World Historical Figure: Columbus, Queen Isabella coroner's rating:
 
32 6 6.6 Period: 1501
Event: Story of Landsknechts Historical Figure: - coroner's rating:
 
104 6 6.9 Period: 1505-1530
Event: Protestant Reformation Historical Figure: Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, Emperor Charles V, Frederick the Wise, Johann Tetzel 
13 7.7 7.5 Period: 1533-1537
Event: Separation from Rome Historical Figure: Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn coroner's rating:
193 8.3 8 Period: 1536-1561
Event: The Conquest of the Americas by Spain, Search for El Dorado Historical Figure: Lope de Aguirre, Gonzalo Pizarro, Brother Gaspar de Carvajal coroner's rating:
 
12 6.2 6.6 Period: 1542-1587
Event: Religious Divide, Battle of Langside Historical Figure: Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth I coroner's rating:
48 8.8 7.6 Period: 1547-1562
Event: The Great Fire of Moscow, Conquest of Kazan Historical Figure: Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich coroner's rating:
494 7.1 7.6 Period: 1558-1559
Event: Revolt of the Northern Earls, Act of Supremacy Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I, Mary of Guise coroner's rating:
31 9 7.7 Period: 1563
Event: Persecution of the Boyars Historical Figure: Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich coroner's rating:
72 7.1 7.5 Period: 1572-1574
Event: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew Historical Figure: Marguerite de Valois, Henri de Navarre, Charles IX, Caterina de' Medici 
129 8 7.9 Period: around 1575
Event: Sengoku Period, Battle of Nagashino Historical Figure: Lord Takeda Shingen, Tokughawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga coroner's rating:
294 6.6 6.8 Period: 1585-1599
Event: Anglo–Spanish War Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I, King Philip ll of Spain, Mary Stuart 
10 6.6 6.7 Period: 1640-1653
Event: English Civil Wars, Establishment of the Commonwealth, Irish Campaign Historical Figure: Oliver Cromwell, King Charles I 
3 6.5 6.9 Period: 1719
Event: Cellamare Conspiracy, War of the Quadruple Alliance Historical Figure: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans 
499 7.1 7.8 Period: 1757
Event: French and Indian War, Battle of Fort William Henry Historical Figure: Col. Munro coroner's rating:
13 5.2 4.7 Period: 1777-1781
Event: American Revolutionary War, Battle of Yorktown Historical Figure: George Washington coroner's rating:
7 7 7.3 Period: 1789-1792
Event: French Revolution, Storming of the Bastille, Battle of Valmy Historical Figure: Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, La Rochefoucauld 
27 7.8 7.6 Period: 1793-1794
Event: French Revolution, Reign of Terror Historical Figure: Danton, Robespierre 
28 7.9 7.8 Period: 1792-1796
Event: Reign of Terror, First Italian Campaign Historical Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte, Robespierre, Marat, Danton, Saint-Just 
11 9 7.6 Period: 1812
Event: Invasion of Russia, Battle of Borodino Historical Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte, General Mikhail Kutuzov, Czar Alexander I 
5 4.5 6.3 Period: 1812
Event: Battle of New Orleans Historical Figure: Jean Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson coroner's rating:
44 5.6 6.7 Period: 1836
Event: Texas Revolution, The Battle of Alamo Historical Figure: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Davy Crockett coroner's rating:
403 6.5 7.1 Period: 1839-1842
Event: Abolitionism in the USA Historical Figure: John Quincy Adams, Queen Isabella II, Secretary of State John Forsyth 
4 0 6.6 Period: 1853-1856
Event: Crimean War Historical Figure: Earl of Cardigan, Lord Raglan
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(Work in progress...) 100 movies not historically accurate, but certainly entertaining (sometimes also instructive and informative) :), listed by chronological order of the events. Notes: Period: time period covered by the movie Historical Figure: portrayed by an actor (or in archive footage)
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United 93 [Covers 2001] (911)
American Soldiers [Covers 2004] (Iraq)
Rude Tube [Covers 2005-Present] (YouTube Launched)
What about Les Mis? The Queen? Or the Frost/Nixon debate?
A fine list, indeed.