"Master and commander" seems to have been overlooked?

But "Went the day well?" Is superb. A full blown, no holds barred guide to how to spot a Jerry.

"I should think your wife and children are proud of you"
"I'm not married, but I have two sons"  yes, quite, I'm sure you do!

And who forget:
""Do you know what morale is?"
"Yeah, corse - that's what the wops ain't got"

I've got shelves of historical films -some more historical than others I hasten to say-but here are some of my faves, again as before in no particular order

Bridge Too Far
Waterloo
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Dunkirk -the John Mills one, the new version is pants!
Paths of Glory -Kubrick's excellent anti war film
Barry Lyndon -the review and the battle bits (I've actually worn one of the uniforms from the film, very, very hot as they were made of wool!)
Zulu
Shaka Zulu -bit mystical but good fun...as far as tyrannical fun goes.
Zuku Dawn
Kagemusha
Seven Samurai
Ran
9th Company
Myn Bala -Warrior of the Steppe
Big Red One
The Last Bullet
Kokoda
Windtalkers
The Duelists -uniforms are spot on
Napoleon -the silent version -they must have scored France for him, he's a dead ringer.
Red Cliff
Glory
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Mongol -bit shamanistic but okay
Fire and Sword -a dubbed Polish film about the Renaissance. (there are two others but names escape me.)
Alamo -both versions

There are more but I can't be bothered to have a look.

I would like to add a Polish film Popioly (The Ashes) from 1965. Traces Polish resistance from the Revolution up to 1812, through one family - the scenes set in Spain are especially noteworthy.

'The Lion in Winter', superb cast in top form.

Quote from: SV52 on 16 June 2018, 09:11:00 AM
'The Lion in Winter', superb cast in top form.

Oh, yesssssss! Timothy Dalton or Katherine Hepburn would be welcome to leave their shoes next to my bed....

My all-time favourite is April 9th, and I don't even do WWII gaming.

"Cromwell" despite all the warts (sorry!) it got me (and a rather large number of others I suspect) crazy interested in the ECW.
Favorite line: Robert Morley as Manchester just prior to Edgehill, "Missed me breakfast- damned tricky things, stomachs!"

Quote from: d_Guy on 18 June 2018, 03:05:24 AM
"Cromwell" despite all the warts (sorry!) it got me (and a rather large number of others I suspect) crazy interested in the ECW.
Favorite line: Robert Morley as Manchester just prior to Edgehill, "Missed me breakfast- damned tricky things, stomachs!"

One of the greatest fantasy films ever.

I think when I saw it in a theater here in 1970 it had a disclaimer that said something like "based on actual events in England centuries ago - the ones with the feathers like the king - the one that look like pilgrims, not so much".

Ah yes, anything before 1776 is ancient history.

Thought the idiots did actually recognise 1492 ?

Growing up in a small WV town in the 1950s the essential dates we had to know in elementary school (to the best of my recollection) were:
1066, 1215, 1492, 1517, 1607, 1688, 1776, 1789, 1863, and 1941. I have no idea what dates are now required, if any.

Battle of Hastings, Magna Carta, Columbus joins the long line of people who "find" America, Martin Luther starts social media with a note on a cathedral, death of Mary Stuart, William of Orange?, Publication of Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", French completely lose it, Red Cross founded, Barbarossa.

Quote from: fsn on 19 June 2018, 04:52:07 PM
Publication of Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"...

None of those dates are from Ancient History. Funny how the word ancient (I know DG didn't actually use it above) means totally different things depending on which side of the Atlantic you are.