Gettysburg (1993)
Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Tom Berenger plays James Longstreet.
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2000sThe Lost Battalion (2001)
The Lost Battalion is an A&E television movie that punches above its budget. Rick Schroder plays Major Charles Whittlesey, a New York lawyer who took five hundred and fifty-four men of the 77th Infantry Division into the Argonne Forest in…
1990sMerlin (1998)
Merlin is the NBC miniseries that retold the Arthurian legend from the wizard's perspective. Miranda Richardson plays Mab, the old goddess fighting against Christianity's spread through Britain.
1990sIronclads (1991)
Reed Edward Diamond plays a Union officer. The actual battle changed naval warfare overnight.
AdaptationGame of Thrones (2011-2019)
Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Sean Bean as Ned Stark in the first season.
1980sThe Blue and the Gray (1982)
The Blue and the Gray is a CBS miniseries from 1982 that tried to do for the Civil War what Roots had done for slavery a few years earlier. Stacy Keach plays Jonas Steele, a Pinkerton operative.
2000sDune (2000)
Frank Herbert's Dune is the most faithful screen adaptation of Herbert's novel ever produced. Seen it three times across decades.
1980sWarGames (1983) Review
WarGames is one of the best technological thrillers of the 1980s and one of the most influential American films about computer culture ever produced. John Badham had previously directed Saturday Night Fever and Blue Thunder.
AmbitionRome (HBO, 2005-2007) Review
The HBO series ran two seasons from 2005 to 2007 and was canceled because the budget was unsusta. The two seasons that exist comprise twenty-two episodes of historical drama operating at levels no prestige television series before or since has…
1970sThe Moneychangers (1976) Review
The Moneychangers is one of the substantial American television miniseries productions of the 1970s and one of the more substantive adaptations of Arthur. The miniseries format had been substantially developed across the 1970s American television production.
AmbitionThe Man With No Name Trilogy (1964 / 1965 / 1966) Review
The Man With No Name trilogy is one of the great achievements in commercial cinema and the foundation document of the spaghetti western genre. The trilogy was produced as Italian-Spanish-German co-productions on substantially smaller budgets than American westerns of the…
1970sI, Claudius (BBC, 1976) Review
The production budget was approximately three hundred thousand pounds, which was modest even by 1976 BBC standards. Herbert Wise directed all twelve episodes.