Historically accurate films Archives

FIVE GREAT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE FILMS: PART FIVE

by History Guild | Nov 14, 2023 | Political and Economic History, Social and Cultural History | 0

Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat skeptically, thinking ‘will they get it right?’ Here are some that did!

Reappraising The Passion of the Christ

by History Guild | Apr 9, 2023 | Social and Cultural History | 0

Reading time: 5 minutes
Looking back at director Mel Gibson’s controversial depiction of Christianity’s central event.

On the screen: Cold warriors

by History Guild | Apr 6, 2023 | Social and Cultural History | 0

Reading time: 4 minutes
The Courier, directed by Dominic Cooke, is a film of the Cold War with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 as backdrop. The central characters, British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) and GRU (Soviet military intelligence) Colonel Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), are centre stage, but the real dynamic is the challenge issued by the Soviet Union and its empire to the United States and its Western allies. Infamously, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had boasted that the USSR would bury the West and this claim features in the opening of the movie. A nuclear war between the two superpowers of the time emerges as possible as the Soviet presence in Cuba is revealed to be more threatening than originally thought.

FIVE GREAT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE FILMS: PART FOUR

by History Guild | Jan 25, 2023 | Social and Cultural History | 0

Reading time: 5 minutes
Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat sceptically, thinking ‘will they get it right?’ Here are some that did!

In Appreciation of Schindler’s List

by History Guild | Dec 15, 2021 | Military History, Political and Economic History, Social and Cultural History | 0

Reading time: 7 minutes
Films are often created with the aim of providing escapism and fun for audiences; sometimes they are sad too, and many times they are also thought-provoking, tragic and uplifting. And then there are films that exist as the total opposite of escapism and fun, and that go way beyond just being “sad” or “tragic”.