The Historic Traveler Historic Film Directory
Do you love historic films, those great costume dramas that capture our imaginations and take us back in time,
thanks to great acting, incredible writing and directing, powerful cinematography, wardrobe design and make
up?
So we at The Historic Traveler wanted to provide a listing of films by era to round out our media trinity—books,
TV and, now films.
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| Era | Title of Film | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Gladiator | 2000 | Roman Empire |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Ben-Hur | 1959 | Roman Empire |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Spartacus | 1960 | Roman Slave Revolt |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | The Eagle | 2011 | Roman Britain |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Cleopatra | 1963 | Ptolemaic Egypt & Rome |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Agora | 2009 | Late Roman Empire |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | The Fall of the Roman Empire | 1964 | Decline of Rome |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Troy | 2004 | Trojan War |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Alexander | 2004 | Life of Alexander the Great |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | 300 | 2006 | Battle of Thermopylae |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | 1300: Rise of an Empire | 2014 | Greco-Persian Wars |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Greek Mythology |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Hercules (2014) | 2014 | Greek Mythology |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Greek Mythology |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | The Last Legion | 2007 | Fall of Rome |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Moses & the Exodus |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Noah | 2014 | The Great Flood |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Exodus: Gods and Kings | 2014 | Moses & Pharaoh |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Risen | 2016 | Aftermath of Jesus’ Crucifixion |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Paul, Apostle of Christ | 2018 | Early Christian Church |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | The Robe | 1953 | Aftermath of Jesus’ Crucifixion in Rome |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Demetrius and the Gladiators | 1954 | Early Christians & Rome |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Roman Persecution of Christians |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | Pompeii | 2014 | The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius |
| Ancient History (Pre-476 CE) | The Last Days of Pompeii | 1935 | Another take on Vesuvius |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Braveheart | 1995 | Scottish Wars of Independence |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | 12th-Century England |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Kingdom of Heaven | 2005 | Crusades |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | England’s Outlaw Legend |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Classic Robin Hood Tale |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Ivanhoe | 1952 | Knights & Chivalry |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Excalibur | 1981 | Arthurian Legends |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Satirical Medieval Comedy |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | A Knight’s Tale | 2001 | Jousting & Chivalry |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Medieval Mystery |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Becket | 1964 | 12th-Century English Church Politics |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Henry V | 1989 | Shakespeare’s Henry V |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Macbeth | 2015 | Shakespearean Tragedy |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Outlaw King | 2018 | Robert the Bruce’s Fight for Scotland |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The Green Knight | 2021 | Arthurian Myth |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | El Cid | 1961 | Spanish Reconquista |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Ironclad | 2011 | King John & the Magna Carta |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Black Death | 2010 | The Plague in Europe |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The War Lord | 1965 | Norman Conquest Battles |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Joan of Arc | 1948 | The Maid of Orleans |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | 1999 | Another retelling |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The King | 2019 | Henry V & the Battle of Agincourt |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Medieval | 2022 | 15th-Century Bohemian Wars |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | Margrete: Queen of the North | 2021 | 14th-Century Scandinavian Unification |
| Medieval & Dark Ages (476–1500) | The Witch | 2015 | New England Witch Trials |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Elizabeth | 1998 | Queen Elizabeth I’s Rise |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | 2007 | Spanish Armada |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | Fictionalized Shakespearean Romance |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The Other Boleyn Girl | 2008 | Anne Boleyn’s Story |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Anne of the Thousand Days | 1969 | Anne Boleyn & Henry VIII |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Thomas More vs. Henry VIII |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Mary Queen of Scots | 2018 | Rivalry Between Mary & Elizabeth |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Cromwell | 1970 | English Civil War |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The Three Musketeers | 1973 | Cardinal Richelieu & France |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The Man in the Iron Mask | 1998 | France’s Secret Prisoner |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | El Cid | 1961 | Spanish Reconquista |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Ironclad | 2011 | King John & the Magna Carta |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Black Death | 2010 | The Plague in Europe |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The War Lord | 1965 | Norman Conquest Battles |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Joan of Arc | 1948 | The Maid of Orleans |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | 1999 | Another retelling |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The King | 2019 | Henry V & the Battle of Agincourt |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Medieval | 2022 | 15th-Century Bohemian Wars |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | Margrete: Queen of the North | 2021 | 14th-Century Scandinavian Unification |
| Renaissance & Tudor Period (1500–1600s) | The Witch | 2015 | New England Witch Trials |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | The New World (2005) – | 2005 | Pocahontas & Jamestown |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | French & Indian War |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Napoleonic Wars at Sea |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Swashbuckling Pirates |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest | 2006 | More Pirate Adventures |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | Naval Battles & Colonial Era |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | The Patriot | 2000 | American Revolution |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Revolution | 1985 | American Revolution |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | 18th-Century Aristocracy |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | The Madness of King George | 1994 | George III’s Illness |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | 1992 | Christopher Columbus |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | The Mission | 1986 | Spanish Colonization & Jesuit Missions |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Cabeza de Vaca | 1991 | Spanish Explorer in the Americas |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | Black Robe | 1991 | Jesuit Missions in Canada |
| Age of Exploration & Colonial Era (1600s–1700s) | The Crucible | 1996 | Salem Witch Trials |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | The Madness of King George | 1994 | American Revolution & British Monarchy |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | Washington | 2020 | Life of George Washington |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | John Adams | 2008 | Founding Fathers |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | The Crossing | 2000 | George Washington’s Delaware Crossing |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1982 | French Revolution |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | Danton | 1983 | French Revolution & The Reign of Terror |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | Napoleon | 1927 | The Rise of Napoleon |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | Waterloo | 1970 | Napoleon’s Final Defeat |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Napoleonic Wars at Sea |
| 18th-Century Revolutions & Wars | The Duchess | 2008 | British Aristocracy During the Revolution |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | American Civil War |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Glory | 1989 | Black Soldiers in the Civil War |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Lincoln | 2012 | Abraham Lincoln’s Final Months |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | True Story of Solomon Northup |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Native Americans & Frontier Life |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Revenant | 2015 | 1820s Fur Trade & Survival |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Oil Boom of the Late 1800s |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Gilded Age New York |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Little Women | 2019 | Civil War Era Drama |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Prestige | 2006 | 19th-Century Magicians |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Old West Outlaw |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | True Grit | 2010 | Gritty Western |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Unforgiven | 1992 | Deconstructing the Wild West |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | Western Outlaws |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Gangs of New York | 2002 | 1860s New York |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Civil War & Reconstruction |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Piano | 1993 | 19th-Century New Zealand |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Woman in Black | 2012 | Victorian England Horror |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | A Christmas Carol | 1984 | Classic Dickens Tale |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | 19th-Century Mystery |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1968 | Crimean War |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Zulu | 1964 | British Empire vs. Zulu Kingdom |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Zulu Dawn | 1979 | Prequel to Zulu |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Man Who Would Be King | 1975 | British Imperialism in India |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Gunga Din | 1939 | British Raj Conflicts |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Birth of a Nation | 2016 | Nat Turner’s Rebellion |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Free State of Jones | 2016 | Southern Unionists in the Civil War |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Searchers | 1956 | Native American Conflicts |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Tombstone | 1993 | The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Wyatt Earp | 1994 | The Lawman’s Life |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Homesman | 2014 | Pioneer Women on the Frontier |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Outlaw’s Death |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Young Victoria | 2009 | Queen Victoria’s Early Reign |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | The Aeronauts | 2019 | 19th-Century Ballooning |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Edison, the Man | 1940 | Thomas Edison’s Innovations |
| 19th Century (1800s – Pre-WWI) | Tesla | 2020 | Nikola Tesla & Electricity Wars |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Titanic | 1997 | 1912 Shipwreck |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | 2006 | Irish War of Independence |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | WWI & Middle East |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | WWI Trench Warfare |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | 1917 | 2019 | One-Take WWI Drama |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | War Horse | 2011 | WWI Through the Eyes of a Horse |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The Red Baron | 2008 | WWI Fighter Pilot |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The Lost City of Z | 2016 | Exploration of the Amazon |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The African Queen | 1951 | WWI in Africa |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Atonement | 2007 | WWI & Romance |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The English Patient | 1996 | Love & War |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Fall of Imperial China |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The Great Gatsby | 2013 | Roaring Twenties |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Chicago | 2002 | 1920s America |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Bugsy Malone | 1976 | 1920s Gangster Comedy |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The Untouchables | 1987 | Al Capone & Prohibition |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Jazz Age & Crime |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Gangsters of the 1920s |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Changeling | 2008 | 1920s Los Angeles |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Public Enemies | 2009 | 1930s Depression-Era Crime |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | The King’s Man | 2021 | Espionage in WWI |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Flyboys | 2006 | American Pilots in WWI |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Gallipoli | 1981 | Australian Troops in WWI |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Beneath Hill 60 | 2010 | Underground Warfare in WWI |
| Early 20th Century (1900s-1929) | Sergeant York | 1941 | WWI American Hero |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | The Great Gatsby | 2013 | Jazz Age & Roaring Twenties |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Changeling | 2008 | 1920s Los Angeles Corruption |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | The Untouchables | 1987 | Al Capone & Prohibition |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Road to Perdition | 2002 | 1920s Gangsters |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Chicago | 2002 | Crime & Showbiz in the Jazz Age |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Prohibition-Era Gangsters |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | The Cotton Club | 1984 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Public Enemies | 2009 | John Dillinger & Depression-Era Crime |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Boardwalk Empire | 2010 | Prohibition in Atlantic City |
| Post-WWI & 1920s | Houdini | 1953 | The Life of the Escape Artist |
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