No one could calculate the number of historical movies that get everything wrong: it’s all of them. To take one at random, John O’Farrell, in his 2007 book An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, ...

You know that expression "You can't make this stuff up?" Although countless great fictional, fantastical stories have graced the big screen, there's something special about watching a movie based on a ...

The most intriguing part of non-fiction movies set in the past, whether they're war films, action flicks, or sweeping ...

Few films have received as much incoherently contradictory reception as Ken Hughes’ Cromwell. The British historical drama made its silver-screen debut in July 1970. It was promptly criticized by ...