Post by kijii on Mar 9, 2019 2:38:03 GMT
I like the movie, Cromwell (1970), in that it presents some of the things that happened during the English Civil War. For movies that covered the period after the Restoration, there is England, My England (1995) and a very fictionalize Charles II in Forever Amber (1947). Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and Rob Roy (1995) touch upon the Jacobite Rising after the the House of Hanover was in rule. And, of course, there have been many movies about Victoria, Elizabeth I, and Henry VIII.
In fact, the movies (+ the Shakespeare histories) have given me, as an American, more grounding in British history.
It was these movies that encouraged me to learn the listing of the British monarchs from William the Conqueror to the present.
I was even happy to finally see a movie about Queen Anne (the last of the Stuarts) this year, but I was not as impressed as I hoped I would be with The Favourite (2018). I was hoping for a little more history and a little less "contrived playfulness."
In fact, the movies (+ the Shakespeare histories) have given me, as an American, more grounding in British history.
It was these movies that encouraged me to learn the listing of the British monarchs from William the Conqueror to the present.
I was even happy to finally see a movie about Queen Anne (the last of the Stuarts) this year, but I was not as impressed as I hoped I would be with The Favourite (2018). I was hoping for a little more history and a little less "contrived playfulness."