101. Official Story, The ( historia oficial, La )
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Puenzo
Actors: Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana, Guillermo Battaglia, Chela Ruíz
102. World Trade Center
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
Plot: Based on a true story: In the aftermath of the devastating attack on the World Trade Center towers, two port authority officers, Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin, are trapped beneath the rubble. Their families pull together to keep hope alive while rescuers never give up on saving them.
103. Red Obsession
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Roach, Warwick Ross
Actors: Debra Meiburg, Russell Crowe
Plot: Bordeaux has always been a rare, prized wine among connoisseurs but the long-standing French label finds itself stretched to the brink after China makes the expensive wine their new status symbol.
104. The Agony and the Ecstasy
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, John Stacy
Plot: Kind of a "making of film" about the painting of the Sisteen Chapel. Pope Julius 2nd (Rex Harrison) hires the reluctant painter Michelangelo (Charlton Heston).
105. Anne of the Thousand Days
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Charles Jarrott
Actors: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern
Plot: the story of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry the eighth and mother of Elizabeth the first
106. Matewan
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Sayles
Actors: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Gordon Clapp
Plot: Based on real events, the story about brutally broken strike of West
Virginian miners in 1920.
107. Sacrifice ( Zhao shi gu er )
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Xueqi Wang, Fengyi Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Fan, Hai-Qing, Wenzhuo Zhao
108. King of the Hill
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Adrien Brody
Plot: During the depression a young boy is left alone after his mother is committed and his father travels for work. The seedy motel becomes his home and the many people who come and go his surrogate family as he does all he can to survive.
109. The Doors
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Val Kilmer, Kyle MacLachlan, Meg Ryan, Michael Madsen, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Dillon
Plot: Both a homage to the 1960s rock group, The Doors, and a biography of its lead singer, Jim Morrison.
110. Marketa Lazarová
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frantisek Vlácil
Actors: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka, Frantisek Velecký, Karel Vasicek
Plot: A minor Czech family survives by robbing travelers. When one such job goes south - the clan fears the wrath of the king. Calling on his neighbor to help - his persuasion fails and in anger and desperation, kidnaps his daughter as she leaves for the convent. Meanwhile the king gathers an army to take on the clan - a Medieval tale against the backdrop of Paganism shifting to Christianity.
