261. Free State of Jones
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gary Ross
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell, Sean Bridgers, Christopher Berry
Plot: As the Civil War divides a nation, MIssissippi farmer Newt Knight defies the South by opposing both slavery and succession. He himself succeeds and forms his own "Free State of Jones" with the help of fellow like-minded farmers. The group lead their own rebellion against the South - one that continued long after the war as Knight marries a former slave, essentially former the first mixed-race community in the region.
262. Heaven's Gate
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Jeff Bridges
Plot: Sweeping western epic depicting life in 1890s Wyoming as a marshal deals with encroaching wealthy cattle interests intent on displacing, and murdering, local immigrant farmers, over use of the land. He also deals with a hired gun who is in love with the same woman as him. Ideals about the great American dream will be shattered as both stories come to a head.
263. Conquest
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Clarence Brown
Actors: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Dame May Whitty, Leif Erickson
264. Come See the Paradise
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Colm Meaney, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi
Plot: An Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman fall in love and marry during the 1930s. When World War Two breaks out, he is drafted into the Army, and she and their daughter are forced into an internment camp.
265. The Baron of Arizona
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat
266. Legend of Rita, The ( Stille nach dem Schuß, Die )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl, Harald Schrott, Alexander Beyer, Jenny Schily
267. 47 Ronin, The aka Loyal 47 of the Genroku Era, The ( Genroku Chûshingura )
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Daisuke Katô, Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kunitaro Kawarazaki, Mantoyo Mimasu
268. Western Union
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Slim Summerville
269. A Tale of Two Cities
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Thomas
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Paul Guers, Marie Versini, Ian Bannen, Cecil Parker
270. Lloyd's of London
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia Field
