Period Movies (Page #8)

Explores the events leading up to the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

Unlike the 1960 film of the same title, this version will rely on historic facts of Spartacus as a revolutionary, focusing on him leading a band of elite gladiators and freed slaves in revolt against the Roman war machine.

Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.

In the wake of World War II, a young U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps officer, Jack Hunter, uncovers a dangerous Nazi conspiracy for a Fourth Reich. Artur Axmann is a Hitler confidante and the Nazi national leader of Hitler Youth. After conscripting kids to fight in the waning days of WWII, he is among those in the bunker when Hitler kills himself. After nearly being killed along with two others who escape the bunker, Axmann hunkers down with his plot. Hunter tracks down the men behind the conspiracy and alters the course of history forever. Axmann is eventually arrested when an Army counterintelligence operation sniffs out his plot to rekindle the Reich.

Longtime friends and political collaborators Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft become bitter opponents, culminating in the 1912 Presidential election in which both are defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson with Taft running as the Republican incumbent and Roosevelt campaigning as head of the Bull Moose party.

During WWII, Davie Berman, the only Jewish member of the Luciano mob, is requested by the U.S. military to help turn the tide of events against the Germans in Italy. He almost single-handedly drives the Germans out of the southern region of Italy.

At the center of the story is the Queen herself (Olivia Colman), whose relationship with her confidante, adviser and clandestine lover Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) is turned upside down by the arrival of the Duchess’s younger cousin Abigail (Emma Stone). Soon the balance of power shifts between the women as they jockey for influence with the Queen and the court.

Set in the summer of 1914, family disputes, tragic misunderstandings, missed opportunities and aristocratic follies lead to the outbreak of the World War I.

A group of settlers from Independence, Missouri make the trek to Willamette Valley in Oregon while traveling along the Oregon Trail in 1848.

With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.

"The Young Victoria" chronicles Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert.

During the Civil War, Union Army surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker struggles to be accepted and compensated in the same manner as her male counterparts in the medical field and ultimately becomes the first and only female recipient to receive the Congressional Medal Of Honor. Even after receiving her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College, Walker is considered unfit for the Union Army Examining Board and initially is only allowed to serve voluntarily as a surgeon. While serving in the war, Dr. Walker is captured by Confederate soldiers after boldly crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and is arrested as a spy – eventually being released in a prisoner exchange.

The film centers on a forbidden romance that develops between composer, priest and violin virtuoso Antonio Vivaldi and his protege, singer Anna Tessieri Giro, leading him to write his enduring masterpiece "The Four Seasons."

Set in the 19th Century, Caroline Weldon moves from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people.

Based on the true story of Caroline Mathilda, the English princess who married King Christian VII of Denmark in the early 1770s, A Royal Affair is a bold, sumptuous tale of illicit love and political passion on a sweeping, epic scale. Keen to be a dutiful wife and Queen, Caroline’s hopes are soon dashed when she discovers the King’s true madness. Turning away from the King she finds herself in the arms of the King’s physician – a radical libertarian – with whom she embarks upon a passionate affair that would bring the kingdom to the brink of revolution.

Story details are under wraps. Said to be different than other Arabian Nights-related projects.

A comedy set during the Napoleonic Wars. Steve Carell would play Etienne Gerard, a soldier who considers himself a gallant swordsman but whose actual skills often pale in comparison to his own conception of them.