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First ever episode of History Buffs is honored by taking on Zulu.
Nick Hodges returns with Episode 2 which will focus on the 2000 hit movie 'Gladiator'
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. Nick Hodges breaks it apart from fact or fiction.
Apparently, Orlando Bloom was suffering from a nasty cold when shooting a big chunk of this movie. I think it shows...Anyway, this is the 2005 epic historical drama film set during the Crusades of the 12th century. Nick Hodges breaks it apart from fact or fiction.
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic historical war film in which Tom Cruise portrays a formerly retired officer of the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in 19th Century Japan.
The film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, and the westernization of Japan by foreign powers.
The Patriot is a 2000 epic historical fiction war film directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, and Jason Isaacs.
The film takes place during the events of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. Nick Hodges rips it apart from fact or fiction.
This film is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo Man-Eaters, two lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya, during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.
300 is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae within the Persian Wars.
"Well it had to happen. I just had to find a history movie I hated even more than The Patriot! But you know what's funny, you'd think that casting probably THE most French actor you could possibly think of to play the most famous Italian explorer in history would piss me off. But no.....it doesn't" - HistoryBuffs
1492: Conquest of Paradise is an epic 1992 adventure/drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Roselyne Bosch, which tells the fictionalized story of the discovery of the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (Gérard Depardieu) and the effect this had on the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
In this episode we look at the original Rock n Roll bad boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! And who says this show isn't classy and sophisticated!
Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play Amadeus. The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Well, you have all been asking for Braveheart and for this Christmas that's exactly what you're gonna get! Although this review may not look too kindly on what is regarded as one of the most historically inaccurate movies of all time.
