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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titanic (the Titanic disaster) | 17455 |
| 2 | Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010), starring Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, set in the Roman Empire | 17382 |
| 3 | The Tudors, an Irish/Canadian produced historical fiction television series based loosely upon the reign of Henry VIII of England. It is named after the Tudor dynasty. | 14327 |
| 4 | Braveheart (1995), about William Wallace, a Scottish knight who fought for Scotland's independence in the 1290s. | 14155 |
| 5 | 300 (2007), starring Gerard Butler, a film set in the Battle of Thermopylae | 11547 |
| 6 | Full Metal Jacket (Vietnam War) | 8642 |
| 7 | The Seventh Seal (1957), Ingmar Bergman's classic film set against the backdrop of plague-ridden medieval Sweden. | 8164 |
| 8 | Gladiator (2000), starring Russell Crowe, set during the reign of Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, who ruled from 180 to 192. | 7464 |
| 9 | Apocalypse Now (Vietnam War) | 7454 |
| 10 | Schindler's List (German industrialist Oskar Schindler's assistance to keep Jewish people from being interred in concentration camps during World War II) | 7261 |
| 11 | Troy (2004), starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, based on Homer's Iliad. This movie is set in the Bronze Age, c. 1190 BC. | 6621 |
| 12 | Saving Private Ryan (D-Day and its aftermath) | 6552 |
| 13 | The Thin Red Line (The Battle of Guadalcanal) | 6285 |
| 14 | Rome (2005), a television series set in the time of the Roman Empire. | 5599 |
| 15 | Gone with the Wind (the American Civil War) | 5379 |
| 16 | Black Hawk Down (set in 1993 during the Battle of Mogadishu) | 5322 |
| 17 | Kingdom of Heaven (2005), set during the Crusades in the 1180s, particularly focusing on the Battle of Hattin and the Siege of Jerusalem which led to the Third Crusade. | 4553 |
| 18 | Valkyrie (July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler) | 4472 |
| 19 | Platoon (Vietnam War) | 4044 |
| 20 | Beowulf (2007), loose adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. | 3886 |
| 21 | Blood Diamond (set during the Sierra Leone Civil War) | 3857 |
| 22 | Pearl Harbor | 3833 |
| 23 | Gandhi (Mohandas K. Gandhi) | 3627 |
| 24 | The Last Samurai, set in the late 1870s | 3608 |
| 25 | Centurion (2010), about the supposed fate of the Ninth Legion in AD 117. | 3552 |
| 26 | Downfall (the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich) | 3521 |
| 27 | Zodiac (the Zodiac murders in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s) | 3283 |
| 28 | Alexander (2004), starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Hopkins, based on the life of Alexander the Great (4th century BC). | 3195 |
| 29 | King Arthur, a 2004 movie set in the last years of the Roman occupation. It tells the story of King Arthur, but it depicts him as a Roman warrior instead of a medieval king. | 3191 |
| 30 | Milk (film) (life of gay rights activist Harvey Milk) | 3185 |
| 31 | W. (film) (The life and presidency of George W. Bush) | 3140 |
| 32 | Amadeus about the life and death of Mozart. | 3078 |
| 33 | Glory (about one of the first official African-American units in the United States armed forces, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which fought in the American Civil War in the mid-19th century) | 3058 |
| 34 | Spartacus (1960), set during the Third Servile War (73-71 BCE). | 3024 |
| 35 | Dances with Wolves | 2983 |
| 36 | A Night to Remember (the Titanic disaster) | 2958 |
| 37 | Munich (the murder of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics) | 2950 |
| 38 | Hotel Rwanda (the 1990s Rwandan Genocide) | 2868 |
| 39 | The 13th Warrior (1999), movie that blends elements of the historical account of the travels of Ahmad ibn Fadlan (AD 922), the legend of Beowulf (6th century), and the Kurosawa film The Seven Samurai. | 2811 |
| 40 | Ben-Hur (1959), set in the Roman Empire c. A.D. 26. Starring Charlton Heston. | 2719 |
| 41 | Clash of the Titans (1981), starring Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin and Burgess Meredith. This film is based on the legendary adventures of the Greek hero Perseus. Contrary to its misleading title, it has little or nothing to do with the Titans. | 2676 |
| 42 | Lawrence of Arabia (The Arab Revolt) | 2655 |
| 43 | The Pillars of the Earth (2010), miniseries set in England from 1120-1170 focusing on the construction of a cathedral during the civil wars between King Stephen and his cousin Maud. | 2599 |
| 44 | The Young Victoria, portrays the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria and her relationship with Prince Albert | 2561 |
| 45 | We Were Soldiers (the first days of the Vietnam War) | 2547 |
| 46 | Hero (2002), starring Jet Li, set in ancient China during the 3rd century BC | 2491 |
| 47 | Enemy at the Gates (based on the Battle of Stalingrad from a Soviet perspective) | 2446 |
| 48 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2407 |
| 49 | Black Death (2010), horror film set during the initial outbreak of the plague (AD 1348-49), starring Sean Bean. | 2387 |
| 50 | The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, about the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s. | 2308 |
| 51 | The Good Shepherd (rise of Central Intelligence Agency Counter-intelligence leading up to the Bay of Pigs Invasion) | 2303 |
| 52 | A Knight's Tale (2001), loose adaptation of The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, this tale is partially inspired by the exploits of William Marshall, but set in the 1350s (with mention made to Edward, the Black Prince and the Battle of Poitiers (1356)). | 2292 |
| 53 | Bonnie and Clyde | 2286 |
| 54 | Frost/Nixon (the Frost Nixon interviews) | 2167 |
| 55 | Tombstone (events leading up to the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) | 2123 |
| 56 | Che (Che Guevara) | 2119 |
| 57 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which focuses on the end of Jesse James' career as a criminal and the man who eventually kills him, Robert Ford in 1882. | 2116 |
| 58 | Elizabeth, about Elizabeth I of England, a Queen in the 16th century. | 2102 |
| 59 | JFK (the assassination of President John F. Kennedy) | 2094 |
| 60 | Marie Antoinette (2006 film) about Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 18th century) | 2089 |
| 61 | Behind Enemy Lines (set during the Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia) | 2048 |
| 62 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | 2043 |
| 63 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (construction of the Burma Railway by British prisoners of war during World War II) | 1950 |
| 64 | The Other Boleyn Girl about Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. | 1915 |
| 65 | 10,000 BC (2008) | 1913 |
| 66 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1909 |
| 67 | Charlie Wilson's War (set during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan) | 1891 |
| 68 | Agora (2009),starring Rachel Weisz, a film set in the Roman Egypt | 1888 |
| 69 | Roots (the slave trade) set between 1750 and roughly 1880. | 1886 |
| 70 | The Queen (HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom) | 1833 |
| 71 | Bobby (the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968) | 1796 |
| 72 | Jarhead (Gulf War) | 1689 |
| 73 | Flags of Our Fathers (Battle of Iwo Jima from American perspective) | 1683 |
| 74 | Three Kings (1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein and aftermath of the Gulf War) | 1682 |
| 75 | Letters from Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima from Japanese perspective) | 1676 |
| 76 | Doctor Zhivago | 1664 |
| 77 | Mississippi Burning (the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation into the murders of civil rights workers in 1964) | 1650 |
| 78 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age, a 2007 historical drama starring Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen. | 1630 |
| 79 | World Trade Center (the September 11 attacks in 2001) | 1630 |
| 80 | The Last Legion (2007) connecting (in heavy fictionalized fashion) the deposition of the last western emperor Romulus Augustus by Odoacer with the myth of Uther Pendragon and Battle of Mons Badonicus. | 1608 |
| 81 | The Doors (1960s in the United States) | 1558 |
| 82 | The Legend of Bagger Vance set in Savannah, Georgia, in 1931. | 1508 |
| 83 | Cleopatra (1963), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, set during the first years of the Roman Empire (1st century BC) that depicts the life of Cleopatra, a queen of Egypt. | 1503 |
| 84 | The Longest Day (D-Day during World War II) | 1478 |
| 85 | Barry Lyndon | 1472 |
| 86 | The Killing Fields (the Khmer Rouge's genocide) | 1404 |
| 87 | Mongol, the rise to power of Genghis Khan in the late 12th century. | 1403 |
| 88 | Patton (the exploits of General George S. Patton during World War II) | 1339 |
| 89 | Lions for Lambs (War in Iraq and War in Afghanistan (2001âpresent) ) | 1261 |
| 90 | Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend around the Beast of Gévaudan (1764â1767). | 1174 |
| 91 | The 300 Spartans (1961), reenactment of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE). | 1171 |
| 92 | Thirteen Days (the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis) | 1161 |
| 93 | Evita (Evita Peron) | 1160 |
| 94 | The Eagle (2011), a young Roman man attempts to find out what happened to his father in the Ninth Legion. | 1157 |
| 95 | Bright Star (2009), set in 1818-1821, the last three years of poet John Keats' life | 1128 |
| 96 | The Alamo (2004 film) (The Battle of the Alamo, 1836) | 1113 |
| 97 | Tora! Tora! Tora! (the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941) | 1112 |
| 98 | The Name of the Rose (1986) Starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. Based on the novel by Umberto Eco, set in an Italian monastery during the early 14th century. | 1103 |
| 99 | The Libertine, about the career of the 17th century poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. | 1089 |
| 100 | All the President's Men (the Nixon-era Watergate scandal) | 1072 |
| 101 | The Right Stuff (the Project Mercury space launches) | 1061 |
| 102 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), set in France in the beginnings of the 15th century. The movie is about Joan of Arc, the legendary female warrior during the 100 Years' War. | 1031 |
| 103 | Amazing Grace (William Wilberforce's campaign to abolish slavery in Britain, 1807) | 1028 |
| 104 | All Quiet On The Western Front (Western Front of World War I) | 1026 |
| 105 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise, a movie that tells the story of the discovery and conquest of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492. | 1007 |
| 106 | Summer of Sam (the Son of Sam murders in New York City in 1977) | 999 |
| 107 | Michael Collins (Irish Michael Collins) | 998 |
| 108 | Miracle (the U.S. hockey team's gold medal victory at the 1980 Winter Olympics) | 954 |
| 109 | Rob Roy (about Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor), set in 1713. | 949 |
| 110 | Cry Freedom (set during the apartheid era of South Africa) | 940 |
| 111 | Spartacus (2004), miniseries about the Third Servile War (73-71 BCE). | 925 |
| 112 | Vanity Fair, set in early 19th century | 911 |
| 113 | Wonderland (set during the early eighties Los Angeles) | 902 |
| 114 | The Battle of Algiers (set during the 1960s Algerian War of Independence) | 888 |
| 115 | Nixon (the political life of Richard M. Nixon) | 874 |
| 116 | The Devils (1971), about the life and trial of Urbain Grandier, who was convicted of witchcraft and burned in 1634. | 868 |
| 117 | In the Valley of Elah (War in Iraq and War in Afghanistan (2001âpresent)) | 825 |
| 118 | MacBeth (1971), Roman Polanski's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the Alban king Mac Bethad mac FindlaÃch, who reigned in the 1050s. | 822 |
| 119 | Open Water (set during the late 1990s) | 813 |
| 120 | Flyboys (American volunteer combat pilots in service for the Allies during World War I) | 799 |
| 121 | The Dam Busters (1955) (development of the Upkeep bouncing bomb and its use in Operation Chastise) | 792 |
| 122 | Cross of Iron (Eastern Front, 1943) | 792 |
| 123 | I, Claudius (1976), a television series set during the rule of the Roman Julio-Claudians. | 790 |
| 124 | Quo Vadis (1951), set in the Roman Empire in Nero times | 786 |
| 125 | Wyatt Earp | 758 |
| 126 | The Merchant of Venice (2004), the 1596 play by Shakespeare starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. | 731 |
| 127 | The Madness of King George (George III of the United Kingdom, King of Great Britain and Ireland for the latter half of the 18th century. | 723 |
| 128 | Jason and the Argonauts (1963), depicts the legendary journey of the Argo to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis. | 718 |
| 129 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), about an ill-fated expedition down the Amazon in 1560. | 708 |
| 130 | A Man for All Seasons, about Thomas More. | 706 |
| 131 | The Odyssey (1997), a miniseries based on the epic poem by Homer, starring Armand Assante, Isabella Rossellini and Irene Papas. | 689 |
| 132 | Ironclad (2011), about the siege of Rochester Castle in 1215. | 684 |
| 133 | Queen Christina, about Queen Christina of Sweden (r. 1632-1654). | 677 |
| 134 | Paid in Full (set during the Crack Epidemic of the 1980s) | 657 |
| 135 | The Virgin Spring (1960), Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of the 13th century Swedish ballad, Töres dotter i Wänge. | 649 |
| 136 | Battle of Britain | 647 |
| 137 | The Message (1976), Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas star in this film about the life of Muhammad (ca. 570-632). | 640 |
| 138 | Quest for Fire (1981) | 636 |
| 139 | Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria and John Brown) (set between 1861 and 1883). | 624 |
| 140 | Hamburger Hill (a battle which took place in 1969 during the Vietnam War) | 623 |
| 141 | Kagemusha, about the Battle of Nagashino, Japan. | 599 |
| 142 | The Four Feathers (2002) | 587 |
| 143 | Hercules (2005), is a miniseries starring Leelee Sobieski, Paul Telfer, Timothy Dalton and Sean Astin, based (very loosely) on the life and exploits of the legendary Greek hero Herakles. | 586 |
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