History Buffs

Episode 2

Gladiator

Nick Hodges returns with Episode 2 which will focus on the 2000 hit movie 'Gladiator'

Episode 3

We Were Soldiers

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.

Episode 4

Kingdom of Heaven

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.

Episode 5

The Last Samurai

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.

Episode 6

The Patriot

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.

Episode 7

The Ghost and the Darkness

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.

Episode 8

300

300 is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae within the Persian Wars.

Episode 9

1492: Conquest of Paradise

"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.

Episode 10

Amadeus

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

Episode 11

Braveheart

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.

Episode 12

Waterloo

For those of you want realism in their historical movies. To watch a film that cares as much about about authenticity as you do. Look no further. Over the course of this video you will hopefully understand why this film means so much to me. This is Waterloo

Episode 13

Alexander

"Well this is a first one guys. A historically accurate film that sucks. Now remember this is just my opinion but hopefully you will understand my reasons why I don't like Alexander. " Alexander is a 2004 epic historical drama film based on the life of Alexander the Great.

Episode 14

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence.

Episode 15

Goodfellas

The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill (the first-person narrator in the film) and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980.

Episode 16

Agora

The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it. Surrounded by religious turmoil and social unrest, Hypatia struggles to save the knowledge of classical antiquity from destruction. The story uses historical fiction to highlight the relationship between religion and science at the time amidst the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism and the Christianization of the Roman Empire

Episode 17

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war drama film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II.

Episode 18

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic historical action-adventure drama film written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set in the Napoleonic Wars.

Episode 19

Apocalypto

Set in pre-Columbian Yucatan and Guatemala around the year 1511, even though the Mayan collapse happened some 600 years earlier, Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and destruction of his village at a time when the Mayan civilization is about to come to an end.

Episode 20

Apollo 13

The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.

Episode 21

Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film directed by, produced by, and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and his dealings with a group of Lakota Indians. The film is credited as a leading influence for the revitalization of the Western genre of filmmaking in Hollywood. In 2007, Dances with Wolves was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"