"Historical film" redirects here. For Historical play, see History (theatrical genre).
Salah Zulfikar and Nadia Lutfi in the historical drama Saladin the Victorious (1963)
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers.
Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past.
A historicaldrama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film...
lists of historical films. List of Estonian war films List of Polish war films List of Romanian historical films List of Russian historical films List...
The historicaldrama or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historicaldramas are docudramas...
Historical or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based on historical events and famous persons. Some historicaldramas attempt to accurately...
adaptations like Azumi and 300. Historicaldrama film stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historicaldramas are docudramas, which attempt...
Operation Finale is a 2018 American historical dramatic thriller film directed by Chris Weitz from a screenplay by Matthew Orton about a 1960 clandestine...
the late 4th century, Menander. Aeschylus' historical tragedy The Persians is the oldest surviving drama, although when it won first prize at the City...
TNS Korea. K-dramas have a multitude of different genre such as action dramas, historicaldramas, school dramas, medical dramas, legal dramas, or even horror...
Taiga drama (Japanese: 大河ドラマ, Hepburn: Taiga dorama, "Big River Drama") is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historicaldrama television series...
of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typically strive to adhere to known historical facts, while allowing...
Below is the list of Vietnamese historicaldrama films: list of Asian historicaldrama films "The Abandoned Field-Free Fire Zone (Canh dong hoang)". University...
films and historicaldrama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important...
encephalitis lethargica Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) – historical biographical drama film about the life and death of Norman Bethune, a Canadian...
(2010) – Chinese biographical drama film depicting the life of Confucius The Conspirator (2010) – mystery Historicaldrama film telling the story of Mary...
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – detective drama The Adventures of Sir Lancelot – historical/fantasy drama The Adventures of Spot – animated The Adventures...
in various films before making her breakthrough in Morten Tyldum's historicaldrama The Imitation Game (2014), and subsequently appeared in The Wachowskis'...
Commodus in the historicaldrama Gladiator (2000). He had success with the horror films Signs (2002) and The Village (2004), the historicaldrama Hotel Rwanda...
drama, Friday Night Lights. He also played Dr. Shane Ross on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy and a recurring role on the NBC historical-drama...
Ordeal by Innocence (2018), the historical miniseries Belgravia (2020), the thriller Yellowjackets (2021–2023), and the drama series Fallout (2024). She has...
revolutionary historicaldrama "The Cradle". On June 21, the starring youth school drama "Reset in July" aired. On July 1, the historicaldrama film "1921"...
and the Disney+ historicaldrama The Right Stuff as Alan Shepard. He is also well known for his roles on the ABC Family comedy-drama Greek (2007–2011)...
(1970) – Italian war drama film based on real life events of Italian partisan Silvio Corbari Cromwell (1970) – British historicaldrama film based on the...
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