And technically, 2001 the film was co-written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. It was based on Clarke's short story 'The Sentinel' and later, Clarke developed the full novel 2001.
Glad your girlfriend convinced you to stick with it. As a history teacher myself, I can say your channel has been criminally underrated. I am glad to see it is starting to take off.
Alias Fakename I agree. I just stumbled on this channel a few weeks ago. I’m not sure why it wasn’t recommended to me way before now, considering all the military, arms, armor & history in my search profile. But I’m glad I finally got a chance to find this channel & I would’ve been heartbroken had it been one of those channels you sometimes find that fantastic content, but they haven’t posted anything new in like 2 years.
@@susanmaggiora4800 The Algorithm giveth, and the Algorithm taketh away. Couldn't tell you what brought him out of Algorithm Hell. He probably got put there just because "Oh, Civil War? Slavery? Nope that's not gonna be good for advertisers." But the videos with the most views, made recently in the last 3 week boost were 2 civil war videos, another Checkmate Lincolnites and The Best Civil War Movie from the Southern Perspective. I think the only way we could ever know what blew him up so fast, would be analytics from the channel's side of things.
Stymie Gray Cypher's shoutout kickstarted it, and I will be eternally grateful to him for that, but when he first reached out to me asking permission to use clips from my videos I thought it might get me 1k more subscribers total. This is way beyond what I expected. I think it's a vicious cycle. Cypher's Lost Cause video did exceptionally well, which drove more of an audience to me, which drove up engagement, which improved my standing in the eyes of Our Lord Algorithm, which sent more eyeballs my way, which drove up engagement again, etc etc. Hey, I'm not complaining. I've always wanted to make a living doing something I love and it seems like I might be on the verge of that.
@@AtunSheiFilms I literally found your channel because I watched some Crash Course videos on the civil war for Uni (American education at its finest) and your lost cause videos showed up in the recommendations. RU-vid is fucking weird.
I only learned this when another channel referenced, "checkmate lincolnites," and it was exactly what i was craving. A rebuke of anything being redeemable about the CSA. Hats off to this channel, you're girl sounds great, and keep up the good work.
I watched Come and See in a film class when I was completing my masters degree in European History. Seeing that picture in a classroom was...something. After it was over, the professor invited comments, but we all just got up and left, no one person saying a single word. I agree that it is an amazing picture about the barbarism for the Eastern Front.
I watched come and see while I was having a slow weekend on-call. My wife had some friends over after she got out of work probably three or four hours after the movie ended, and our friends legitimately thought I was having a breakdown. I was about as close to catatonic as one can get. That movie should be consumed as one would a powerful psychedelic substance. With a ton of forethought, and in a good place mentally. It should also be required watching for every 20th century history class. I feel it could genuinely de-radicalize some young men being led down the roads of open race or religious based hatred.
A similar thing happened at Uni when we watched Waltz With Bashir. I decided to watch come and See this afternoon. I'm would love to study the film closer. it certainly echoing in my head right now.
@@DinoPimp "A similar thing happened at Uni when we watched Waltz With Bashir." Not in a university setting, but I had to watch the movie online during quarantine. I just kinda sat with my thoughts for probably an hour after I finished it.
I watched it with a couple friends over a discord voice call and there was a solid couple minutes of silence after the movie ended and was paused before anyone said anything.
typical "othering" with words " barbarism for the eastern front". movie is typical of all wars . just ask afghans about despicable unmitigated seeped to the core barbarism of craven military usa regime, the evil in current world. only difference is hollywood wont make such movies, so people like you can distance yourself, and yours, from such things, push them to other people
I'm forever pissed at HBO for canceling 'Rome' because 'it cost too much to make'. Only for them to make an even more expensive fantasy series that died like a fart in the wind.
@@RadoDani The bromance between Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus was too much 'toxic' masculinity apparently. Why teach viewers actual history in a fun fiction narrative when they can have agenda ridden BS written by Hollyweird insiders when the source material was exhausted? I think even the directors of a few episodes of 'Rome' were experts in Roman history.
"Downfall"...Not many have dared to portray Hitler in film beyond the portrait on the wall or desk. Having been done by the Germans themselves, lends it a potency that's difficult to explain, looking themselves in the mirror perhaps? At times you forget you're watching a movie and not in the room. I'm sure you've seen it and perhaps considered it. If not, you must. You just earned another subscription.
A fantastic movie, yes, but as history it suffers from being drawn from the diaries of those around Hitler who survived. For obvious reasons, they were keen to blame absolutely everything on those who did not survive - Hitler mainly, but people like Goebbels too. There was a lot of "I knew noothink!" in that film.
Hmmmmm....SF fans, it's possible that Mr. Perlman might be a passable Clarence Aloysius Gaffney (aficionados of L. Sprague De Camp will know whom I mean).
About 20 years ago I was on the panel of a discussion of the career of Robert A Heinlein. George R R Martin was sitting on my right. When the panel was over I turned to him and said, "What was it like working with Ron Perlman?" He said, "Thank god, I thought you were going to say Linda Hamilton." He told me Ron showed up early every day of shooting for Beauty and the Beast for that make up and they never had to re-shoot a scene because he flubbed a line. And take after take he was exactly in the same place with the same gesture so it was easy to blend his scenes. He is the consummate professional.
"Come and See" is probably a must watch for people that are use to the glorified viewing of war. The movie has a level of dread and uneasiness that is hard to shake off days later
After watching come and see, I felt like I had seen something completely insidious. Like I was truly transported into a world of hatred, disaster, and death. It is a brilliant film which I cannot forget. Also the way it affects you almost feels traumatizing. Like you seen something you shouldn’t have, but it’s something I reccomend anybody to watch.
I can’t believe we didn’t watch this in my soviet film class I took in college. Instead we watched the cranes are flying and the mirror among others I can’t remember
One thing Master and Commander does that I have never seen in any other movie, is having sound move slower than light, at the start of the movie the French frigate is seen in the distance and you see the flashes of the cannon and then after a delay you hear the sound. It's also the only movie I've seen that has actors of the right age and diversity (as the navy at the time was actually very diverse), it's the only time I've heard mention the standard practice of loading more than one cannon ball in the gun at a time, having the cannons fly backwards when fired and using the correct terminology throughout the movie.
The basically child aged officers, you don't see that in many other movies. But the musical piece, Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis..It sends a shiver down my spine just listening to it now.
I've heard people say that they wish they could fought fought in Vietnam and I tell them I wish I didn't. Nothing I knew prepared me for it and I lost so many friends in it. Hopefully some people can relate to this.
Thank you for your service, and I'm sorry others nearer my age revel so much in things they have no experience of- beyond movies and video games. I wish you the best of luck going forward sir.
Oh man, Tyler. Blessings on you. I'm a kid of the 60s/70s and I remember well that Vietnam was at the forefront of our national consciousness (of course, that was the sanitized version). Thank you for your service and your sacrifice.
@@taloob493 The first few minutes are set in the year 3434 of the 2nd Age. The rest, comprising the War of the Ring started in the year 3018, 3rd Age, and ended with the defeat of Sauron in 3019, 3rd Age. Duh...
Oh please, Elladan and Elrohir (sons of Elrond), the rangers of the North, or Prince Imrahil and all the men of Dol Amroth he led would have some word with you about the accuracy of the battle of the Pelennor Fields. Don't even get me started about the Black Gate. Fun movies though.
“Come and See” hit me so deeply when I saw it 2 years ago that I got chills and flashbacks the second you said the title ... I think that incredible visceral reaction says it all. Thanks for the great recommendations, your channel is awesome!
Come and See is an absolutely horrifying movie and its reflection on partisan life and fears are so visually real as well. Really excited to watch Barry Lyndon. I love your videos because you add a social character to covering history rather than just reciting the facts. Thanks for your work.
Master and Commander is probably the quintessential example of historical authenticity/accuracy being done close to perfect while also having a great cast and story.
@Dave A. The producers changed the setting from the Anglo-American War of 1812 to the Napoleonic wars between the UK and France so the film wouldn't offend American audiences...
@Dave A. That's actually exactly true. In the Aubrey-Maturin book series, the ship they peruse is American as it takes place during the War of 1812. However, Wier felt that the movie, which cost over $150 million to film, would do poorly with American audiences if they were seen as the bad guys.
@Dave A. Unless you are an expert on historical ships most people wouldn't notice. Also armament inaccuracies are a bit pointless to point out. No one will point out that in WW2 films almost every German will have a Mp-40 when officers were really the only ones with them.
Thank you for talking a bit about what happened to the Russians and Belarusians. I was in Minsk in January 2021 and had the chance to visit the Great Patriotic War Museum there. Depressingly brutal.
Hmmm this comment hits really oddly in December 2022. I think we have all had a brutal reawakening of Russian brutality post Bucha etc. and against sits own population Russias brutality to its own citizens is horrific too.
And it also shows why some people in what is now Ukraine/Estonia etc thought that the NAZIs were possibly the better of two terrible and appalling choices. Stalin was every bit as brutal, cruel, vindictive, as the Germans and for many it was a case of which side might let you live longer than the other side.
What I loved about Master and Commander: It touched on every aspect of Napoleonic-era Europe (except sex, I guess). You had war, class conflict, science, medicine, religion, music, superstition, the whaling industry, food... and without it seeming shoehorned in just because the writer did the research and wanted to include it. And, for a war movie, it included so many moments of charity and compassion. It's one of my favorite movies.
We really need a full blown series of the Napoleonic Wars. A TV show historical drama following Wellington, Napoleon's family, and Czar Alexander... You don't even need to event stories, that whole 15 year period between 1800-1815 is dripping with conflict, romance, politics and intrigue.
The problem being, though, that the story originally is set during the war of 1812 with the enemy ship being American.... but you can't have that in a Hollywood production.
Boy will you be surprised to discover it's based on novels full of this sort of stuff and that it's therefore not necessarily the movie creators credit.
@@2adamast in this case that's debatable, because the source material had a lot of books the sequels could have drawn from. The first movie was an amalgammation of two novels, "Master and Commander", and "The Far Side of the World".
@@samuelperezgarcia It must be me: I only saw Star Wars (aka episode IV), Lord of the Rings I, most of Pirate of the Caribbean but only the first is perfectly weird, same for Harry Potter, the rest is just more.
I loved Quest for Fire. It is such an interesting movie. The premise is a bit hokey but the characters are so sympathetic and their struggle is so universal, that you become invested in the story despite yourself.
@@bimmovieproductions6352 the performances range from solid to great. Unfortunately, it doesnt tell much of a story unless youre already familiar with the events its based upon.
So I only just realised The "Number 4 May Surprise You" gag at the start of this video actually rings true, because let's be real, none of us were expecting Apocalypto.
@@nicholaswolstencroft9263 only the historical part is a dumpster fire, its great fiction. I also agree with shei that is it very immersive even though it is 100% innacurate (spanish conquistadors and smallpox arriving in the 9th century lmao)
@@thenoblepoptart It's not set in the 9th century, it's assuming we don't have the whole story of American civilization, and it is assuming an unknown city-state doing the same thing the Aztecs were doing, except with Inca elements thrown in. There is no reason to assume only the stories you heard already are the ones that are possible. Apocalypto is set around 1510, but in an area where Europeans haven't arrived yet (but Smallpox has).
@@annaclarafenyo8185 i thought it was supposed to be about the mayan collapse? I guess maybe that is what you are meant to think and the smallpox and ship arrivals was like the twist or something...
This is one of the rare instances of a meaningful introduction to a RU-vid video. I found it helpful that you defined those terms and explained from which direction you're coming from. Thumbs up!
I'd adore a review of 1970's Waterloo! And yes, I'm a new subscriber, but I've been binging your videos for the last week, especially your reviews and Confederate videos! Keep it up man, your stuff is really good quality!
The distinction between you and Nick from History Buffs talking about Apocalypto is so amusing to me, like he's your polar opposite in many ways, he even gets angry at the notion you often defend of: "It's just a movie"
that tends to play tricks to nick to be faire, as he will be harsh on movie on things he know about (breaveheart, the patriot, apocalypto...) and quite concilliant on other like the last samourai despit the movie being nearly as accurate as brave heart^^
@@gabrielrognon6238 Thats why he irritates me. On all of those movies, Mel Gibson and his crew emphasised that they wanted to make the story immersive and not necessarily as accurate as possible. Forget about historical accuracy, you cant tell me that those movies wernt good in some way.
Loved what you said about Das Boot. I was a motorcyclist for most of my life, and trying to explain why I loved it to anyone who has never done it was like your experience coming back from a long hike. You just can't explain it to people who don't share your feeling for it. Thanks for finally putting into words something I've been struggling with for four decades.
I personally liked 'The Way Back' a true story of how a motley and desperate band of Soviet Gulag survivors from Siberia make their way to India after escaping during the 2nd World War.
Horrible as the Soviet Gulag was, “The Way Back” is not based on a true story. Decades ago the book on which the movie is based was proven to be a complete fraud. There is hard documentary evidence that the supposed Gulag escape simply never happened. Please check the relevant article in Wikipedia.
As a historian and film nerd, you had me nodding furiously multiple times. I was so happy when you had Barry Lyndon as #1, I've had that rant IRL :P One point I think you overlooked with it is how well Kubrick used the score, for both accuracy and authenticity. Now I'm going to hunt down a copy of quest for fire, as that has somehow slipped my notice.
Good to see your inclusion of Barry Lyndon, which is a cinematic tour de force. Much of the film is presented as if viewing a painting. The narration, the costuming, the sets, all contribute in making the film a treat to watch. By the way, I'm more then surprised you did not include a feature that not only won multiple Oscar's, but best film as well. Bernardo Bertolucci's; The Last Emperor. Very immersive.
@@GeraltofRivia22 because the film doesn’t glorify any political ideology, it just shows you the horrors of conflict. sure anything can be propaganda but you are wrong about this film being propaganda
RAN--an absolute masterpiece in filmmaking not only in characterization, but in also the extreme bleakness in the cinematography and music. Lady Kede was a absolute scheming character
Another neat aspect of that shot of Ichimonji walking out of the burning castle - he walks out of a burning castle, into a black landscape, surrounded by soldiers in black armour who have red and yellow banners reaching above them. The soldiers aesthetically mirror the war-ravaged landscape, with the banners echoing the colours of the flames.
26:34. THAT is a prime example of what I mean by “who you have around you WILL determine your future.” Because you got a good lady with you, you stuck with RU-vid long enough for people like me to stumble upon your treasure chest of a channel. Glad to be here. Keep up the good work.
You and many others, myself included. I showed up here right before his channel exploded. This video has outstripped many of his past videos in one day. And he certainly deserves it.
My first thought, when I saw the title of this video was: "I wonder if he will mention Barry Lyndon" and I was pleasantly surprised that you did. I think I might have ranked the films in this video almost in the same way, plus I now have a few films I really need to see. Thanks for this!
Barry Lyndon will ruin every other european historical movie for you. I watched Amadeus after seeing it and although I like that flick I was bothered by the sheer lack of make up on men's faces lol
@@TheLouisianan The fact that there's a miniseries version that's even longer makes that even more clear. It also drives home the contrast between weeks on end of boredom and the actual "action" much more effectively. But of course, that doesn't work that much in a movie.
I dont know how a family friend worked on a nuclear sub for most of a decade. I cant imagine going weeks without sun light... You know, without the benefit of an Xbox that is
I Just saw Come and See a few days ago. That ending scene where Florya wishes it could all go back as he growls and screams in rage and pain firing at the picture of Adolf until he catches himself in that stunning reverse montage after everything in that movie truly has had more impact on me then anything else I have watched in my life. Hell I watched Africa Addios in which you see some real atrocities happing in real time didn't hit me the same way that Come and See did. The way the movie absorbs you into Florya's nightmare is really hard to put into words. Thank you for introducing me to this film.
The thing I enjoy the most about The Lighthouse is that it pulls off Lovecraft better than most modern Lovecraftian works. "How long have we been here? Five weeks?! Two days?!"
Kinda. Lacks the science fiction but certainly has the spirit. Sad to think the thing is still the most "lovecraftian" movie ever made. Hollywood can't make it profitablr, and if they do, well, we have the new shitty series for that...
@@scottcoz you're talking to people who think lovecraftian means cosmic horror and cosmic horror means 'the universe doesn't care about you'; people who think True Detective is Lovecraftian. Now I'm not disagreeing with them; I'm just letting you know. Also The Astronaut's Wife ;) .
@@thomashyle6098About the Astronaut's Wife, when the alien consciousness speaking through the astronaut said he could spank the President with a coat hanger - you believe him 🥴
Mica Prazak ir you're looking for "inmersion", have look on "the son of Saúl"...Not a single note of music: just the noises you would hear: you feel you're there, you have to do what the characters do....and you feel lousy... :( I wouldn't see the film again, but if we talk about inmersion, this film should be on the list (it's far better than come and see from that point of view, imo).
Since there's a series in here anyway, I thought Wolf Hall was amazingly well done. The dialogue and costumes are just fantastic, and many night scenes are also lit with just candles.
yes ! that and Master and Commander are in my top 10, so is Quest for Fire..for it's time (no CGI) I heard it took almost 5 years to get to screen...poor Ron Pearlman is always gonna be known for that part !
Barry Lyndon and Come & See are my two favourites here. I watched Come and See last week for the first time. I couldn't stop watching. It's truly powerful and beautiful and gut-wrenching
I saw Ran on the big screen when it first came out and was completely blown away. The cinematography is stunning. I was very happy to see it made this list. Kurosawa interpreting Shakespeare is such a strange thought, yet it works so amazingly well.
My grandfather told me that joke more than a half century ago. But much of the series is lifted from other sources. I had to stop reading it because every few pages I would stumble on a turn of phrase or a nautical fact I'd seen elsewhere. Quite a lot comes from the Hornblower series, shorter and simpler books with a more complex, nuanced view of behavior and social setting. There are even Robbe-Grillet moments when Forester will offer a 20th C perspective on his characters' central predicament, hovering on the verge of the 19th C with only 18th C rules to guide them.
I feel "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" is a very accurate and immersive portrayal of the 1880s and the fall of the James Gang.
I remember watching "Das Boot" when it first came out in this movie theater that lost its AC during the movie in a crowded seating. And the dripping water coming from the ceiling really had a dramatic affect especially during the scene where the sub was immobile waiting out a destroyer above.
Bob Musser Aw, the good old days! I miss them. And not being factious at all. 99 cent theater, double features.☹️. We didn’t expect everything to be perfect, took it in stride.
I watched it in college when I was taking German. It was a thrill to hear memorable phrases I could understand like "Noch tiefer!", "Ein scheisses Zerstoerer!", and "Gute leute muss man haben. Gute leute."
Here’s the list (coming and going): 10. Andrei Rublev (The Passion According to Andrei) 9. Come and See 8. The Lighthouse 7. Ran 6. Master and Commander 5. Rome (HBO) 4. Apocalypto 3. Quest for Fire 2. Come and See 1. Barry Lyndon -------------------------------- 1. Barry Lyndon 2. Come and See 3. Quest for Fire 4. Apocalypto 5. Rome (HBO) 6. Master and Commander 7. Ran 8. The Lighthouse 9. Das Boot 10. Andrei Rublev (The Passion According to Andrei) Just discovered you, Atun-Shei Films, whoever the hell you may be. Like your work very much. Keep doing it. I hope viewers will find the list(s) useful.
Aww man that ending was so sweet. I hope you make it too man. I'll be promoting you in all my circles as well here in south florida. Your content is crucial to the struggles we deal with in this back wards ass state
This is truly a fantastic list. You’re bringing up movies I love, yet can never talk to people about cause almost no one I know has ever seen them, or even heard of most of them, to be honest. I’ve never seen Quest for Fire brought up by ANYONE before. Same with Ran or Come and See. I remember being a 15 year old kid when I went to see Quest for Fire. My parents & little brother wanted to see some crappy movie across the street, at the other theater (This was before the big cineplexes were a thing). So I bid them adieu, smoked a big joint in the alley & proceeded to get my mind blown by Ron Perlman, Everett McGill & Rae Dawn Chong. Every few years I have to look that movie up on Google, just to make sure it wasn’t some imagined fever dream from my youth, brought on by too much imagination & a mountain of THC. This brought back great memories of some wonderful movies. Thank you, sir.
Rios Salvajes Andrei Rublev & The Lighthouse are the two I haven’t seen. I liked Barry Lyndon, but I’m not overly fond of it. One historical movie I’d recommend that’s not too well known is The Duellists. It’s from 1978 & takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. Fantastic costume design & the weapons/fighting are more realistic than most films, particularly from that time. It’s directed by Ridley Scott, though I seriously doubt I would’ve guessed that from just watching the film.
I can recommend film "Agony" from the same director about last days of the Romanov family and Rasputin. Quite a hard film, but very good restoration of the spirit of the rotten monarchy
I remember watching that movie with my then girlfriend, what a mistake. At first she was bored, then she was crying finally she left the room. She was mad at the fact that I watched the whole thing without her, and could not understand how I could watch any more of it. She thought there was something wrong with me for even wanting to finish that movie, maybe there was. I made the point that a good movie makes you feel a number of ways, sometimes not all of them are good. We had a long conversation about it until she understood why I had to finish watching that movie. She finally made me tell her the ending, and started crying all over again. That is one film that I will never rewatch, it's too painful to sit through.
@Rios Salvajes The terror that the main character feels is real. That's what comes across in no uncertain terms. I think the director even used live ammunition to up the realism ante
@@UNUSUALUSERNAME220 It's definitely one you don't really have to watch twice, yeah. Maybe there's something wrong with me, because I'd have been like "Here just watch. I don't spoil things. Come and see!"
@@Markvdl25 as I recall the director did do some crazy shit for the filming; he actually served in a partisan unit as a teenager during the War so he knew with pretty exacting detail what he wanted to capture.
Come and See is a masterpiece. It’s really an atmospheric, gut wrenching commentary on the pure chaos of WW2. It manages to be incredibly dark and horrifying without any real battle sequences. The tension is constantly building as you’re seeing the innocence, humanity, and sanity leave this young boy. It’s an incredibly sobering film that really everyone should see at least once.
At the 19:44 mark the chap in the background is Desmond Morris. He wrote "The Naked Ape" (among other works) and is (was?) an authority on non-verbal communication. It`s a pretty amazing book.
I remember watching das boot when I was really young with my dad, way too young to really understand what it was about, so all I had to go off of was vague feelings and memories. A couple months ago I wanted to see it again, so my girlfriend and I sat down to watch it. Of course, it took us a bit to realize we'd purchased the 5 hour directors cut...when it was over it felt like we were just as haggard as the crew. Great movie, something I would actually call an experience, and could recommend it to pretty much anyone
Das Boot is definitely my favorite on the list... had to watch it in German class way back in high school. So many more on the list that I need to check out. Thanks for this, your style of reviewing films is the best!
"Barry Lyndon" is my favorite movie of all time in large part for this exact reason, immersion. Saw it freshman year of film school in class (3 hour lecture), bought it on DVD that afternoon, and watched it again that night in my dorm.
I loved the last commentary about the idiots that always talk about how they would have loved to have lived in the good old days! Trust me, you don’t. I grew up the six first years of my life in Seoul, South Korea in the mid 1970s. The family was poor working class and the extended family was rural poor. I used an outhouse on a regular basis back then and I don’t miss it a bit. The miracle of modern sanitation and clean drinkable water is completely lost on us. And just to make sure I didn’t forget this lesson, I lived through the big earthquake that hit California in 1989. No water and sewers for 1-2 weeks. Trust me good people, enjoy your life and be grateful for all of our modern conveniences.
You only feel that way because you compare it to your more modern, comfortable current lifestyle, which even affects your recollection of those times. If that's all you knew, for the most part, you would be ok with it. People living in old or even ancient times didn't know anything but their own way of life so to them that was normal. In fact they probably felt bad for the poor fools from ages previous to them who had it even worse. Don't you think in a few hundred years people will be looking back on us and saying "Their lives must have been utterly miserable without (insert future technology here)." ?
WILD THINGS: Yes, but of course. Already I cannot conceive of a time when I could not use my telephonic device whenever I wished, yet here we are. The little supercomputer that I am currently using to write this reply was something that was the stuff of dreams.
I know it's not historically accurate and it is very much a product of its time. But I love the film Gladiator. It is a sweeping story, and has some of the best soundtracks of any historical movie
If any Ridley Scott film deserves a mention in this list, it should be the Duellists. A more historically immersive film has never been made, it feels like you’re in the Napoleonic Era.
Surprisingly the scenes in the Coliseum are pretty accurate. I watched a Nova special about the structure & at that time they weren’t sure if there were awnings. They were measuring tree lengths. The elevators under the floor & flooding it for sea battles. Were all proven true. Cool
The Revenant. That's as close to feeling like I was there -- part of a time and place -- that I've ever felt watching a movie. Not only did everything seem authentic (heightening realism), but the movie is shot from heights and angles which put the viewer into a perspective that makes you feel like you're there, following the action closely or often right in the middle of it.
I feel strangely proud of the fact that I've seen 6 out of 10 of these. Maybe because my actual film major friend has seen... maybe... one. Anyway, really enjoyed this list. Keep up the good work.
I live in Redwood country. When visiting the South and East, as soon as I saw those brambly choked forests and saw the small plaques scattered throughout neighborhoods for how many slaves had been killed for getting uppity, I knew I was not the equal to people of that time.
It was perfect subject matter, But why they ruined it with a zombie mutant polar bear I have no idea. The insanity, starvation and distrust of everyone involved would have been more than enough suspense.
@@soulburner11 im pretty sure they wanted to show the bear.. I dont think including mythical and religious aspects must ruin a histrical tale, but The Terror did make it into one of if not the main aspect, something that ruined the potential of that story, plus the amazing cast and crew.
@Wonka I know and understand its from a book. The addition of man bear pig is unnecessary on print or on screen. My point is that it is extremely compelling subject matter without a mythical beast, so why have it? It trivializes real life dramatic events. Imagine a book about Dunkirk if they had added fighting a kraken into it? It would be trivial and foolish. It takes away from the actual human struggle and compromises good literature. It erodes history and makes incredible history into cheap fiction.
The War and Peace series (based on Leo Tolstoy's books) I think also belong amongst the most immersive period piece films of all time, though they are very much based on Tolstoy's romantic depictions of the events. The list itself is great, I couldn't agree more with most picks. I do wish that more films based on the past would cover the regular lives of people rather than large-scale historical events remembered in the modern day, so I appreciate how a handful of the films you picked were based on that.
Excellent choices. If I could add one more to the list it would be Silence. A hauntingly beautiful film that consumed me..swished me around and spit me out rethinking my life. The violence..the scenery..the cerebral attack..religion, sin..what it means to be human..idk this movie is amazing. WAYYY under appreciated
I rented Ran after watching this. Your recommendation made my day. What a film. Thank you! Also, that scene from Das Boot resonated with me too. Big time.
I would say the most immersive film for me is "The Mission" a 1986 film about Jesuit missionaries and the Reductions in 18th-century South America, with Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. Actually made want to become a Jesuit when I was younger.
Love how you are looking over the usual anglo-american horizon when it comes to movies. There are LOTS of interesting movies out there and other countries really have a real different approach to filmmaking, even in things like camera handling or such. Or how to open up a scene. It's often a culture that has grown by itself, unaffected by Hollywood. I have seen many Soviet or Russian movies, some good, some terrible, some full of propaganda. But they all felt so different, unique, refreshing. And some also were incredibly immersive.
Seriously. Rome is awesome. I mean, it's actually a REALLY special series. The writing is on a whole other level than most period dramas, and it is executed with a ton of exceptionally well acted performances, and high production quality. The level of historical authenticity, as well as the behavior of the characters, is incredibly believable, and the narrative explores some interesting themes. This level of both educational value, as well as entertainment value and artistic quality, is extremely rare to see all in the same show.
I already loved your channel, but when you unexpectedly (not many western audiences got a chance to see this movie) included come and see I now consider you one of the best not only historic, but in general RU-vidrs. Good luck to you and I’m glad you’re continuing to grow!
Quest for Fire is one of my favorite movies specifically because it does so well to tell a story without any dialog. And because there is no dialog for you to focus on, you can spend all of your attention focusing on the visual aspects of the film. I love this movie!
I was so happy to see Quest for Fire in this list. It is a much under-recognized masterpiece. For over twenty years it was unavailable in New Zealand except to rent on DVD from the famous Aro Street Video shop in Wellington. I personally wore it out in that time.
One of my dreams is to one day make a movie like Quest for Fire... but with dinosaurs. Forget no English, just go the extra mile and go no language. Strangely, I feel a movie like that would actually make some money. Not a lot, but more than you'd think.
Fidus Achates okay buddy. It’s the most realistic and stripped down war movie ever made. Ofc nazis don’t like it because it shows them exactly who they really are and what they really did
My useless degree isn't filmmaking, but rather history. And even worse, its a doctorate. I taught for a while, wrote a couple of books, then went to cooking school, became a chef, and spent my time cooking. But I'm still a lover of history, and of film. This video convinced me to subscribe. Good job, man. This was cool.
