History Today magazine lists its top ten history movies

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History Today is a great magazine to read and I’ve subscribed for many years. Listed below are the movies that History Today staffers recommend you watch to transport you back to very different historical eras.

So, here are the History Today top picks!

1. Mirror (Andrei Takovsky, 1975, USSR)

2. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974, France)

3. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946, UK)

4. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985, USSR)

5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1969, Italy/US)

6. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966, USSR)

7. A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger, 1944, UK)

8. La Reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1994, France)

9. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden)

10. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980, West Germany)

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