The best Mitchell Lewis’s history movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Mitchell Lewis’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Mitchell Lewis.
Old Ironsides
6.9/10
An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Stand Up and Fight
6.4/10
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Nostradamus and the Queen
5.4/10
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself.
Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
6.3/10
Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass productions techniques to the USA in the late 18th century.
Song of Revolt
5.7/10
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
