The best Richard Johnson’s history movies

Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson

30/07/1927- 05/06/2015
We present our ranking of the best Richard Johnson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Richard Johnson.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
6.1/10
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

Khartoum

Khartoum
6.8/10
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Lady Jane

Lady Jane
7.1/10
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.

The Rover

The Rover
6.1/10
A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.

Moses the Lawgiver

Moses the Lawgiver
6.1/10
  • Genre: History
  • Release: 22/12/1974
  • Character: Erzähler-Stimme
Story of Moses. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters

Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code
7.2/10
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.

Emma Hamilton

Emma Hamilton
5.8/10
The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.

The Column

The Column
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 18/10/1968
  • Character: comandantul roman Tiberius
The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra
6.8/10
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

The Biko Inquest

The Biko Inquest
8/10
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.

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