The best Vanessa Redgrave’s history movies

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

30/01/1937 (87 años)
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A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/12/1966
  • Character: Anne Boleyn
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.

The Devils

The Devils
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/07/1971
  • Character: Sister Jeanne
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

Anonymous

Anonymous
6.8/10
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

Wilde

Wilde
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/09/1997
  • Character: Lady Speranza Wilde
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 22/04/2002
  • Character: Clemmie Churchill
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.

Miral

Miral
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 18/11/2010
  • Character: Bertha Spafford
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 22/12/1971
  • Character: Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

Playing for Time

Playing for Time
7.3/10
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 10/04/1968
  • Character: Mrs Clarissa Morris
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgement and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders.

The White Countess

The White Countess
6.5/10
Iin 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

Isadora

Isadora
6.9/10
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
7.8/10
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.

Byron

Byron
7/10
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years

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