Again, as the holiday season gets underway, here's a list of films that feature some historic women - some films may be familiar - others not so. Enjoy!
A League of Their Own - women's professional baseball league (Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna)
A Mighty Heart (2007) - Mariane Pearl (2007) (Angelina Jolie & Dan Futterman)
A Woman Called Moses (1978) - Harriet Tubman (Cicely Tyson)
Agatha (1979) – Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave)
Agatha Christie, A Life in Pictures (2004) – Agatha Christie (Olivia Williams & Anna Massey)
Agnes of God (1985) - Quebecker nun (Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly)
American Experience - Eleanor Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt (David McCullough & Alfre Woodard)
Anastasia (1956) -Anastasia Nikolaevna (Ingrid Bergman & Yul Brynner)
Anchoress (1993) – medieval monasticism (Natalie Morse as Christine Carpenter)
Anna and the King (1999) - Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster & Chow Yun-fat)
Anna Boleyn (1920) - Anne Boleyn (Henny Porten)
Anne Frank (2001) - Anne Frank (Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Tatjana Blancher, Joachim Krol, Jessica Manley, Nick Audsley, Jan Niklas, Lili Taylor)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) – Anne Boleyn (Richard Burton as King Henry VIII, Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn, Irene Papas as Queen Katherine, Anthony Quayle as Wolsey)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – Annie Oakley (Betty Hutton)
Antony & Cleopatra (1951) – Cleopatra (Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)
Artemisia (1997) - Artemisia Gentileschi (Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Brigitte Catillon, Maurice Garrel, Emmanuelle Devos) [French]
Barbara (1997) – 17th Century Faroese Woman (Anneke von der Lippe) [Faroese / Danish]
Beatrice (1988) – 100 Years War (Julie Delpy)
[Also: Beatrice (USA) - Quarto comandamento (Italy) - The Passion of Beatrice (USA)]
Bride of Vengeance (1949) – Lucretia Borgia (Paulette Goddard as Lucretia Borgia and John Lund as Alfonso d’Este)
Becoming Jane (2007) - Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith)
Bride of the Wind (2001) - Alma Mahler (Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, August Schmölzer, Simon Verhoeven, Dagmar Schwarz, Wolfgang Hübsch, Reneé Fleming)
Calamity Jane (1953) - Calamity Jane (Doris Day)
Callas Forever (2002) – Maria Callas (Fanny Ardant)
Catherine the Great (1934) – Catherine the Great (Flora Robson)
Camille Claudel (1989) - Camille Claudel ( Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grevill, Philippe Clevenot, Katrine Boorman, Maxime Leroux, Roger Planchon, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Alain Cuny) [French]
Carrington (1995) - Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Rufus Sewell, Samuel West, Penelope Wilton)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1967) - Anna Magdalena Bach (Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, Ernst Castelli, Hans-Peter Boye, Joachim Wolf)
Cleopatra (1963) – Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton as Antony, Rex Harrison as Caesar, Roddy McDowell as Octavian Caesar Augustus)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) – Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek)
Cross Creak (1983) - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill)
A League of Their Own - women's professional baseball league (Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, and Madonna)
A Mighty Heart (2007) - Mariane Pearl (2007) (Angelina Jolie & Dan Futterman)
A Woman Called Moses (1978) - Harriet Tubman (Cicely Tyson)
Agatha (1979) – Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave)
Agatha Christie, A Life in Pictures (2004) – Agatha Christie (Olivia Williams & Anna Massey)
Agnes of God (1985) - Quebecker nun (Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly)
American Experience - Eleanor Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt (David McCullough & Alfre Woodard)
Anastasia (1956) -Anastasia Nikolaevna (Ingrid Bergman & Yul Brynner)
Anchoress (1993) – medieval monasticism (Natalie Morse as Christine Carpenter)
Anna and the King (1999) - Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster & Chow Yun-fat)
Anna Boleyn (1920) - Anne Boleyn (Henny Porten)
Anne Frank (2001) - Anne Frank (Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Tatjana Blancher, Joachim Krol, Jessica Manley, Nick Audsley, Jan Niklas, Lili Taylor)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) – Anne Boleyn (Richard Burton as King Henry VIII, Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn, Irene Papas as Queen Katherine, Anthony Quayle as Wolsey)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – Annie Oakley (Betty Hutton)
Antony & Cleopatra (1951) – Cleopatra (Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)
Artemisia (1997) - Artemisia Gentileschi (Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Brigitte Catillon, Maurice Garrel, Emmanuelle Devos) [French]
Barbara (1997) – 17th Century Faroese Woman (Anneke von der Lippe) [Faroese / Danish]
Beatrice (1988) – 100 Years War (Julie Delpy)
[Also: Beatrice (USA) - Quarto comandamento (Italy) - The Passion of Beatrice (USA)]
Bride of Vengeance (1949) – Lucretia Borgia (Paulette Goddard as Lucretia Borgia and John Lund as Alfonso d’Este)
Becoming Jane (2007) - Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith)
Bride of the Wind (2001) - Alma Mahler (Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, August Schmölzer, Simon Verhoeven, Dagmar Schwarz, Wolfgang Hübsch, Reneé Fleming)
Calamity Jane (1953) - Calamity Jane (Doris Day)
Callas Forever (2002) – Maria Callas (Fanny Ardant)
Catherine the Great (1934) – Catherine the Great (Flora Robson)
Camille Claudel (1989) - Camille Claudel ( Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grevill, Philippe Clevenot, Katrine Boorman, Maxime Leroux, Roger Planchon, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Alain Cuny) [French]
Carrington (1995) - Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Rufus Sewell, Samuel West, Penelope Wilton)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1967) - Anna Magdalena Bach (Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, Ernst Castelli, Hans-Peter Boye, Joachim Wolf)
Cleopatra (1963) – Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton as Antony, Rex Harrison as Caesar, Roddy McDowell as Octavian Caesar Augustus)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) – Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek)
Cross Creak (1983) - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill)
2 comments:
How's about (apologies if they're already on the wonderful list of yours, Mel);-
Aliens (1986) - classic Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) v's monsters action!?
Boudica (2003) - Alex Kingston as the Iceni druidic-warrior Queen.
Elizabeth (1999) - Cate Blanchett (an Ozzie!!) as the iconic English Queen in a great, moving film.
Anne of the thousand Days (1969) - Genevieve Bujold (v's Richard Burton's vicious Henry) as the feisty yet doomed Anne Boleyn.
The other Boleyn girl (2003)- Phillipa Gregory's story, brilliantly made for UKtv, about the ill-fated Queen, Anne.
Dangerous Liaisons (1989) - Glenn Close steals this great, saucy and cruel film about sex and intrigue in late 18thC pre-revolution France.
Resident Evil (2002)- Former model Milla Jovovich leads the special forces in this tense zombie killer action.
Hus
Hadn't included Aliens or Dangerous Liaisons (either version) or Resident Evil.
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