Genre
Historical Dramas
Serious drama set in a reconstructed past, where the period is not decoration but the source of the constraints the characters cannot escape.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick · 1975
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg · 1993
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci · 1987
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen · 2013
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