• Passchendaele (2008)
  WWI // English // Canada, France, Belgium

• Black Field (2009)
  1870’s // English

• Bomb Girls
  WWII // English // Canada

• Adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen) (2012)

Period: 18th C
Language: French
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Topic: Last days of Marie Antoinette

• The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

Period: 1784-1789- early 19th C
Language: English
Setting: Paris
Topic: diamond necklace affair, Marie Antoinette, French Revolution
Based on: historical event
My review: I finally watched the entire film 8 years after I’d first watched bits of it! It did not occur to me that Mme. de la Motte Valois was so young during the scandal. I was a bit miffed that Marie Antoinette was portrayed rather indifferent but I suppose that is the point of the film.

• La Princesse de Montpensier (2010)

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Language: French
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• The Three Musketeers (with Orlando Bloom as Duke of Buckingham) – 2011

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Language: English
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• Goethe! (2010)

Period: 18th C
Language: German
Setting:
Topic: Goethe; Das Leiden der junge Werther
Based on: historical event

• Bergblut (2011)

Period: 1809
Language: German
Setting:
Topic: Tyrol revolution
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Der Ganz Grosse Traum (2011)

Period: 19th C
Language: German
Setting: Braunschweig
Topic: football (soccer)
Based on: historical event
My Review: Very funny and inspirational and neat to learn how football (soccer) was introduced to Germany via England (i.e. Mr. Konrad Koch, who had learned the sport while studying at Oxford).

• Black Death – 11 Jun 2010

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Language: English
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• Jane Eyre – 11 Mar 2011

Period: 19th C
Language: English
Setting:
Based on: novel by Charlotte Bronte

• King’s Speech (2010-11)

Period: 1930s-WWII
Language: English
Setting: London
Based on: historical event

Wuthering Heights – 2011

Period: 19th C
Language: English
Setting: London
Based on: novel

The Duchess (2008)

Period: 18th C
Language: English
Setting:
Based on: historical figure

Young Victoria (2009)Period: 19th C
Language: English
Setting: London
Based on: historical figure