151. Pretty Baby
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Fargas
152. The Crucible
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen
Plot: A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen).
153. Sorrow and the Pity, The ( chagrin et la pitié, Le )
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Actors: Marcel Ophüls, Edward Spears, Henri Rochat, Pierre Mendès-France
154. Bloody Sunday
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Christopher Villiers
Plot: A depiction of the events of the infamous bloody massacre which took place on Sunday, January 30, 1972 when 27 civilians were gunned down by the British Army in the streets of Northern Ireland.
155. Einstein and Eddington
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philip Martin
Actors: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Ben Uttley
Plot: The film shows the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and how British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington experiment worked to prove Einstein's theory.
156. Get on the Bus
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Richard Belzer, De'aundre Bonds, Charles S. Dutton, Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Plot: A disparate group rides a bus to the Million Man March in Washington, DC.
157. Daniel Deronda
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May
Plot: Based on George Eliot's masterpiece, it is a story about an adopted gentleman in seek of his own ancestors and a woman whose vanity and desire for financial security lead her to the selfdestruction.
158. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Cowan
Plot: The story of the Doolittle Raids seen through the eyes of a young pilot and the pregnant wife he leaves behind.
159. The Scarlet and the Black
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jerry London
Actors: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone
160. Anthropoid
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones
Plot: Based on the true story behind Operation Anthropoid during WWII. The third in line to lead the Third Reich behind Hitelr and Himmer was SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The architect behind the Final Solution was also the commander of the brutal occupying force in Czechoslovakia. Allied soldiers, witnessing his work first hand, come up with a plot to assassinate Heydrich.
