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French history in Hollywood
movies
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Historical period |
Name of the movie (parenthesis when only the French name
is available) |
Director and year |
Starring |
| 1189 Richard The
Lion Hearted against Philippe Auguste |
The Crusades |
Cecil B. De Mille
1935 |
Loretta Young |
| 1431 Joan of Arc |
Joan of Arc |
Victor Fleming
1948 |
Ingrid Bergman |
| |
Joan the Woman |
Cecil B. De
Mille, 1916 |
Geraldine Farrar |
| |
Saint Joan |
Otto Preminger
1957 |
Jean Seberg |
| 1483 Louis XI
Notre Dame de Paris |
The Hunchback
of Notre Dame |
William Dieterle
1939 |
Charles Laughton |
| |
If I Were King |
Frank Lloyd
1938 |
Ronald Colman |
| 1515 Francois 1er |
The Sword and the
Rose |
Ken Annakin
1953 |
Gérard Oury |
| 1582 Saint Barthélémy |
Intolerance |
D.W. Griffith
1916 |
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| 1610 Louis
XIII and Richelieu |
(les Trois
Mousquetaires) |
Fred Niblo 1921 |
Douglas Fairbanks |
| |
The Three Must
Get There |
Max Linder
1922 |
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The Three Musketeers |
George Sidney
1948 |
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| 1643 Louis XIV and
the Iron Mask |
The Iron Mask |
Allan Dwan 1929 |
Douglas Fairbanks |
| |
The Man in the Iron
Mask |
James Whale
1939 |
Louis Hayward |
| 1768 Louis XV and
the Countess Du Barry |
(Madame du Barry) |
William Dieterle
1934 |
Dolores Del Rio |
| 1770 Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette |
Marie-Antoinette |
Sofia Coppola 2006 |
Kirsten Dunst |
| |
(Marie Antoinette) |
W.S. Van Dycke 1938 |
Norma Shearer |
| |
(Cagliostro) |
Richard Oswald 1929 |
Suzanne Bianchetti |
| |
Black
Magic |
Gregory Ratoff
1949 |
Orson Welles |
| 1780 La Fayette and
the Revolutionary War |
Jefferson in Paris |
James Ivory 1995 |
Lambert Wilson |
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America |
D.W.Griffith 1924 |
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Washington at Valley
Forge |
Ernest Shield 1914 |
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The Buccaneer |
Cecil B. De Mille
1938 |
Fredric March |
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The Spirit of La
Fayette |
James Vincent 1919 |
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| 1789 The French Revolution |
Reign of Terror |
Anthony Mann 1949 |
Robert Cummings |
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Scaramouche |
George Sydney 1952 |
Nina Foch |
| 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte |
Desirée |
Henry Koster 1954 |
Marlon Brando |
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Napoleon and Josephine |
W.Humphrey 1909 |
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Sea Devils |
Raoul Walsh 1953 |
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War and Peace |
King Vidor 1956 |
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| 1851 The Second Empire
and Napoleon III |
Vera Cruz |
Robert Aldrich 1955 |
Burt Lancaster |
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The Song of Bernadette |
Henry King 1943 |
Jennifer Jones |
| |
(Juarez) |
William Dieterle
1939 |
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The Story of
Louis Pasteur |
William Dieterle
1936 |
Paul Muni |
| 1898 The Dreyfuss
Affair |
The Life of Emile
Zola |
William Dieterle
1937 |
Paul Muni |
| |
l'Affaire Dreyfuss
"I Accuse" |
Jose Ferrer 1958 |
Jose Ferrer |
| 1914-1918 First World
War |
Mata Hari |
George Fitzmaurice
1932 |
Greta Garbo |
| |
(Mata Hari) |
Bob Kellett 1972 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor |
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Paths of Glory |
Stanley Kubrick 1957 |
Kirk Douglas |
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Dawn Patrol |
Howard Hawks 1931 |
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Shoulder Arms |
Charlie Chaplin 1918 |
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The Big Parade |
King Vidor 1925 |
Laurence Stallings |
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A Farewell to Arms |
Frank Borzage 1931 |
Gary Cooper |
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All Quiet on the
Western Front |
Lewis Milestone 1930 |
Lew Ayres |
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The Man I Killed |
Ernst Lubisch 1932 |
Lionel Barrymore |
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Arch of Triumph |
Lewis Milestone 1948 |
Ingrid Bergman |
| 1939-1945 Second
World War |
Saving Private Ryan |
Steven Spielberg
1998 |
Tom Hanks |
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The Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse |
Vincente Minelli
1961 |
Glen Ford |
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Sargeant York |
Howard Hawks 1941 |
Gary Cooper |
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Uncertain Glory |
Raoul Walsh 1944 |
Errol Flyn |
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The Longest Day |
Ken Annakin 1962 |
John Wayne |
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The Big Red One |
Samuel Fuller 1979 |
Lee Marvin |
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Patton |
Franklin Schaffner
1970 |
George C.Scott |
| 1954-1962 De Gaulle
and the Algerian War |
(Les centurions) |
Mark Robson 1966 |
Anthony Quinn |
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The Day of the Jackal |
Fred Zinneman 1973 |
Edward Fox |
from Le Monde, May 24,
2006 + later additions |
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movies
See also a list of French
novels describing various episodes of French history.
A selection of French
films taking place in Paris
| Paris vu par.... |
Jean-Luc Godard, Claude
Chabrol, etc... (1965) |
6 sketches
by 6 great directors |
| Paris je t'aime... |
Olivier Assayas, etc...(2006) |
20 sketches by 18 directors
in 20 different neighborhood in Paris |
| Le dernier métro |
François Truffault
(1980) |
during WW2, a must... |
| Les Quatre Coups |
François Truffault
(1959) |
the first episode of the
saga of Antoine Doisnel |
| Baisers volés |
François Truffault
(1968) |
the second episode... |
| Les ripoux |
Claude Zidi (1984) |
in Montmartre and Barbes,
funny |
| La traversée de
Paris |
Claude Autant-Lara (1956) |
WW2 : a funny film in occupied
Paris ! |
| Chacun cherche son chat |
Cedric Klapish (1996) |
a comedy about life in
a Parisian neighborhood |
| Les aventures de Rabbi
Jacob |
Gérard Oury (1973) |
Jewish Paris |
| Paris brule-t-il ? |
René Clément
(1966) |
the liberation of Paris |
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