Favorite Historical Fiction Movies and Shows
Historical movies and shows I enjoyed, regardless of accuracy
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- DirectorMike NewellStarsJulia RobertsKirsten DunstJulia StilesKatherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.
- DirectorLesli Linka GlatterStarsChristina RicciDemi MooreRosie O'DonnellFour childhood friends gather together to prepare for the birth of Chrissey's baby. They wonder how the girls they were at 12 years could possibly have become the women they are now.
- CreatorStephanie SavageStarsJoAnna Garcia SwisherYvonne StrahovskiDominique McElligottBased on Lily Koppel's best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.
- DirectorKelly Fremon CraigStarsAbby Ryder FortsonRachel McAdamsKathy BatesEleven-year-old Margaret moves from the city to the suburbs and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia.
- CreatorJulian FellowesStarsHugh BonnevillePhyllis LoganElizabeth McGovernA chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- CreatorLaurie McCarthyStephanie SenguptaStarsAdelaide KaneMegan FollowsCelina SindenMary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsEmily BluntRupert FriendPaul BettanyA dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
- DirectorGina Prince-BythewoodStarsDakota FanningJennifer HudsonQueen Latifah1964. Lily, a lonely teenager, flees from her home and reaches a small town in South Carolina. Once there, she finds herself in the company of the Boatwright sisters who introduce her to a new world.
- CreatorBrenda LillyHollis RichStarsMae WhitmanAlia ShawkatMichael MantellThis comedy/drama set in 1965 follows the adventures of 12-year-old best friends who attend the local Catholic school: Grace, who is Catholic, and Hannah, who is Jewish. Different faiths, different family structures, different looks at life in the 1960s.
- CreatorJulian FellowesStarsCarrie CoonMorgan SpectorLouisa JacobsonThe series follows the conflicts surrounding the new money Russell family and their old money neighbors, the van Rhijn family, in 1880s New York City high society.
- CreatorJonathan PrinceJosh GoldsteinStarsGail O'GradyTom VericaBrittany SnowIn the 1960s, a family experiences life and the struggles of the era, accompanied by the well-known pop songs of the period.
- CreatorSaladin K. PattersonStarsElisha WilliamsDulé HillSaycon SengblohA man recalls his experiences growing up in Montgomery, Alabama during the late 1960s.
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsViola DavisEmma StoneOctavia SpencerAn aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsMadeline CarrollCallan McAuliffeRebecca De MornayWhen Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsSusan SarandonWinona RyderKirsten DunstJo struggles for independence and sometimes clashes with her beloved mother and sisters Meg, Amy and Beth. She also contends with their cranky Aunt March, their impulsive neighbor Laurie and kindly linguistics professor Friedrich Bhaer.
- DirectorDavid SwiftStarsJane WymanHayley MillsRichard EganA young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsAbigail BreslinStanley TucciJoan CusackSet in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
- CreatorMark BrazillBonnie TurnerTerry TurnerStarsTopher GraceLaura PreponMila KunisA comedy revolving around a group of teenage friends, their mishaps, and their coming of age, set in 1970s Wisconsin.
- DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsCherBob HoskinsWinona RyderAn unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
- DirectorTom HanksStarsTom HanksLiv TylerCharlize TheronA local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsTom HanksGeena DavisLori PettyDuring World War II, sisters Dottie and Kit join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.
- DirectorJoseph RubenStarsMichiel HuismanHera HilmarJosh HartnettThis movie is a love story between an idealistic American nurse and a Turkish officer in World War I.
- DirectorKevin HooksStarsLindsey HaunShadia SimmonsCarl LumblyA white South African girl and a Black American family find themselves in a difficult situation when the girl is sent to spend a term as an exchange student with the family in America.
- DirectorLou Diamond PhillipsStarsSarah JonesHaylie DuffJordan BridgesA doctor (Sarah Jones) helps townspeople who fear a mysterious illness.
- DirectorDavid S. Cass Sr.StarsSarah JonesHaylie DuffJordan BridgesA frontier doctor (Sarah Jones) clashes with a nursemald (Patty Duke) while caring for the woman's pregnant daughter inlaw (Haylle Duf).