A CINEMATIC HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

Click on Read More and the links. Kwaidan Battle of Dan-no-ura, April 25, 1185; The Minamoto clan defeat the Taira Clan. (April 25th was also the date of the Portuguese “Carnation” revolution of 1974).

i’m trying to get a proper international spread; for history-based films from round the world, not just period fiction (which would get out of hand, and with which i’m being very selective, e.g Lucia, All Quiet on the Western Front, and the chronologically vague Ceddo).

The list is approximately in chronological order, for events depicted.