Episodes
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The rise to power, reign and assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the subject of Raoul Peck's 2000 movie Lamumba.
We discuss the complex and facinating history behind the movie and discuss everything from Eriq Ebouaney's fine performance to anachronistic airplanes.
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“Are you not entertained?”
To coincide with the release of Gladiator 2 this week, we take a trip back to the year 2000 and revisit Ridley Scott’s original swords and sandals classic.
We talk through the history that inspired the movie, ask how accurate it is and get on to the important topic of Oliver Reed’s booze-fueled pugilistic antics with the crew of HMS Cumberland.
Plus Commodus’ 5 back-to-back World Cups, the real fatality rate of the gladiators and the Nobel Prize for Movie Physics goes to another implausible impaling.
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"Zulus sir! Thousands of 'em!"
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine and Jack Hawkins star in Cy Endfield's depiction of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in this classic of '60s cinema.
We discuss the real Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 and the causes and outcomes of the Anglo-Zulu War. Plus what make '60s movies so unique and brilliant, is Hook the film's hero, and is this the best sideburn movie ever made?
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Ep. 003 Marie Antoinette (2006)
Let them eat cake, let them wear blue converse sneakers? We discuss Sofia Coppola's movie, based on the biography 'Marie Antoinette: The Journey' by Antonia Fraser and the life and times of the real Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France.
Is this lavish, over the top, some times anachronistic movie actually the most honest and accurate depiction of Marie Antoinette that we've yet had?
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Ep. 002 Braveheart (1995).
"They'll never take our freedom!" rings out across the glens in Mel Gibson's take on the life of Scottish independence fighter William Wallace. There's no denying that Braveheart is a ripping 3 hours of fun but has Mel's gross flights of historically-inaccurate fancy gone too far or are they necessary for a ripping yarn?
We talk about the background of the real William Wallace, starting with Blind Harry's 15th century poem, as well as what we love about this ridiculous and brilliant blockbuster.
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Ep. 001 Napoleon (2023).
Where better place to start this podcast than with possibly the biggest historical figure of them all - Napoleon. But is the incredible life of the Corsican general simply too grand to fit on the big screen?
We discuss how the myth of Napoleon falls into the 'great man' theory of history. What director Sir Ridley Scott (from here on 'Sridley') was trying to say with this movie (and whether we think he succeeded) and we talk about what we loved and didn't about this historical blockbuster.
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