Historical Film Timeline
Here is a listing of books and websites about films concerning
historical events or personalities in a semi-chronological order.
The majority of these books are filmographies but other academic
books are also listed.
Before 5000 BC
PREHISTORIC HUMANS
PREHISTORIC HUMANS IN FILM AND TELEVISION: 579
Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905–2004 by
Michael Klossner
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2005 ISBN 0-7864-2215-7
3000BC-476AD
ANCIENT HISTORY
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient History in the Movies / PEPLUM -
Images de l'antiquité (Cinéma et BD)
THE ANCIENT WORLD IN THE CINEMA by Jon
Solomon
Published by Yale
University Press. 2001 ISBN 0-300-08335-1
2850BC-332BC
ANCIENT EGYPT
1600BC-146BC
ANCIENT GREECE
Ancient
Greece in the Cinema / Catálogo
De Filmes de Tema Clássico
753BC-476AD
ANCIENT ROME
Catálogo De Filmes de
Tema Clássico
PROJECTING THE PAST: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History
by Maria Wyke
Published by Routledge.
1997 ISBN 041590613X
4BC-33AD
JESUS
Celluloid
Jesus- The Christ Film Web Pages / Filmography
of Jesus / Jesus
Christ, Movie Star
JESUS AT THE MOVIES: A Guide To The First Hundred
Years by W. Barnes Tatum
Published by Polebridge
Press. 1997 ISBN 0-944344-67-4
DIVINE IMAGES: A History of Jesus on the Screen
by Roy Kinnard & Tim Davis
Published by Citadel Press. 1992 ISBN 0806512849
d. 30AD
JUDAS
Journal of
Religion & Film: Film Depictions of Judas
1AD-1650
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Medieval
Sourcebook: Medieval History in the Movies / Merkat Cross:
Medieval Movies and Documentaries / Medieval
Studies at the Movies / CMRS
Annotated Catalog of Medieval and Renaissance Films
fl. 550
KING ARTHUR
Arthurian
Film / Arthurian
Animation / List
of movies based on Arthurian legend - (Wikipedia)
ARTHURIAN LEGENDS ON FILM AND TELEVISION by
Bert Olton
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2000 ISBN 0-7864-0718-2
1412-1431
JOAN OF ARC
International
Joan of Arc Society
VISIONS OF THE MAID: Joan of Arc in American Film and
Culture by Robin Blaetz
Published by University
Of Virginia Press. 2001 ISBN 0-8139-2075-2
1492-
DISCOVERY & CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD
LOS MUNDOS DEL NUEVO MUNDO: El descubrimiento, la
conquista, la colonización y la independencia de los países
americanos, desde Alaska a la Patagonia, a través de la mirada
cinematográfica :
catálogos y paráfrasis by Eligio Calderón
Published by Cineteca
Nacional de México / Instituto
Mexicano de Cinematografía. 1994
IMÁGENES CAMBIANTES: Descubrimiento, Conquista y
Colonización de la América Hispana vista por el cine de
ficción y largometraje by Luis Trelles Plazaola
Published by Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1996
ISBN 0-8477-0244-8
1500-1815
MEDIEVAL EUROPE
THE EUROPE OF 1500-1815 ON FILM AND TELEVISION: A
Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 through 2000
by Michael Klossner
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2002 ISBN 0-7864-1223-2
THE REEL MIDDLE AGES: Films
About Medieval Europe by Kevin J Harty
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1999 ISBN
0-7864-0541-4
Contains information on over 900 films.
1500-
MODERN HISTORY
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Modern History in the Movies
1607-1812
COLONIAL AMERICA
COLONIAL AMERICA ON FILM AND TELEVISION: A Filmography
by Bertil O. Österberg
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2001 ISBN 0-7864-0862-6
AMERICAN FRONTIERSMEN ON FILM AND TELEVISION: Boone,
Crockett, Bowie, Houston, Bridger, and Carson by Ed
Andreychuk
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2005 ISBN 0-7864-2132-0
1776-
AMERICAN HISTORY
FILMOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN HISTORY by Grant
Annis George Tracey
Published by Greenwood
Publishing Group. 2002 ISBN 0-313-31300-8
Contains information on over 200 films.
HOLLYWOOD AND AMERICAN HISTORY: A Filmography of Over
250 Motion Pictures Depicting U.S. History by Michael R.
Pitts
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1984 ISBN 0-7864-0862-6
1789-
FRENCH HISTORY
L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE AU CINÉMA by Pierre
Guibbert & Marcel Oms
Published by CinemAction.
1993 ISBN 2-85480-851-7
1789-1799
FRENCH REVOLUTION
La
Révolution française au cinéma
FILMOGRAPHIE MONDIALE DE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE by
Sylvie Dallet & Francis Gendron
Published by Centre d'action culturelle de Montreuil. 1989 ISBN
2-907468-07-3
1769-1821
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Napoleon-First
Empire / Napoleon-Second
Empire
NAPOLÉON À L'ÉCRAN: Cinéma et Télévision by
David Chanteranne & Isabelle Veyrat-Masson
Published by Nouveau
Monde Editions / Editions
de la Fondation Napoléon. 2003 ISBN 2-84736-018-2
NAPOLÉON & LE CINÉMA: un siècle d'images
by Jean-Pierre Mattei
Published by Editions Alain Piazzola / Cinémathèque
de Corse. 1998 ISBN 2-907161-32-6
1802-1870
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Filmographie:
Les Oeuvres d’Alexandre Dumas Pere Adaptees a l’Ecran
/ Filmographie:
Les Oeuvres d’Alexandre Dumas Fils Adaptees a l’Ecran
1802-1885
VICTOR HUGO
1813-1901
GIUSEPPE VERDI
SE QUELLO SCHERMO IO FOSSI: Verdi e il cinema
by Massimo Marchelli & Renato Venturelli
Published by Le
Mani. 2001 ISBN 88-8012-190-1
1836
THE ALAMO
ALAMO MOVIES by Frank Thompson
Published by Old Mill Books. 1991 ISBN 0962942006
1840-1907
AUGUSTE RODIN
RODIN ET LE CINÉMA by Stéphanie Le Follic
Published by Institut
Jean Vigo.2001
1861-1865
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY ON THE SILVER SCREEN: more than
eighty years of Civil War movies
by Roy Kinnard.
Published by Carol Publishing. 1996 ISBN 1559723831
1809-1865
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Twentieth Century Popular Portrayals
by Frank Thompson
Published by Taylor Publishing. 1999 ISBN 0878332413
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN ON SCREEN: A Filmography of Dramas and Documentaries,
Including Television, 1903-1998 by Mark S. Reinhart
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1985 ISBN 0-78640-602-X
1853-1890
VINCENT VAN GOGH
VAN GOGH A HOLLYWOOD: la leggenda cinematografica
dell'artista by Marco Senaldi
Published by Meltemi
Editore. 2004 ISBN 8883533208
1881-1973
PABLO PICASSO
PABLO PICASSO IN DOCUMENTARY FILMS: a monographic
investigation of the portrayal of Pablo Picasso and his creative
work in documentary films, 1945-1975 by Heide
Hagebölling
Published by P. Lang. 1988 ISBN 3820488707
1888
JACK THE RIPPER
JACK THE RIPPER: The Murders and The Movies by
Denis Meikle
Published by Reynolds &
Hearn Limited. 2002 ISBN 1-903111-32-3
1898-1901
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
The
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
1899-1902
BOER WAR
THE ANGLO-BOER WAR, 1899-1902, ON FILM by
J.H. De Lange
Published by State
Archives Service. 1991 ISBN 0797023518
1858-1919
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATION FILM COLLECTION: A
Catalog by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie
with the assistance of Harriet Harrison
Published by Library Of Congress. 1986 ISBN 0844404926
1911-1917
MEXICAN REVOLUTION
FILMING PANCHO: How Hollywood Shaped The Mexican
Revolution by Margarita de Orellana
Published by Verso.
2003 ISBN 1-85984-348-4
1912
TITANIC
Titanic
Movies and TV Shows / Hollywood and the
Titanic / History
of Titanic Movies
THE TITANIC
IN PRINT AND ON SCREEN: An Annotated Guide to Books, Films,
Television Shows and Other Media by D. Brian Anderson
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2005 ISBN 0-7864-1786-2
1914-1918
WORLD WAR ONE
Great
War Film Page / World War I
in Films
REEL AMERICA AND WORLD WAR 1 by Craig W.
Campbell
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1985 ISBN 0-89950-087-0
LES FILMS MILITAIRES FRANÇAIS DE LA PREMIÈRE GUERRE
MONDIALE: catalogue des films muets d'actualité réalisés par
le Service cinématographique de l'Armée by Françoise
Lemaire
Published by ECPA. 1997 ISBN 2110897775
1917-1921
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
KINOLETOPIS´ REVOLIUTSII by Aleksandr
Vasilevich Karaganov
Published by Seriia Iskusstvo. 1977
1870-1924
VLADIMIR LENIN
AKTERSKAIA KINOLENINIANA by N. Tumanova
Published by Iskusstvo. 1987
1936-1939
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Spanish
Civil War catalogue / Cinergía
Filmography: Spanish Civil War
CATÁLOGO GENERAL DEL CINE DE LA GUERRA CIVIL
by Alfonso del Amo García
Published by La Filmoteca Española. 1996
ISBN 84-376-1494-5
100 PELICULAS SOBRE LA GUERRA CIVIL
ESPAÑOLA by Enric Ripoll i Freixes
Published by Centro de Investigaciones Literarias
Españolas e Hispanoamericanas. 1992 ISBN 84-87411-15-0
Contains information on 262 films.
1939-1945
WORLD WAR TWO
WWII
Feature Films / List of World War
Movies / World
War Two Movie Guide / La
France De L'Occupation et de La Resistance a L'Ecran
THE WORLD WAR II COMBAT FILM: Anatomy of a Genre
by Jeanine Basinger
Published by Wesleyan
University Press. 2003 ISBN 0-8195-6623-3
1939-1945
THE HOLOCAUST
Holocaust
Films and Videos / Cinematografie des
Holocaust / Holocaust
Resources on Film and Video
THE HOLOCAUST FILM SOURCEBOOK by Caroline
Joan (Kay) Picart
Published by Greenwood
Publishing Group. 2004 ISBN 0-275-97850-8
1945-1990
COLD WAR
Films
of the Cold War / Red
Scare Filmography
COLD WAR FILMOGRAPHY: a
reference guide, 1896-1997 by David Dunn
Published by Flicks Books. 1998 ISBN 0948911255
1946-1954
FIRST INDOCHINESE WAR
LA GUERRE "FRANÇAISE" D'INDOCHINE:
1945-1954: les sources de la connaissance: bibliographie,
filmographie, documents divers by Alain Ruscio
Published by Indes savantes. 2002 ISBN 2846540179
1948-1954
MARSHALL PLAN
Catalogue of Information Films Produced In Europe For The Marshall Plan 1948-1953 by the Film Section, Information Division [of the] Special Representation [sic] in Europe; Economic Cooperation Administration; Mutual Security Agency; Paris, France. Prepared by: Film Section, European Service Center, U.S. Information Agency, Paris, July, 1954
1950-1953
KOREAN WAR
KOREAN WAR FILMOGRAPHY: 91 English
language features through 2000 by Robert J. Lentz
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2002 ISBN 0-7864-1046-9
1954-1962
ALGERIAN WAR
LA GUERRE D'ALGÉRIE À L'ÉCRAN by Guy Hennebelle,
Mouny Berrah & Benjamin Stora
Published by CinemAction.
1997 ISBN 2-85480-909-2
1954-1975
VIETNAM WAR
Vietnam
on Film and Television: Documentaries in the Library of Congress
/ Vietnam
on Film and Television (Mirror site) / Annotated
bibliography of Vietnam War Film Criticism / Reviews
and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas
VIETNAM WAR FILMS by
Jean-Jacques Malo & Tony Williams
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1994 ISBN
0-89950-781-6
Contains information on over 600 films.
1963
J.F.KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
Movies
Based On the JFK Assassination
THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: An Annotated
Film, TV, and Videography, 1963-1992
by Anthony Frewin
Published by Greenwood
Press. 1993 ISBN 0-313-28982-4
1913-1994
RICHARD NIXON
NIXON ON STAGE AND SCREEN: The Thirty-Seventh
President as Depicted in Films, Television, Plays and Opera by
Thomas Monsell
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc.
1998 ISBN 0-7864-0163-X
1967-1997
NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES
Northern
Ireland - The Troubles
LA CUESTIÓN IRLANDESA Y EL IRA: una visión a
través del cine by José María Caparrós Lera
Published by Fancy Ediciones.
2003 ISBN 84-95455-25-0
1992-1995
BOSNIAN WAR
SARAJEVO U RATU 1992-1995: Filmografija by
Asaf Dzanic
Published by Ministarstvo kulture i sporta Kantona Sarajevo. 1998
ISBN 9958-9500-1-4
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