Elizabeth(1998): Cate Blanchett delivers a commanding performance as the young Queen Elizabeth I, navigating the treacherous world of 16th-century English politics. The Battle of Algiers(1966): A docudrama-style portrayal of the Algerian fight for independence from France, known for its realistic po...
Directed by Oliver Stone, this film is a biography of Vietnam War veteran turned political activist Ron Kovic. The film is based on Kovic’s autobiography of the same name. Stone and Kovic set out to make a film for veterans everywhere. MovieStillsDB Stone’s first-hand knowle...
The film got generally good reviews, especially for the work done by the lead actors. It also won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Adapted from Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana Cavendish, the film skims over orignoresmany details of her life, such as her likely gambling habi...
Biography - Historical, Narrative, Genre: In the Western world, biographical literature can be said to begin in the 5th century bce with the poet Ion of Chios, who wrote brief sketches of such famous contemporaries as Pericles and Sophocles. It continued
Most of my books sell well in the USA, which is by far my largest market. However, those books are nonfiction, covering topics like international business development in the software industry. I also wrote a business biography about Navision, Microsoft’s first billion-dollar acquisition outside...
Joan Of Arc is a 1999 adventure biography drama history film written by Michael Alexander Miller, Ronald Parker and directed by Christian Duguay. Released: 1999 Directed by: Christian Duguay 27 King David Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige 37 votes The prophet Samuel condemns Saul (Edward...
according to Margaret Cavendish’s biography of her husband, the soldiers asked for them to be left white so that they could dye them in the blood of their enemies. They were also kitted out with caps of so-called Scots’ blue. The “whitecoats” or “lambs” had an identity that was...
我最喜欢的历史人物英语作文 80 词 Winston Churchill – Biography The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (18741965), the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Con...
THERE IS A SHAMING SENSE of proprietorship that sneaks over the writer of a historical biography--or of most historical biographies, anyway--a sense, however unrealistic, that no one has ever approached the subject before. It doesn't work that way, if you're writing about Elizabeth I and ...
This play was inspired from Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives that provides a biography of historical figures. At this time, Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the consolidation of power in Ireland. However, people feared the years after her death....