Best History Movies of the 1960s

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  The Great Escape (1963)

  Approved

  Adventure, Drama, History

  2h52

  8.294%

  Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

  Director

  • John Sturges

  Cast

  • Steve McQueen
  • James Garner
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Charles Bronson

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  The Longest Day (1962)

  G

  Action, Drama, History

  2h58

  7.887%

  The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

  Director

  • Ken Annakin
  • Andrew Marton
  • Gerd Oswald
  • Bernhard Wicki
  • Darryl F. Zanuck

  Cast

  • John Wayne
  • Robert Ryan
  • Richard Burton
  • Henry Fonda

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  Cleopatra (1963)

  G

  Biography, Drama, History

  3h12

  7.062%

  Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

  Director

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Cast

  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Richard Burton
  • Rex Harrison
  • Pamela Brown

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