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   Mary Evans
   

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   Could I borrow the collective NB braincell for a moment and ask for a little help? I am going back to school next year and am putting together some thoughts for my Key Stage 1. I need to find some films that examine the life of a historical figure through the eyes of someone else on the periphery of history - ie, Amadeus dramatising Mozart's life through Salieri, Anonymous viewing Shakespeare through Edward de Vere or The Other Boleyn Girl (bad adaptation of a much better novel) showing the life of Anne Boleyn through her sister Mary. Any thoughts? The characters need to be pre-modern media (ie, no moving footage of them would exist) and, crucially for this particular crowd, not feature in a porn flick. Any help greatly appreciated, I will dedicate my 25m swimming badge to you all. Mxx

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The Husband of Bath's Tale?, that kind of thing?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   fernandomando
   

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   This might be a good place to start:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biographical_films

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   the coarse whisperer
   

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   Two spring to mind. HBO's Rome, two likely lad legionaries witness the events of the Roman Revolution without understanding them. And Moustapha Akkad's The Message, depicting the life of Muhammad (pbuh) but without ever portraying him, it's a bravura piece of film making and actually quite enjoyable.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Ironduke
   

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   Sharpe's Waterloo!

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   brownpaperreporter
   

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   Life of Brian - JC via legendary Python boys - not quite history but you get my drift even though Im not following the rules.

   But avoid "Adolf Hitler - My part in his downfall" as it was crap

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   rikkor
   

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   In running the entire Interwebs through a super-computer, I can reveal that Jackie Collins' "Hollywood Whores" has only been cited in three doctoral theses. It is a peerless choice.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   simonjmr
   

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   Forest Gump - that's the whole 20th Century give or take a few years.
   Zelig
   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
   Stephen Poliakoff's the Lost Prince and Shooting the Past
   A man for all seasons

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   arflaethel
   

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   Filthy Beast! Be off with you before I call the police........

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCeg9AyFWVw

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    Is Mrs Brown (with Billy Connelly) any use?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Mary Evans
    

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    Thank you, thank you my little Biscuit crumbs, this is most enlightening. Into some of your psychology perhaps more than my PhD, but enlightening none-the-less. Thank ye. x

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    Son of Barnabas
    

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    You're going back to school to do Key Stage One? I know I'm an old duffer and we didn't use that sort of language when I were a lad, but I'm reliably informed that KS1 is for kids of 5 to 7.

    Now, if we are to believe your picture in NB's "Playmate of the Month" or whatever it's called, you must be at least 22, which means that either:
    a) the picture has been faked by those clever BBC technicians who gave us "Frozen Planet - Not"
    b) you have mastered the art of ageing backwards and will soon be offered the part of Doctor Who, if you don't revert to a foetus first; or
    c) You are an extremely slow learner for your age and have decided to start back at the beginning and hope to finally achieve your PhD by the age of 98; or
    d)That only leaves the possibility that you might be some sort of teecher, but that's not an option, because teechers are all old and wrinkly and smoke pipes - and the men are worse.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    fernandomando
    

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    My guess is that Mary's age might rhyme, at least in part, with 'dirty'

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    Ironduke
    

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    One hundred and thirty? Ball park, I'd say

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