Seminal historical films


I've taken notice that most directors really shine when they take on a historical films. Examples:

The Seventh Seal - Bergman
Marketa Lazarova - Vlacil
Andrei Rublev - Tarkovsky
Ben-Hur - Wyler
Lawrence of Arabia - Lean
The Revenant - Iñárritu
Seven Samurai - Kurosawa
Intolerance - Griffith
Alexander Nevsky - Einstein
Barry Lyndon - Kubrick
Pan's Labyrinth - del Toro
Schindler's List - Spielberg

Any others?

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Mel Gibson - Passion of the Christ

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Einstein

*Eisenstein

Or is it all relative?...

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