World History
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey,
Assyria 2025 BC--609 BC
Ancient Israel 1200 BC-70 AD
The Bible--For information on the historical accuracy of the Bible, see the resources at the bottom of this link
King David 1000 BC
Ancient Greece 800 BC-31 BC
Greco-Persian Wars 499–449 BC
Alexander the Great 356 – 323 BC
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman,
Alexander: Child of a Dream by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
Alexander: The Sands of Ammon by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
Alexander: The Ends of the Earth by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault ,
Roman Empire 753 BC-476 AD
Late Republican Period 133 BC-31 BC
The Civil Wars by Appian of Alexandria,
Imperium by Robert Harris
Caesar by Colleen McCullough
The October Horse by Colleen McCullough
Rubicon by Tom Holland
Julio-Claudian dynasty 27 BC-68 AD
Three Kingdoms Period: China 220-280
Middle Ages: 476-1450
History of Britain
In Search of British Heroes by Tony Robinson
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
Richard II 1377-1399
Henry IV 1399 –1413
Wars of the Roses 1455–1487
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Borgias 1492-1503
Henry VIII 1509 – 1547
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel ,
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Munster Rebellion 1534-1535
Elizabeth I 1558 – 1603
Tokugawa Ieyasu and the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate 1600-1615
Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
1632 by Eric Flint
English Civil War and The Protectorate 1642 – 1659
Louis XIV 1643 – 1715
American Revolution 1765–1783
The Age of Revolution 1789-1848
French Revolution 1789-1799
Napoleon/Napoleonic Wars 1799-1815
Greek War of Independence 1821-1929
Revolution of 1830
1842 retreat from Kabul
First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-`846
Revolutions of 1848
Queen Victoria 1837-1901
Charge of the Light Brigade 1854
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Second Opium War 1856-1860
Slavery in the United States 1776-1865
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry 1859
American Civil War 1861-1865
A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman,
Richard Wagner 1813-1883
Karl Marx 1818-1843
Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography by Saul Padover ,
Karl Marx: His Life and Enviroment by Isaiah Berlin ,
Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography by Saul Padover ,
Karl Marx: His Life and Enviroment by Isaiah Berlin ,
Mikhail Bakunin 1814-1876
The World that Never Was by Alex Butterworth
End of the Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration 1863-1868
Shinsengumi 1863-1869
British expedition to Abyssinia 1868
Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune 1870-1871
The Battle of Little Bighorn 1876
French Indochina 1862-1954
People's Will 1879-1887
Richard Francis Burton 1821-1890
The Scramble for Africa 1876—1912
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
Edwardian England 1901-1910
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke,
Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
Russian Revolution 1917-1922
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport,
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
German Revolution/Rosa Luxemburg 1918
Osugi Sakae 1885-1923
Osugi Sakae: Anarchist in Taisho Japan by Thomas Stanley,
History Books
A History of Malaysia by Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Y. Andaya [Second Edition],
A People's History of the World by Chris Harman ,
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey,
A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman,
A History of Malaysia by Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Y. Andaya [Second Edition],
A People's History of the World by Chris Harman ,
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey,
A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman,
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm,
Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan by Thomas Havens ,
History of the Paris Commune by Prosper Oliver Lissagaray ,
In Search of British Heroes by Tony Robinson
Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan by Thomas Havens ,
History of the Paris Commune by Prosper Oliver Lissagaray ,
In Search of British Heroes by Tony Robinson
Mayday 1971 by Lawrence Roberts,
Monarchy From the Middle Ages to Modernity by David Starkey,
Paris Babylon by Rupert Christiansen
Monarchy From the Middle Ages to Modernity by David Starkey,
Paris Babylon by Rupert Christiansen
Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin,
Revolution and Reaction: The Paris Commune 1871 by John Hick and Robert Tucker ,
Revolutions of 1848 by Priscilla Robertson ,
Rubicon by Tom Holland--Addendum,
Shinsengumi by Romulus Hillsborough ,
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross, Addendum
The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm ,
The Civil Wars by Appian of Alexandria,
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne,
The First Total War by David Bell ,
The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia by Milton E. Osborne,
Revolution and Reaction: The Paris Commune 1871 by John Hick and Robert Tucker ,
Revolutions of 1848 by Priscilla Robertson ,
Rubicon by Tom Holland--Addendum,
Shinsengumi by Romulus Hillsborough ,
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross, Addendum
The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm ,
The Civil Wars by Appian of Alexandria,
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne,
The First Total War by David Bell ,
The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia by Milton E. Osborne,
The Histories by Herodotus,
The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey,
The World that Never Was by Alex Butterworth
(For my favorites from this list, see HERE)Biography /Autobiography/ Memoirs
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman,
Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow,
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie,
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice,
Clemenceau by Ted Gottfried ,
Colonial Cambodia’s “Bad Frenchmen”: The Rise of French Rule and the Life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87 by Gregor Muller ,
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport,
Danton by Frank Dwyer ,
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke,
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions by James R. Gaines,
Free-Born John by Pauline Gregg,
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell ,
Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography by Saul Padover ,
Karl Marx: His Life and Enviroment by Isaiah Berlin ,
Lenin by John Haney ,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Osugi Sakae: Anarchist in Taisho Japan by Thomas Stanley,
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer ,
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Alexander: Child of a Dream by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
Alexander: The Ends of the Earth by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
Alexander: The Sands of Ammon by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris,
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Alexander: The Sands of Ammon by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris,
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel ,
Caesar by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God by Robert Graves ,
Conspirata by Robert Harris,
Dictator by Robert Harris,
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault ,
Funeral Games by Mary Renault,
Imperium by Robert Harris
King Richard III by William Shakespeare ,
The Last Card by Hans Hellmut Kirst ,
The Last Shogun by Ryotaro Shiba ,
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The October Horse by Colleen McCulloughThe Persian Boy by Mary Renault,
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks ,
(For my definition of historical fiction, see HERE)
Podcasts, Radio Shows, Youtube Shows
* King of Kings by Dan Carlin
Movies and TV Shows
Documentaries
A History of Britain by Simon Schama,
Berkeley in the Sixties,
Best of Enemies 10 Stars
Bible Mysteries,
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 9 Stars
El Che ,
George Harrison: Living in the Material World 7 Stars
Mai 68 Grands Soirs et Petits Matins ,
Best of Enemies 10 Stars
Bible Mysteries,
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 9 Stars
El Che ,
George Harrison: Living in the Material World 7 Stars
Mai 68 Grands Soirs et Petits Matins ,
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song,
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers ,
The People Speak 4 Stars
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy,
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick , (first thoughts)
Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War ,
The World At War
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers ,
The People Speak 4 Stars
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy,
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick , (first thoughts)
Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War ,
The World At War
Dramatizations / Biopics
12 Years a Slave 9 Stars
The Affair of the Necklace ,
All the Way 10 Stars
American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson ,
American Gangster ,
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself,
The Battleship Potemkin,
The Borgias,
A Bridge Too Far 3 Stars
Carlos,
Charlie Wilson's War ,
Chicago 10 ,
The Choice of Hercules/ 突入せよ！あさま山荘事件,
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (Thoughts after Re-Watching),
The Devil's Whore (Thoughts After Re-watching) ,
Elizabeth ,
Elizabeth: The Golden Age ,
Flags of our Fathers ,
Frost / Nixon ,
Game Change ,
Get On Up 1 Star
Gohatto / 御法度,
Good Night and Good Luck ,
Hatfields and McCoys ,
The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1 7 Stars
The Hollow Crown: Richard II 7 Stars
The Iron Lady 3 Stars
J. Edgar ,
Lawrence of Arabia ,
The King’s Speech ,
Letters from Iwo Jima ,
12 Years a Slave 9 Stars
The Affair of the Necklace ,
All the Way 10 Stars
American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson ,
American Gangster ,
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself,
The Battleship Potemkin,
The Borgias,
A Bridge Too Far 3 Stars
Carlos,
Charlie Wilson's War ,
Chicago 10 ,
The Choice of Hercules/ 突入せよ！あさま山荘事件,
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (Thoughts after Re-Watching),
The Devil's Whore (Thoughts After Re-watching) ,
Elizabeth ,
Elizabeth: The Golden Age ,
Flags of our Fathers ,
Frost / Nixon ,
Game Change ,
Get On Up 1 Star
Gohatto / 御法度,
Good Night and Good Luck ,
Hatfields and McCoys ,
The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1 7 Stars
The Hollow Crown: Richard II 7 Stars
The Iron Lady 3 Stars
J. Edgar ,
Lawrence of Arabia ,
The King’s Speech ,
Letters from Iwo Jima ,
Lincoln (2012) ,
Lumumba ,
Marie Antoinette (2006) ,
The Men Who Stare at Goats ,
Men of Yamato /男たちの大和,
Milk ,
Mutiny on the Bounty ,
NHK Historical Drama: Shinsengumi! / NHK 大河ドラマ新撰組！
North Country,
Nuremburg ,
Path to War ,
Patton ,
The Queen ,
The Rat Pack ,
Recount,La Révolution française (1989)--The French Revolution 10 Stars
Rosa Luxemburg 8 Stars
The Rose of Versailles / ベルサイユのばら
Selma 9 Stars
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days ,
Tora! Tora! Tora!,
The Trial of the Chicago 7, 8 Stars
Trumbo 8 Stars
The Tudors ,
Valkyrie 6 Stars
W. ,
Walk the Line ,
Waterloo ,
When the Last Sword is Drawn /壬生義士伝,
The Wolf of Wall Street 6 Stars
Young Guns 2 ,
Zodiac,
Lumumba ,
Marie Antoinette (2006) ,
The Men Who Stare at Goats ,
Men of Yamato /男たちの大和,
Milk ,
Mutiny on the Bounty ,
NHK Historical Drama: Shinsengumi! / NHK 大河ドラマ新撰組！
North Country,
Nuremburg ,
Path to War ,
Patton ,
The Queen ,
The Rat Pack ,
Recount,La Révolution française (1989)--The French Revolution 10 Stars
Rosa Luxemburg 8 Stars
The Rose of Versailles / ベルサイユのばら
Selma 9 Stars
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days ,
Tora! Tora! Tora!,
The Trial of the Chicago 7, 8 Stars
Trumbo 8 Stars
The Tudors ,
Valkyrie 6 Stars
W. ,
Walk the Line ,
Waterloo ,
When the Last Sword is Drawn /壬生義士伝,
The Wolf of Wall Street 6 Stars
Young Guns 2 ,
Zodiac,
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There's some sort of weird formatting issue with this post where I can't get rid of some of the line breaks. (I've tried, but I just can't do it.) So, sorry, just ignore the random line breaks
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