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[[File:LondonSmog.jpg|thumb|2004 filming of a 19th-century film scene set in [[London]]]]<br />
A '''historical drama''' (also '''period drama''', '''costume drama''', and '''period piece''') is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes [[historical fiction]] and [[romance film|romance]]s, [[adventure film]]s, and [[swashbuckler]]s. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the [[Middle Ages]] or a specific period such as the [[Roaring Twenties]].<br />
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==Scholarship==<br />
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Films set in historical times have always been some of the most popular works. [[D. W. Griffith]]'s ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' and [[Buster Keaton]]'s ''[[The General (1926 film)|The General]]'' are examples of popular early American works set during the [[U.S. Civil War]]. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity such as the [[westerns]] and [[sword and sandal]] films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s.<br />
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The ''costume drama'' is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, constrasting them with other historical dramas believed to have more serious themes. Other critics have defended costume dramas, and argued that they are disparaged because they are a genre directed towards women.<ref name="KuhnWestwell2012">{{cite book|author1=Annette Kuhn|author2=Guy Westwell|title=A Dictionary of Film Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5oyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA98|date=21 June 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-103465-7|pages=98–}}</ref> Historical dramas have also been described as a conservative genre, glorifying an imagined past that never existed.<ref>Robé, Chris. “Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Biopic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism.” Cinema Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 2009, pp. 70–87. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20484449. Accessed 29 July 2020.</ref><br />
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==Historical accuracy==<br />
While historical drama is [[fiction]], works may include references to real-life people or events from the relevant time period or contain factually accurate representations of the time period. Works may also include mostly-fictionalized narratives based on actual people or events, such as ''[[Braveheart]]'', ''[[Les Misérables (2012 film)|Les Misérables]]'', and ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]].''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcGNAQAAQBAJ|title=Inspired by True Events: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films, 2nd Edition: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films|last=Niemi|first=Robert|date=2013-10-17|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781610691987|language=en}}</ref><br />
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Works that focus on accurately portraying specific historical events or persons are instead known as [[docudrama]] (such as [[The Report (2019 film)|''The Report'']]). Where a person's life is central to the story, such a work is known as [[Biographical film|biographical drama]] (examples being ''[[Frida]]'', ''[[Cinderella Man]]'' and ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]])''.<br />
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==Lists==<br />
* [[Historical fiction]]<br />
* [[List of films about the American Revolution]]<br />
* [[List of films and television shows about the American Civil War]]<br />
* [[List of films set in ancient Rome]]<br />
* [[List of historical drama films and series set in Near Eastern and Western civilization]]<br />
* [[Historical drama films set in Asia]]<br />
* [[List of Vietnamese historical drama films]]<br />
* [[Middle Ages in film]]<br />
* [[War film]]<br />
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{{Wiktionary|Period piece}}<br />
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[[Category:Lists of historical drama films]]<br />
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