Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

What makes a great historical movie? Is it an accurate portrayal of a period, a nostalgic look back at the past, or is it enough to simply tell a great story?

Well, on our website, History Extra.com, we've been running a poll to crown the greatest historical movie of all time, nominated by historians and then voted on by you.

The results are in, and Kev Lachin spoke to the historians and cinema experts, Roger

Lookhurst and Alex von Tunselman, to get their take on it all.

Welcome to this episode of the History Architecture podcast in which we're discussing the results

of History Actures poll to we're discussing the results of

History Acture's poll to find the greatest historical movie of all time.

22 historians nominated 100 movies, and then it was left to you, the History Extra audience,

to rank them and crown a winner. So which movies won? Which films made the cut and which didn't?

And what does that say about us?

I'll be talking that through with two esteemed guests. First, we have Alex von Tonzelman,

historian and screenwriter, and the author of books including Fallen Idols, 12 statues that made history.

Alex, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me on. And alongside Alex, we have Roger Luckhurst, the Geoffrey Tilsen-Chair of 19th century studies at Birkbeck University of London, who specialises in film and culture from the 19th century.

His books include Gothic and Illustrated History.

Roger, I'm delighted to have you here with us also.

Yes, lovely to be on. Thank you.

So, if you're listening to this podcast, you can find

the results right now at www. HistoryExstra.com forward slash 100 movies, but let's dive straight into

the list itself. Roger, I wonder if we might start with you. You were not one of the nominators.

I should have said Alex was one of the nominators. You were not. You're coming to this fresh. What did you make of the film picks that made The Hundred? What surprised you?

Well, I think when I was reading through it, this is the great thing about lists, isn't it?

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