[AnAmericanMother]

The sixties were an excellent era for good, solid historical dramas.

Some other notables were Lawrence of Arabia, Mutiny on the Bounty, Becket . . . it really was quite a run in the sixties.

[CremeSaver]

How about A Lion in Winter? It has to have the best cast of any movie that I have ever seen with Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, just to mention a few. What performances they gave. I still have most of the books that I bought in 60's. They are yellowed, the glue is dried out and pages fall out but they are still my favorites. Jean Plaidy and Margaret Campbell Barnes were two of the best authors of historical fiction.