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Age of Empires Historian Dan Snow Reviews Famous Movie Scenes' Popular Historian and Television Presenter Dan Snow MBE reviews scenes from famous movies set in the Age of Revolutions. Dan reviews two of the most famous films set during the American Revolution, The Patriot (2000), starring Mel Gibson, and Last of the Mohicans (1992), starring Daniel Day Lewis. He also reviews one of the most iconic naval battle scenes from Master and Commander (2003), starring Russell Crowe, and siege of Port Royal scene from one the biggest movie franchises in history, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), starring Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. Next, Dan rates the opening scene in Alejandro González Iñárritu's oscar-winning movie The Revenant (2015), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, before analysing Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall in Waterloo (1970).

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Age of Empires Historian Dan Snow Reviews Famous Movie Scenes
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History
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31 minutes
Language
English
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History Hit

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