Historical Thrillers

Maximus Decimus Meridius is the protagonist of the film "Gladiator", a skilled general who is betrayed and forced to become a gladiator in the Roman arena.

William Wallace is the protagonist of the film "Braveheart", a legendary Scottish warrior who led his people in the First War of Scottish Independence against the English.

Tony Mendez is the protagonist of the film "Argo", a CIA agent who disguises himself as a Canadian filmmaker in order to rescue American hostages from Iran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Ali La Pointe is the protagonist of the film "The Battle of Algiers", an FLN leader who is captured and tortured by the French during the Algerian War of Independence.

Hanna Schmitz is the protagonist of the film "The Reader", a young German woman who has an affair with an older man during World War II and is later revealed to have been a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Jackal is the protagonist of the film "The Day of the Jackal", a professional assassin hired to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the protagonist of the film "Amadeus", a young musical prodigy who is envied and ultimately destroyed by the older, established composer Antonio Salieri.

James B. Donovan is the protagonist of the film "Bridge of Spies", an American lawyer who is sent to East Berlin to negotiate the release of a captured American pilot during the Cold War.

Oskar Schindler is the protagonist of the film "Schindler's List", a German businessman who saves over a thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

Hugh Glass is the protagonist of the film "The Revenant", a frontiersman who is left for dead after being attacked by a bear and must fight for survival in the harsh wilderness.

Tommy is the protagonist of the film "Dunkirk", a British soldier who is part of the Dunkirk evacuation during World War II.

Katharine Graham is the protagonist of the film "The Post", the Washington Post editor who publishes the Pentagon Papers, a classified government report on the Vietnam War.

Lance Corporal Schofield is the protagonist of the film "1917", a British soldier who is tasked with delivering a message across enemy lines during World War I.

Herman J. Mankiewicz is the protagonist of the film "Mank", a screenwriter who is hired to write the screenplay for the film "Citizen Kane".

Jean de Carrouges is the protagonist of the film "The Last Duel", a French knight who is accused of raping a woman and must defend his honor in a trial by combat.