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Overview

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Director:
Mel Gibson
Writer (WGA):
Randall Wallace (written by)
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Release Date:
24 May 1995 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Biography | Drama | War more
Tagline:
The courage to face fear more
Plot:
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 20 nominations more
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(155 articles)
Mel Gibson reveals name of newborn baby girl (IrishCentral)
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Mel Gibson names his new child
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Best movie ever more (886 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for brutal medieval warfare.
Runtime:
177 min
Country:
USA
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital

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Trivia:
Mel Gibson was on the set of Ransom (1996) when both Braveheart (1995) and Apollo 13 (1995) were nominated for Best Picture. He pulled a prank on Apollo director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer by giving them an ad in which Braveheart (1995) was considered for 'Best Moon Shot'. The accompanying picture was a shot of the Scottish army mooning the English. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Juxtaposition of the young Murron and her sister at Malcolm and John's funeral. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. The king of Scotland had died without a son, and the king of England, a cruel pagan known as Edward the Longshanks...
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Referenced in "Greek: Picking Teams (#1.4)" (2007) more

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439 out of 629 people found the following comment useful.
Best movie ever, 13 September 2005
10/10
Author: rutan07 from United States

Most on this site pick the Godfather, or the Shawshank Redemption, but this is it, this is the best film ever made. People will complain, will argue that I am wrong, but I will say it again...Braveheart is as close to perfection as a movie can be. The acting is superb, the man who played Lonshanks, the actor who portrayed Robert the Bruce, both should have been nominated for Oscars due to their powerful rendering of evil and a man who is saved from losing his humanity (from becoming evil) by meeting William Wallace. And let us not forget the direction, the cinematography. Braveheart is glorious, beautiful to look at. The slow motion pictures of horses preparing to charge armed combatants, the entire landscape of Scotland that Mel Gibson captures with the camera. Braveheart is artwork, it is as good as any picture. That the film is number 93 on the list of the top 250 movies ever is a shame. Yes there is violence in this film but that violence does serve a point...that freedom isn't free and sometimes it takes death, gruesome and horrible, to let ones people taste what it is like to be free. Braveheart is a great movie and it deserves to at least be in the top ten of IMDb's list of greatest films.

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