Story Line
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
“Every man dies, not every man really lives.”
Top Cast
Mel Gibson
William Wallace
Catherine McCormack
Murron MacClannough
Sophie Marceau
Princess Isabelle
Patrick McGoohan
King Edward
Angus Macfadyen
Robert the Bruce
Brendan Gleeson
Hamish Campbell
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Rating
7.9/ 10
Release Date
1995-05-24
Runtime
2h 58m
Genres
ActionDramaHistoryWar
Part of the Series
Braveheart Collection
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User Reviews (4)
Anton2k
10/10
•8/4/2012Being Scottish, this movie really does a good job at showing off the scenery in and around Scotland. The story line of this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through the movie. Mel Gibson does a really good job with the accent and ...
John Chard
10/10
•9/8/2019Historical flaws aside, Braveheart is a rousing spectacle.
So it comes to pass in the year of 1995 (not a year of our lord I think) that Mel Gibson would craft the award winning epic that is Braveheart, a film that is historically bent in the extr...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/11/2023When i saw this I was 15 and it was one of the greatest movies I had ever seen. Fast forward to today, I'm 41, and degrees and history and... the battle of Sterling Bridge is like fingernails on a chalkboard whenever I see it.
I watched it with my...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•8/27/2023I am afraid that as a Scotsman, I had way more problem with the factual elements of this than perhaps I ought to have had. We have this history drummed into us as bairns, and so when a grand-scale depiction like this comes along, I excitedly expected...