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Hugh Hudson has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
Recurring themes

The Bounty
1984
Action · Drama

The Elephant Man
1980
Drama · History

Gandhi
1982
Drama · History

Gorillas in the Mist
1988
Drama · History

Gardens of Stone
1987
War · Drama

Queen of the Desert
2015
Drama · Adventure

Amundsen
2019
Drama · History

Viceroy's House
2017
Drama · History

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Cheryl Campbell

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson

The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Antonio Banderas, Golshifteh Farahani, Rupert Everett
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski