In your opinion, what is the greatest battle scene (accuracy, spectacle) ever created for a historical movie?

"Do you think that a film, which illustrates an historical event or the life of a personality from the past should be based only on facts?...Doesn't this come into oposition with the notion of cinematografical art?"

#5: Battle of Stirling Bridge - Braveheart

Massed heavy cavalry against armed footmen, screaming Scotsmen, weapons flying, arrows descending on the ranks of men, inspired speeches, vast armies running across fields - no matter what you think of the movie as a whole, the large battle scene in the middle is certainly dramatic.

#4: Opening Battle against barbarians: Gladiator

#3: Red Army Attack at Stalingrad - Enemy at the Gates. Commissars setting up machine guns to mow down Russian infantry if they retreated, the rubble of Stalingrad.

#2: Attack by Tiger Tanks - Saving Private Ryan, most pick the initial D-Day landings, which was realistic, but the final battle with Tigers was far more intense.

and the #1 Battle Scene:

Longstreet's assault on Cemetery Ridge led by Pickett - In the movie Gettysburg, the use of re-enactors and actual locations contributed to its feeling of accuracy, the long battle lines with battle flags tipped forward as they advanced...splendid! Gushing holes of humanity from the Union artillery, the noise and smoke, and still they came...a handful reaching the copse of trees in the center....

Honorable Mention:

Pearl Harbor: final battle scene

Das Boot: no particular battle but realistic view of U-boat warfare

Iwo Jima: Codetalkers: pretty intense

Patriot: Redcoats vs. Continental Army

Battle of X-ray: We Were Soldiers:

The Messenger, the attack on that English tower fortress by Joan of Arc

Troy: does this count as historical? The massed charge by the Greeks against the Trojans....where were the phalanxes?

If you allow Troy on the list, then i'd have to mention the Battle of Middle Earth...as the tops in spectacle.

I would've put Battle of Bulge with Robert Shaw on the List, but the American m-60 tanks painted to represent Tigers turned me off.

Alls Quiet on the Western Front-old but realistic

Cross of Iron: Eastern Front