Braveheart Available on Netflix Only Through February
Mel Gibson’s sweeping medieval drama Braveheart premiered in 1995 and went on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Its mud-soaked, bone-crunching battle sequences became instantly iconic and helped shape films from Gladiator to modern fantasy blockbusters.
The cast features Gibson as William Wallace alongside Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen and Brendan Gleeson. Speaking at Fan Expo in Philadelphia in 2025, Gibson admitted he was “basically making it up as I went along,” calling the production a logistical monster with about 3,000 people on set.
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