Your birth year
2006
Braveheart
1995
Braveheart is 11 years older than you
It's from 1995, before you were born.
- Director
- Mel Gibson
- Genre
- Historical epic
- Honor
- Best Picture, 1995
- Released
- 1995
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About
As of 2026, it's 31 years old.
Braveheart is a sweeping, blood-soaked historical epic in which a face-painted Scottish rebel leads an uprising against English rule and bellows about freedom loudly enough to win Best Picture. Historically accurate? Not remotely. Rousing? Absolutely, gloriously so.
Mel Gibson's 'FREEDOM!', the kilted battle charges, and the operatic scale made it a defining epic of the '90s, even as historians quietly wept.
Grand, brutal, and stirring, Braveheart is the film that proved you can play fast and loose with history if your speeches are good enough and your battles are big enough.
