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History of the World: Part I
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2975
- IMDb #2701
- Google retired #3633
- Rotten Tomatoes #2301
- Metacritic #3172
- Letterboxd #2777
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3245
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1552
- Metacritic Audience #2045
- Kinopoisk #2647
- AlloCiné #3025
- Trakt #2455
Every rating
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 47, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 81. Critics average 54, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A satirical journey through various epochs of human history, this story presents a series of sketches. It revisits major events from the Stone Age to the French Revolution, offering a comedic and irreverent take on well-known historical moments. The narrative connects these vignettes with musical numbers and absurd commentary on the human condition across the ages.
Details
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Writer
- Mel Brooks
- Studio
- Brooksfilms, 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 12 June 1981
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $31.7M
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