Is It Possible to Direct a Period Piece?

i always want it to feel like flesh and blood, human beings on the screen, or that are im. And tho, i'm attached to a period piece that h b olt's a little as a few years ago. It's based on a real life story. Caper rarminded me a little bit of dog day afternoon,. know, in that it's a real story, but it's, it just goes everywhere....