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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1809, on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner is a young slave boy. Due to limited food for their children, Nat's father, Isaac, ventures out one night to steal something for his son to eat. However, he is apprehende…
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Biographical picture, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1972, the White House Plumbers break into The Watergate and are subsequently arrested. Eighteen months later in December 1973, Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, brings Nixon audio tapes for Nixon to listen to. The two men …
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Biographical picture, Political Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In 1966, George W. Bush endures an initiation by his fellow Yale University students as a Delta Kappa Epsilon pledge. During the hazing, Bush successfully recalls the names and nicknames of many of the fraternity members, and states that h…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film
In 1973, Frank Carlton Feranna Jr. walks away from his mother Deana after years of abuse and moves from Seattle to Los Angeles in 1978. After a failed attempt to connect with his biological father who abandoned the family at birth, Frank l…
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biographical film, drama film
The film depicts the history of The Hershey Company, built by its founder Milton S. Hershey and his wife Kitty.
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, docudrama, drama film
The 1997 United Kingdom general election has Tony Blair and the Labour Party elected on a manifesto of reform and modernisation. Less than four months later, Diana, Princess of Wales is killed in a car crash at the Alma Bridge tunnel in Pa…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1976, amidst armed political conflict that is affecting daily life in Jamaica, Bob Marley announces that he will perform at Smile Jamaica Concert, promoting peace amongst the warring factions. While preparing for the concert, Marley, hi…
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Biographical picture, drama film
The film follows the journey of Waris Dirie (played by Liya Kebede) from a nomadic pastoralist background in Somalia to a new life and career in the West as a fashion model and activist against female genital mutilation.
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Action, Blaxploitation, LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, action film, biographical film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, ghost film, martial arts film
In the early 1970s, Black Dynamite, a Vietnam War veteran and former CIA officer, skilled in kung fu, vows to clean up the streets of drug dealers and gangsters after his younger brother Jimmy is killed by a shady organization. O'Leary, Bl…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, docudrama, drama film, war film
In February 1966, while on a combat mission, Lieutenant Dieter Dengler, a German-born U.S. Navy pilot in squadron VA-145, flying from the carrier USS Ranger, is shot down in his Douglas A-1 Skyraider over Laos. He survives the crash, only …
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Animation, Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film details the marriage of Ethel and Ernest Briggs from the 1920s to the 1970s, as they live through extraordinary events occurring in that period.
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Biographical documentary, Computeranimation, biographical film, musical film
The film starts with Pharrell Williams talking to documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville. Pharrell explains that he wants to tell his story in Lego form, as his view of the world is like that of a Lego set, which is building something from a…
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pseudo-documentary
Dirk Diggler (Michael Stein) was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15, 1961, outside of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father is a construction worker and his mother a boutique shop owner who both attend church every Sunday. Looking for a c…
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Family Drama, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, melodrama
In 1930s French Indochina, a 15-year-old French girl lives with her family in poverty in a rural area. Her mother, widowed and depressed, is a schoolteacher who lost all her savings in a failed agricultural venture after being swindled by …
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, historical film, medieval film, war film
As a child, Joan of Arc had a violent and supernatural vision. She returns home to find her village burning. Her older sister, Catherine, tries to protect her by hiding her from the attacking English forces.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
As young children being raised by a widowed mother, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his brother Hilary receive help from a local priest, Father Francis, who must relocate them from their home to small apartments in Birmingham due to financia…
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Documentation, Investigative Documentary, documentary film
The investigation into Arnold Friedman's life started in 1984, when the United States Postal Service intercepted a magazine of child pornography sent to him from the Netherlands. In 1987, investigators searched Arnold's home in Great Neck,…
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Marital Tragedy, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
It is the summer of 1977, and New York City lives in fear of the ".44 Caliber Killer", who shoots young women and their male companions. The killer, David Berkowitz, later identifies himself as "Son of Sam" in a note left at a murder scene…
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Biographical picture, Musical, Romance Film, biographical film, musical film
In 1947 Chicago, Leonard Chess, a Polish Jewish immigrant and bar owner, becomes interested in electric blues after hiring a band that includes guitarist Muddy Waters and harmonica player Little Walter. Seeing that their music excites loca…
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Historie, Political Drama, biographical film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with a paralyzed Iraq War veteran testifying before Congress about his injuries in the war. The film centers on Knight Ridder reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel along with Editor-in-Chief John Walcott and legendary…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
The narrative is framed through a contemporary televised interview where aerospace scientist Nambi Narayanan recounts his career, along with the espionage charges that led to severe physical and psychological trauma for him and his family.…
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Buddy Film, Coming Of Age, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years from 1955 to 1960. John was separated from his mother, Julia Lennon, when he was five. His aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, raised him like a son.
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
Part 1: The Argentine In Havana in 1964, Che Guevara is interviewed by Lisa Howard who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the "message of the Cuban Revolution". In 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first…
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Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
After the Watergate scandal of 1972–74, 400 million people worldwide watch on television as former United States President Richard Nixon departs the White House aboard Marine One following his resignation. British talk show host David Fros…
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