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Biographical picture, Historie, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, romance film
Widowed British educator Anna Leonowens and her son Louis travel to Siam, where she is to teach English, Modern Western Education, Scientific and Secular Education to Crown Prince Chulalongkorn, the heir of King Mongkut. Believing moderniz…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 11th century General Ben Yusuf of the Almoravid dynasty has summoned all the emirs of Al-Andalus to North Africa. He chastises them for co-existing peacefully with their Christian neighbours, which goes against his dream of Islamic worl…
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War Film, war film
In the Cape Colony in January 1879, British Army officer Lord Chelmsford plots with diplomat Sir Henry Bartle Frere to annex the neighbouring Zulu Empire, which they perceive as a threat to the Cape Colony's emerging industrial economy. Fr…
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biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film
Princess Caroline Matilda of Great Britain is shown writing a letter to her children in which she professes to tell them the truth. In flashback, Caroline talks of England, as she was about to leave to marry Christian VII of Denmark. She i…
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Monster Film, fantasy film, historical film, horror film, romance film, science fiction film
Baron Charles Frankenstein, Dr. Zalhus, and Frankenstein's assistant, Paulus, attempt to create a female mate, Eva, for his creation. The team of scientists succeed in creating Eva, who is physically identical to a human and lacking the de…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, docudrama, historical film, thriller film
In 1975 Khmer Republic, Loung Ung is the five-year-old daughter of an officer of the Khmer National Armed Forces, known as "Pa" to his seven children. During the Vietnam War, the fighting spills over into neighboring Cambodia when the Unit…
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Drama, disaster film, drama film, historical film
In August 2000, the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet begins an exercise in the Barents Sea. The fleet deployed includes Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine. At sea, weapons officer Pavel Sonin reports that the interior temperature of a HTP torped…
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action film, drama film, historical film, war film
During the early days of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and on a greater scale World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Shanghai in what became known as the Battle of Shanghai. After holding back the Japanese for over 3 months, and …
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Thriller, biographical film, drama film
In 1987, Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier fighting in the Iran–Iraq War, is called to become a "fedai" ("body double" or political decoy) for Uday Hussein, the son of president Saddam. Latif comes from an upper-class family and attended schoo…
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Historical drama, Historie, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Wallis "Wally" Winthrop is a young American housewife living in New York City in 1998. Although she is neglected, abused, and left sexually frustrated by William, her workaholic psychiatrist husband, she is comforted by the love story of E…
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Historical drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, family film, historical film
In 1956 Del Rio, Texas, Mexican-American teenager Joe Trevino fights with three white boys in an alley, later rescued by his friends Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas, Gene Vasquez, and Lupe Felan. Meanwhile, J.B. Peña, a former Marine and the ne…
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Historical drama, drama film, historical film
The film is set in Scotland during the late Middle Ages, depicting the forced expropriation of peasants from the feudal common land owing to the enclosures, and their transformation into propertyless workers.
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Historical drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, thriller film
In 1934 London, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is the theatre critic for The Daily Chronicle, a tabloid newspaper now owned and run by Viscount David Brooke (Mark Strong) after the death of his father. Erskine delights in writing vitriolic r…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, historical film, survival film
In 1909, Danish explorer Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen organizes an expedition to Shannon Island, East Greenland, from which he makes treks to recover the records of the ill-fated Denmark expedition. His first attempt is unsuccessful and a crewm…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical film
In medieval Europe, the Church is fighting against 'black magic'. The medical knowledge of Greek physicians like Hippocrates and Galen had been lost to the medicine of medieval Europe. In 11th-century England, travelling barber surgeons at…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, biographical film
In 1904, Morocco is the source of conflict among the colonial powers of Germany, France, and the British Empire. Each nation is trying to establish a sphere of influence in that country. Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli is the leader of a band of Be…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film
A boy eating lunch in a 1950s-style kitchen plays war with his surrounding toys. A bomb blast outside the window frightens him under the table from where he is rescued and taken to an Amphitheatre, where an invisible audience cheers. The b…
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Action, Adventure, Historie, action film, adventure film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
In the Roman Empire of the 5th century, Ambrosinus, a Druid and member of a secret brotherhood protecting the sword of Julius Caesar, becomes tutor to the young newly crowned Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus. As Emperor, Romulus and his …
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Drama, Historie, historical film
The plot, which is based on events covered by several chapters of Brown's book, other sources, and on real events, revolves around four main characters: Charles Eastman né Ohiyesa, a young, mixed-race Sioux doctor educated at Dartmouth and…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser , commanded by Captain Charles B. McVay III, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While crossing the Philippine Sea, on July 30, …
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Drama, Horror, drama film, historical film, horror film
In 1645, during the English Civil War, Matthew Hopkins, an opportunistic witch hunter, takes advantage of the breakdown in social order to impose a reign of terror in East Anglia. Hopkins and his assistant, John Stearne, visit various vill…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, adventure film, historical film, trial film
In 1787, William Bligh commands the Royal Naval merchant vessel HMS Bounty. Bligh is a brutal tyrant who routinely administers harsh punishment to officers and crew alike who lack discipline, cause any infraction on board the ship, or defy…
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Anti-War Film, Christmas film, Drama, drama film, historical film, war film
The story centres mainly upon six characters: Gordon (a Lieutenant of the Royal Scots Fusiliers); Audebert (a French Lieutenant in the 26th Infantry and reluctant son of a general); Horstmayer (a Jewish German Lieutenant of the 93rd Infant…
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Westerns on television, drama television series, historical television series
The miniseries recounts the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys (as well as the allies to both families), starting during the Civil War in 1863 and extending into the early years of The Reconstruction.
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