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Adventure, Historical drama, adventure film, biographical film, swashbuckler film
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She persuades her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as…
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Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film
Queen Elizabeth I is transported forward in time to the film's present day by the occultist John Dee, who commands the spirit guide Ariel (a character from William Shakespeare's The Tempest to bring them there. Elizabeth arrives in the sha…
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Adventure, Classical Western, Western film
At West Point Military Academy in 1854, Cadet Carl Rader (Van Heflin), an agent of John Brown, is dishonorably discharged for instigating a brawl among the cadets after distributing anti-slavery pamphlets which his classmates disapprove of…
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Drama, Western film, crime film, drama film, historical film
In 1901, Segundo, a young Chilean tracker and mestizo, lieutenant Alexander MacLennan, a Scottish veteran and Bill, an American mercenary, embark on an expedition within the plains of Tierra del Fuego to delimit and reclaim the lands that …
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drama film, historical film
In 1809, Sir Arthur Wellesley, commander of the British forces in the Iberian Peninsula, prepares to invade French-controlled Spain. He orders Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his band of "chosen men" to accompany the arrogant, incompetent, n…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
On May 19, 1927, after waiting a week for the rain to stop on Long Island, New York, pilot Charles A. "Slim" Lindbergh tries to sleep in a hotel near Roosevelt Field before his transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. His friend Frank …
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Adventure, action film, biographical film, drama film
The narrative of the miniseries primarily follows Attila the Hun (reigned 434–453) during his rise to power, violent unification of the Hunnic tribes, and subsequent campaigns, first against the Eastern Roman Empire, and later against the …
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Biographical picture, Drama Documentary, biographical film, docudrama, historical drama, independent film
In 1940, Orson Welles, RKO studio head George J. Schaefer, and screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz struggle in making what will be considered the greatest American film, Citizen Kane.
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
Set in the period 1784–1789, the film portrays Jefferson when he was US minister to France at Versailles before the French Revolution. French liberals and intellectuals hope he will lead them away from the corruption of the court of King L…
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Biographical picture, Western film, biographical film, war film
George Armstrong Custer (Flynn) arrives at West Point and is mistaken by his self-designed, outlandish uniform for a visiting dignitary. His academic career doesn't improve, and demerits for pranks and poor discipline accumulate. When the …
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historical film
Incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. is re-elected for a second term, amidst anti-war protests during the Vietnam War. At dinner, brothers Julian "Jules" Bartolome Jr.
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
The film is told primarily from the viewpoint of the fictional Hauptmann Hoffmann, an officer in the SS who is assigned to duty in the Führerbunker for what will prove the final days in the life of Adolf Hitler, as the Battle of Berlin rap…
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Historical drama, drama film
The film begins in the summer of 1942, during World War II in the German occupation of France, a small village in the Pyrenees. A Jewish father named Benjamin walks his daughter, Anya, to the safety of a train fleeing France. One day, a yo…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1917, four World War I Australian cavalrymen – Frank, Scotty, Chiller, and Tas – serve in Palestine as part of the 4th Light Horse Brigade, a unit of the British and Commonwealth forces. When Frank dies, he is replaced by Dave. Dave fin…
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Western, Western film, war film
thumb|right|Mari Aldon and Richard Webb at the Castillo de San Marcos for the film's premiere. During the Second Seminole War in 1840, American general Zachary Taylor sends naval lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island h…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama, historical drama
Man in an Orange Shirt features two separate yet interwoven stories: Part 1 tells of the obstacles that Western society has put before the relationship of the two veterans, Michael and Thomas, in the immediate post-war period. Part 2 descr…
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Gothic film, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, exploitation film, ghost film, gothic horror film, historical film, horror film, independent film, splatter film, supernatural horror film, war film
In 1964, two rednecks named Rufus and Lester use detour signs to lure six young tourists into their rural town of Pleasant Valley, Georgia. Upon their arrival, the six are warmly welcomed by the townsfolk, and are introduced to some of the…
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Adventure, Komödie, heist film
In 1950 Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox), an ardent member of the Scottish nationalist organisation, the Scottish Covenant Association, hopes to eventually see an independent Scotland. Frustrated and saddened by the complacency of his fellow Sco…
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Historical drama, action film, drama film, historical film
A group of Swedish aristocrats want out of the Scandinavian Kalmar Union and are conspiring to overthrow Christian II of Denmark, who is on his way to Stockholm to put an end to Sten Sture and the Swedish rebels. Meanwhile, Anne Eriksson a…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
As the Great War (World War I) begins, 17-year-old Jack Kipling (Daniel Radcliffe), the only son of the famous English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling, declares his intention to join the Royal Navy to fight against the Germans. The elder K…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
The Greek orator Demosthenes of Athens is advocating war to resist King Philip II of Macedon and his planned invasion and takeover of all the city-states of Greece. While Philip II is leading a campaign to take over Olynthus, he is informe…
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Historical drama, drama film, trial film
An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcasts Nazi propaganda during World War II. She is dubbed "Axis Sally" by the American G.I.s who simultaneously love and hate her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Thi…
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Fantasy, historical television series
Episode 1 Alice Tanner is working at an excavation in France when she finds something. As she does, an earthquake is present. Upon hearing voices, seemingly whispering her name, she is drawn into a cave.
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Military Film, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1942, a cargo ship with a Norwegian crew, part of an Allied Arctic convoy transporting weapons to the Soviet Union, continues on its way after the disintegration of the convoy and the retreat of its military escort, making a perilous jo…
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