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docudrama, historical film, war film
The film follows Rome Gestapo chief Herbert Kappler, who carries out the killings of 335 mostly randomly and hurriedly selected victims in revenge for partisans killing 33 Germans: using a ratio of ten Italian victims for every German. How…
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War Film, drama film, historical film, war film
Based on a true story, the film is about a group of British miners (known as "Claykickers" or “Manchester Moles”) recruited during World War I to tunnel underneath no man's land and place mines below the German front for the Battle of Mess…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film
In 1856, Townsend Harris is sent by President Franklin Pierce to serve as the first U.S. Consul General to Japan, following the treaty written by Commodore Matthew C. Perry two years before.
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Historical drama
The film is a historical story of the Rani of Jhansi, a feminist icon in India and a fearless freedom fighter. She earned a reputation as the Joan of Arc of the East when in 1857 India, as a 24-year old general, she led her people into bat…
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Adventure, adventure film, swashbuckler film
After the Battle of Worcester at the end of the Second English Civil War, the main aim of General Oliver Cromwell is to capture Charles Stuart, son of the executed Charles I. However, the dashing Royalist hero nicknamed The Moonraker prepa…
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
The film focuses on the ongoing conflict between Maximilian I, an Austrian archduke who is installed as the ruler of Mexico by the French Napoleon III, and Benito Juárez, the country's U.S.-backed president. In 1863, Napoleon III of France…
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epic film, historical film, war drama
Qing Dynasty official Lin Zexu believes opium is a national scourge and efforts must be made to eradicate it. The British Empire makes a great deal of money shipping it to China and selling it to Chinese drug addicts. When Lin Zexu arrives…
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animated film, comedy film, fantasy film, historical film, musical film, musical play
thumb|After the crossing of the Red Sea, Moses and Aharon lead the Israelites into the Promised Land The Book of Exodus is retold by Moses, his brother Aaron, the Angel of Death, Jesus, and the traditional Hebrew God. The ancient mother go…
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drama television series, historical television series
This version is very true to Victor Hugo's novel. It maintains the setting, time period and covers the full arc of the story. Jean Valjean is released from prison on parole and finds life unbearable until Monseigneur Bienvenu cover his the…
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Adventure, adventure film, biographical film, swashbuckler film
Set in the late 1580s, the film very loosely follows the real-life exploits of the 16th-century Irish prince Hugh Roe "Red Hugh" O'Donnell. The story begins when Hugh's father, the Chief of the Name, dies, leaving his son as Chief of Clan …
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biographical film, drama film
In 60 B.C. Gaul, Druid chieftain Gutuart and his tribe witness the passing of a comet and interpret it as the sign of the coming of a new king for Gaul. Guttuart goes to Gergovia, the capital of the Arvernes tribe, for a gathering of chief…
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historical drama
thumb|left|150px|Badge of the 1921 Cunard liner Laconia In September 1942, 650 nautical miles west of Africa, the German U-boat sinks the British troopship Laconia en route from Cape Town to the United Kingdom. Realising there are Italian …
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War Film, action film, war film
During the 1941 Italian manned torpedo raid on Alexandria, two British battleships, and , are severely damaged. The British are worried that this new tactic will afford the Italians naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and the ability to s…
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, historical film, musical film
In 1854, the O'Leary family are traveling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O'Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon. He is killed when his wagon hits a bump and his horses break loose, dragging him. His wife Molly and th…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film
The plot centers on the conclave of 1458, which took place five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The story material was sourced from a diary written by Silvius Aeneas Piccolomini, the only cardinal to ever record the se…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
Quintus, a psychic researcher who has spent seven years in Tibet, wants to send someone back in time into a past life via hypnosis. He hires (for $500) a prostitute, Diana Love, and plans to send her into a trance over 48 hours so she can …
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Following the execution of Princess Elizabeth's mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, for infidelity, King Henry VIII declares his daughter illegitimate, removes her from the line of succession to the throne, and exiles her to Hatfield House. Joining…
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Komödie, historical film
Eleanor of Aquitaine gives birth to twin sons, Lurkalot first and then Richard. But the nobles, led by Sir Braggart de Bombast, abduct baby Lurkalot and abandon him in a forest to die. He is raised by a family of pigs who belong to Sir Cow…
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Documentation, biographical film, comedy film, documentary film, historical film
biographical film, drama film, historical film
After a prisoner successfully escapes from Auschwitz concentration camp, SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Karl Fritzsch selects ten men to be starved to death in an underground cell. When the last prisoner is beaten by camp guards, priest Maximilian Ko…
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Drama, historical film
Set against the backdrop of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the story traces the lives of several African-Americans who decide to boycott travelling in the public buses.
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Drama, historical film
Drama
Gustad Noble (Roshan Seth) is a Parsi bank clerk who lives with his family in Bombay (Mumbai), just before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. At first, he seems to be a self-centered, self-involved, neurotic man, who is so tied up in his own …
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Adventure, Historie, drama film, historical film
The story follows a fictional Roman tribune named Titus Valerius Taurus, a veteran of campaigns in Germania, who is sent to Judaea by the emperor Tiberius to investigate the possibility of the divinity of the recently crucified Jesus. Alth…
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