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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
This historical drama recounts the events that led to the accession of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias. The film opens with the arrival in 1744 of Princess Sophie Auguste Frederika – whose name would be changed to ‘Catherin…
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historical film
In Jerusalem, a popular mob hero named Barabbas is arrested and convicted by Pontius Pilate. Jesus of Nazareth arrives for the celebration of the Passover Seder. The High Priest Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin, who consider Jesus to be a menace…
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drama film, historical drama, war film
The film takes place in 1942, during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). The film is based on real events that took place during the Second World War between August and October 1942, when Russian soldier and Soviet partisan officer Nik…
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Biographical picture, Historie, drama film, historical film
The film centers around the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte (Philippe Torreton) during his forced exile on the remote island of Saint Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, while being under the watchful eye of the inflexible …
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historical film
In 1903 in the British colonial region adjoining German East Africa (a portion of which was referenced as Tanganyika), tough American colonist John Gale is leading a safari to capture escaped murderer Abel McCracken, who is inciting the Nu…
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
drama film, historical film, war film
Europe's most powerful leaders desperately plot their strategies, attempting to determine the next moves of both their allies and enemies. The private meetings, arguments, anguish and personal battles will change the course of history. The…
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historical film, silent film
King Menelaus shakes soldiers' hands. He finds royal duties, as well as his wife Helen's planned social activities, tedious, and plans fishing trips. Menelaus' preparations for a relaxed night in is contrasted with Helen's preparations for…
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Historical drama, drama film, war film
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a beautiful young laundress, Elizabeth Rousset, shares a stage coach ride from Rouen with a group of condescending nobles and businessmen and their wives, a political firebrand nam…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film, historical film
drama film, historical film
Set during the early 1930s in Soviet Ukraine, American engineer Michael Shamrock arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year-old son, Peter to help "build socialism". He falls in love with an actress Olga, of whom she has another admirer, Commiss…
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Adventure, Historie, historical film
In the 11th century, three friends flee from an Italian city and make their way to the Holy Land to take part in the First Crusade.
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documentary film, historical film
biographical film, drama film, historical film
drama film
The story opens with Portuguese soldier Fernando de Gama in a shipwreck. He finds some wreckage to float on and washes up on the coast of Siam. After almost being eaten by a crocodile, he is captured by Arab slave traders and taken to Ayut…
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historical drama film, war film
Historical drama, Romance Film, drama film
Set in rural 1840s Scotland, the film explores labor and class issues while telling the story of Gavin Dishart, a staid cleric who is newly assigned to Thrums' Auld Licht church, and Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself a…
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historical film
In 1971, Camilla Shand (Olivia Poulet) meets Charles, Prince of Wales (Laurence Fox) at a polo match. They get to know each other and begin dating. The relationship fizzles out when Charles travels overseas to join the Royal Navy in early …
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Adventure, Historie, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, medieval film, sword-and-sandal film
In what is now Russia, a settlement of Vikings lives in peace with both the Tatars and the Slavs. All is well until Togrul (Folco Lulli), a Tatar chief seeks the help of Oleg (Victor Mature), the chief of the Vikings, to war on the Slavs i…
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drama film, historical film
In 1973, a group of women are arrested for being involved in an underground abortion network in Chicago. They flashback to four years before. Patty drops out of school and runs away from home because she is pregnant.
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drama film
Freighter owner and captain Mike Dillon reluctantly smuggles Jewish immigrants into Palestine, making it very clear to the Jewish leader, David Vogel, he is only doing it for the money. Dillon is annoyed to learn that he will have to go as…
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Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film, historical film, medieval film
After her father, the great chieftain Krok (Ivo Novák) dies, the tribes of the Bohemian forests elect his youngest daughter Libuše (Winter Ave Zoli) as their new ruler. Together with her two beautiful sisters, the healer Kazi (Veronika Bel…
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Biographical picture, historical film
Drama, drama film
Set before the American Civil War, The Toy Wife tells the story of Frou-Frou, a 16-year-old coquette. She has been in France to attend a prestigious school, but is now returning to her family plantation in Louisiana. Craving to go to New O…
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