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historical film
The film follows Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti from her youth as the first female student at Abeokuta Grammar School, her meeting with- and marriage to Israel Ransome-Kuti, her career as an educationist and the formation of the Abeokuta Women's U…
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historical film
Edward Courtney, the son of a baronet shocks class-conscious 1900 British society by marrying Kate, his Irish servant. The film chronicles 45 years in their lives together and apart, through the Boer War and World War I and World War II. T…
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historical film
The town of Headstone eagerly awaits the arrival of their new sheriff, hoping that he will vanquish the dreaded outlaw Killer Pete, who has robbed them repeatedly and murdered the last four sheriffs. Meanwhile, on the stage bound for Heads…
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documentary film
South African musicians, playwrights, poets and activists recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black citizens of South Africa of basic human rights, and the important role that music played in tha…
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Crime, Historical drama, crime film, romance film
In 1901, US President William McKinley is put under great pressure by everyone, even US Bank Examiner Henry Maxwell, to do something about a gang of bank robbers nobody has been able to bring to justice. He sends U.S. Navy Lieutenant Richa…
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Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, documentary film, historical film
documentary film, historical film
Cameron asserts that a blueprint of America's treasure is manifest in the National Monument to the Forefathers, a large 1889 granite structure in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that commemorates the Mayflower Pilgrims. Co-writer Marshall Foster …
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drama film, historical film, romance film, science fiction film
Set against the beginning of the 1982 Lebanon War, the film stars Nadine Labaki as Yesmine, a schoolteacher in Beirut, and Mohamad Dalli as Wissam, a young boy in her class who is trying to find the courage to tell his classmate Joanna (Gi…
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
At Windsor Castle in 1810, physicians tell the Queen that King George III will not recover his sanity. Their son and heir to the throne, Prince George, becomes Regent. The Prince Regent plans to marry his only daughter Princess Charlotte, …
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Western film, drama film, historical film
biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
Mussolini arrives in a small town in 1901 and gets a job as a school teacher; he is subsequently fired for having sex with the headmaster's daughter. This would be a common theme throughout the movie. After giving up on teaching, he works …
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War Film, war film
In 1861, Harrison Bolding (Brian Merrick) bid farewell to his wife and went off to war. In 1864, during the Battle of the Wilderness, as fighting wears down and night begins to fall, Bolding and two other soldiers, James Hogg (Terry Jernig…
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drama film, historical film
Set in the Warsaw Getto during World War II, the fiction focuses on a group of Jewish thespians performing a musical stage play.
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historical film
adventure film, historical film, swashbuckler film
The de Franchi family is locked in a deadly vendetta with the de Giudici family in 19th century Corsica. Lucien and Louis de Franchi are twin brothers. Lucien wants to continue Corsican traditions, while Louis wants to end the vendetta and…
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The film opens with Drake's return from his voyage of circumnavigation. He is nervous about how he will be received at home, and rightly so, for he has executed Thomas Doughty, an influential courtier, investor in the voyage, and formerly,…
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adventure film, drama film, historical film
The film is based on a true story, set in the 1940s Oyo Town, southwestern Nigeria. The king has just died, and as tradition demands, Elesin Oba must perform a ritual suicide in order to join his dead king in the afterlife so that the king…
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drama film, historical film
{{plot}} Early on in the film, the family's association with Martin Harris, a prominent figure of the early Latter Day Saint movement, is established. Carefully woven throughout the film are events which tie into actual history of the Chur…
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drama film
A young girl in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him.
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historical film
Mel Mermelstein and his wife Jane are a California couple thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane is a Southern Baptist fro…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Political Satire, adventure film, historical film
In Polish Russia, Stoloff, a Cossack in exile has gained control over a Jewish village. The villagers live by horse-thievery and under the leadership of Kifke. Stoloff's regime is tolerated until he commandeers the village's horses for the…
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Western film, historical film
thumb|The full film In 1775, American pioneer and frontiersman Daniel Boone leads thirty colonial families to Kentucky where they face two threats: Native American raiders led by renegade white Simon Girty, who opposes the colony; and the …
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coming of age, drama film
The film tells the story of a Sephardi family of Egyptian Jewish immigrants from Alexandria that settle in 1947 Tel Aviv. The family consists of a 33-year-old widowed wife, Clara, (played by Gila Almagor, one of the most prominent actresse…
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crime film, documentary film, drama film, historical film, mystery film