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Biographical picture, Political Drama, drama film
In 1970, Nicholas Garrigan graduates from the University of Edinburgh Medical School. With dull prospects at home, he decides to seek adventure abroad by working at a missionary clinic in Uganda run by David Merrit and his wife, Sarah. Aft…
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Action, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
In December 1937, Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Layton, an American naval attaché in Japan, is warned by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto that US threats to their supply of oil would force Japan to wage war. The threats are realized on December 7,…
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Action, Drama, War Film, drama film, epic film, historical film, war film, white savior film
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Gould Shaw is injured at the Battle of Antietam and returns home to Boston on medical leave. Shaw accepts promotion to Colonel commanding the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one…
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Historical drama, comedy drama
With their choirmaster joining the army, a choral group in the Yorkshire town of Ramsden decides to take a chance on appointing Dr Henry Guthrie as his replacement, despite Guthrie's homosexuality, Germanophilia and atheism. A brick is thr…
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Historie, Romance Film, drama film, historical drama film, romance film
In the 1870s, New York City is dominated by a community of old-money families whose lives are guided by strict codes of conduct. The elite police their own through ostracism or worse. Gentleman lawyer Newland Archer is planning a society m…
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Drama, Historie, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political thriller, thriller film
In 1966, U.S. State Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg is embedded with American soldiers in Vietnam. He documents the conflict's on-the-ground reality and soon realizes the Vietnam War is unwinnable.
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Adventure, Cartoon, Historie, Musical, Romantic Drama, adventure film, biographical film, comedy drama, family film, fantasy film, historical drama, musical film, romance film
In 1607, the Susan Constant travels from London to the New World, carrying English settlers from the Virginia Company. The settlers, including Captain John Smith, talk of adventure, finding gold, fighting "Injuns" and potentially settling …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Six-year-old Norma Jeane Mortenson is raised by her mentally unstable mother, Gladys Pearl Baker. On her seventh birthday in 1933, Norma Jeane is given a framed picture of a man Gladys claims was her father. Later that night, a fire breaks…
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Drama, historical drama
In 1928, Tom Branson, the Earl of Grantham's widowed son-in-law, marries Lucy Smith, the illegitimate daughter of and sole heir to Lady Maud Bagshaw, Queen Mary's lady-in-waiting. Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham reveals th…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film, war film
During World War II, Wehrmacht Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is serving in Tunisia on the staff of the 10th Panzer Division, where he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the future of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. Stauffenberg lose…
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Crime, Historical drama, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
The film's storylines alternate between Rodney Alcala's crimes in different locations from 1971 to 1979 and Sheryl Bradshaw's life in 1978 Los Angeles which leads to the two meeting on The Dating Game. In 1977, Rodney photographs a woman o…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Historie, Monumental Film, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film
By 1950, the 44-year-old Puyi, former Emperor of China, has been in custody for five years since his capture by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. In the recently established People's Republic of China, Puyi arrives as a…
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Biographical picture, Occult Horror, biographical film, drama film, satanic film
In 1634 France, following the aftermath of the Huguenot rebellions, the French Catholic statesman Cardinal Richelieu influences King Louis XIII in an attempt to gain further power. Richelieu seeks to consolidate his authority by systematic…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, historical drama
While heading to afternoon prayers in New Delhi on January 30, 1948, Gandhi is fatally shot. On 7 June 1893, in the Colony of Natal, young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi is forcibly expelled from a whites-only train carriage in Pietermaritzburg de…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sport film
During a 1978 funeral service in London in honour of the life of Harold Abrahams, presided over by his former colleague Lord Andrew Lindsay, there is a flashback to his youth, when he was running along a beach with a group of athletes. In …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, historical film, mystery film, political thriller film
During his farewell address in 1961, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns about the build-up of the military-industrial complex. He is succeeded by John F.
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Drama, Historie, historical drama, historical film, legal drama
In August 1968, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, John Froines, and Bobby Seale make preparations to protest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Five months later, they are arr…
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Historical drama, Western, Western film, epic film
In 1859, at the San Pedro Valley of Southeastern Territorial Arizona, two separate parties of surveyors mark stakes on opposite sides of the San Pedro River to outline the homestead lots of a forthcoming frontier town, Horizon. Soon after,…
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film, thriller film
In 1933, John Dillinger infiltrates Indiana State Penitentiary, jailbreaking his crew. During the firefight, his mentor Walter Dietrich is shot and killed. Dillinger and company change clothes and eat at a nearby farm before driving to a s…
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Action, Drama, Historie, action film, drama film, epic film, historical film
In the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823, General Nanisca, leader of the all-female regiment of warriors, the Agojie, liberates Dahomean women who were abducted by slavers from the Oyo Empire. This provokes King Ghezo of Dahomey to p…
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Forensic, Political Drama, Swords and Sandals, drama film, trial film, white savior film
The schooner La Amistad is transporting black slaves off the coast of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1839. A captive, Cinqué, leads an uprising against the crew, most of whom are killed. Two navigators, Pedro Montes and José Ruiz, are spare…
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Action, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, survival film
In 1850, author Herman Melville visits innkeeper Thomas Nickerson, the last survivor of the sunk whaleship Essex, offering money for his story. Nickerson initially refuses, then agrees after his wife intervenes. In 1820, a Nantucket whalin…
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Historical drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, war film
Crime, Thriller, crime film, historical film
A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in Mississippi in 1966.
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