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Forensic, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1998, Robert Bilott, from Cincinnati, is a corporate defense lawyer at law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Wilbur Tennant, a farmer and friend of Bilott's grandmother, asks him to investigate the deaths of numerous dairy cattle at his…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Western, Western film, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
In 1881, young starstruck Robert "Bob" Ford seeks out Jesse James when the James Gang is planning a train robbery in Blue Cut, Missouri, making unsuccessful attempts to join the gang with the help of his older brother Charley, already a me…
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Historical drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, war drama
thumb|upright=1.05|Filiming location in Little Germany, Bradford (February 16, 2023) A West Virginian mother waits daily for news from her two sons serving overseas while childhood friends Lena and Abram face the difficulty of their buddin…
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Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, survival film
On June 23, 2018, twelve boys of the junior football team "Wild Boars" and their assistant coach Ekkaphon Chanthawong leave practice to explore the Tham Luang cave. When the team fails to arrive at a birthday party organized by their paren…
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Drama, Forensic, drama film, trial film
Medgar Evers, an African-American civil rights activist in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home on June 12, 1963, by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist. De La Beckwith had been tried twice in the 1960s, with both trials ended …
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Drama, Thriller, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
Vassili Zaitsev, a replacement soldier of the Red Army, arrives east of the River Volga during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. After a dangerous trip across the river into the city, he is forced to join a human wave attack carrying only …
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drama film, historical film, war film
thumb|250px|left|Mahmoud, Hassiba, Little Omar, and Ali La Pointe in the hideout The Battle of Algiers opens in 1957 in the capital city of French Algeria. After being tortured, one of Ali la Pointe's (Brahim Hadjadj) compatriots reveals A…
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Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
In January 1879, following the defeat of 1,300 British soldiers at Isandlwana, Zulu warriors scavenge the battlefield. At a mass Zulu marriage ceremony witnessed by missionary Otto Witt and his daughter Margareta, Zulu King Cetshwayo is in…
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Action, Knights Tale, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, medieval film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the 5th century AD, the declining Roman Empire is withdrawing from Britannia, where the native Woads, led by Merlin, stage an insurgency. A group of Sarmatian knights and their half-British Roman commander Artorius Castus, known as "Art…
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Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Romance Film, fantasy film, historical fantasy
A god named Kiddo creates the world as a peaceful garden and leaves it to its inhabitants. Her father, Birdman, intervenes, imposing order and establishing rules that govern society, including strict expectations surrounding marriage and g…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film
In the 1750s, Jesuit priest Father Gabriel enters the eastern Paraguayan jungle to convert the Guaraní to Christianity. He sends another priest to make contact with them, but the man is thrown to his death from Iguazu Falls. Father Gabriel…
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War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
Shot in a docudrama style (with captions identifying the different participants), the film opens in the days leading up to D-Day, depicting events on both sides of the English Channel. Disagreement existed within the German High Command as…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film
In 1963, Stephen Hawking, a postgraduate astrophysics student at the University of Cambridge, begins a relationship with literature student Jane Wilde. Although Stephen is intelligent, both his friends and fellow academics are worried abou…
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Bible Film, action film, fantasy film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
In 1300 B.C., Moses, a general in the household of the Egyptian royal family, prepares to attack an encamped Hittite army with Prince Ramesses at Kadesh. A High Priestess divines a prophecy, which she relates to Ramesses's father, Seti I. …
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, war film
On 20 January 1942, a conference of Nazi German officials at a villa in Wannsee is chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office. Heydrich has been given a mandate by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring to carry out a "c…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Abdul Karim, a young prison clerk from a Muslim, Urdu-speaking family in Agra, British India, is instructed to travel to Britain for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1888 to present her with a mohur, a gold coin that has been minted as a…
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Drama, Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sport film
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years in captivity. Four years later, he is elected President of South Africa at a time of enormous challenges in the post-apartheid era, including rampant…
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Historie, Political Drama, historical drama film, political drama
Amidst the Cold War in 1986, U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev agree to an informal summit at Reykjavík, Iceland, with the aim of managing simmering geopolitical tensions and nuclear proliferation.…
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Drama, Military Film, Thriller, disaster film, drama film, historical film, katastrophe, thriller film
During the nuclear arms race in 1961, the Soviet Union possesses enough missiles to destroy the world twice-over, the United States ten times over, and they continue to build more. American nuclear submarines patrol near Leningrad and Mosc…
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Drama, Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical film
In 1947, over the Muroc Army Air Field in California, a number of test pilots are killed while flying high-speed aircraft such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1. After another pilot, Slick Goodlin, demands $150,000 () to attempt to break the …
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Drama, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, historical drama
Andy Kaufman is a struggling performer whose act fails in nightclubs because, while the audience wants comedy, he sings the Mighty Mouse theme song and refuses to tell conventional jokes. As the audience begins to believe that Kaufman may …
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Historie, Justice Drama, action film, biographical film, historical film, period drama film, war film
Newton Knight, a soldier in the Confederate Army, deserts after learning of the Twenty Negro Law and witnessing the death of his nephew Daniel during the Second Battle of Corinth. Knight brings Daniel's body home to Ellisville and reconnec…
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Historie, biographical film, historical drama
In 1561, after the death of her husband King Francis II, nineteen-year-old Mary Stuart returns to Scotland from France to take up her throne. She is received by her illegitimate half brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray. In neighboring En…
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Historie, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film, romance film
Henry VIII of England's marriage to his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, has not produced a male heir. Their only surviving child is Princess Mary, whom Henry fears cannot successfully rule. Mary Boleyn weds Sir William Carey, one of …
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