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Anti-War Film, Drama, historical film, war film
In Western Australia, May 1915, Archy Hamilton, an 18-year-old stockman and prize-winning sprinter, longs to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). He is trained by his uncle Jack and idolises Harry Lasalles, the world champion ove…
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Historical drama, historical film, thriller film
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the ABC Sports crew presides over the coverage of the spirited and relatively uneventful Games. When Mark Spitz wins gold in the swimming event over a West German competitor, ABC Sports president …
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Drama, Western, Western film, historical film
In 1889, as South Dakota is celebrating its statehood, past and present residents of Deadwood are taking part in the celebrations. The widow Alma Garret Ellsworth has returned to the town with her ward Sofia, while Calamity Jane has return…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film, science fiction film
In the Ural Mountains, a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl survives by hunting woolly mammoths, but as the migrations grow more scarce, uncertainty as to their future mounts. When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the …
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Drama, crime film, documentary film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik dresses in a police uniform, loads a van with home-made explosives, and drives to Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter in Oslo, Norway. He leaves the van outside the office of Prime…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, historical film, medieval film, war film
As a child, Joan of Arc had a violent and supernatural vision. She returns home to find her village burning. Her older sister, Catherine, tries to protect her by hiding her from the attacking English forces.
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, historical film, katastrophe
Bernard "Bernie" Webber, a crewman at Coast Guard Station Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, has fallen in love with a local girl, Miriam Penttinen. The two plan to marry on April 16, but in accordance with Coast Guard regulations, Berni…
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Crime, Drama, Historie, crime film, drama film, historical film
In 1962, Boston Record American reporter Loretta McLaughlin investigates three cases of older women who were raped and murdered by strangulation in the Boston area. She confirms the victims all had stockings tied around their necks in a bo…
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Historie, Political Thriller, drama film, historical film, political thriller film, war film
In October 1962, U-2 aerial surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is placing intermediate-range ballistic missiles carrying nuclear weapons in Cuba. U.S. president John F.
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
The film spans seventy-two hours in the life of Bohemian Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known to his friends as Modì, who frequented the streets of war-torn Paris in 1916. On the run from the police, his desire to end his career and lea…
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Historical drama, historical drama film
In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. Warden Clancy tempts him with early release if he smuggles gold through deadly wilderness, but betrayal festers within the crew, and Murphy question…
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Action, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1944, as the air war over Europe enters a deadly phase with increasing losses of Allied bombers, the 332d Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen), consisting of African-American USAAF fighter pilots, after enduring racism throughout their r…
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historical drama
Anlaf, a Viking king from Ireland, arrives with his army in Northumbria after learning that Edward, King of the Anglo-Saxons, has fallen gravely ill. Edward soon dies, leaving behind three sons, none of whom were named as his aetheling. La…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Following his graduation from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1956, aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark travels to London to gain a job on Laurence Olivier's next production. Production manager Hugh Perceval tells Colin that there are no jobs availab…
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Christian film, Dramedy, Historical drama, drama film
In 1968, the stern yet respected Southern California pastor Chuck Smith realizes his church, Calvary Chapel, is slowly dying and he is unable to connect with the younger, live-free hippie generation of teens and young adults. His daughter,…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, drama film, historical film, romance film, war film
Wealthy planter John "Jack" Robert Sommersby left his farm to fight as a Confederate officer in the early days of the American Civil War and is presumed dead after six years. Despite the hardship of working their farm in Vine Hill, Tenness…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1926 China during its Warlord Era, Navy Machinist's Mate First Class Jake Holman transfers to the Yangtze River Patrol gunboat USS San Pablo as their new engineer. Almost immediately, he upsets the crew when he will not accept the cooli…
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Thriller, horror film, thriller film
In a Louisiana slave plantation run by Confederate soldiers, enslaved Black people are treated harshly and not allowed to speak unless spoken to. Those who attempt to escape are killed and their bodies burned in a crematorium. After a fail…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, historical film
During a school trip to the beach, Maurice Hall, an 11-year-old schoolboy, receives instructions about the "sacred mystery" of sex from his teacher Mr. Ducie, who wants to explain to the fatherless boy the changes he will experience in pub…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film
Mikael Boghosian is an apothecary who lives in the small Armenian village of Siroun in the southeast part of Turkey, within the Ottoman Empire. In order to help pay the expenses for medical school, he promises to marry Maral, the daughter …
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action film, historical film, sport film
Four top American football players enlist in the United States Marine Corps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. While preparing for the battle of Okinawa, they play a football game, the Mosquito Bowl, that later becomes famous.
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Historical drama
In 1968, Nurse Jean Purdy gets hired at the University of Cambridge for a lab manager post, by scientist Dr Robert Edwards. Together, they recruit innovative obstetrician and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to join them in reproduction research, i…
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Bible Film, drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film, sword-and-sandal film
Clavius, a Roman Tribune of Legio X Fretensis, suppresses an insurrection of zealots led by Barabbas, then supervises the crucifixion of Yeshua and orders his men to guard the dead body. The body disappears, and the soldiers claim Yeshua's…
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Drama, Historie, action film, disaster film, drama film, historical film
On 10 April 1912, the luxurious , the largest vessel afloat, and widely believed to be unsinkable, sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. On 14 April, in the Atlantic, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from steam…
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