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2004
7.3
Iron Jawed Angels
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
123
7.3
- #Drama
- #History
Iron Jawed Angels
2013
7.9
Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.
231
7.9
- #Drama
- #History
Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
1989
7.6
The Winter War
In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
199
7.6
- #Drama
- #History
- #War
The Winter War
1973
7.5
Ludwig
The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.
238
7.5
- #Drama
- #History
Ludwig
1958
6.9
Hell, Heaven or Hoboken
During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.
101
6.9
- #Drama
- #History
- #War
Hell, Heaven or Hoboken
1976
6.3
21 Hours at Munich
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.
101
6.3
- #Drama
- #History
21 Hours at Munich
1962
5.8
Geronimo
In 1880s Arizona, General Crook and his troops are trying to subdue the last tribe of Apache led by Geronimo.
101
5.8
- #Action
- #History
Geronimo
1989
6.6
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
108
6.6
- #History
- #Documentary
- #Romance
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
1953
5.8
Pony Express
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it.
101
5.8
- #History
- #Western
- #Romance
Pony Express
2011
7.1
The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen
A historian and professor Amanda Vickery explores why Jane Austen's books have been popular for nearly 200 years.
7.1
- #History
The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen
1967
6.6
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone's Valentine's Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.
100
6.6
- #Drama
- #History
- #Crime
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
2014
7.8
Baratometrajes 2.0: El Futuro del Cine Hecho en Espana
Baratometrajes 2.0 is a 'more than a documentary' that radiograph the cinema in Spain, giving a lead role and voice to filmmakers of low-budget films, to cultural promoters which make things differently, and to distribution and exhibition professionals, obtaining the (almost) perfect portrait of what could be the future of cinema made in Spain.
88
7.8
- #Comedy
- #History
- #Documentary
Baratometrajes 2.0: El Futuro del Cine Hecho en Espana
2016
6.3
Southside with You
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
84
6.3
- #Drama
- #History
Southside with You
2011
3.4
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers
Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasion.
100
3.4
- #Drama
- #Action
- #History
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers
1981
7.5
The Decline of Western Civilization
A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.
100
7.5
- #History
- #Documentary
- #Music
The Decline of Western Civilization
1934
6.8
Cleopatra
The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.
100
6.8
- #Drama
- #History
Cleopatra
2021
6.6
The Emigrants
Based on the book by Vilhelm Moberg (published in 1949) depicting a few people emigrating from Sweden to the United States in the 1840 - early 1850.
148
6.6
- #Drama
- #History
The Emigrants
1977
6.6
The Man in the Iron Mask
D'Artagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Phillipe, who is the firstborn and rightful King.
100
6.6
- #Adventure
- #History
The Man in the Iron Mask
1996
LQ
6.9
Rasputin
HBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.
135
LQ
6.9
- #Drama
- #History
Rasputin
1954
6.4
The Black Shield of Falworth
Peasant Myles Falworth is trained for knighthood and is groomed by various nobles to defeat the evil Earl of Alban who's plotting to usurp King Henry IV's throne.
99
6.4
- #Adventure
- #History
- #Romance
The Black Shield of Falworth
1989
8.1
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
79
8.1
- #History
- #Documentary
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1937
6.3
Victoria the Great
The story of Queen Victoria from her coronation, focused on her meeting and marriage to Prince Albert and the way they established shared responsibilities until his death.
112
6.3
- #Drama
- #History
Victoria the Great
2016
5.2
Hostage to the Devil
A child possessed. An exorcist locked in combat with an ancient evil. In the battle for saving a soul, just who really is the 'Hostage to the Devil'?
96
5.2
- #History
- #Documentary
