 | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.tt2024544
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 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
In in 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.tt0068182
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 | The Alamo (1960)
In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders...tt0053580
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 | Alexander (2004)
Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.tt0346491+
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 | Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.tt0029850
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 | All the President's Men (1976)
Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. tt0074119
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 | And the Ship Sails On (1983)
In July 1914 a luxury liner leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends...tt0087188
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 | Andrei Rublev (1966)
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history...tt0060107
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 | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.tt0064030
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 | Anonymous (2010)
The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.tt1521197
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 | Apollo 13 (1995)
True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication. tt0112384+
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 | Argo (2012)
A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. tt1024648
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 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader. tt0443680
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 | Australia (2008)
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.tt0455824
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 | Band of Brothers (2001)
The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day. tt0185906
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 | The Battle of Algiers (1966)
A surprisingly unbiased account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history. tt0058946
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 | Battleship Potemkin (1925)
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. tt0015648
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 | Becket (1964)
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.tt0057877
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 | The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war. tt0004972
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 | Black Hawk Down (2001)
123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. tt0265086
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 | Black Rain (1989)
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.tt0097694
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 | Bobby (2006)
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and 22 people in the hotel whose lives were never the same.tt0308055
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 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. tt0914798
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 | Braveheart (1995)
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. tt0112573
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 | Breaker Morant (1980)
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.tt0080310
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 | A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.tt0075784
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 | Bugsy (1991)
The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.tt0101516+
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 | Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends...tt0111579
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 | Cadillac Records (2008)
Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists. tt1042877
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 | The Cardinal (1963)
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.tt0056907
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 | Carlos (2010)
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.tt1321865
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 | Changeling (2008)
A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day.tt0824747
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 | Chariots of Fire (1981)
The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics. tt0082158+
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 | Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. tt0472062
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 | Che: Part 1 (2008)
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.tt0892255+
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 | Che: Part 2 (2008)
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia.tt0374569
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 | Cinderella Man (2005)
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s. tt0352248+
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 | Cleopatra (1963)
Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. tt0056937
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 | Come and See (1985)
During WWII, a Belorussian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces...tt0091251
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 | Conspiracy (2001)
A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised.tt0266425
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 | The Conspirator (2010)
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.tt0968264+
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous ''friends,'' escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revengett0245844
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 | Culloden (1964)
A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV cameras were present.tt0057982
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 | Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.tt0790636
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 | Danton (1983)
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a ...tt0083789+
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 | Das Boot (1981)
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. tt0082096
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 | Defiance (2008)
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants. tt1034303
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 | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.tt0052738+
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 | Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. tt0059113+
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 | Downfall (2004)
Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. tt0363163+
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 | El Cid (1961)
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (''El Cid'' to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour...tt0054847
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 | Elizabeth (1998)
A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.tt0127536
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 | Emperor (2012)
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. tt2103264
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 | Empire of the Sun (1987)
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. tt0092965+
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 | Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.tt0215750
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 | Europa Europa (1990)
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.tt0099776
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 | Evita (1996)
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.tt0116250
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 | Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish peasant must contend with marrying off his three daughters while antisemitic sentiment threatens his home. tt0067093+
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 | Flags of our Fathers (2006)
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.tt0418689
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.tt0035896
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 | Freud (1984)
The life and times of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.tt0135093
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 | From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program. tt0120570
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 | Frost / Nixon (2008)
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. tt0870111
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 | Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.tt0082432
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 | Gandhi (1982)
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi , the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest. tt0083987
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 | Gangs of New York (2002)
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. tt0217505
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 | Gate of Hell (1953)
A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.tt0045935
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 | Glory (1989)
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates. tt0097441+
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 | Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.tt0433383
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 | The Great Escape (1963)
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp. tt0057115
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 | The Grey Zone (2001)
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.tt0252480
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 | Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War. tt1985443
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 | Henry V (1989)
The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France. tt0097499
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 | Henry V (1944)
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V...tt0036910
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 | Hero (2002)
A series of Rashomon-like flashback accounts shape the story of how one man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China. tt0299977
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 | Holy Rollers (2010)
In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israel drug cartel.tt1143896
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 | Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. tt0395169
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 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp...tt0053114
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 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Second part of a trilogy. Conscientious objector Kaji, now forced to serve in the Japanese army during the Second World War...tt0053115
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 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanist protagonist...tt0055233+
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 | Hunger (2008)
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.tt0986233
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 | Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret ''Daisy'' Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York. tt1477855
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 | The Impossible (2012)
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. tt1649419
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 | In Cold Blood (1967)
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.tt0061809
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 | In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor...tt0074102
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 | Inherit the Wind (1960)
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.tt0053946
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 | Intolerance (1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. tt0006864
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 | Invictus (2009)
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.tt1057500
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 | Ip Man (2008)
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.tt1220719
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 | The Iron Lady (2011)
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.tt1007029
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 | J. Edgar (2011)
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.tt1616195
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 | JFK (1991)
A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. tt0102138+
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 | John Adams (2008)
A miniseries on the life of John Adams and the first 50 years of the United States.tt0472027
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 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. tt0055031
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 | K19: The Widowmaker (2002)
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. tt0267626
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 | Kagemusha (1980)
When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty...tt0080979+
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 | The Kennedys (2011)
The story of the most fabled political family in American history, told in a manner similar to The Godfather: a manipulative...tt1567215
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 | The Killing Fields (1984)
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody ''Year Zero'' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million ''undesirable'' civilians.tt0087553
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 | King Arthur (2004)
A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.tt0349683
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 | King of Kings (1927)
Mary Magdalene becomes angry when Judas, now a follower of Jesus, won't come to her feast. She goes to see Jesus and becomes repentant...tt0018054+
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 | The King's Speech (2010)
The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.tt1504320+
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 | Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.tt0320661+
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 | Kundun (1997)
From childhood until adulthood, Tibet's 14th dalai lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.tt0119485
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 | The Last Command (1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.tt0019071
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 | The Last Emperor (1987)
The story of the final Emperor of China. tt0093389+
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 | The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970stt0455590
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 | The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.tt0104691
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 | The Last Samurai (2003)
An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. tt0325710+
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 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. tt0056172
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 | The Leopard (1963)
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.tt0057091+
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 | Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. tt0498380+
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 | Lincoln (2012)
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. tt0443272
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 | The Lion in Winter (1968)
1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. tt0063227
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 | Lion of the Desert (1981)
In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Dulce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...tt0081059
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 | The Longest Day (1962)
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.tt0056197
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 | Malcolm X (1992)
The biopic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader.tt0104797+
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 | A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. tt0060665
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 | Mary Queen of Scots (1971)
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland...tt0067402
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 | The Message (1977)
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of thett0074896+
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 | A Mighty Heart (2007)
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan. tt0829459
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 | Milk (2008)
The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. tt1013753
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 | Missing (1982)
When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.tt0084335+
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 | The Mission (1986)
18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.tt0091530+
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 | Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.tt0416044
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 | Munich (2005)
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. tt0408306
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 | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors. tt0026752
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 | Native Land (1942)
Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations...tt0035112
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 | Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family. tt0067483
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 | A Night to Remember (1958)
The Titanic disaster is depicted in straightforward fashion without the addition of fictional subplots.tt0051994+
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 | No (2012)
An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. tt2059255
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 | The Official Story (1985)
Alicia Marnet de Ibáńez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires...tt0089276
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII. tt0467200
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 | Overlord (1975)
During the war a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.tt0073502
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 | The Pacific (2010)
A 10-part mini-series from the creators of ''Band of Brothers'' telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.tt0374463
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 | Passage To India (1984)
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.tt0087892+
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 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions. tt0019254
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 | Patton (1970)
The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted. tt0066206
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 | The Pianist (2002)
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. tt0253474+
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 | The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
The Pillars of the Earth is set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart...tt1453159
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 | Pocahontas (1995)
The daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier share a romance when English colonists invade 17th century Virginia. tt0114148
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 | The Prince Of Egypt (1998)
An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and, later his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people. tt0120794
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 | Public Enemies (2009)
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. tt1152836
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 | Queen Christina (1933)
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves. tt0024481
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 | Quiz Show (1994)
Dick Goodwin discovers game shows are fixed: pretty boy WASP Charles Van Doren is fed answers so he beats geeky Jew Herbie Stempel. tt0110932
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 | Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.tt0252444
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 | Rang De Basanti (2006)
A young woman from England comes to India to make a documentary about her grandfather's diary which was written in the 1920s about the Indian Independence with five young men.tt0405508
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 | Recount (2008)
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida. tt1000771
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 | Red Tails (2012)
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.tt0485985
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 | Reds (1981)
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.tt0082979+
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 | Richard III (1955)
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed king and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.tt0049674+
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 | The Right Stuff (1983)
The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. tt0086197
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 | Robin Hood (2010)
In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.tt0955308
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 | Rogue Trader (1999)
One man's ambition causes one of the greatest financial disasters in history.tt0131566
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 | Roots (1977)
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.tt0075572
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 | A Royal Affair (2012)
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. tt1276419
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 | Russian Ark (2002)
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.tt0318034
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 | Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems...tt0055399+
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 | Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto...tt0048579
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 | Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun...tt0049710
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 | Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney , who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.tt2140373
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 | The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress...tt0025746
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 | Schindler's List (1993)
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them. tt0108052+
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 | Seabiscuit (2003)
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.tt0329575
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 | Secretariat (2010)
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.tt1028576
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 | Senso (1954)
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.tt0047469+
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 | Sergeant York (1941)
True story of a hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero.tt0034167+
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 | Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.tt0120102
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 | She Done Him Wrong (1933)
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see ''his'' girl...tt0024548
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 | Sicko (2007)
A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories. tt0386032
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 | Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.tt0426578+
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 | Spartacus (1960)
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire. tt0054331+
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 | The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.tt0051003
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 | Talk to Me (2007)
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph ''Petey'' Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.tt0796368
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 | The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. tt0049833+
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 | That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma...tt0034272
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 | Thirteen Days (2000)
A dramatization of President Kennedy's administration's struggle to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. tt0146309
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 | Tombstone (1993)
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. tt0108358+
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 | Le Trou (1960)
Just as 4 cell-mates are about to launch their elaborate escape from a tiny cell, a detainee from a cell-block under repair is transferred in...tt0054407
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 | United 93 (2006)
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.tt0475276
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 | The Untouchables (1987)
Federal Agent Elliot Ness sets out to take out Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. tt0094226
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 | Valkyrie (2008)
Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.tt0985699
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 | W. (2008)
A chronicle on the life and presidency of George W. Bush . tt1175491
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 | Walker (1987)
An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.tt0096409
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 | War and Peace (1967)
Eight-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy.tt0063794+
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 | The Way Back (2010)
Siberian gulag escapees walk 4000 miles overland to freedom in India.tt1023114
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 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.tt0460989
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 | Word Without End (2012)
The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death. tt1878805
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 | The Young Victoria (2009)
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. tt0962736
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 | Z (1969)
Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.tt0065234
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 | Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011. tt1790885
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