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Plot Summary:
Activists follows the years from 1899 to 1906 when Finland as an independent nation started to form. At the center stage are young restless souls who operate against the backdrop of the phenomena of the time: deep social divisions, political intrigue, fierce proclamations and people’s movements that get out of control. Activists portrays what happens when people lose faith in society’s capability to deal with conflict.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 154 min
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October 1970 (2006)
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A dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 480 min
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Trust (1976)
Plot Summary:
Film is based on the facts of history about the declaration of independence of the Republic of Finland from Russia. The Grand Duchy of Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire until 1917, when the Russian revolution caused the fall of the Empire. On December 6, 1917 Finland declared it's independence. The people of Finland sent an omnipotent delegation to meet with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
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Kongo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Guy Moeyaert is a well-meaning colonial official in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the last years of white colonial rule, after the Second World War, a paternalistic system where the state, unable to be properly present all over the vast, sparsely populated country, collaborates systematically with the Roman Catholic missions -in his post, father Alexis- and private enterprise, in case mainly the mining company -locally represented by engineer Lenaers- which also helps out with money and labor for such public tasks as road building. Even his grip on the natives is weak, as they live under hereditary tribal leaders, which must take from its people what they are legally obliged to deliver to the state in taxes and labor; coercion is done by force, including whipping on the bare buttocks, which Guy hates. Guy also starts a love affair with Hélène Vermarcke, who gets estranged from her husband Luk (the three were already friends in Belgium) as he devotes all his efforts the their plantation, leaving her alone with the native staff and their son, or is it Guy's? The adultery makes his position in the white community far weaker then is compatible with his position of theoretical authority without sufficient independent means. He also depends heavily on his educated black clerk Gabriel Ndazaru and ambitious white deputy Arthur. It all gets worse for everybody as the call for 'dipenda', black independence as in Ghana, gets stronger, in time even accepted 'in principle' by the Belgian government which plans a gradual transition which the idealist Guy supports but all other whites oppose, while the natives have neither patience nor insight and start attacking every symbol of the old regime, regardless of its objective value, and soon white people and 'collaborators' too- it gets physically dangerous, but Guy won't budge or flee.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
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Heimat 2: A Chronicle of a Generation (1992)
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The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). The movie tells a story in many different levels about love, friendship, misfortune, loss, art, politics, history with important historic events of the decennium in the background.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Austria, Australia
Duration: 1532 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, semi autobiographical
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Presidentti (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 511 min
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Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)
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The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
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Island Nation (2020)
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Island Nation is a Taiwanese political drama based on Taiwan's transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy in the 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 48 min
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Our Friends in the North (1996)
Plot Summary:
A nine part series depicting the varying fortunes of four friends - Nicky, Geordie, Mary and Tosker - from the optimistic times of 1964 to the uncertainties of 1995. Taking nine pivotal years (1964, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1987, 1995) the personal lives of the characters become intertwined with the political struggles of their home town of Newcastle, and the capital, London. We also see the machinations behind the scenes that affect their lives, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 623 min
Plot tags: political, family saga, saga, period drama
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The Dismissal (1983)
Plot Summary:
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political
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Il caso Moro (1986)
Plot Summary:
On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Small Axe (2020)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of a group of friends and their families living in West London from 1968 to 2014.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, social, period drama
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Amazonia (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on historical events 'Amazonia' recreates the story of the State of Acre, the latest territory to be annexed in Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Godunov (2018)
Plot Summary:
The TV show is about the Godunov family, which covers the period from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession of Mikhail Romanov to the throne.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
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22 July (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story about the people working on July 22 2011, when a terror attack happened in Norway.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, thought provoking, bad ending, suspense
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The Orphan of Zhao (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Julius Caesar (1979)
Plot Summary:
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min
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A Cursed Monarchy (2005)
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It is the early 1300's and the treasury of France, under the rule of Philippe IV (Philippe le Bel or Philippe the Beautiful), is empty. The king decides the only solution is to raid the treasures of the Knights Templar (amongst others) and concocts various charges of treason, heresy and deviance against the Knights and their Grand Master Jacques de Molay. Having confessed under torture to the crimes of which he is accused, de Molay is condemned to be burned at the stake. With his dying breath he curses the king, the king's advisor (Guillaume de Nogaret), the pope (Pope Clement V) and the thirteen succeeding generations of their families. There follows one of the most dramatic periods in French history, half a century of political intrigue, murder, treason, war and famine, which ultimately culminates in the 100 Years War.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 500 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, mysterious, disturbing
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The Invisible Line (2020)
Plot Summary:
The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, political
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Yosi, The Regretful Spy (2022)
Plot Summary:
An Argentinean intelligence agent infiltrates the Jewish community to gather information that is then allegedly used to perpetrate two of the worst terrorist attacks in Latin American history, leaving over 100 dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 367 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, non-linear
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Gunpowder (2017)
Plot Summary:
England, 1603. Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland has taken the throne. With the country at war with catholic Spain, English catholics are persecuted and priests caught saying mass are punished with death. Several attempts have already been made on the new king’s life. All so far have failed. But deep in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside a new plot is brewing. A plot that will become legend, and leave a mark on the country that will still be felt over 400 years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: factual, costume drama, historical drama, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, saga, period piece, period drama
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The Path to 9/11 (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Path to 9/11 was a two-part miniseries that aired in the United States on ABC television from September 10 – 11, 2006, and also in other countries. The film dramatizes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, realistic
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The Looming Tower (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, it takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 492 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, political, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, interesting
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Cambridge Spies (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense, political, political thriller, period piece, period drama
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The Czech Century (2013)
Plot Summary:
Czech Century brings the key moments of the history of the Czech nation from 1918 to 1989.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
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Invisible Heroes (2019)
Plot Summary:
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland, Chile
Duration: 285 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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The Spy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: factual, serious, realistic, exciting, historical drama, period piece, interesting
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The Kingdom of the Winds (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Kingdom of The Winds, also known as The Land of The Wind, is a 2008 South Korean historial drama, broadcast on KBS from 10 September 2008 to 15 January 2009. It was directed by Kang Il-soo, written by Choi Wan-gyu, Jung Jin-ok, Park Jin-woo; adapted from manhwa by Kim Jin.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sageuk, exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Control by Zhen Guan (2006)
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Emperor Taizong of the Tang appoints capable and incorruptible people to important positions because he knows his ministers well, and he understands how to harness them. Taizong often invites frank advice or even criticism from his ministers. Trying hard not to abuse his absolute power, he shows his respect for life. Through his employment of upright ministers such as Wei Zheng, he turns out to be a modest Emperor who welcomes advice. In his reign, he puts agriculture first and practices thrift. Also, culture and religion are rejuvenated; the imperial examination system is further completed. Under these circumstances, a stable society is achieved. In military, he puts down the turbulence caused by Tujue power. In ethnic relations, he respects ethnic minorities' mores. As a result, the stability in Tang's border areas is also accomplished. Emperor Taizong's reign title is Zhenguan (from 626 to 649), known as the Reign of Zhenguan in Chinese History. His reign is considered the first golden age of Tang Dynasty, which lays a solid foundation for the Kaiyuan era.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, political
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Unknown Soldier (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
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The Right Stuff (2020)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, newly formed NASA selects seven of the military’s best test pilots to become astronauts. Competing to be the first in space, these men achieve the extraordinary, inspiring the world to turn towards a new horizon of ambition and hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: factual, exciting, sincere, political, historical drama, experimental