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Plot Summary:
A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: independent film
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February 15, 1839 (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three other comrades. While they await their hour of death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots find the courage to walk with dignity towards the scaffold, knowing that will they die in the name of a just causewww.tribute.ca.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political
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Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws (2019)
Plot Summary:
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Hostile Territory (2022)
Plot Summary:
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack discovers that his wife has tragically died and his children, presumed to be orphans, are heading deep into the West on a train crossing enemy lines, with the intent of being placed into new homes. Calgrove and another soldier team up with a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they try to stop the train.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Handcart (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west. As the pioneers stop in his town of Iowa City, he pretends to desire joining the Mormon Church to show his love for Abigail. As hardships prevail, his faith is tested on their way to Zion.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Kamouraska (1973)
Plot Summary:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Work and the Glory II: American Zion (2005)
Plot Summary:
"The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation. "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" unearths the story of the passion behind the movement which eventually launched the largest American migration and the colonization of the West: the vision of a promised land in America.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
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Out of Step (2002)
Plot Summary:
Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with the support of her father Jenny leaves her small Mormon town in Utah and heads to New York in pursuit of her dream. Jenny must fight to earn her scholarship and try to find a balance between the man of her faith and the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987)
Plot Summary:
Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags:
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The Testaments (2000)
Plot Summary:
This film depict events from the Life and ministry of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon. The story culminates with a portrayal of the Ressurected Savior's visit to the ancient Americas as seen through the eyes of a fictional family. Jesus' ministry to the members of His fold in both the Holy Land and the ancient Americas powerfully demonstrates that He is the Good Shepherd of all who hear His voice.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: christian film, 70mm film
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Emma Smith: My Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
By the side of a founder of a new faith was a woman of undeniable courage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006)
Plot Summary:
Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's divine calling. Has he lost his prophetic gift? Hundreds of Saints immigrate to Missouri, where Governor Boggs raises an army - with Joshua at its head - to address the "Mormon Problem." When the militia receives orders to attack the Mormon settlement, only Joshua can save his family from the gathering mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic
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September Dawn (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, controversial, sad
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Blood River (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan's vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn't understand though why Culler is helping him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Savage Journey (1983)
Plot Summary:
They forged a new land in the untamed wilderness - with their heart, their hands, and their faith in god.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, eighties, cult film
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The Work and the Glory (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, christian film, controversial
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The Avenging Angel (1995)
Plot Summary:
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, retro, period piece, historical drama, captivating, epic, 70mm film
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The Emigrants (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests makes it tough. One of their children even starve to death. Thus, they decide to emigrate to the U.S. They meet a group of farmers with their families planing the emigration under the leadership of a banned priest. They sell everything and embark for the U.S. The journey on the sailing ship is long and tedious. Some of the emigrants will never reach the New World.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: epic, inspirational, romantic, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, rough, uplifting, touching, serious
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Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Plot Summary:
Glenn Ford plays Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, romantic drama
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The Mountain of the Lord (1993)
Plot Summary:
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags:
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The Errand of Angels (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. Due to differences in opinion, she is also unable to get along with the companion missionary that was assigned to her by the church.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional, christian film, touching, serious
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Ephraim's Rescue (2013)
Plot Summary:
From T.C. Christensen, director of the sensational pioneer film, 17 Miracles, comes the heroic true story of a simple man who was called to do the work of angels. Ephraim’s Rescue relates the story of Ephraim Hanks: a rescuer of the Martin Handcart company. Follow Ephraim as his adventures lead him to join the LDS Church and ultimately to one of the most heroic rescues in American history. With a unique desire to help and strengthen others, Ephraim learns that each choice we make can prepare us for what lies ahead. He discovers, through it all, that decisions determine destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1827, Joseph Smith, Jr. was only 21 years old when he received a prophetic calling to translate ancient scriptures that would soon be published as The Book of Mormon. Less than three years later, he founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that today has 14 million followers and is the 4th largest religious denomination in the United States. Plates of Gold follows Joseph's early adult years and portrays the events that lead up to the publishing of The Book of Mormon and the founding of a new worldwide church. The film also details Joseph's personal life and his desire to find forgiveness, acceptance and salvation from God. Directed by Christian Vuissa (The Errand of Angels, One Good Man).
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration (2011)
Plot Summary:
A film that focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, biblical
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Avenging Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
A preacher (Sorbo) becomes a bounty hunter after a group of refugees seeking shelter in his church is murdered by a gang of ruthless outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, serious, realistic
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Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Plot Summary:
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, exciting, sincere, realistic, political, historical drama, anthropological, epic
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Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong New York painter embarks on a dangerous journey to meet Sitting Bull, but must face off with an Army officer intent war with the Native Americans.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, emotional, period piece, art film, costume drama, weird
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Plot Summary:
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, epic, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The World to Come (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two women who forge a close connection despite their isolation in the mid-19th-century American frontier.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic, serious, social, minimal cast, period piece, deep