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Plot Summary:
Speculative Sunn Classics chestnut detailing a wide-ranging government conspiracy to murder the 16th American President and the subsequent cover up and escape of his killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Maidstone (1970)
Plot Summary:
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, independent film, weird, cinema verite, fake documentary
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John A.: Birth of a Country (2011)
Plot Summary:
A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
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A Rage to Live (1965)
Plot Summary:
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, ambiguous ending, sexy
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)
Plot Summary:
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: political
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Thursday's Child (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
Plot Summary:
In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
Plot Summary:
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try and advert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Lincoln (1992)
Plot Summary:
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Biography, History
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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My Breast (1994)
Plot Summary:
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Point of Honor (2015)
Plot Summary:
At the start of the Civil War, a prominent Virginia family makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves, pitting the family against one another and testing their strength, courage and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, tense, serious, historical drama, realistic, independent film
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The Greek Tycoon (1978)
Plot Summary:
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, vintage
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Beulah Land (1980)
Plot Summary:
This sweeping epic dramatized the lives of two Georgia families during the early-to-mid 1800s: the Kendricks, who resided on the Beulah Land plantation, and the Davises, who owned the Oaks plantation. Both families loved, prospered and lost during this period, and were both touched by the events of the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 281 min
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A House Divided (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
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J.F.K.: Reckless Youth (1993)
Plot Summary:
Looks at the early years of America's most dashing president from his early childhood through his nomination for Congress.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 183 min
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The Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sandburg's Lincoln (1974)
Plot Summary:
A miniseries about President Abraham Lincoln.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: historical drama
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The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political
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Saving Lincoln (2013)
Plot Summary:
The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized
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Interview with the Assassin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Out of work TV cameraman Ron Kobelski is approached by his formerly reclusive neighbor Walter Ohlinger. Ohlinger claims that he was the mysterious "second gunman" that shot and killed President Kennedy. Ohlinger has kept quiet all these years, but has decided to tell his story now that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kobelski is skeptical of his neighbor's story, after his investigations provide ambiguous answers. His attitude changes, however, after he receives threatening messages on his answering machine, and spots shadowy figures in his backyard. Is Ohlinger telling the truth? Or is there a bigger conspiracy at work?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political, tense, realistic, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, philosophical, cerebral, serious, thought provoking
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Killing Reagan (2016)
Plot Summary:
Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores the challenges Reagan faced to define himself as a leader. Meanwhile, an aimless and deranged Hinckley is unraveling, leading to the fateful day in March 1981 when these disparate figures collided.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Copperhead (2013)
Plot Summary:
A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
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Killing Lincoln (2013)
Plot Summary:
April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history: the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln. From Executive Producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and narrated by Tom Hanks, National Geographic Channel's first ever docudrama, Killing Lincoln, based on the New York Times bestseller, combines re-creations with historical insight in a thrilling chronicle of the final days of President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, serious, exciting, factual, stylized, entertaining, crying, detective
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RFK (2002)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Lincoln (1988)
Plot Summary:
After arriving in Washington in 1861 after his election, Abraham Lincoln struggles with personal and political problems during his Presidency. Originally titled "Lincoln", the name of this miniseries was changed to "Gore Vidal's Lincoln" when it was released for home entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: historical drama, clever, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, talky
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The Conspirator (2010)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: political, factual, period piece, emotional, suspense, thought provoking, serious, captivating, historical drama, gothic