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Plot Summary:
The largest world's fair in history (which took place in St. Louis in 1904) included the first Olympic Games on American soil, where competitors were openly administered drugs and marathon runners were chased off course by dogs. Other firsts include the first ferris wheel; also, Apache chief Geronimo sold visitors autographs and his hat -- which he then replaced with another from a box hidden under the table. Features never-before-seen images.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
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Krotoa (2017)
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Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: History
Country: South Africa
Duration: 117 min
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Contract of a Century (1985)
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Film is set in 1980s in Germany and Russia. A major gas pipeline is to be built from Siberia to Europe. German banks are open for discussions about the credit contract for the project. The Russian delegation comes to Germany for business meetings and finds out that the security service is secretly working against the deal. Help comes from the Russian diplomat Nikolai Petrovich Gusev (played by Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min
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To the Hilt (2014)
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Macedonia is a small country, in the heart of the Balkans, which for five centuries was under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire. The action of the film "To the Hilt" takes place in the years of the general collapse and "free fall", after the Macedonian uprising of 1903 which was extinguished in blood. The story is a love quadrangle between an uncompromising idealist rebel, a merciless Turkish officer, an opportunist rich man's son returning home after his studies in Europe and a lucid and open minded European woman, who flirts with the three men and puts in train a series of events with dire consequences, that she could hardly imagine. The film is a harsh and romantic story in which the eternal Macedonian cause for own identity and independence is seen through the prism of relativity of the ideas of freedom, justice, love, sacrifice, and treason.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Action, Drama, History
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Duration: 165 min
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Ancient Gods of Egypt (2017)
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"Gods of Egypt" was a huge box office success but the true Gods were more ancient and mysterious than fiction. Powerful and deadly, all knowing, and all seeing, they were the original Masters of the Universe. They originated many thousands of years ago in a land far away from Egypt. From the Gods of the underworld, Osiris and Anubis; to the Gods of light such as Amun-Ra and Horus; the lives and actions of the Gods of Ancient Egypt explain our very existence and our place in the universe. Prepare to experience the Real Gods of Egypt and the original Game of Thrones.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: History
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, period drama
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Southside with You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, sentimental, political, inspirational, retro, independent film, romantic
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The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)
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1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial government to breaking point. Driven by a deep sense of loyalty and an unquenchable hatred towards those he once served, English convict Michael Howe and a young aboriginal girl turn a desperate band of convicts, deserters and bushmen into a fearsome guerrilla army and lead them in open rebellion against the brutal, corrupt establishment. As the British hunt the outlaws, Howe remains an elusive prize. In desperation, the Governor makes the capture of Howe’s pregnant girl his priority. An epic story of love and betrayal, The Outlaw Michael Howe chronicles the astonishing true story of the man who pushed Australia to the brink of civil war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: History
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
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Sword of God (2018)
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In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: History
Country: Poland, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Since (1966)
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Andy Warhol's experimental reconstruction of the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, which serves as his critical commentary on the way the media presented the tragic event.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Handcart (2002)
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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
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Ask for Jane (2018)
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A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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500 Nations (1995)
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500 Nations is a documentary which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and colonization, to the end of the 19th century and the subjugation of the Plains Indians of North America. 500 Nations relies on historical texts, eyewitnesses accounts, pictorial sources and computer graphic reconstructions to explore the magnificent civilizations which flourished prior to contact with Western civilization, and to tell the dramatic and tragic story of the Native American nations' desperate attempts to retain their way of life against overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: informative, profound, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Sakurada Gate Incident (2010)
Plot Summary:
A film about the assination of Ii Naosuke at the gate of Edo castle in 1860 by ronin from the mito domain.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: History
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 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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Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa in 1895 (2008)
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"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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We Believed (2010)
Plot Summary:
The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 205 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, historical drama, factual, psychological, captivating, sincere, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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The Queen and the Cardinal (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the 17th century, forbidden lovers Queen Anne of Austria, the widow of King Louis XIII, and her Prime Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, face the opposition of a revengeful and power-seeking Court.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: History
Country: France
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: historical drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen (2019)
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Boudica is an innocent sixteen-year-old girl who is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, the leader of a Celtic Tribe. However, her mother is unsure, doing whatever it takes to protect her daughter; so much so that she takes Boudica and persuades her to flee the village and live in her childhood home, away from an arranged marriage and a miserable life.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: History
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, epic, bloody, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Viking War (2019)
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Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: History
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, weird
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King of the Hill (1993)
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Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, heartbreaking, serious, depressing, sentimental, atmospheric, sad, grim, mind twisting
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)
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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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Raise the Song: The History of Penn State (2008)
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This 60-minute documentary produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting (WPSU-TV) examines the people and events that have taken the Commonwealth's land-grant university from its humble roots as the Farmers' High School to an internationally recognized place of learning. Since the charter of the Farmers' High School was adopted in 1855, America has seen 30 presidents, a civil war, the women's suffrage movement, the Great Depression, two world wars, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the September 11 terrorist attacks-but through it all, Penn State has become one of the world's foremost teaching and research institutions, touching nearly every important era and event in American history.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, uplifting, learning
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Presidents at War (2019)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. This is the story of how their war experiences change them, how they emerge from conflict as leaders and how the crucible of war shapes the decisions they make when they reach the White House.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: History
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986)
Plot Summary:
The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
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Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, factual, light, tricky, captivating, realistic, serious, funny, surreal, art house
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Everlasting Moments (2008)
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In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, political, gloomy
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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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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, sincere, emotional, realistic, political drama
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Recount (2008)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, factual, talky, intense, serious, captivating, controversial, non fiction, cult classic
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The Current War (2017)
Plot Summary:
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: inspirational, intellectual, clever, realistic, serious, suspense, stylized, intense, captivating, suspenseful