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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, period piece
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The Young Guard (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young partisan Viktor Tretyakov and his school friends decide to organize a resistance group to the fascists. They call it the "Young Guard" and attract familiar boys and girls to it. After a while, the Young Guards are joined by scouts sent to the city to collect information — Lyubov Shevtsova and the Artist. For a long time, the "Young Guard" manages to successfully commit sabotage, but they are opposed by an experienced and insidious enemy, who, in the end, manages to expose the Young Guards.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
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Mosley (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mosley was a 1998 television serial produced for Channel 4 based on British fascist Oswald Mosley's life in the period between the two world wars. The series was directed by Robert Knights, from a screenplay by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, both better known for their television comedy series. It was based on the books Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley, Mosley's son. The series was released on VHS and DVD.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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A French Village (2009)
Plot Summary:
The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Maria Theresa (2017)
Plot Summary:
The young Maria Theresia sees her life clearly in front of her: she will marry Franz Stephan of Lorraine and start a family of many with him. Even if Franz Stephan is not quite sure of his luck and her father, Emperor Charles VI, and his powerful advisor Prince Eugene of Savoy forge quite different plans for them. It looks quite as if the young archduchess must sacrifice her happiness to the cause of the state.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, contemplative, visually appealing
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Resistance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Paris. 1940. Lili is 17 years old. In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend their country.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Our wonderful years (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and set the course for their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, period piece
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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:
Plot tags:
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The Manns (2001)
Plot Summary:
Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: family saga, captivating, serious, realistic, epic, saga
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A Prominent Patient (2016)
Plot Summary:
It is 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man with no nation. In America he tries to forget the personal and political betrayal he and his country have suffered but these events shadow his every step. As the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, Masaryk failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the ruination of his country. With the help of Dr. Stein, an emigre German psychiatrist, and the beautiful writer Marcia Davenport, Masaryk tries to overcome his demons and re-live the dramatic events leading to the outbreak of the second world war.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, disturbing, stylized
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Jan Hus (2015)
Plot Summary:
The life of Czech pre-Reformation priest Jan Hus, who inspired the Protestant Reformation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period piece
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Vasiliy Stalin (2013)
Plot Summary:
General lieutenant at 26, a womanizer and a booze-hound, Vasily Stalin has always lived a life too scandalous for the Soviet Union and yet too insignificant to ever escape the shadow of his larger-then-life father. The dictator's sudden death will however sober Vasily up just to place even more hardships and trials on his shoulders.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, exciting, melancholic, disturbing
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Burning Bush (2013)
Plot Summary:
Burning Bush is a three-part mini-series created for HBO by world-renowned Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Buresová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonour Palach's sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 231 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, political, captivating, interesting
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Charlie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The political and personal life of Charlie Haughey during his time in office.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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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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I, Mattoni (2016)
Plot Summary:
Biographical series about Heinrich Mattoni, capitalist of the early period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, founder of the world-famous mineral water bottling company, a man of a dynamic and controversial fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: family saga, psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi autobiographical, non-linear
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Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Plot Summary:
George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Gabriel Byrne star in this Emmy-nominated program about the rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, children and mistress, this biography (based on the recollections of Mussolini's eldest son, Vittorio) chronicles Il Duce's tyranny as he plunges Italy into the dark days of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 410 min
Plot tags: family saga, historical drama, political drama
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Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2016)
Plot Summary:
The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tokyo Trial (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of World War II, 11 Allied judges are tasked with weighing the fates of Japanese war criminals in a tense international trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, captivating, disturbing, political, historical drama
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Voltaire in Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Explore the early life and evolution of the philosopher and visionary Voltaire, from his love stories, his father's issues to the discovery of his vocation, his commitments against religious fanaticism and the arbitrary misuse of justice and politics. Explore a life of pain, passion, and the growth of an epic and talented hero, the origins of the young François Arouet, his childhood suffering, his entourage, his talent, his years of imprisonment in the Bastille, his ambiguous relations with the French court or his return in France after his exile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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A Vote for the King of the Romans (2016)
Plot Summary:
Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Kennedy (1983)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 282 min
Plot tags: political, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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Mussolini and I (1985)
Plot Summary:
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
Plot Summary:
Called the most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving diary, the film chronicles the Frank family as they flee from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Hiding behind a bookcase in a secret annex with random bombs exploding, Anne faces friction with her family, a desire for independence and the first stirrings of young love. It’s a remarkable record of a young woman’s first-hand observations of the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, historical drama, bleak, captivating, period drama
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The Saboteurs (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense, period piece
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Plot Summary:
A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, captivating, realistic, disturbing, political, factual, suspense, rough, suspenseful
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Wolf Hall (2015)
Plot Summary:
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impass steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: historical drama, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, stylized, suspense, factual, political, educational
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White House Plumbers (2023)
Plot Summary:
The true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: political, serious, captivating, realistic, satirical, political drama
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John Adams (2008)
Plot Summary:
The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, political, period piece, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, costume drama, epic, historical drama
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The Gathering Storm (2002)
Plot Summary:
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, talky, political, historical drama, historically accurate, contemplative, gloomy, pre war
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Oppenheimer (1980)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life's work.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 420 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing