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Plot Summary:
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, factual, suspenseful, period drama
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Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Sharpe's Justice (1997)
Plot Summary:
Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company of Yorkshire Yeomen. His duties include protecting mill owners from restless workers who are on the verge of strike or outright revolt. Meanwhile, Sharpe's faithless wife and her lover fall within range of Sharpe's wrath. Sharpe, with his two of his devoted Chosen Men nearby, must decide whether to continue to protect the mill owners or to take the side of their fiercely downtrodden workers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sharpe's Mission (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Sharpe (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: historical drama, vintage, period drama
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Sharpe's Company (1994)
Plot Summary:
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
Plot Summary:
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sharpe's Sword (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Siege (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Sharpe's Honour (1994)
Plot Summary:
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Battle (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Gold (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
Plot Summary:
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, costume drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
Plot Summary:
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Sharpe's Peril (2008)
Plot Summary:
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, disturbing, realistic
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Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
Plot Summary:
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Duclos.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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The Rat Patrol (1966)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, vintage
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1864 (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Austria and Prussia declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 460 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, noir, costume drama, epic
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Napoleon (2002)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, UK, Hungary, Spain, Czech Republic
Duration: 380 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, epic, political, costume drama, stylized, period drama
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Our World War (2014)
Plot Summary:
During the First World War, British troops face the horrors of the Battle of Mons in 1914, internal strife in 1916 and innovative tank warfare in 1918.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, costume drama, stylized
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Establishment: Osman (2019)
Plot Summary:
The life of Osman Bey, the son of Ertugrul Gazi and the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, suspense, islamic
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Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976)
Plot Summary:
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sitcom, vintage, period drama
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Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, political, costume drama, cult classic, epic, rough
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Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hornblower: Duty (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, feel good, period piece, realistic, period drama
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Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Spithead, Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, a 17 year old midshipman takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, costume drama, serious, realistic, road movie, feel good, period piece, historical drama, period drama, masterpiece
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Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, feel good, period piece, bleak, serious, realistic, period drama
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Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, feel good, period drama
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Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history.Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, period piece, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, period drama
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The Last Kingdom (2015)
Plot Summary:
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, epic, stylized, realistic, costume drama, historical drama, tense, brutal