History Movies
Flyboys (2006)

Flyboys (2006)

Flyboys (2006)
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The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country’s first fighter pilots.

The Queen (2006)

The Queen (2006)

The Queen (2006)
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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to…

Genre: Drama, History
El Cantante (2006)

El Cantante (2006)

El Cantante (2006)
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The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.

Genre: Drama, History, Music
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
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In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life…

Genre: Drama, History
Invincible (2006)

Invincible (2006)

Invincible (2006)
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Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of Papale’s…

Genre: Drama, History
World Trade Center (2006)

World Trade Center (2006)

World Trade Center (2006)
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Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Marie Antoinette (2006)
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The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the…

Genre: Drama, History
United 93 (2006)

United 93 (2006)

United 93 (2006)
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A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Rang De Basanti (2006)

Rang De Basanti (2006)

Rang De Basanti (2006)
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After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she’s making about freedom fighters under…

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Glory Road (2006)

Glory Road (2006)

Glory Road (2006)
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In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

Genre: Drama, History
The King and the Clown (2005)

The King and the Clown (2005)

The King and the Clown (2005)
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Set in the late 15th century during the reign of King Yeonsan, two male street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng and Gong-gil, are part of an entertainer troupe. Their manager…

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The New World (2005)

The New World (2005)

The New World (2005)
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A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Munich (2005)

Munich (2005)

Munich (2005)
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits…

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Joyeux Noel (2005)

Joyeux Noel (2005)

Joyeux Noel (2005)
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France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man’s land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

The White Countess (2005)

The White Countess (2005)

The White Countess (2005)
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In 1930s Shanghai, ‘The White Countess’ is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece…

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)
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The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats…

9th Company (2005)

9th Company (2005)

9th Company (2005)
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139

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
The Lost City (2005)

The Lost City (2005)

The Lost City (2005)
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950’s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of…

The Great Raid (2005)

The Great Raid (2005)

The Great Raid (2005)
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As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of…

Genre: Action, History, War
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
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Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”…

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Genre: Comedy, History
Cinderella Man (2005)

Cinderella Man (2005)

Cinderella Man (2005)
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The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
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After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
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In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic…

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Genre: Drama, History
Coach Carter (2005)

Coach Carter (2005)

Coach Carter (2005)
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Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Genre: Drama, History
Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
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Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Alexander (2004)

Alexander (2004)

Alexander (2004)
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Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any…

Alone in the Wilderness (2004)

Alone in the Wilderness (2004)

Alone in the Wilderness (2004)
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Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake…

Downfall (2004)

Downfall (2004)

Downfall (2004)
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In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
R-Point (2004)

R-Point (2004)

R-Point (2004)
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On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.

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King Arthur (2004)

King Arthur (2004)

King Arthur (2004)
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The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the ‘Sarmatian hypothesis’ which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and…

Cazuza: Time Doesn’t Stop (2004)

Cazuza: Time Doesn’t Stop (2004)

Cazuza: Time Doesn’t Stop (2004)
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Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza’s mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief…

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Genre: Drama, History, Music
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
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It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t…

Troy (2004)

Troy (2004)

Troy (2004)
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In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and…

The Alamo (2004)

The Alamo (2004)

The Alamo (2004)
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Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s forces at the Alamo in…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Miracle (2004)

Miracle (2004)

Miracle (2004)
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When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. After assembling a team…

Genre: Drama, History
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
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When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Cold Mountain (2003)

Cold Mountain (2003)
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In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across…

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
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Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the…

Shattered Glass (2003)

Shattered Glass (2003)

Shattered Glass (2003)
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The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic…

Genre: Drama, History