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Made In Dagenham

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nigel Cole

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough

In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...

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Macarthur

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Joseph Sargent

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1977

Actors: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...

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Luther

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Eric Till

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov

Biography of Martin Luther the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Churchs hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with...

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Kon-tiki

Genres: Adventure, History

Country: United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård

The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947 together with five men to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers while the world was waiting for the result...

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Koch

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Neil Barsky

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Calvin O. Butts III

Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...

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Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 114 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush

Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...

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Elizabeth

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 124 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston

This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert...

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El Presidente

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: Philippines

Director: Mark Meily

Duration:

Year: 2012

Actors: Jorge Estregan, Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon

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David

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Italy, Germany

Director: Robert Markowitz

Duration: 190 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Nimoy

The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: Now appoint a king to lead us such as all the other nations have. I Samuel 8:5. And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king Saul a simple farmer who with Gods help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul however has incessant doubts...

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Danton

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France, Poland

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1983

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro

Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...

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Cry Freedom

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 157 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon

Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time he changes his opinion. They meet several times and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody he writes a book about...

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Cromwell

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Ken Hughes

Duration: 139 min

Year: 1970

Actors: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...

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Confucius

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: China

Director: Mei Hu

Duration: 125 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Xun Zhou, Yi Lu

The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher...

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Cleopatra (1963)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian (uncredited)

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1963

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison

In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...

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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Director: John Glen

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface

Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies by traveling west instead of east across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada he...

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Charlie Wilson's War

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Mike Nichols

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In the early 1980s Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However prodded by his major conservative supporter Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet...

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Catch A Fire

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Phillip Noyce

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna

A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...

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Bugsy

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Barry Levinson

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel

New York gangster Ben Bugsy Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper Siegel doesnt hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life the movies and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives...

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Bathory: Countess Of Blood

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History

Country: United Kingdom, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic

Director: Juraj Jakubisko

Duration: 141 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and...

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Augustine Of Hippo

Genres: Biography, History

Country: Italy

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Duration: 121 min

Year: 1972

Actors: Dary Berkani, Virgilio Gazzolo, Cesare Barbetti

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Assembly (ji Jie Hao)

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: Hong Kong, China

Director: Xiaogang Feng

Duration: 124 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan

War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...

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Andrei Rublev (andrey Rublev)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky (as Andrey Tarkovskiy)

Duration: 205 min

Year: 1966

Actors: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko

Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar...

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American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, ...

Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky

A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...

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Amazing Grace (2006)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Michael Apted

Duration: 117 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon

In 1797 William Wilberforce the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause. However meeting the charming Barbara Spooner Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share the story of his struggle. With few allies such as his mentor John Newton a slave ship captain turned repentant priest who penned...

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All The President's Men (1976)

Genres: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Duration: 138 min

Year: 1976

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam

In the run-up to the 1972 elections Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the...

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Alexander The Great

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Robert Rossen

Duration: 141 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom

An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...

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Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: D.W. Griffith

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1930

Actors: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne

Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...

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A Mighty Heart

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan

On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...

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A Man For All Seasons

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1966

Actors: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw

The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellors life the struggle between More and his King Henry VIII hinges on Henrys determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and...

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