History movies
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The Uprising
2026 IMDb 6.2 / 10
2026 · Movies · History, Drama · Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America · 2 h 8 min
England, 14th century. The country is struggling to recover from the plague, the land lies devastated, and ordinary people live in poverty under the weight of h...
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Tenzing
2026 IMDb 7.7 / 10
2026 · Movies · Drama, History · Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America · 2 h 6 min
The story follows Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa who dreams of reaching the highest peak in the world. When he gets the opportunity to join an expedition to Mount Eve...
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Schindler's List
1993 IMDb 9.0 / 10
1993 · Movies · Drama, History, War · United States of America · 3 h 15 min
The film tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who saved more than a thousand Jews from death during Worl...
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Fatherland
2026 IMDb 7.3 / 10
2026 · Movies · Drama, History · Poland, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom · 1 h 22 min
In 1949, writer Thomas Mann returns to Germany after sixteen years in exile, accompanied by his daughter Erika. As they travel through a country still strugglin...
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I Play Rocky
2026 IMDb 8.0 / 10
2026 · Movies · Drama, History · United States of America, Australia · 2 h 8 min
In the 1970s, a struggling young actor named Sylvester Stallone is barely making ends meet, facing endless auditions and rejection in Hollywood. Then he writes...
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I Swear
2025 IMDb 8.4 / 10
2025 · Movies · Drama, History · United Kingdom · 2 h 1 min
12-year-old John dreams of becoming a professional footballer, but his life changes after he is diagnosed with Tourette syndrome. His uncontrollable tics and ou...
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Hidden Figures
2016 IMDb 7.8 / 10
2016 · Movies · Drama, History · United States of America · 2 h 7 min
In the early 1960s, the United States is racing against the Soviet Union to conquer space. Behind NASA’s most ambitious missions are countless brilliant minds w...
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Mona Lisa Smile
2003 IMDb 6.6 / 10
2003 · Movies · Drama, History, Romance · United States of America · 1 h 57 min
In 1953, Katherine Watson arrives at the prestigious Wellesley College to teach art history. Her students are intelligent and ambitious, yet they have been rais...
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Young Woman and the Sea
2024 IMDb 7.5 / 10
2024 · Movies · History, Drama · United States of America · 2 h 9 min
At a time when competitive swimming was largely considered a man’s world, young Trudy Ederle dreams of doing what others insist a woman should never attempt. De...
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The Iron Lady
2011 IMDb 6.4 / 10
2011 · Movies · History, Drama · United Kingdom · 1 h 45 min
The story unfolds through the memories of an elderly Thatcher, as moments from her extraordinary life return to her. Her recollections take her back to her yout...
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The Queen
2006 IMDb 7.3 / 10
2006 · Movies · Drama, History · France, Italy, United Kingdom · 1 h 43 min
Following the tragic death of Princess Diana, Britain is swept by an unprecedented wave of public grief. While millions mourn the woman known as the “People’s P...
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Barreda
2026 IMDb 6.3 / 10
2026 · Movies · Drama, Crime, History · Argentina · 1 h 45 min
Argentina, 1992. At first glance, Ricardo Barreda is an ordinary dentist and family man. But one day, his family is found dead inside their own home. Four women...
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Suffragette
2015 IMDb 6.9 / 10
2015 · Movies · Drama, History · France, United Kingdom · 1 h 46 min
London, 1912. Maud Watts has spent most of her life working in a laundry, accepting exhausting work, poor wages, and a society where women have little control o...
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Radioactive
2020 IMDb 6.3 / 10
2020 · Movies · Drama, Romance, History · France, United Kingdom · 1 h 49 min
At the end of the 19th century, Marie Sklodowska arrives in Paris determined to pursue a career in science in a world where women are rarely taken seriously as...
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The Dig
2021 IMDb 7.1 / 10
2021 · Movies · Drama, History · United Kingdom · 1 h 52 min
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Br...
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On the Basis of Sex
2018 IMDb 7.1 / 10
2018 · Movies · Drama, History · United States of America · 2 h
In the 1950s, Ruth enters Harvard Law School, where women are a rare sight among the students. Despite excelling academically and supporting her family alongsid...
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Temple Grandin
2010 IMDb 8.2 / 10
2010 · Movies · Drama, History · United States of America · 1 h 48 min
Diagnosed with autism as a child, Temple is initially considered incapable of living an independent life. Her mother, however, refuses to accept this prognosis...
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Dovzhenko. First Sight
2026 IMDb 7.3 / 10
2026 · Movies · History, Thriller, Adventure · Ukraine, Canada, Romania, Germany, Lithuania · 1 h 40 min
In 1926, young Oleksandr Dovzhenko arrives in Odesa to make his first film. At the local film studio, he meets writer Yurii Yanovskyi and ballerina Ida Penzo, w...
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Kuzma: Extremely Happy
2026 IMDb 8.9 / 10
2026 · Movies · Documentary, History, Music · Ukraine · 2 h 13 min
The film tells the story of Andriy Kuzmenko, the frontman of the Ukrainian band Skryabin. Millions knew his songs, but only a few truly knew the man behind the...
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Censored
2019 IMDb 7.3 / 10
2019 · Movies · History, Drama · Ukraine · 1 h 41 min
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his...
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Diagnosis: Dissent
2024 IMDb 7.5 / 10
2024 · Movies · Drama, History · Ukraine · 1 h 54 min
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were nev...
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Why I'm Alive
2021 IMDb 7.0 / 10
2021 · Movies · History, Drama, Romance · Ukraine · 2 h
Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to t...
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