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Polytechnique(2009)
Rating: 7.2 Genre:Crime, Drama, History
Cast: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Evelyne Brochu, Martin Watier, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Natalie Hamel-Roy, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Pierre Leblanc
Loving Vincent(2017)
Rating: 8.1 Genre:Animation, Drama, Mystery, History
Cast: Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, Chris O'Dowd, John Sessions, Jerome Flynn, Aidan Turner
Lincoln(2012)
Rating: 6.9 Genre:History, Drama
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley
Midway(2019)
Rating: 7.2 Genre:War, History, Action, Drama
Cast: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Mandy Moore, Luke Kleintank, Dennis Quaid, Aaron Eckhart, Keean Johnson
The Shadow in My Eye(2021)
Rating: 7.9 Genre:War, Drama, History
Cast: Ester Birch, Alex Høgh Andersen, Danica Ćurčić, James Tarpey, Patricia Schumann, Fanny Leander Bornedal, Mads Riisom, Jens Sætter-Lassen, Malene Beltoft Olsen
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)
Rating: 7.9 Genre:War, Drama, History
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, David Hayman, Sheila Hancock, Cara Horgan, Richard Johnson
Windtalkers(2002)
Rating: 6.2 Genre:War, Drama, Action, History
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Van Holt, Martin Henderson, Roger Willie, Christian Slater
The Imitation Game(2014)
Rating: 8 Genre:History, Drama, Thriller, War
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, James Northcote
Ip Man 3(2015)
Rating: 7 Genre:Action, Drama, History
Cast: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Zhang Jin, Patrick Tam, Karena Ng, Kent Cheng, Louis Cheung, Leung Kar-yan, Mike Tyson
Dark Waters(2019)
Rating: 7.5 Genre:Drama, Thriller, History
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, Louisa Krause
The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)
Rating: 7.7 Genre:Drama, History
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
The Last of the Mohicans(1992)
Rating: 7.4 Genre:Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May, Russell Means, Wes Studi, Eric Schweig, Steven Waddington, Maurice Roëves, Patrice Chéreau
Richard Jewell(2019)
Rating: 7.5 Genre:Drama, History, Crime
Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Nina Arianda, Ian Gomez, Wayne Duvall, Dylan Kussman
6 Days(2017)
Rating: 6 Genre:Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Cast: Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong, Martin Shaw, Emun Elliott, Ben Turner, Aymen Hamdouchi, Tim Pigott-Smith, Robert Portal
Hotel Rwanda(2004)
Rating: 7.7 Genre:Drama, History, War
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno, Desmond Dube, Ofentse Modiselle, Mathabo Pieterson
The Crucible(1996)
Rating: 6.6 Genre:Drama, History
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield, Bruce Davison, Rob Campbell, Charlayne Woodard, Frances Conroy, Elizabeth Lawrence
Love & Mercy(2015)
Rating: 7.1 Genre:Drama, Music, History
Cast: Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald, Brett Davern, Graham Rogers, Erin Darke
The Captain(2018)
Rating: 7.2 Genre:War, Drama, History
Cast: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Alexander Fehling, Britta Hammelstein, Waldemar Kobus, Sebastian Rudolph, Marko Dyrlich, Alexander Hörbe
The World's Fastest Indian(2005)
Rating: 7.6 Genre:Drama, Adventure, History
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Walton Goggins, Diane Ladd, Bruce Greenwood, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy, Tim Shadbolt, Annie Whittle
Ip Man(2008)
Rating: 7.7 Genre:Drama, Action, History
Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Gordon Lam, Fan Siu-wong, Xing Yu, You-Nam Wong, Dennis To Yue-Hong
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