Keyword: historical figure

Sunrise at Campobello

5.8

1960

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After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.

You Don't Know Jack

7.6

2010

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A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

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1951

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The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.

Excellent Cadavers

6.7

1999

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Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to attack the mobsters. He is aided by a former mobster (F. Murray Abraham) who volunteers to turn states evidence after his sons are killed by a renegade mob chief. With the mobsters help, the prosecutor was able to obtain over 300 convictions.

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

6.8

2017

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Follow code-breaker Petter Amundsen and historian Dr. Robert Crumpton as they investigate the secrets buried in William Shakespeares first folio and decipher a coded map that may lead to one of historys greatest treasures.

The Babe Ruth Story

5.2

1948

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William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth in a sports biopic that mixes facts with fiction.

The Road to Wellville

5.7

1994

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A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

Stalin

7.4

1992

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The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Iosif Stalin.

The Glenn Miller Story

7.3

1954

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Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

The Crossing

7.2

2000

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A dramatization of George Washingtons perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton.

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

6.5

1978

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After many years of trying, Orville and Wilbur Wright succeed in making their heavier-than-air aircraft fly, south of Kitty Hawk, on December 17, 1903. They later try to sell their invention to the US government.

The First Great Train Robbery

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1978

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England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.