Keyword: historical figure

Born to Be Blue

6.9

2015

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A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Bakers musical comeback in the late 60s.

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.

Caesar and Cleopatra

6.4

1945

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At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.

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.

My Week with Marilyn

7

2011

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Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

John and Yoko: A Love Story

4

1985

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Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

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.

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

7.3

1951

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

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.

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.

Eight Men Out

7.3

1988

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A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.