Keyword: historical figure

They Died with Their Boots On

7.3

1941

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A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

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.

Coup 53

7.8

2019

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Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.

The Babe

5.8

1992

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Babe Ruth becomes a baseball legend but is unheroic to those who know him.

Man of a Thousand Faces

7.3

1957

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The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Schindler

7.6

1983

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This film explores the real, complex figure of Oskar Schindler, with incredible archive footage and intimate interviews with Holocaust survivors who knew him. We hear from more than forty survivors.

Cobb

6.5

1994

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A reporter hired to write the official biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legends real story is.

Dillinger

7

1973

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John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.

When the Redskins Rode

5.4

1951

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In 1753, during the French and Indian War, Colonel George Washington and frontiersman Christopher Gist hope to persuade the Delaware tribes to join the British side but French spies aim for a contrary outcome.

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).

Sitting Bull

5.7

1954

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A cavalry officer sympathetic to the wronged Sioux fixes a meeting between Chief Sitting Bull and President Grant but a dishonest Indian Agent and a hateful General Custer test the Siouxs patience, threatening to derail the peace-talks.

Freud: The Secret Passion

7.2

1962

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An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freuds career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.