Keyword: historical figure

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 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 Babe

5.8

1992

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mahler

6.9

1974

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Composer Gustav Mahlers life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.

Young Tom Edison

6.9

1940

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Inventor Thomas Edisons boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes hes headed to do great things.