Keyword: historical figure

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.

Attila

5.5

1954

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Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans The Scourge of God, sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Isadora

7.5

1968

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A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed peoples ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

6.9

1981

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Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Timeless Romance

4

2019

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The souls of four ancient beauties are carried to modern society by a mystery necklace and enter the body of an ordinary girl, Qin Duyi.

The Rat Pack

6.8

1998

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The public and private lives of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.

The Pride of the Yankees

7.7

1942

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The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.