Films like Lincoln
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determ...
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The Patriot
Film · 2000 · also drama and historyAfter proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farm...
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Free State of Jones
Film · 2016 · also drama and historyIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After h...
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Glory
Film · 1989 · also drama and historyRobert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Gods and Generals
Film · 2003 · also drama and historyFollows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until...
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Emancipation
Film · 2022 · also drama and historyInspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his...
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Young Washington
Film · 2026 · also drama and historyBefore he led a nation, George Washington was a young soldier thrown into a global conflict. With alliances crumbling and war closing in, he must choose who to trust and...
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Son of the South
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyIn civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Sout...
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The Birth of a Nation
Film · 2016 · also dramaNat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
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The Great Debaters
Film · 2007 · also dramaThe true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students int...
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Emperor
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyAn escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
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