Films like Matewan

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   Pale Rider

   Film · 1985 · also drama

   A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

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   Free State of Jones

   Film · 2016 · also drama and history

   In 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 history

   Robert 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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   Son of the South

   Film · 2021 · also drama and history

   In 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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   Lawless

   Film · 2012 · also drama

   In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forr...

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   The Patriot

   Film · 2000 · also drama and history

   After 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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   The Burial

   Film · 2023 · also drama and history

   When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flar...

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   Live by Night

   Film · 2016 · also drama and history

   A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

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   The Devil All the Time

   Film · 2020 · also drama

   In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family...

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    Old Henry

    Film · 2021 · also drama

    A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer mu...

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