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A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish t...
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The Wind and the Lion
Film · 1975 · also adventure and dramaAt the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military interven...
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Unconquered
Film · 1947 · also adventure and dramaEngland, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of V...
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Wake of the Red Witch
Film · 1948 · also adventure and dramaCaptain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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One Night with the King
Film · 2006 · also drama and historyIn Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.
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Victoria & Abdul
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Against the Ice
Film · 2022 · also adventure and dramaIn 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Film · 1935 · also adventure and dramaFletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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America America
Film · 1963 · also drama and historyA young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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In the Heart of the Sea
Film · 2015 · also adventure and dramaIn the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of ve...
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