Films like The Birth of a Nation

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   The Best of Enemies

   Film · 2019 · also drama and history

   Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a com...

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   Zulu

   Film · 1964 · also drama and history

   In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Ro...

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   The Last Rifleman

   Film · 2023 · also drama and history

   A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing...

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   Rosewood

   Film · 1997 · also drama and history

   Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

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   Devotion

   Film · 2022 · also drama and history

   The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

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   The War Below

   Film · 2021 · also drama and history

   During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly s...

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   Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

   Film · 2024 · also drama and history

   As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from...

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   The Last Command

   Film · 1928 · also drama and history

   A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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   The Young Lions

   Film · 1958 · also drama and war

   The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

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    The Scarlet and the Black

    Film · 1983 · also drama and history

    Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become s...

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