Films like The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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   Desert Flower

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38,...

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   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

   Film · 2017 · also drama and history

   An 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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   A United Kingdom

   Film · 2016 · also drama and history

   The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierc...

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   Flash of Genius

   Film · 2008 · also drama

   In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit f...

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   Shirley

   Film · 2024 · also drama and history

   Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

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   The Power of One

   Film · 1992 · also drama

   PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to...

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   Erin Brockovich

   Film · 2000 · also drama

   A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and co...

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   Richard Jewell

   Film · 2019 · also drama and history

   Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...

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   In the Blink of an Eye

   Film · 2026 · also drama

   Three storylines, spanning thousands of years, intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life.

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    Lion of the Desert

    Film · 1981 · also drama and history

    Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces...

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