Films like The Dig
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
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Hope and Glory
Film · 1987 · also dramaA middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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Our Mother's House
Film · 1967 · also dramaSeven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
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Origin
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyWhile investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resil...
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The Gathering Storm
Film · 2002 · also drama and historyA love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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This Sporting Life
Film · 1963 · also dramaIn early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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The Six Triple Eight
Film · 2024 · also drama and historyDuring World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail t...
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Film · 2018 · also dramaEngland, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder...
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Jimmy's Hall
Film · 2014 · also drama and historyIn Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and...
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Six Minutes to Midnight
Film · 2020 · also drama and historySummer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for...
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Queen of the Desert
Film · 2015 · also drama and historyA 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 a...
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