Films like The Pentagon Papers
This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question woul...
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Plan A
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyGermany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed...
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Adventures of a Mathematician
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyThe warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all...
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Backstabbing for Beginners
Film · 2018 · also drama and historyAn idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grisly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.
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Oranges and Sunshine
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...
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Panther
Film · 1995 · also drama and historyIn this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
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Shattered Glass
Film · 2003 · also drama and historyStephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Ston...
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Film · 2018 · also drama and historyFormer major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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A House of Dynamite
Film · 2025 · also drama and thrillerWhen a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
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Magpie
Film · 2024 · also drama and thrillerA couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.
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The Truth About Emanuel
Film · 2013 · also drama and thrillerA troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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