Films like Zulu
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 Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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Zulu Dawn
Film · 1979 · also drama and historyIn 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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The Last Rifleman
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyA 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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The Birth of a Nation
Film · 1915 · also drama and historyTwo families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse E...
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Tobruk
Film · 1967 · also drama and historyIn September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobr...
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Palestine 36
Film · 2025 · also drama and historyYear 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future...
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A Call to Spy
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyThe story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a di...
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Operation Mincemeat
Film · 2022 · also drama and historyIn 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies...
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The Guns of Navarone
Film · 1961 · also drama and warA team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent...
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Lion of the Desert
Film · 1981 · also drama and historyResistance 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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The Monuments Men
Film · 2014 · also drama and historyBased on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, art...
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