American historical drama films

Sounder

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

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A Christmas Carol

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1938 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Classic Charles Dickens holiday tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser's miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present, and future.

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Quiz Show

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that 'Twenty-One', a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show.

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Young Mr. Lincoln

Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1939 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tr...

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Queen Christina

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1933 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

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Iron Jawed Angels

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

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Taking Chance

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.

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Mudbound

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.4

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

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