American historical drama films

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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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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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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Reds

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 7.3

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, hi...

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Carrie

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesma...

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Orphans of the Storm

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1921 IMDB Rating: 7.3

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Amistad

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.3

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release...

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The King

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.3

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

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