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Schindler's List (1993)

Summary: In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Release Date: February 04, 1994

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Thomas Keneally

, Steven Zaillian

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: MCA/Universal Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 96,898,818

International: $ 225,262,427

Don't Be a Sucker (1943)

Summary: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.

Release Date: July 04, 1943

Genres: Short, History, War

Runtime: 0 h 18 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: U.S. War Department

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, The Prelinger Archives

Country: United States

Language: English

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Summary: A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.

Release Date: January 14, 2022

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Joel Coen

Writers: Joel Coen

, William Shakespeare

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: A24, IAC Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

Summary: A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.

Release Date: January 21, 2022

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Christian Schwochow

Writers: Robert Harris

, Ben Power

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Turbine Studios, Netflix

Distributor: Netflix

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Everything's Gonna Be All White (2022)

Summary: Explores the history of race in the USA from the perspective of people of color, delving deeply into the root causes of racial inequities.

Release Date: February 11, 2022

Genres: Documentary, History

Runtime: 0 h 54 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Mass Appeal

Country: United States

Language: English

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Summary: When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Release Date: October 20, 2023

Genres: Crime, Drama, History

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Eric Roth

, Martin Scorsese

, David Grann

Runtime: 3 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions, Appian Way, Apple Studios, Apple TV+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,870,016

International: $ 89,000,000

The Innocents (2016)

Summary: 1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Release Date: February 10, 2016

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Anne Fontaine

Writers: Sabrina B. Karine

, Alice Vial

, Anne Fontaine

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: France, Poland

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 6,400,000

Domestic: $ 1,065,665

International: $ 6,334,636

Cleopatra (1963)

Summary: Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Release Date: July 31, 1963

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

, Ranald MacDougall

, Sidney Buchman

Runtime: 3 h 12 min

MPAA: G

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, MCL Films S.A., Walwa Films S.A.

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 44,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,777,778

Hidden Figures (2016)

Summary: The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Release Date: January 06, 2017

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Theodore Melfi

Writers: Allison Schroeder

, Theodore Melfi

, Margot Lee Shetterly

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, Levantine Films

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 169,607,287

International: $ 66,349,611

Zeitgeist (2007)

Summary: Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.

Release Date: June 01, 2007

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Peter Joseph

Writer: Peter Joseph

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Gentle Machine Productions

Distributor: Gravitas Ventures, Passion River Films, Sideways Films, Peter Joseph, Quantum Earth Radio, Spectra Filmworks

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000

Amsterdam (2022)

Summary: In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

Release Date: October 07, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: David O. Russell

Writer: David O. Russell

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: 20th Century Studios, Canterbury Classic, Forest Hill Entertainment, New Regency Productions, Regency Enterprizes

Distributor: 20th Century Studios

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,947,969

International: $ 16,419,496

Ferrari (2023)

Summary: Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.

Release Date: December 25, 2023

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Troy Kennedy-Martin

, Brock Yates

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Forward Pass, Storyteller Productions, Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Saudi Arabia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,550,028

International: $ 23,735,001

Flyboys (2006)

Summary: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Release Date: September 22, 2006

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Tony Bill

Writers: Phil Sears

, Blake T. Evans

, David S. Ward

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Electric Entertainment, Skydance Media, Ingenious Film Partners, Flyboys Films

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, The CW Network (The CW)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,090,630

International: $ 4,767,429

Cold Mountain (2003)

Summary: In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Release Date: December 25, 2003

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Director: Anthony Minghella

Writers: Charles Frazier

, Anthony Minghella

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Mirage Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions, Blossom Films, Castel Film Romania, Cattleya

Distributor: Miramax, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Countries: United States, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 79,000,000

Domestic: $ 95,636,509

International: $ 77,377,000

The Patriot (2000)

Summary: Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.

Release Date: June 28, 2000

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Roland Emmerich

Writer: Robert Rodat

Runtime: 2 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Centropolis Entertainment, Mutual Film Company, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, H2L Media Group

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, TBS, CBS, TNT, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000,000

Domestic: $ 113,330,342

International: $ 101,964,000

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Summary: A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Release Date: March 16, 2001

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writers: Jean-Jacques Annaud

, Alain Godard

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, KC Medien, Reperage, MP Film Management, DOS, Swanford Films, Little Bird

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount+

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 68,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,401,758

International: $ 45,574,512

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Summary: The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.

Release Date: January 18, 2002

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Mark Bowden

, Ken Nolan

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Revolution Studios, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Scott Free Productions

Distributor: Amazon Prime Video, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), Miramax, Netflix, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 92,000,000

Domestic: $ 108,638,745

International: $ 64,350,906

The Hidden Blade (2004)

Summary: A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.

Release Date: October 30, 2004

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Director: Yôji Yamada

Writers: Yôji Yamada

, Yoshitaka Asama

, Shûhei Fujisawa

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Eisei Gekijo, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Sumitomo Corporation

Distributor: Palisades Tartan

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 38,147

International: $ 8,005,634