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Historical Drama

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Titles in the US and UK Classics collections were produced prior to 1980 and will appear in the decade search 1920-1970 inclusive.
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The Water Diviner

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The Water Diviner
(2014) [M]


After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.

Russell Crowe has...  More


 
Quiet Flows the Don

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Quiet Flows the Don
(2006) [M]


With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero...  More


 
Omar

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Omar
(2013) [M]


Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he's either a freedom fighter or a terrorist -- you decide -- ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek...  More


 
Renoir

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Renoir
(2012) [M]


Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.  More


 
Rembetiko

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Rembetiko
(1983) [M]


The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer. One of the best Greek movies: 6 September 2005 | by Dimos Dimoulas (Thessaloniki,Greece) Considered to be...  More


 
Camille Claudel 1915

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Camille Claudel 1915
(2013) [M]


In a performance of heartbreaking intensity, Oscar winning Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) portrays the tragedy of sculptor Camille Claudel, who is consigned in Winter 1915, to an asylum in the South of France. Committed by her family, where she will never sculpt again this is the true...  More


 
Grace of Monaco (Blu-Ray)

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Grace of Monaco (Blu-Ray)
(2014) [PG]


Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated Wedding of the Century, Grace of Monaco tells of a year in the life of one of the twentieth century's most iconic women - Grace Kelly - as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound...  More


 
Grace of Monaco

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Grace of Monaco
(2014) [PG]


Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated Wedding of the Century, Grace of Monaco tells of a year in the life of one of the twentieth century's most iconic women - Grace Kelly - as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound...  More


 
The Railway Man  (Blu-Ray)

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The Railway Man (Blu-Ray)
(2013) [M]


Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WWII. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered, left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years...  More


 
Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt
(2012) [PG]


Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of the banality of evil. After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmanns trial in Jerusalem,Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one had ever heard before.Her work instantly provokes a...  More


 
The Book Thief (Blu-Ray)

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The Book Thief (Blu-Ray)
(2013) [PG]


Based on the beloved best-selling book comes this profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson), her adoptive...  More


 
12 Years a Slave  (Blu-Ray)

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12 Years a Slave (Blu-Ray)
(2014) [MA]


12 Years a Slave tells the incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty from a hateful slave owner (Michael Fassbender), Solomon...  More


 
12 Years a Slave

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12 Years a Slave
(2014) [MA]


12 Years a Slave tells the incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty from a hateful slave owner (Michael Fassbender), Solomon...  More


 
Captain Phillips (Blu-Ray)

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Captain Phillips (Blu-Ray)
(2013) [M]


The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.  More


 
Captain Phillips

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Captain Phillips
(2013) [M]


The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.  More


 
Diana

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Diana
(2013) [M]


During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.  More


 
Farewell My Queen  ("Les adieux à la reine")   (Blu-Ray)

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Farewell My Queen ("Les adieux à la reine") (Blu-Ray)
(2012) [M]


In July 1789, the French Revolution is rumbling. Far from the turmoil, at the Ch teau de Versailles, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette and their courtiers keep on living their usual carefree lives. But when the news of the storming of the Bastille reaches them, panic sets in and most of the...  More


 
Farewell My Queen  ("Les adieux à la reine")

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Farewell My Queen ("Les adieux à la reine")
(2012) [M]


In July 1789, the French Revolution is rumbling. Far from the turmoil, at the Ch teau de Versailles, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette and their courtiers keep on living their usual carefree lives. But when the news of the storming of the Bastille reaches them, panic sets in and most of the...  More


 
The 5ifth Estate  (Blu-Ray)

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The 5ifth Estate (Blu-Ray)
(2013) [M]


Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an...  More


 
The 5ifth Estate

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The 5ifth Estate
(2013) [M]


Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an...  More


 
The Railway Man

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The Railway Man
(2013) [M]


Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WWII. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered, left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years...  More


 
The Book Thief

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The Book Thief
(2013) [PG]


Based on the beloved best-selling book comes this profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson), her adoptive...  More


 
Hyde Park on the Hudson

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Hyde Park on the Hudson
(2012) [M]


Academy Award nominees Bill Murray and Laura Linney star in this delightful look at one of the most pivotal meetings in history. As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Murray) and his wife, Eleanor (Olivia Williams), invite the King and Queen of...  More


 
Hannibal  (1959)

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Hannibal (1959)
(1959) [PG]


Love and war intertwine in this stunning epic of the story of Hannibal, the brilliant Carthiginian general who dared to oppose Rome. Fuelled by hatred of Roman supremacy, Hannibal (Victor Mature) drives his army of elephants through the treacherous, frozen Alps into Italy, crushing anyone who...  More


 
Zero Dark Thirty  (Blu-Ray)

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Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-Ray)
(2012) [M]


For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden.

Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and...  More


 
Zero Dark Thirty

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Zero Dark Thirty
(2012) [M]


For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden.

Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and...  More


 
Anna Karenina  (2012)   (Blu-Ray)

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Anna Karenina (2012) (Blu-Ray)
(2012) [M]


The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Atonement,' is the epic love story 'Anna Karenina,' adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard...  More


 
Anna Karenina  (2012)

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Anna Karenina (2012)
(2012) [M]


The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Atonement,' is the epic love story 'Anna Karenina,' adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard...  More


 
Lincoln   (Blu-Ray)

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Lincoln (Blu-Ray)
(2012) [M]


Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the...  More


 
Lincoln

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Lincoln
(2012) [M]


Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the...  More


 
 
 

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