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40 Historical Movies You Need to Watch at Least Once in Your Life
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda who helped house over a thousand Tutsi refugees from Hutu militias during the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. The emotional film shows the courage and bravery Paul and his wife Tatiana showed in the face of danger, corruption and civil war.
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
The five-time Academy Award-nominated picture, although not 100% historically accurate, reflects on the decades-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who, along with al-Qaeda, was the perpetrator behind the September 11 attacks. The movie follows fictional CIA analyst Maya (Jessica Chastain) and her experience over the years in the hunt which culminates with his death in May 2011.
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The Killing Fields (1984)
Inspired by the experiences of two journalists, The Kill • • Director Spike Lee takes the approach of sharing a large percentage of the life of one of America’s most well-known and impactful civil rights leaders: Malcolm X. It’s an approach that has failed more often than not, but over three hours, Lee and star Denzel Washington are able to give Malcolm’s life the richness and attention to detail it deserves in this 1992 spelfilm. The result is a fully three-dimensional portrait that follows the man from childhood to his 1965 assassination and many places in between. Watch on Prime Video The layers in the feature film debut of director Lin-Manuel Miranda are truly one of a kind. The 2021 movie introduces us to Jonathan Larson (played by Andrew Garfield), who became best known for writing the broadway musical Rent. But in Tick, Tick…Boom!, he’s both struggling to break into the musical industry and, in a parallel but future-looking story, acting in the musical h List of biographical films
Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1906 The Story of the Kelly Gang Ned Kelly Frank Mills 1909 The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven Harry Baur The Life of Moses Moses Pat Hartigan Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allan Poe Herbert Yost Saul and David King David Maurice Costello King Saul William V. Ranous 1910 Pyotr Velikiy Peter the Great Pyotr Voinov 1911 Sweet Nell of Old Drury Nell Gwyn Nellie Stewart Charles II of England Augustus Neville 1912 Custer's Last Fight George Armstrong Custer Francis Ford Cleopatra Cleopatra Helen Gardner From the Manger to the Cross Jesus Robert Henderson-Bland 1913 Adrienne Lecouvreur Adrienne Lecouvreur Sarah Bernhardt Giuseppe Verdi nella vita e nella gloria Giuseppe Verdi Egisto Cecchi The Life and Works of Richard Wagner Richard Wagner Giuseppe Becce Sixty Years a Queen Que The 15 Best Biopics of All Time
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