Newsies(1992)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.



Russkiy kovcheg(2002)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.



Nanking(2007)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.



Barry Lyndon(1975)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.



Cry Freedom(1987)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 47

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.



Daughters of the Dust(1991)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last ...



Lumumba(2000)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical ...



Battle for Haditha(2007)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 52

An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.



Honeydripper(2007)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 67

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the ...



The Duchess(2008)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.



The Bang Bang Club(2010)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.



Des hommes et des dieux(2010)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.



Phoenix(2014)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.



Last Days in the Desert(2015)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 64

An imagined chapter from Jesus' forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis.



Viceroy's House(2017)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.



Hotel Mumbai(2018)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Hotel Mumbai tells the astonishing true story of the victims and survivors of the devastating attacks on Mumbai in 2008.



Der Tunnel(2001)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. ...



Queen of the Desert(2015)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.



All the President's Men(1976)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 29

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.



K-19: The Widowmaker(2002)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 29

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.




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