Blow(2001)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The story of George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel, headed by Pablo Escobar established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.



Hidalgo(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.



Hollywoodland(2006)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).



Freedom Writers(2007)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.



Bronson(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.



Nowhere Boy(2009)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.



Alpha Dog(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.



The Last Station(2009)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.



Remember the Titans(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.



Men of Honor(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American, then also the first amputee, U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.



Antwone Fisher(2002)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.



Alexander(2004)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.



Lords of Dogtown(2005)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970's.



Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage(2005)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.



Becoming Jane(2007)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.



The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.



Find Me Guilty(2006)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In the late 1980s, a low level gangster named Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial history.



Taking Woodstock(2009)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.



Secretariat(2010)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.



The Assassination of Richard Nixon(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.




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