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1. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,278 | Gross: $52.77M
2. Murder in the First (1995)
R | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.
Director: Marc Rocco | Stars: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 30,696 | Gross: $17.38M
3. Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, History, War
This six-part series traces the Second World War, from the rise of the Nazis to the surrender of the Japanese, with detailed portraits of key figures.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Martin Sheen, Rudolf Hess
Votes: 14,305
4. Die Wannseekonferenz (1984 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Heinz Schirk | Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Robert Atzorn
Votes: 1,270
5. Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
GP | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello
Votes: 3,733 | Gross: $0.19M
6. Adventures of a Mathematician (2020)
102 min | Biography, Drama
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Director: Thor Klein | Stars: Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel, Sam Keeley, Joel Basman
Votes: 1,634
7. The Secret (1974)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marlène Jobert, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Adam
Votes: 927
8. Hiroshima: The Aftermath (2015)
94 min | Documentary
A documentary about the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and their aftermaths in both Japan and the United States. It includes many eyewitness accounts and historical documentation from both US and Japanese citizens.
Director: Lucy van Beek | Stars: Benjamin Bederson, Peter Burchett, Winston Churchill, Allen Dulles
Votes: 240
9. Gulag: The History (2019– )
167 min | Documentary, History
Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Gary Whitaker, James Hogg
Votes: 222
10. Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story (2004)
TV-PG | 99 min | Documentary
A filmmaker explores the lives and deaths of her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as spies in 1953.
Director: Ivy Meeropol | Stars: Bob Considine, Robert Meeropol, Morton Sobell, Sally Kanter Bruin
Votes: 445
11. Murder in the Pacific (2023)
Documentary
The efforts by the New Zealand authorities to solve the case of who bombed the Rainbow Warrior ship in 1985, which resulted in the death of one of the crew.
Stars: Chris Martin, Peter Willcox, Bunny McDiarmid, Pierre Joxe
Votes: 80
12. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later (2020 TV Movie)
79 min | Documentary, History
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
Director: James Erskine
Votes: 184
13. Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939 (1965 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.
Director: Egon Monk | Stars: Harald Eggers, Eberhard Fechner, Willem Fricke, Norbert Friese
Votes: 66
14. Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000)
75 min | Documentary, War
John Pilger investigates the effects of sanctions on the Iraqi civilian population and reveals that the ten years of extraordinary isolation, enforced by Britain and the US and imposed by ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: Felicity Arbuthnot, Denis Halliday, Jinan Ghalib Hussein, John Pilger
Votes: 120
15. Eine mörderische Entscheidung (2013 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
A dramatized reconstruction of events in restless Afgna province Kunduz, in 2009, and the ensuing trial of the German NATO contingent commander, colonel Klein. After the tragic loss of ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Ley | Stars: Matthias Brandt, Axel Milberg, Vladimir Burlakov, Ludwig Trepte
Votes: 102
16. The Last Bomb (1945)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, Documentary, War
Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Reed Hadley, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Klock, Curtis LeMay
Votes: 112
17. Escadrons de la mort: L'école française (2003 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
The French army was very influential in how modern suppression of independence movements has been and is carried out. This documentary reveals why.
Director: Marie-Monique Robin | Stars: Anibal Acosta, Alcides Lopez Aufranc, Carl Bernard, Michel Besineau
Votes: 64
18. Der Hamburger Feuersturm 1943 - Brandnarben (2009 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, History
Director: Andreas Fischer
Votes: 7
19. Operation Crossroads (1946)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Footage of the Able Day and Baker Day nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, accompanied by a narrator who explains the purpose and benefits of the testing.
Votes: 12
20. Oranges and Sunshine: Q&A at the London British Film Institute (2011 Video)
42 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Sandra Hebron, Margaret Humphreys, Jim Loach, Rona Munro
21.
The Big Picture (1950–1968)
Episode:
The Atom Soldier
(1955)
28 min | Documentary
Star: Stuart Queen
22.
The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode:
A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973)
(2017)
TV-MA | 109 min | Documentary, History, War
The South Vietnamese fight on their own, succumbing to terrible losses in Laos. After he is reelected, President Richard Nixon strikes a peace deal with Hanoi that sees the release of American prisoners of war.
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Karl Marlantes, Phil Gioia, Eva Jefferson Paterson
Votes: 655
23.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021)
Episode:
The Big House Pt. 2
(2017)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Crime
Jake is torn between the warden and Romero, while a local mobster claims he can prove that Hawkins is guilty.
Director: Michael McDonald | Stars: Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero
Votes: 2,995