We Go in at Dawn (2020)
When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.
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The Devil's Violinist (2013)
In 1830 London, famous Italian violinist, composer and womanizer Niccolò Paganini (David Garrett) woos his host's daughter, thereby angering the man (Jared Harris) who succeeded in bringing him to England.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
A girl (Milla Jovovich) has visions from God and, at 17, leads an army of Frenchmen, but later she is burned at the stake for heresy.
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The Lost Legion (2014)
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city.
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The Lost City (2005)
Fico Fellove (Andy Garcia), an apolitical Havana club owner, gets caught in the middle when Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution sweeps through Cuba. He tries to keep the strife outside the walls of his popular establishment, but his family becomes divided when his brothers (Nestor Carbonell, Enrique Murciano) join the fight against Batista.
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The Birdcatcher (2018)
A young woman in Norway flees the Nazi roundup and conceals her identity while working on an occupied farm.
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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2005)
In the late 19th century, King Leopold II uses the Congo -- part of his newly established kingdom, the Belgian Free State -- as a rubber and ivory mecca and uses troops to brutally dispose of anyone who refuses to retrieve the valuable materials.
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Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.
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War and Peace (1966)
Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk's retelling of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel of Napoleon's invasion of Russia is widely considered one of the longest and most expensive films of all time. Like the novel, the film is broken into four sections telling two intertwining stories, that of the war itself (featuring some of the most elaborate battles ever filmed) and that of the romance of Russian aristocrats Count Pierre Bezukhov (Sergei Bondarchuk) and Countess Natasha Rostova (Lyudmila Saveleva).
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Conquest (1937)
Married Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo) becomes Napoleon's (Charles Boyer) mistress, followed by the battle of Waterloo.
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