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A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), True North (2006), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Turtles Can Fly (2004), Bekas (2012), First They Killed My Father (2017), Sky Without Stars (1955) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

8.5/10 Drama

Kurdish orphans work odd jobs for food and to raise money so their severely handicapped brother can have surgery.

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True North (2006)

True North (2006)

6.9/10 Mystery, Drama, Thriller

The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.

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Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

8.1/10 War, Drama, Biography, History

Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

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Turtles Can Fly (2004)

Turtles Can Fly (2004)

8.1/10 War, Drama

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

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Bekas (2012)

Bekas (2012)

7.6/10 Adventure, Drama

Iraq in the early 1990 was a devastating land to survive in. When we think of Iraq, the first thing that tends to pop into our minds is the war and Saddam Hussein. But there is another side too - it is perhaps the most notorious country in the world and it goes by the name Kurdistan. Welcome to BEKAS. This is a story about two homeless brothers Zana (6) and Dana (10) ...Read all

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First They Killed My Father (2017)

First They Killed My Father (2017)

7.2/10 Biography, Drama, History

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

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Sky Without Stars (1955)

Sky Without Stars (1955)

7.1/10 Drama, Romance

A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.

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Back to 1942 (2012)

Back to 1942 (2012)

3.6/10 Drama, History

The fortunes of a well-off Chinese landlord (Zhang Guoli) fall to ruin, as a devastating famine holds the country in its grip in 1942.

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Kabuli Kid (2008)

Kabuli Kid (2008)

6.6/10 Drama

A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul.

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Overseas (1990)

Overseas (1990)

6.6/10 Comedy, Drama

In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she has to take care of everything. Gritte, the youngest, does not want to marry and is a nurse for the natives. We will follow their three different destinies.

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Voyage of the Damned (1976)

Voyage of the Damned (1976)

6.5/10 War, Drama

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

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Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

6.1/10 Drama

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.

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Insyriated (2017)

Insyriated (2017)

8.9/10 Drama

In Damascus, a mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

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Refugee (2000)

Refugee (2000)

5.4/10 Drama

A young man who smuggles illegal weapons and people back and forth over the borders between India and Pakistan falls in love with a young woman whose family he helped.

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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

8.5/10 War, Drama, Animation

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

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Shooting Dogs (2005)

Shooting Dogs (2005)

8.4/10 History, War, Drama

In 1994 Rwanda, a priest (John Hurt) and a teacher (Hugh Dancy) at a secondary school get caught up in the genocidal conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi.

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The Promised Land (1975)

The Promised Land (1975)

7.9/10 Drama

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.

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A City of Sadness (1989)

A City of Sadness (1989)

7.9/10 Drama

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

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