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The Killing Fields (1984), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Miral (2010), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018), Boat People (1983), John Rabe (2009) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

The Killing Fields (1984)

The Killing Fields (1984)

7.8/10 War, Drama, Biography, History

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

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12 Years a Slave (2013)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

8.1/10 Drama, Biography, History

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

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Miral (2010)

Miral (2010)

6.2/10 Drama, History

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)

A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)

6.0/10 Biography, Drama, History

The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.

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Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

5.8/10 Biography, Drama, History

The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.

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Boat People (1983)

Boat People (1983)

7.5/10 Drama

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".

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John Rabe (2009)

John Rabe (2009)

7.2/10 War, Biography, Drama, History

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

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Unbroken (2014)

Unbroken (2014)

7.2/10 Biography, Drama, War

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

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The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

7.0/10 Drama, History

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

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Fateless (2005)

Fateless (2005)

6.9/10 Drama, History

14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.

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Funan (2019)

Funan (2019)

6.9/10 Drama

The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.

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Adanggaman (2000)

Adanggaman (2000)

6.8/10 Drama, History

In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his c...Read all

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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2005)

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2005)

10.0/10 Documentary, Drama, History

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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Resistance (2020)

Resistance (2020)

6.3/10 Biography, Drama, History

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

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Ararat (2002)

Ararat (2002)

6.3/10 Drama, War

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

5.7/10 War, Drama, Romance

A Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) and his Bosnian lover (Zana Marjanovic) find their allegiances becoming uncertain as their nation's brutal ethnic conflict takes its toll.

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Live and Become (2005)

Live and Become (2005)

8.8/10 Drama

A Christian boy grows up among Jews in Israel and, as an adult, must confront his past.

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Lion of the Desert (1980)

Lion of the Desert (1980)

8.4/10 War, Drama, Biography, History

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.

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