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Kanopy
89
8.1
/74637/
78
/1195/
78
/856/
4.5
/115908/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
87
IMDb 100
8.2
/995833/
80
/33689/
80
/11273/
4.2
/3873565/
93
/513/
91
/6024/
90
/69/
cc age 15+

Oppenheimer (2023)
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
poster
87
8.0
/104627/
79
/2457/
78
/2080/
4.2
/213062/
96
/163/
92
/7559/
90
/31/
cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.1
/33621/
78
/555/
78
/600/
4.3
/48088/
94
/51/
93
/387/
86
/19/

Z (1969)
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
poster
Peacock Premium
85
8.1
/1033123/
82
/41366/
80
/21614/
4.0
/1953418/
96
/333/
89
/19665/
85
/41/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
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Kanopy
83
7.6
/5085/
75
/141/
69
/81/
3.6
/4546/
100
/32/
85
/305/
93
/11/

Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.
poster
83
7.8
/190893/
76
/3385/
74
/1987/
4.1
/127689/
96
/135/
90
/2577/
85
/34/
cc age 16+

The Insider (1999)
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
82
8.3
/50318/
79
/437/
71
/118/
4.0
/14335/
95
/20/
94
/39/

Sardar Udham (2021)
A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.
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Kanopy
82
8.2
/12004/
81
/243/
78
/240/
4.4
/40688/
100
/5/
62
/5/
91
/20/

I Am Cuba (1964)
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.5
/58352/
74
/1209/
73
/868/
4.0
/72752/
90
/116/
87
/2769/
82
/30/
cc age 16+

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/25384/
73
/593/
71
/485/
4.0
/56460/
88
/43/
86
/541/

Santa Sangre (1989)
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
poster
81
8.1
/126080/
75
/919/
70
/484/
3.8
/20853/
90
/10/
94
/972/

Rang De Basanti (2006)
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.5
/76204/
73
/1700/
72
/1174/
4.0
/81040/
90
/133/
83
/1705/
82
/25/
cc age 16+

Hunger (2008)
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.3
/9846/
72
/136/
70
/126/
3.7
/4873/
96
/101/
87
/459/
83
/35/

Osama (2004)
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
poster
Hoopla
80
7.1
/20308/
71
/538/
72
/542/
3.4
/34294/
88
/48/
84
/1303/
86
/18/
cc age 16+

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
poster
79
7.6
/2977/
66
/23/
62
/28/
3.7
/1038/
88
/26/
91
/48/

Men with Guns (1998)
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
poster
Netflix
79
8.3
/1152647/
82
/22543/
79
/10833/
3.9
/467985/
76
/131/
85
/1198232/
68
/20/
cc age 17+

Braveheart (1995)
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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FXNow
79
7.4
/31672/
72
/1201/
71
/759/
4.1
/70584/
82
/234/
72
/59/
80
/44/
cc age 13+

A Hidden Life (2019)
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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Kanopy
78
7.5
/30839/
73
/471/
70
/390/
3.7
/11599/
81
/132/
88
/744/
70
/34/

The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.2
/132185/
71
/6213/
71
/3223/
4.0
/249780/
83
/288/
70
/1043/
79
/48/
cc age 16+

Silence (2016)
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
poster
Hoopla
77
7.6
/29655/
75
/514/
71
/446/
3.6
/10101/
87
/94/
88
/929/
76
/30/

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.1
/947/
61
/15/
68
/24/
3.8
/2148/
86
/7/
82
/5/

Joan the Maid I: The Battles (1994)
Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to plead with Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.
poster
77
7.5
/48381/
73
/964/
73
/669/
3.8
/11588/
93
/126/
88
/2441/
78
/23/
cc age 16+

The Counterfeiters (2007)
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
poster
77
7.4
/109645/
74
/2225/
72
/1469/
3.6
/64599/
83
/66/
86
/4291/
75
/30/
cc age 16+

Elizabeth (1998)
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
poster
76
7.4
/24770/
71
/400/
68
/276/
3.9
/13833/
89
/103/
87
/1187/
71
/32/

Paradise Now (2005)
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.6
/3057/
77
/98/
69
/73/
3.9
/6227/
93
/46/
80
/10/
80
/18/

The Pearl Button (2015)
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
poster
Kanopy
82
76
7.9
/7099/
76
/163/
74
/97/
4.2
/10213/
96
/49/
88
/154/
78
/15/

5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
poster
76
7.2
/16707/
68
/340/
67
/404/
3.8
/9526/
93
/113/
75
/692/
86
/29/

Of Gods and Men (2010)
A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.1
/125915/
73
/4241/
72
/1828/
3.8
/655614/
95
/59/
83
/4486/
72
/20/
cc age 16+

Heathers (1989)
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.2
/2199/
71
/34/
67
/35/
3.7
/2211/
81
/59/
83
/48/
78
/22/

Lumumba (2000)
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
poster
Hoopla
75
7.1
/24335/
71
/477/
69
/340/
3.6
/16850/
77
/39/
79
/364/
65
/10/
cc age 15+

Silkwood (1983)
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
poster
FXNow
74
7.2
/487495/
72
/20948/
71
/5863/
3.5
/2863802/
88
/336/
76
/680/
71
/45/
cc age 15+

The Menu (2022)
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.7
/5046/
71
/255/
65
/119/
3.4
/3573/
87
/119/
82
/65/
69
/25/
cc age 15+

What They Had (2018)
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
74
7.7
/14244/
74
/179/
72
/192/
3.9
/8136/
94
/33/
87
/194/

Elmer Gantry (1960)
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
poster
79
74
7.6
/10813/
73
/209/
73
/165/
3.9
/6788/
93
/14/
85
/108/

Lonely are the Brave (1962)
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
poster
74
7.3
/5753/
72
/75/
71
/189/
3.6
/2159/
75
/12/
81
/50/

The Star Maker (1995)
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
poster
73
7.0
/5033/
69
/92/
64
/131/
3.2
/2393/
91
/33/
77
/134/
75
/17/

Fear and Trembling (2003)
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
73
7.7
/16907/
73
/294/
71
/194/
3.8
/8560/
75
/28/
87
/390/
68
/10/

Becket (1964)
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
poster
72
7.1
/35873/
72
/751/
68
/506/
3.5
/20870/
78
/49/
84
/744/
59
/20/
cc age 15+

Michael Collins (1996)
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
72
71
7.1
/18217/
72
/451/
71
/437/
3.4
/9719/
84
/19/
73
/184/
65
/6/

Quo Vadis (1951)
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
poster
Hoopla
71
7.2
/2602/
71
/36/
70
/39/
3.3
/1960/
80
/10/
80
/94/

Romero (1989)
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.1
/8185/
68
/161/
65
/112/
3.4
/3372/
92
/12/
75
/167/

Black Robe (1991)
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
poster
71
7.0
/30429/
72
/587/
70
/500/
3.7
/36553/
65
/37/
81
/1197/
61
/11/
cc age 13+

The Way We Were (1973)
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
poster
MGM Plus
70
7.6
/28839/
73
/451/
78
/665/
3.9
/19385/
52
/23/
84
/386/
70
/14/

1900 (1976)
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
70
7.0
/118499/
71
/4168/
73
/2931/
3.6
/247975/
66
/41/
69
/2243/

Martyrs (2008)
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
poster
Kanopy
70
69
7.2
/15668/
71
/399/
69
/364/
3.6
/5635/
67
/49/
82
/174/
57
/19/

Amen. (2002)
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
poster
68
6.7
/28474/
68
/989/
67
/551/
3.5
/39983/
74
/23/
70
/800/
62
/8/

Night of the Creeps (1986)
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
7.1
/327095/
73
/16679/
68
/6516/
3.5
/378050/
59
/113/
78
/14810/
47
/25/
cc age 17+

Blade (1998)
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.


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