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Kanopy
89
8.2
/198723/
79
/3661/
81
/2975/
4.2
/236359/
97
/140/
92
/3876/
98
/14/
cc age 12+

Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
83
7.7
/133951/
77
/2633/
74
/1351/
4.1
/114747/
93
/96/
90
/7329/
86
/23/
cc age 16+

This Is England (2007)
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
poster
82
7.8
/63679/
76
/1362/
74
/935/
4.2
/150807/
92
/48/
87
/1754/
80
/8/
cc age 15+

Cabaret (1972)
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
poster
82
7.8
/91228/
74
/1647/
73
/1425/
4.0
/69836/
96
/48/
89
/1129/
86
/12/
cc age 10+

The Remains of the Day (1993)
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
poster
81
8.1
/125875/
75
/910/
71
/478/
3.8
/19850/
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.
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Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/8283/
69
/146/
68
/171/
3.7
/7373/
85
/13/
82
/106/

Danton (1983)
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
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Netflix
79
7.3
/16417/
78
/792/
76
/372/
3.8
/40305/
97
/34/
68
/174/
81
/13/

The Edge of Democracy (2019)
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
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The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10478/
76
/306/
74
/238/
3.8
/22072/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
poster
79
7.7
/25242/
74
/470/
72
/409/
3.9
/20397/
94
/35/
85
/269/
78
/10/
cc age 14+

Missing (1982)
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
poster
77
7.1
/1949/
68
/24/
63
/31/
3.4
/596/
91
/11/
80
/19/

A World Apart (1988)
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
poster
77
7.1
/46312/
69
/947/
69
/816/
3.5
/29349/
100
/39/
81
/1216/
77
/11/

Sleeper (1973)
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Kanopy
76
7.4
/4364/
67
/70/
67
/83/
3.7
/1622/
81
/21/
82
/37/

Les Miserables (1995)
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
75
7.2
/6840/
73
/723/
69
/70/
3.6
/62467/
100
/5/
94
/25/

This Place Rules (2022)
Acclaimed for his unfiltered reporting and deadpan humor, Andrew Callaghan brings his gonzo style reporting to the undercurrents that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot. As one of the best-known and hardest working journalists of his generation, the 25-year-old ventures on a wild RV journey through America to take the pulse of a divided nation.
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Hoopla
74
7.0
/34297/
69
/531/
69
/385/
3.6
/18786/
76
/63/
74
/691/
66
/22/
cc age 15+

Nixon (1995)
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
poster
77
72
7.2
/13936/
72
/221/
71
/229/
3.6
/12852/
96
/25/
81
/184/

Julius Caesar (1953)
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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Kanopy
72
7.3
/117087/
73
/2899/
71
/1401/
3.5
/112329/
53
/176/
82
/37124/
56
/29/
cc age 14+

Across the Universe (2007)
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
poster
69
7.2
/1014/
63
/12/
63
/19/
3.6
/681/
67
/6/
71
/7/

King Lear (1970)
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.
poster
74
68
7.3
/6872/
73
/148/
71
/118/
3.7
/8709/
81
/54/
82
/293/
67
/19/

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
65
7.5
/4188/
73
/330/
73
/54/
3.4
/5608/
89
/19/
63
/12/
72
/10/

Four Hours at the Capitol (2021)
The documentary is an immersive chronicle of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when thousands of American citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election, many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden's presidency.
poster
65
7.4
/11467/
71
/158/
71
/164/
3.7
/6454/
47
/17/
73
/186/

Ryan's Daughter (1970)
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
poster
64
6.3
/39190/
65
/803/
61
/496/
3.0
/26822/
63
/38/
68
/1796/
45
/23/
cc age 13+

Evita (1996)
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
poster
Hoopla
62
6.5
/5674/
62
/81/
66
/83/
3.1
/1431/
35
/34/
72
/113/

Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
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Kanopy
62
6.6
/15490/
63
/394/
63
/255/
3.0
/2499/
57
/58/
64
/570/
54
/17/
cc age 16+

Battle in Seattle (2007)
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
7.0
/43752/
67
/542/
64
/414/
3.2
/8232/
47
/173/
72
/4346/
54
/31/
cc age 16+

Bobby (2006)
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
poster
62
6.8
/43119/
68
/1248/
63
/762/
3.0
/10759/
47
/174/
53
/1199/
50
/43/
cc age 14+

Anonymous (2011)
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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Kanopy
61
6.2
/1681/
54
/46/
57
/51/
3.3
/1083/
71
/42/
41
/13/
66
/15/

Beloved Sisters (2014)
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.
poster
Kanopy
60
6.9
/26283/
70
/551/
69
/718/
3.1
/16954/
32
/38/
71
/358/

The House of the Spirits (1993)
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
poster
77
60
7.1
/1879/
72
/53/
77
/54/
3.7
/3701/
100
/8/
73
/33/

The Colors of the Mountain (2011)
A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing paramilitary groups and leftist guerrillas, the idea of a rescue attempt is too tempting to resist.
poster
69
59
6.8
/4428/
64
/54/
67
/54/
3.5
/1743/
74
/31/
74
/60/

Apartment Zero (1989)
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
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Kanopy
68
57
6.3
/3086/
64
/63/
59
/79/
3.2
/3447/
100
/8/
58
/50/

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
6.2
/37685/
68
/3264/
66
/908/
2.9
/188049/
43
/199/
90
/1449/
43
/36/
cc age 13+

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.
poster
64
56
6.8
/10966/
67
/216/
65
/199/
3.2
/4319/
64
/14/
58
/13/
68
/10/

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
56
7.1
/1767/
70
/28/
65
/37/
3.7
/1107/
87
/46/
67
/124/
75
/17/

Terror's Advocate (2007)
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
poster
54
5.7
/2240/
64
/37/
55
/34/
3.1
/630/
46
/13/
44
/24/

Old Gringo (1989)
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
poster
Hoopla
54
6.3
/9970/
66
/188/
59
/129/
3.0
/7990/
25
/69/
49
/653/
41
/20/
cc age 17+

Little Ashes (2008)
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
poster
JustWatchTV
68
53
7.4
/9516/
74
/124/
64
/75/
3.4
/1972/
63
/8/
78
/9/
61
/5/

Worlds Apart (2015)
Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.
poster
53
6.1
/12026/
64
/654/
61
/267/
3.2
/12763/
35
/23/
44
/206/
53
/24/
cc age 16+

The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
poster
68
52
7.0
/4086/
72
/60/
68
/58/
3.3
/1335/
66
/680/

Boom Town (1940)
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
51
8.3
/2176/
79
/34/
79
/49/
4.1
/1673/

Les Misérables (1934)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
poster
73
47
7.7
/3314/
68
/42/
66
/24/
3.5
/790/
84
/46/

Jinnah (1998)
Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
43
5.7
/144257/
65
/15878/
61
/6827/
2.1
/258921/
11
/196/
41
/1316/
33
/33/
cc age 14+

Allegiant (2016)
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
poster
66
42
6.6
/3196/
67
/31/
71
/29/
3.2
/847/
65
/1689/

The Virgin Queen (1955)
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
poster
66
41
6.5
/2209/
62
/64/
60
/54/
3.3
/1194/
86
/7/
62
/3/

King of the Belgians (2016)
The King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.
poster
77
41
7.8
/4104/
80
/63/
69
/24/
3.8
/1704/
83
/1/

Moscow Square (2001)
1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.
poster
Kanopy
73
38
6.6
/1288/
74
/17/
80
/19/
3.5
/1167/
100
/26/
53
/5/

Maidan (2014)
A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that took place in Kyiv in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between protesters and riot police.
poster
65
34
6.7
/1477/
72
/34/
65
/25/
3.4
/768/
57
/167/

… tick… tick… tick… (1970)
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
poster
63
33
6.7
/2057/
59
/16/
66
/25/
3.3
/690/
71
/7/
48
/8/

Crisis (1950)
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
poster
HBO Max
68
31
6.3
/667/
70
/49/
63
/15/
3.5
/564/
100
/7/
46
/10/

January 6th (2022)
Rage. Anger. Shock. Fear. As the nation watched in disbelief, throngs of rioters descended on the capitol, and the people on the ground, mired in chaos, suddenly found their lives in jeopardy. From Nancy Pelosi, to Liz Cheney, to Steven Sund, D.C. Police Chief, more than 50 senators, representatives, staffers and police officers share their firsthand experience, in a minute-by-minute account of the infamous January 6th insurrection.


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