Movies like The Four Feathers
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The Four Feathers (2002)
33K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
Style:
serious, touching, atmospheric, captivating, epic, intense, realistic, dramatic, melancholic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
military, imperialism, soldier, redemption, rescue, desert, colonialism, islam, slavery, pow, violence, battles, honor, loyalty, bravery, escape, revenge, starvation, siege, adventure, british empire, slave, war, ambition, heroes ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, victorian, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
sudan, england, africa, europe, britain, london, north africa ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, dramatic and epic films with plots about war, military, violence, brutality, battles, culture clash and mentor mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Four Feathers: Cold Mountain (2003), Khartoum (1966), Gallipoli (1981), The Patriot (2000), The Wild Geese (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, sincere, touching, epic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
american civil war, tragic love, slavery, getting home, loss of family member, friendship, soldier, survival, civil war, lovers reunited, couple relations, danger ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
usa, south carolina, north carolina, appalachia, atlantic ocean
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, factual, talky ...
Plot:
siege, desert, islam, politics, culture clash, imperialism, military, heroes, battles, negotiation, british empire, wartime ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, victorian, victorian england, 1880s ...
Place:
africa, sudan, egypt, england, london ...
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78%
37K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
anti war, military, world war one, friendship, british empire, idealism, human spirit, military life, battle zone, desert, soldier, running ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1915, 18th century
Place:
australia, turkey, egypt, middle east, africa ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ship, sea battle, navy, battles, napoleonic wars, adventure, ocean or sea, leadership, heroic mission, escapades, human spirit, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
europe, brazil, england, pacific ocean, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
255K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, ...
Style:
uplifting, rough, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
revolution, vengeance, american revolution, battles, rebellion, war, human spirit, heroes, patriotism, freedom, heroic mission, soldier ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, 1770s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa, england, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Switzerland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mercenary, adventure, military, betrayal, rescue, battles, behind enemy lines, against the odds, political corruption, political unrest, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
africa, zimbabwe, england, london, europe ...
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51%
148K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style:
emotional, touching, epic, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
horse, world war one, battles, war, friendship, german, human spirit, animal training, danger, hopes, french, animals ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
england, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Style:
rough, touching, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
soldier, behind enemy lines, world war two, pow, battles, allies, military, tragic hero, heroic mission, bondage, hapless soldier, battle zone ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, berlin germany, louisiana ...
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47%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" ...
Style:
epic, tense, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot:
battles, friendship, navy, heroes, battle, chinese, missionary, u.s. navy, ship, politics, warship, redemption ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 20s, 1930s
Place:
china, asia, utah, geneva switzerland, new jersey ...
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47%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, adventure, island, german, battles, behind enemy lines, military, resistance, allies, war, heroic mission, save the day ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
germany, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Sweden, UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Style:
stylized, exciting, captivating, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adventure, monastery, knight, heroes, danger, war, forbidden love, crusader, battles, nun, adaptation, cavalry ...
Time:
middle ages, 12th century
Place:
europe, sweden, holy land, middle east, eastern europe ...
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45%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary ...
Style:
epic, serious, exciting, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, victorian, 1850s, 70s ...
Place:
russia, england, europe, turkey, istanbul turkey ...
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44%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
Style:
epic, exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
desert, adventure, historical character, battles, british colonial, world war one, imperialism, rebel, politics, bedouin, war, horse ...
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1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 20s, 30s ...
Place:
middle east, ottoman empire, saudi arabia, lebanon, cairo egypt ...
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43%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, ...
Style:
exciting, epic, serious, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
knight, king arthur, battles, swords and armor, roman empire, king, army, folk hero, medieval, arthurian legend, freedom, adventure ...
Time:
middle ages, 5th century, 18th century
Place:
scotland, europe, england, britain, rome italy ...
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43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, epic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
jungle, world war two, battles, soldier, military, deserter, war, u.s. navy, adventure, survival, betrayal, vengeance ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, indonesia, manila philippines, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, world war two, rescue mission, military, pow, escape attempt, massacre, human spirit, against the odds, military life, behind enemy lines, daring rescue ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century
Place:
the philippines, asia, manila philippines, pearl harbor, japan ...
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43%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) were in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, exciting, serious, epic ...
Plot:
british army, siege, military, human spirit, battles, native, soldier, war, british empire, survival, danger, against the odds ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, victorian era, 1960s, 60s
Place:
south africa, africa, england
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43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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exciting, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
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mercenary, adventure, military, revolution, soldier, undercover, torture, war, espionage, political intrigue, combat, gunfight ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, paris france, new york, london, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, UK, Norway, Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. ...
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rough, atmospheric, exciting, serious, realistic ...
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war, escapades, military, adventure, homecoming, heroic mission, battle zone, forbidden love, danger, leadership, heroes, state affairs ...
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Place:
sweden, europe, holy land, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
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exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized ...
Plot:
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Place:
italy, former yugoslavia, england, yugoslavia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
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tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
jungle, corporal punishment, captivity, pow, war crime, escape, military, hopes, war, leadership, human spirit, prison life ...
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Place:
japan, scotland, asia, india, thailand ...
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40%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of ...
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epic, realistic, serious, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
battles, imperialism, heroes, soldier, military, victory, mortar, surrounded, colonialism, army life, spear throwing, death ...
Time:
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Place:
africa
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40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is torn between her loyalty to her husband and her growing love for his rival. ...
Style:
atmospheric, epic, sentimental, exciting, romantic ...
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chick flick, girls' night
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knight, king arthur, love story, love triangle, betrayal, excalibur, romance, beauty, arthurian legend, king, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
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serious, touching, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
military, soldier, war crime, army, war, jungle, navy seal, brutality, genocide, civil war, moral dilemma, rebel ...
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Place:
nigeria, africa, iraq, hawaii
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40%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
Style:
tense, exciting, rough, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
William Thatcher, a peasant, is sent to apprentice with a Knight named Hector as a young boy. Urged by his father to "change his Stars", he assumes Sir Hector's place in a tournament when Hector dies in the middle of it. He wins. With ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, light ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
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knight, rivalry, against the odds, prince, sword duel, medieval, follow your dream, jousting, game, duel, writers, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london, france, paris france
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39%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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realistic, sincere, serious, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, war, code, military life, u.s. marine corps, heroes, military, mexican standoff, behind enemy lines, native americans, commando, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, arizona
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39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...
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touching, captivating, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
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africa, london, england, ethiopia, cambodia ...
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39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Horatio Homblower, now promoted to Acting Lieutenant, captures the French ship Le Reve off the Spanish coast. The Captain of the French ship is furious that such a youngster has pulled off such a coup. But far more daunting is Hornblower's ...
Style:
exciting, serious
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sea battle, ship, adventurer, military, pow, navy, pardon, battles, rescue, war, danger, escapades ...
Time:
victorian, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
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38%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man ...
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tense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
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war, world war two, soldier, nazi germany, heroism, military, american soldier, battles, heroes, ambush, rivalry, heroic mission ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1945
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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