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Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower (2006)
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Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
So much more than simply the story of the Thanksgiving meal, the epic saga of the Pilgrims is one of the fundamental narratives of our nation. This ambitious documentary presents the definitive history of the Pilgrims and their journey to and colonization of the New World. A marriage of feature-film quality historical reenactments with the latest scholarship and analysis of original source material, this definitive look at the Pilgrims' progress will shed light on the reality of their experience.
Style:
educational, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, christian film, reflective, period drama
Plot:
american history, colonial america, thanksgiving, colonialism, tomb raider, sea, ship, shipwreck, water, castaway, colonization, new world, sea voyage, survival, inheritance, migration, biopic, leadership, adaptation, exploration, puritan, settlement
Time:
17th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, period drama and suspenseful films with plots about survival, biopic, colonialism, ship, sacrifice, american history and religion mostly in History, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower: Disasters at Sea (2018), Saints & Strangers (2015), A More Perfect Union (1989), SEQALU: Formosa 1867 (2021), Krotoa (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: History
Country: Canada
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Dedicated investigators uncover the devastating chain of circumstances that caused a maritime disaster. With the evidence at the bottom of the sea, ingenuity is required to find the cause – whether it is human error or the uncontrollable ocean.
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exciting, disturbing, serious, captivating, period piece ...
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shipwreck, investigation, marine, castaway, sea, catastrophe, ship, seafaring, storm at sea, natural disaster, investigative journalism, cautionary tale ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Saints & Strangers is a story that goes beyond the familiar historical account of Thanksgiving and the founding of Plymouth Plantation, revealing the trials and tribulations of the settlers at Plymouth: 102 men, women and children who sailed on ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, educational ...
Plot:
colonial america, conquistador, medieval, new world, thanksgiving, sea voyage, indians, american indian, ambition, power struggle, political intrigue, religious conversion ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
america
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86%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Become an eyewitness to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This stirring 2-hour film will bring the Founding Fathers to life as you witness the struggles and the miracles that produced the Constitution of the United States and the freest nation ...
Style:
educational, historical drama, serious, reflective
Plot:
colonial america, thoughtful, patriotism, biopic, dialogue, constitution, american politics, american revolution, usa politics, government, george washington, u.s. constitution ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: History
Country: Taiwan
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Story:
Adapted from the historical facts of Taiwan. On March 12, 1867, the American merchant ship – Rover was shipwrecked at the southern end of Taiwan’s Hengchun Peninsula.
While “The Rover Incident” broke out, Tiap-moe was 18 years old. She was ...
Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, exciting, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
indigenous people, survival, rescue mission, tribe, lifeguard, salvation, native tribe, struggle for survival, rescue attempt, ship, tragedy, accident ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: History
Country: South Africa
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
colonialism, culture clash, assimilation, biopic, translator, colony, lifestyle, woman, problem, female protagonist, cross cultural relations, tragedy ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
79%
378
Genre: Biography, History
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Style:
educational, serious, reflective, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
civil war, abraham lincoln, president, american history, biopic, slavery, leadership, american civil war, politics, intimate, emancipation, commander ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
The historical rearguard last stand that took place on 13 July 1660 at a mountain pass in the vicinity of fort Vishalgad, near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Warrior Baji Prabhu Deshpande and Siddi Masud of Adilshah ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot:
military, bravery, warrior, indian history, battles, heroism, loyalty, sacrifice, warlord, final showdown, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
india
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: History
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
During World War II, a group of 10 survivors from Madras get stranded in the ocean in a small boat, which unexpectedly stops and sinks mid-journey, and they are forced to take some drastic measures to save themselves.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tension, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, ocean, survival, shipwreck, stranded, isolation, fear, desperation, sea voyage, moral dilemma, human nature, morality ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
shipwreck, titanic, investigation, political intrigue, sinking ship, sea disaster, cruise ship, castaway, puzzle, ship, sunken ship, crime solving ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: History
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings ...
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
viking, medieval, danger, culture clash, battles, struggle for survival, fight, society, survival, death, murder, storytelling ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, captivating, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, female protagonist, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, forced labor, war trauma, life is a bitch, survival horror, struggle for survival, life, woman ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, inspirational, emotional, tension
Plot:
colonialism, slavery, resistance, enslavement, resilience, racial injustice, oppression, solidarity, rebellion, escape, biopic, plantation ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
brazil, africa
Similarity:
67%
101
Genre: History
Country: USA
Story:
Alina, Luisa and América are three women who after fighting to restore and stabilize democracy to their country realize they’ve been betrayed by the leader of the revolution. The three women begin to confront and challenge the new system in their ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
revolution, imprisoned, cuban revolution, women, imprisonment, oppression, women's prison, female protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, prison, social issues ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
witch hunt, female nudity, execution, religions or cults, society, legal, politics, courtroom drama, social decay, state affairs, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nova Zembla tells the gripping true story of the legendary failed mission of the late sixteenth century Dutch flotilla trying to find a trading route to Asia across the North Pole. The ship crew, who got stuck in the ice of Nova Zembla and had to ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, costume drama
Plot:
sea voyage, ship, polar bear, adventurer, danger, isolation, dutch history, trial, cold, sailing, sea, boy ...
Time:
middle ages, 16th century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
resistance, resistance movement, invasion, fight for supremacy, battles, power struggle, war, resistance fighter, fight, guerilla warfare, occupation, asian history ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei, japan, east asia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
"Gods of Egypt" was a huge box office success but the true Gods were more ancient and mysterious than fiction. Powerful and deadly, all knowing, and all seeing, they were the original Masters of the Universe. They originated many thousands ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, powerful, epic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: History
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, period drama
Plot:
indians, supernatural, good versus evil, life philosophy, odd couple, graphic violence, vengeance, justice, plague, virus, partner, archaeology ...
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, spiritual ...
Plot:
hopes, hardship, religions or cults, society, immigrant, latter day saints, journey, hunger, religion, emigration, civil war, church ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
utah
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, tense, costume drama ...
Plot:
conquistador, colonial america, spanish conquest, explorer, jungle, pyramid, colonization, civilization, colonialism, myth, ancient, tomb raider ...
Time:
16th century, year 1969
Place:
peru, andes mountains, spain, europe, latin america ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutiny, ship, ocean, brutality, corporal punishment, betrayal, captain, native tribe, language barrier, discipline, leadership, tyrant ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, victorian era, year 1962, georgian era ...
Place:
tahiti, england, persia, europe
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, History
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
In 1732, two young Moravians leave their comfortable community of Hernhut, Germany, to bring the Gospel to the slaves in the West Indies.
Style:
reflective, inspirational, tension, uplifting, educational ...
Plot:
slavery, plantation, religious, evangelical christianity, island, spiritual awakening, devotional, sea voyage, sacrifice, perseverance, coming of age, faith ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
west indies
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter’s ukases provoke the Boyars’ ...
Style:
serious, tense, patriotic, period drama
Plot:
imperial russia, czar, biopic, russian history, leadership, reform, political intrigue, ambition, conflict, adaptation, historical epic, power struggle ...
Time:
18th century, 17th century
Place:
russia, holland
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: History
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A dark historical drama about two sisters, the man that comes between them, and the tragedy that results. Set in the 1870s.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, tragic love, mysterious character, dangerous attraction, wilderness, farm, dishonesty, family relations, sister, young lovers, victorian england, hidden identity ...
Time:
1870s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
canada
Similarity:
61%
Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west. As the pioneers stop in his town of Iowa City, he pretends to desire joining the Mormon ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, historical romance, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
christian, sacrifice, religious faith, love story, hardship, survival, suffering, religious community, moral dilemma, faith, pioneer, religious persecution ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
iowa, utah
Similarity:
61%
Genre: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
The events unfold in 1915-1917. Marxist theoretician and publicist Alexander Parvus, who fled to Germany from a Russian exile, during the First World War has been successfully negotiating with German Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow. As a result ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, political ...
Plot:
revolutionary, revolution, world war one, power struggle, state affairs, politics, lenin, wartime, political unrest, protest, russian revolution, historical event ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Sweden, 1849. A poverty-stricken family decides to move to America in the hope of finding a better and more prosperous life. Although they know the journey will be dangerous and the pressure of facing a new life in a strange and wild land is great, ...
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historical drama, family saga, period piece, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
immigration, social problems, society, lifestyle, social issues, struggle for survival, family bonds, survival, determination, journey, adaptation, literary ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s
Place:
america, eastern europe
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the end of the 16th century, as the Spanish conquerors strive to subdue the New World, they confront another problem of equal magnitude: the evangelization of the natives, who are people of deep religious beliefs and refuse to understand nor ...
Style:
controversial, historical drama, serious, art house, dark ...
Plot:
spanish conquest, inquisition, crusader, virgin mary, religious, catholic church, apparition, cultural conflict, colonialism, colonization, monk, paganism ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
60%
Genre: History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
Historian Thomas Penn reveals the secrets of founder of Britain’s great Tudor Dynasty - and his amazing trajectory to power. Two weeks after landing on the shores Wales in 1485 with a small band of mercenaries, Henry of Richmond defeats the ...
Style:
educational, captivating, psychological, thrilling, period piece
Plot:
british monarchy, royalty, monarchy, monarch, kingdom, king, historical figure, storytelling, king of england, tudors, henry viii, tournament ...
Time:
15th century
Place:
wales
Similarity:
60%
Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Hosted by Joanne Clendining, Maryland Farm & Harvest takes viewers around the state to see and experience what it's like to run a 21st century farm – from technological advances and conservation challenges to age-old complications such as ...
Style:
informative, educational, entertaining, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
village life, livestock, farm, farming, farmer, cow, countryside, american history, pig, cattle ranch, chicken, conservation ...
Place:
maryland
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60%
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