American history movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of american history movies
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Little House on the Prairieis a TV miniseries based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
escapades, family relations, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, farm, small town life, manners, small town, american history, prairie, pioneer ...
Place:
kansas, wisconsin
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
mathematics, teacher, high school, dedicated educator, bullying, school, biopic, mentor, chicano, civil rights, school teacher, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, california
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1.4M
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith, of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung ...
Style:
inspirational, talky, thought provoking, factual, compassionate ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, legal, racism, courtroom, legal investigation, racial discrimination, widow, activist, injustice, life is a bitch, righting the wronged, jury ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, america
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313K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, teen, road movie, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, rock music, on the road, musician, musician's life, music, rock, fame, manic pixie dream girl, road trip ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
california, new york, san francisco, phoenix arizona, seattle ...
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533K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Style:
intellectual, realistic, tense, inspirational, intelligent ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
finance, wall street, business, stock market, financial crisis, money, greed, banking, economic crisis, bank, loan, analysis ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2015, future, year 2016 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, las vegas, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, american politics, campaign, election, propaganda, presidential candidate, president, presidential election, presidential campaign, betrayal, secrets, idealism ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2008, 70s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, washington d.c., sacramento california, philadelphia, south carolina ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and ...
Style:
spaghetti western, clever, tense, suspenseful, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
old west, wild west, vengeance, gunfight, revenge, cowboy, harmonica, duel, villain, murder, hitman, death ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1968
Place:
yuma arizona, arizona, usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way ...
Style:
sexual, cult classic, funny, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
polyamory, mining, broadway, gold rush, dancing, friendship, prostitute, old west, american history, loneliness, mormon, polygamy ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa, michigan, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style:
hood, independent film, controversial, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
heat wave, racism, pizzeria, culture clash, hip hop, police brutality, pizza, african american, ghetto, boycott, black history, prejudice ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
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49K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
Style:
suspense, epic, brutal, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mute, church, obsession, sign language, violence, rape, father daughter incest, preacher, plot twist, religious, pedophile ...
Time:
19th century, year 2016, victorian era
Place:
netherlands
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106K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Style:
tense, suspense, rough, costume drama, visually stunning ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, wild west, indian chief, american indian, death, murder of husband, murder of daughter, indigenous people, murder, widow, trip ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, 1890s, 2010s, victorian era ...
Place:
montana, america, new mexico, usa, colorado
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates ...
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, emotional, educational, tense ...
Plot:
injustice, land, racism, american history, black, identity, childhood, resilience, pride, courage, segregation, inheritance ...
Time:
1930s, 1900s
Place:
mississippi
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodore's are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, laugh out loud, grindhouse, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disco, dj, nightclub, american history, valet, rock and roll, coming of age, love, blaxploitation, rock, generation, african ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, uplifting, epic, sentimental ...
Plot:
slavery, racism, black slave, american history, black, black history, racial discrimination, civil war, african american, slave, human exploitation, usa history ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 60s, 1910s, 1880s
Place:
africa, usa, alabama, tennessee
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, love story, passion, obsession, time, hotel, playwright, love triangle, supernatural, love and romance, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
1900s, 80s, year 1980, victorian era, edwardian era ...
Place:
usa, chicago, america, michigan, north america
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11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Style:
clever, bleak, cult classic, independent film, controversial ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
racism, jazz, renaissance, racial injustice, american history, racial discrimination, trial, female nudity, friendship, murder, anarchist, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1981, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, eastern europe, harlem, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, food, coming of age, diner, gambling debt, christmas, love and romance, adulthood, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, youth, introspection ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.
Style:
costume drama, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
american civil war, slavery, foe turned friend, cavalry, military, love and romance, u.s. civil war, slave, friendship, espionage, family feud, military base ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1850s, 1840s, 1860s ...
Place:
usa, west point, new york
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Style:
realistic, dark comedy, harsh, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night
Plot:
military, war, marine, boot camp, platoon, soldier, justice, male bonding, old man, fistfight, ex husband ex wife relationship, tough guy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
north carolina, caribbean, vietnam
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, emotional, touching, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
radio, working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, rescue, lifestyle, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, new year's eve, world war two, nostalgia ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987, 70s ...
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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5K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Style:
multicultural, anamorphic, spaghetti western, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, black, desert, medieval, black history, hip hop, american history, treasure hunt, skinny dipping, black romance, male nudity, urban ...
Time:
year 1993, 19th century, 1890s
Place:
new orleans, cuba
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, sad, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
hound dog, friendship, dog, raccoon, hunting, wilderness, follow your dream, contests and competitions, family relations, animal, coming of age, american history ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
oklahoma city
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ichabod Crane, a Yankee wanderer, arrives in Sleepy Hollow and becomes the new schoolmaster. He meets Katrina Van Tassel, and blissfully fantasizes about how can marry her, ultimately, inherit her father's rich estate. Her suitor Brom Bones, ...
Style:
serious, scary, gothic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
headless horseman, halloween, american history, horseman, legend, ghost, love triangle, fall in love, village, greed, marriage, prank ...
Time:
18th century
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
marketing, advertising, business, lobbyist, satire, social satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, politics, journalism, political satire ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., vermont, usa, los angeles, japan ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, political, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
war on terror, politics, state affairs, propaganda, terrorist, iraq war, terrorism, conservative, hopes, society, danger, soldier ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iraq, washington d.c., usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, looking for love, teenage love, hopes, suburban life, love and romance, teenage life, lifestyle, society, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She ...
Style:
mumblecore, independent film, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
bohemian life, coming of age, destiny, friendship, sibling relationship, marijuana, college graduate, lifestyle, eccentric family, parents and children, living with parents, favoritism among siblings ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, colorado, chicago, ohio ...
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