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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV-MAIMDb 8.9 2014 30m

With his insightful wit and fearless candor, comedian John Oliver, formerly of the The Daily Show (1996), reviews the crazy current affairs happening in America and around the world. In doing so, he provides a wry perspective that punctures pomposity and cuts through all pretensions with comically outrageous audacity. In doing so, he can get to the heart of the matter of the world's most serious and absurd problems with plenty of laughs along the way.

Boston Strangler
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7.2

Boston Strangler

2023112 min Movie
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Boston Strangler
RIMDb 7.2 2023 112 min

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

Battle for Saipan
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5.2

Battle for Saipan

202294 min Movie
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Battle for Saipan
RIMDb 5.2 2022 94 min

On July 7, 1944, a U.S. Army hospital on the remote island of Saipan is overrun by Japanese forces during a relentless attack. Outgunned and surrounded by the enemy, a lone medic puts it all on the line to lead a band of wounded soldiers to safety.

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The Gold
IMDb 7.2 2023 60 min

'The Gold' opens with the events of November 26th 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy.

Babylon
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7.6

Babylon

2022189 min Movie
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Babylon
RIMDb 7.6 2022 189 min

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.

Bezos
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4.1

Bezos

202398 min Movie
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Bezos
RIMDb 4.1 2023 98 min

Bezos chronicles the true-life story of Jeff Bezos-a humble yet awkward entrepreneur on his mission to create Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company, and turning himself into the richest man in the world.

Battlebox
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3.3

Battlebox

202377 min Movie
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Battlebox
IMDb 3.3 2023 77 min

In 1941, Hong Kong is the Eastern Fortress of the British Empire. With the sudden attack by Japanese forces, three intertwined stories unravel against the backdrop of a collapsing city. First, the story of two Chinese sisters, one who works as a courtesan, the other inside British military headquarters known as the Battlebox, become swept up in a botched spy operation. Second, a tight band of Rajput soldiers on the Gin Drinkers Line becomes trapped in a Japanese ambush, requiring an act of bravery to save the others. Third, an unnerving fog-of-war descends upon Major-General Maltby and his top officers as they struggle with the decision to either fight to the death or offer a humiliating surrender of the British Colony

Drama, History, War
Hong Kong
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George & Tammy
TV-MAIMDb 7.7 2022 50 min

A chronicle of the country music power couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette, whose complicated-but-enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time.

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Rise of Empires: Ottoman
TV-MAIMDb 7.9 2020 44m

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.

She Said
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7.4

She Said

2022129 min Movie
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She Said
RIMDb 7.4 2022 129 min

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Drama, History
Lion of the Desert
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8.2

Lion of the Desert

1980173 min Movie
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Lion of the Desert
PGIMDb 8.2 1980 173 min

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

Qala
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8.5

Qala

2022119 min Movie
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Qala
IMDb 8.5 2022 119 min

Haunted by her past, a talented singer with a rising career copes with the pressure of success, a mother's disdain and the voices of doubt within her.

India
The Bunker
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6.9

The Bunker

1981150 min Movie
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The Bunker
IMDb 6.9 1981 150 min

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

Drama, History, War
Till
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7.6

Till

2022130 min Movie
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Till
PG-13IMDb 7.6 2022 130 min

Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.

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History of the World: Part I
RIMDb 6.8 1981 92 min

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

1899
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8.6

1899

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1899
TV-MAIMDb 8.6 2022 60 min

Passengers on an immigrant ship traveling to the new continent get caught in a mysterious riddle when they find a second vessel adrift on the open sea. Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.

Call Jane
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6.4

Call Jane

2022121 min Movie
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Call Jane
RIMDb 6.4 2022 121 min

Set in the late 1960s a pregnant housewife finds out she had a potentially life threatening illness whilst pregnant and the only treatment is to have an abortion. Declined by the hospital board of directors, she sets out to find an alternative to hospital treatment. Upon finding a group who offer services to facilitate illegal abortions she then gets more involved in the service, 'Call Jane'.

Drama, History
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The Crown
TV-MAIMDb 8.7 2016 58m

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Amsterdam
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6.2

Amsterdam

2022134 min Movie
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Amsterdam
RIMDb 6.2 2022 134 min

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in North American history.

The Woman King
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6.1

The Woman King

2022135 min Movie
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The Woman King
PG-13IMDb 6.1 2022 135 min

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

The Treacherous
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6.1

The Treacherous

2015133 min Movie
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The Treacherous
IMDb 6.1 2015 133 min

The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.

South Korea
Caravaggio
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6.5

Caravaggio

198693 min Movie
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Caravaggio
IMDb 6.5 1986 93 min

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

The Huns
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5.4

The Huns

202188 min Movie
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The Huns
IMDb 5.4 2021 88 min

It was a primitive time long ago when the nomadic tribes of the Huns ruled the Great Steppes. After her clan is destroyed, Hora is taken captive but secretly plans to seek her revenge. In this barbaric world of violent warriors and ritualistic shamans, she must devise a plan to survive and seek her retribution. Only the strong will live to tell this tale.

Russia
The Mission
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7.4

The Mission

1986125 min Movie
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The Mission
PGIMDb 7.4 1986 125 min

Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

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Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor
IMDb 8.7 2011 118 min

Fourteen Marines and one Corpsman relive their journey from enlistment through the epic 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Just boys in 1968, they recount their ferocious experience in that wet and isolated battleground, fighting fear and the enemy only to return to a nation at odds with this controversial war. Still today, the Khe Sanh experience simmers just beneath their skin.