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Defiance (2008)

Summary: Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-com...

Release Date: January 16, 2009

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Clayton Frohman

, Edward Zwick

, Nechama Tec

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Vantage, Grosvenor Park Productions, The Bedford Falls Company

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,644,813

International: $ 22,617,938

21 (2008)

Summary: Inspired by real events and people, 21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Release Date: March 28, 2008

Genres: Crime, Drama, History

Director: Robert Luketic

Writers: Allan Loeb

, Ben Mezrich

, Peter Steinfeld

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Trigger Street Productions, Michael De Luca Productions, GH Three

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ION Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,159,365

International: $ 78,649,005

Valkyrie (2008)

Summary: A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.

Release Date: December 25, 2008

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Director: Bryan Singer

Writers: Christopher McQuarrie

, Nathan Alexander

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Studio Babelsberg, Wide Pictures, Rai Cinema, TF1 Films Production, Dentsu, Toho-Towa, Pony Canyon

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 83,077,833

International: $ 118,467,684

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Summary: Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.

Release Date: January 19, 2007

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Writers: Peter Morgan

, Jeremy Brock

, Giles Foden

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films, FilmFour, Cowboy Films, Slate Films, Tatfilm

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, My Network TV

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,606,684

International: $ 31,011,507

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,061,209

The Patriot (2000)

Summary: Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.

Release Date: June 28, 2000

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Roland Emmerich

Writer: Robert Rodat

Runtime: 2 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Centropolis Entertainment, Mutual Film Company, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, H2L Media Group

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, TBS, CBS, TNT, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000,000

Domestic: $ 113,330,342

International: $ 101,964,000

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Summary: A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Release Date: March 16, 2001

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writers: Jean-Jacques Annaud

, Alain Godard

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, KC Medien, Reperage, MP Film Management, DOS, Swanford Films, Little Bird

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount+

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 68,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,401,758

International: $ 45,574,512

The King's Speech (2010)

Summary: The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Release Date: December 25, 2010

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Tom Hooper

Writer: David Seidler

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, UK Film Council, Momentum Pictures, Aegis Film Fund, Molinare Investment, FilmNation Entertainment, See-Saw Films, Bedlam Productions

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment, HBO Max, Lionsgate

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,797,449

International: $ 345,271,412

Dunkirk (2017)

Summary: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Release Date: July 21, 2017

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writer: Christopher Nolan

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Syncopy, Warner Bros., Dombey Street Productions, Ciné+, RatPac-Dune Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., Critics' Choice Video, KVH Media Group, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 189,740,665

International: $ 337,275,642

Winter in Wartime (2008)

Summary: In German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.

Release Date: November 27, 2008

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Martin Koolhoven

Writers: Martin Koolhoven

, Paul Jan Nelissen

, Jan Terlouw

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Isabella Films B.V., Fu Works, Isabella Films, Prime Time

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Netherlands, Belgium

Language: Dutch

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 543,100

International: $ 8,732,706

Ben-Hur (1959)

Summary: After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Release Date: November 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Lew Wallace

, Karl Tunberg

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 3 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, United Artists, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,432,704

International: $ 5,016

World Trade Center (2006)

Summary: Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Release Date: August 09, 2006

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Director: Oliver Stone

Writers: Andrea Berloff

, John McLoughlin

, Donna McLoughlin

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Double Feature Films, Intermedia Films, Ixtlan, Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company, Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company, Saturn Films

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Peacock, Pluto TV, Paramount+

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,278,893

International: $ 92,968,305

The Way Back (2010)

Summary: Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

Release Date: January 21, 2011

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Peter Weir

Writers: Slavomir Rawicz

, Peter Weir

, Keith R. Clarke

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Exclusive Films, National Geographic Films, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, Allied Filmmakers, Monolith Films, On the Road, Point Blank Productions, Polish Film Institute

Distributor: Exclusive Film Distribution, Newmarket Films, Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Image Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,701,859

International: $ 21,470,342

The Great Escape (1963)

Summary: Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Release Date: July 04, 1963

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: John Sturges

Writers: Paul Brickhill

, James Clavell

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 2 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Mirisch Company, Alpha

Distributor: United Artists, CBS, VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, RCA (II), CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Voyager Company, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

The Killing Fields (1984)

Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Release Date: February 01, 1985

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Roland Joffé

Writer: Bruce Robinson

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: Goldcrest Films International, International Film Investors, Enigma Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,400,000

Domestic: $ 34,700,291

Lincoln (2012)

Summary: As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

Release Date: November 16, 2012

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tony Kushner

, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Reliance Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Touchstone Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: United States, India

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 182,207,973

International: $ 93,085,477

The White Ribbon (2009)

Summary: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Release Date: March 05, 2010

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Michael Haneke

Writer: Michael Haneke

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: X-Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film, Les Films du Losange, Lucky Red, ARD Degeto Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, France 3 Cinéma, Mini-Traité Franco-Canadien, Canal+, TPS Star

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,222,862

International: $ 17,096,809

Gandhi (1982)

Summary: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Release Date: February 25, 1983

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Richard Attenborough

Writer: John Briley

Runtime: 3 h 11 min

MPAA: PG

Production: International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Embassy Television, CBS, Disney Channel, Video Collection International, Pioneer Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, India, United States, South Africa

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,767,889