20 movies like Medium Cool, ordered by similarity : Soundtrack for a Revolution(2009), Alice's Restaurant(1969), Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019), Al Capone(1959), Full Metal Jacket(1987), The Post(2017), Misbehaviour(2020), The Divine Order(2017), Welcome to Sarajevo(1997), Little Pink House(2017), The Siege of Firebase Gloria(1988), Peterloo(2018) ...
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1969
110 Minutes
Robert Forster Verna Bloom Peter Bonerz Mariana Hill Harold Blankenship Sid McCoy Christine Bergstrom Robert McAndrew William Sickinger Beverly Younger
tv reporter political activist cameraman widow police officer hippie fiery engaging raw intense chicago democratic national convention tv station protest protest social change media anti-war movement counterculture vietnam war
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
7.6/10
Drama, Music, Documentary, History
USA|France|UK
2009
82 Minutes
John Legend Dan Sturman Wyclef Jean Joss Stone Richie Havens Anthony Hamilton Angie Stone
martin luther king jr. rosa parks john legend the roots wyclef jean engaging emotional inspiring rousing montgomery, ala. washington, d.c. protest sit-in civil rights movement music protest music social change protest racism discovery
Tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music - the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and in jail cells as they fought for ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1969
111 Minutes
Arlo Guthrie Pat Quinn James Broderick Michael McClanathan Geoff Outlaw Tina Chen Kathleen Dabney Monroe Arnold
activist hippie singer quirky madcap restaurant courtroom counterculture protest vietnam war military draft music underdog adventure 1960s
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.
6.8/10
War, Drama, History
Australia
2019
118 Minutes
Travis Fimmel Luke Bracey Daniel Webber Richard Roxburgh Nicholas Hamilton Matt Doran Stephen Peacocke Myles Pollard Uli Latukefu Anthony Hayes Sam Parsonson
soldier friend enemy officer vietnamese man brooding engaging gripping intense vietnam war zone barracks war death power uncertainty hope strength discovery escape
In August 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1959
105 Minutes
Rod Steiger Fay Spain James Gregory Martin Balsam Nehemiah Persoff Murvyn Vye
gangster widow police officer henchman crime boss reporter brutal crafty engaging suspenseful chicago illinois store office prison apartment organized crime al capone loyalty murder
A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.
8.3/10
War, Drama, History
UK|USA
1987
116 Minutes
Matthew Modine Adam Baldwin Vincent D'Onofrio R. Lee Ermey Dorian Harewood Arliss Howard Kevyn Major Howard Ed O'Ross
marine journalist drill instructor sergeant photographer prostitute dark disturbing raw gripping frightening sad barracks parris island, s.c. vietnam city boot camp war zone war violence
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
7.2/10
Drama, History
USA|UK
2017
115 Minutes
Meryl Streep Tom Hanks Bruce Greenwood Matthew Rhys Bob Odenkirk Michael Stuhlbarg Sarah Paulson Tracy Letts Bradley Whitford Alison Brie Jessie Mueller
publisher editor richard nixon writer soldier board member confident intense inspiring intricate suspenseful engaging washington, d.c. office newsroom court new york city white house scandal vietnam war
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
6.2/10
Comedy, Drama
UK|France
2020
106 Minutes
Keira Knightley Gugu Mbatha-Raw Jessie Buckley Greg Kinnear Lesley Manville Rhys Ifans Keeley Hawes Charlotte Spencer Alexa Davies Suki Waterhouse Emma Corrin
woman beauty pageant contestant feminist african-american comedian bob hope amusing charming confident inspiring passionate spirited london beauty pageant protest stage feminism competition protest women's rights
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
7.1/10
History, Drama
Switzerland
2017
96 Minutes
Marie Leuenberger Maximilian Simonischek Rachel Braunschweig Sibylle Brunner Marta Zoffoli Bettina Stucky Therese Affolter Ella Rumpf
housewife activist mother husband father-in-law brooding confident creative engaging fiery fascinating inspiring powerful raw switzerland village voting women women's rights discovery
In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
6.8/10
Drama
UK|USA
1997
101 Minutes
Stephen Dillane Woody Harrelson Marisa Tomei Emira Nusevic Kerry Fox Goran Visnjic James Nesbitt Emily Lloyd Igor Dzambazov Gordana Gadzic Juliet Aubrey
tv reporter journalist human rights worker serb militia member child powerful raw intense sarajevo, bosnia-herzegovina holiday inn orphanage bus war zone orphans war political unrest crimes against humanity smuggling media
Journalist Flynn from the U.S., Michael Henderson from the U.K., and their teams meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, they find an orphanage run by ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Drama
Canada|USA
2017
99 Minutes
Catherine Keener Jeanne Tripplehorn Colin Cunningham Callum Keith Rennie Aaron Douglas Miranda Frigon Garry Chalk April Telek
nurse leader neighbor lawyer passionate bleak engaging disheartening emotional raw small town united states connecticut protest activism corporate greed capitalism court battles land dispute underdog
A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on ... See full summary »
6.9/10
Drama, War
Australia|USA|Philippines
1988
100 Minutes
Wings Hauser R. Lee Ermey Albert Popwell Robert Arevalo Mark Neely Gary Hershberger Clyde Jones Margi Gerard Richard Kuhlman
sargeant military officer soldier viet cong bleak brutal crafty confident fiery gutsy gory intense raw wild vietnam vietnam war battle military survival survival skills
A tough sergeant and his sidekick roll into a demoralized firebase and proceed to rebuild morale and fortifications in advance of the climactic battle with the VietCong.
6.5/10
Drama, History
UK
2018
154 Minutes
Rory Kinnear Maxine Peake Neil Bell Philip Jackson Vincent Franklin Karl Johnson Tim McInnerny David Bamber Nico Mirallegro Leo Bill Michael Culkin
protester british soldiers engaging fascinating manchester, england protest massacre political activism political repression underdog 1810s
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Drama
1966
47 Minutes
police officers firemen rioters reporter doctor brutal bleak disturbing rochester, kent hospital street war armed conflict bombing nuclear attack transformation fall 1960s
Filmmaker Peter Watkins envisions the physical devastation and struggle for survival following a nuclear attack on Great Britain.
7.5/10
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama
USA
2008
128 Minutes
Sean Penn Emile Hirsch Josh Brolin Diego Luna James Franco Alison Pill Victor Garber Denis O'Hare Joseph Cross Stephen Spinella Lucas Grabeel
harvey milk police officer politician assassin hippie dan white moving emotional engaging san francisco new york city household store assassination politics social change deception homosexuality rise transformation
The story of Harvey Milk and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.
7.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1967
92 Minutes
Lee Marvin Angie Dickinson Keenan Wynn Carroll O'Connor Lloyd Bochner Michael Strong John Vernon Sharon Acker James Sikking Roberta Haynes Kathleen Freeman
thief traitor ex-wife sister man bleak fiery raw alcatraz island san francisco office apartment friendship betrayal money crime vengeance retribution revenge rivalry
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.
6.7/10
War, Drama, History
UK
2017
107 Minutes
Paul Bettany Sam Claflin Asa Butterfield Toby Jones Stephen Graham Tom Sturridge Robert Glenister Theo Barklem-Biggs Miles Jupp Jake Curran Oliver Dimsdale
officer emotional engaging tense war zone war life death discovery 1910s
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
6.9/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|USA
2018
128 Minutes
Viola Davis Colin Farrell Michelle Rodriguez Elizabeth Debicki Cynthia Erivo Brian Tyree Henry Daniel Kaluuya Jacki Weaver Robert Duvall Liam Neeson Garret Dillahunt
police officer widow thief driver crime boss thug emotional tense thrilling uneasy gripping gutsy chicago house shooting gallery funeral warehouse gym heist loss
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
6.8/10
Romance, Drama, History
UK|Sweden|France
2016
117 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Sam Claflin Bill Nighy Helen McCrory Jack Huston Richard E. Grant Rachael Stirling Henry Goodman Jeremy Irons Paul Ritter Jake Lacy
screenwriter actor bleak brutal charming cheery confident creative engaging fiery incredible inspiring raw united kingdom propaganda war filmmaking filmmaker screenwriting discovery
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
7.3/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|India
2012
149 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Sally Field David Strathairn Joseph Gordon-Levitt James Spader Hal Holbrook Tommy Lee Jones Lee Pace Michael Stuhlbarg David Costabile Jackie Earle Haley
president first lady son vice president military officer activist somber inspiring intense tense white house washington, d.c. battlefield government building big city abraham lincoln slavery historical events american civil war fight for justice
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.
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1980
113 Minutes
Brad Davis Karen Allen Jameson Parker Shelley Long John Friedrich Gary Springer Craig Richard Nelson Harry Caesar Nan Martin Daniel Stern Severn Darden
man woman student friend soldier lover engaging melodramatic emotional harvard university campus massachusetts protest cafeteria relationships vietnam war friendship love triangle romance social activism
Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.
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