Movies like Sacco and Vanzetti

20 movies like Sacco and Vanzetti, ordered by similarity : On the Basis of Sex(2018), Professor Marston & the Wonder Women(2017), Thirteen Days(2000), Black Legion(1937), Captain Kidd(1945), The Last Command(1928), The Return of Martin Guerre(1982), Henry V(1989), The Birth of a Nation(2016), Lee Daniels' The Butler(2013), The Winslow Boy(1999), This Is Congo(2017) ...

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Sacco and Vanzetti

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

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On the Basis of Sex

The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.

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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.

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Thirteen Days

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Black Legion

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

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Captain Kidd

The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.

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The Last Command

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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The Return of Martin Guerre

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

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Henry V

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

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The Birth of a Nation

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.

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Lee Daniels' The Butler

A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).

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The Winslow Boy

Following the theft of a postal-order, a fourteen-year old cadet is expelled from Naval College. To save the honour of the boy and his family, the pre-eminent barrister of the day is engaged to take on the might the Admiralty.

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This Is Congo

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

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Breathe

The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.

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Full Metal Jacket

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.

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Vincere

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

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Downfall

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

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Capote

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

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Maudie

An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

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Loving

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

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The Post

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.

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