20 movies like The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, ordered by similarity : Harriet(2019), 12 Years a Slave(2013), Glory(1989), The Birth of a Nation(2016), Full Metal Jacket(1987), Adanggaman(2000), Django Unchained(2012), Free State of Jones(2016), Balthazar(1966), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1939), Amazing Grace(2006), In the Name of the Father(1993) ...
Drama
1974
110 Minutes
Cicely Tyson Odetta Richard Dysart Josephine Premice Teddy Airhart Eric Brown Woodrow Chambliss Barbara Chaney Noel Cravenze Joel Fluellen Jerry Green
slave plantation owner corporal boy journalist friend disturbing moving inspiring louisiana cabin plantation field slavery civil rights american civil war violence humanity struggle wretched excess
A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.
6.6/10
Action, Biography, Drama, History
China|USA
2019
125 Minutes
Cynthia Erivo Janelle Monáe Leslie Odom Jr. Joe Alwyn Clarke Peters Jennifer Nettles Vanessa Bell Calloway Omar J. Dorsey Henry Hunter Hall Tim Guinee Nick Basta
freedom fighter slave slave trader civil rights activist civil rights leader racist cheery confident cool emotional engaging gripping gutsy heartwarming intense inspiring patriotic positive powerful profound
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
8.1/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|UK
2013
134 Minutes
Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender Benedict Cumberbatch Paul Dano Garret Dillahunt Paul Giamatti Scoot McNairy Lupita Nyong'o Adepero Oduye Sarah Paulson Brad Pitt
slave slave trader abolitionist master african-american love interest dark powerful gripping touching gritty new york state american south plantation hideout secret hideout slave market slavery abolitionism underground railroad
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
7.8/10
War, Drama, History
USA
1989
122 Minutes
Matthew Broderick Denzel Washington Morgan Freeman Cary Elwes Jihmi Kennedy Andre Braugher John Finn Alan North Bob Gunton Cliff De Young Christian Baskous
soldier military officer friend slave gravedigger gutsy inspiring military base battlefield hospital maryland south carolina american civil war honor racism slavery social change military quest sacrifice
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
6.4/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Canada
2016
114 Minutes
Nate Parker Armie Hammer Mark Boone Junior Colman Domingo Aunjanue Ellis Dwight Henry Aja Naomi King Esther Scott Roger Guenveur Smith Gabrielle Union Penelope Ann Miller
slave preacher owner rebel parishioner wife brooding emotional intense virginia plantation church house street field slavery rebellion truth anger justice
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
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.
6.8/10
Drama, History
France|Switzerland|Côte d'Ivoire|Burkina Faso|Italy
2000
89 Minutes
Rasmane Ouedraogo Albertine N'Guessan Ziable Honoré Goore Bi Bintou Bakayoko Nicole Suzis Menyeng Mireille Andree Boti Tie Dijian Patrick Nadege Blagone Anastasie Tode Bohi Didier Grandidier Mylene-Perside Kouame
king african slave trader young man mother soldier disheartening dark chilling village west africa battlefield survival escape murder war kidnapping slavery pursuit forbidden love
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the ... See full summary »
8.4/10
Action, Western, Drama
USA
2012
165 Minutes
Jamie Foxx Christoph Waltz Leonardo DiCaprio Samuel L. Jackson Kerry Washington Walton Goggins Dennis Christopher James Remar David Steen Dana Gourrier Nichole Galicia
slave bounty hunter criminal plantation owner wife servant gritty intense witty american south countryside household mississippi slavery crimefighting justice search on the run escape rescue
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
6.9/10
War, Biography, Drama, History
USA
2016
139 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Gugu Mbatha-Raw Mahershala Ali Keri Russell Brendan Gleeson Christopher Berry Sean Bridgers Jacob Lofland Kirk Bovill Manny Penton Thomas Francis Murphy
farmer medic confederate soldier slave fugitive rebel brooding emotional intense mississippi battlefield house plantation forest farm american civil war desertion slavery conscience rebellion
A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
7.9/10
Drama
France|Sweden
1966
90 Minutes
Anne Wiazemsky François Lafarge Philippe Asselin Nathalie Joyaut Walter Green Jean-Claude Guilbert Pierre Klossowski François Sullerot Marie-Claire Fremont Jean Rémignard
girl donkey boyfriend owner bleak profound moving france farm abuse friendship survival injustice love growing up sacrifice 1960s
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
88 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Walter Connolly William Frawley Rex Ingram Lynne Carver Jo Ann Sayers Minor Watson Elisabeth Risdon Victor Kilian Clara Blandick
huckleberry finn runaway slave alcoholic friend con artist playful spirited mississippi river the south st. petersburg, miss. friendship running away rafting slavery adolescence growing up adventure escape 1840s
To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.
7.4/10
Drama, History
USA|UK
2006
116 Minutes
Ioan Gruffudd Romola Garai Benedict Cumberbatch Albert Finney Michael Gambon Rufus Sewell Youssou N'Dour Ciarán Hinds Toby Jones Nicholas Farrell Sylvestra Le Touzel
prime minister friend servant slave love interest activist inspiring emotional london france ship household slavery politics gambling civil rights social activism illness transformation rescue
The idealist William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
8.1/10
Drama
Ireland|UK
1993
132 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Pete Postlethwaite Emma Thompson John Lynch Corin Redgrave Beatie Edney Daniel Massey Alison Crosbie
thief father barrister judge friend police detective disturbing powerful inspiring ireland courtroom prison pub injustice imprisonment false accusations father/son relationship terrorism patriotism wretched excess
A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.
7.8/10
Drama
UK
1984
141 Minutes
Sam Waterston Haing S. Ngor John Malkovich Julian Sands Craig T. Nelson Spalding Gray Bill Paterson Athol Fugard Graham Kennedy Katherine Krapum Chey
journalist interpreter photojournalist wife reporter chilling emotional inspiring cambodia new york city phnom penh journalism war torture friendship genocide khmer rouge escape sacrifice rescue
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.
6.3/10
War, Drama, History
USA
1915
190 Minutes
Lillian Gish Mae Marsh Henry B. Walthall Miriam Cooper Mary Alden Ralph Lewis George Siegmann Walter Long Robert Harron Wallace Reid Joseph Henabery
military officer nurse politician slave brother abraham lincoln creative melodramatic south carolina washington, d.c. mansion hospital battlefield countryside american civil war politics slavery ku klux klan revenge rivalry
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
6.2/10
Drama
USA
1970
134 Minutes
Charlton Heston Geraldine Chaplin John Phillip Law Tina Chen Alec McCowen Mako
plantation owner laborer wife mistress engineer queen tense moving hawaii plantation ship town settling down new life farming family struggle battle quest escape
The intertwined lives of two kindred souls with ambition begins when Captain Whip Hoxworth discovers that Nyuk Tsin has been smuggled aboard as part of cargo on The Carthaginian, which he ... See full summary »
8.1/10
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
6.0/10
Action, Drama, Adventure, History
UK|Spain|USA
2014
150 Minutes
Christian Bale Joel Edgerton John Turturro Aaron Paul Ben Kingsley Sigourney Weaver Golshifteh Farahani María Valverde Ben Mendelsohn Dar Salim Indira Varma
moses ramses xiii pharaoh god slave orphan emotional inspiring somber spectacular dark ancient egypt desert sinai desert mountain pyramid royal palace the bible escape plagues
The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
9.3/10
Drama
USA
1994
142 Minutes
Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Bob Gunton William Sadler Clancy Brown Gil Bellows James Whitmore Mark Rolston Jeffrey DeMunn
innocent man prisoner warden guard banker friend powerful emotional gripping maine prison mexico beach field store murder escape corruption freedom friendship
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
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.
6.9/10
Drama
UK
2016
83 Minutes
Suzanna Hamilton Darren Kent Pixie Le Knot Will Rastall Eileen Pollock Jason Wright Steven Brandon Shana Swash Edward Wilkinson Rachael Cox
down syndrome sufferer friend young girl outsider young boy mother charming emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring moving english countryside nursing home home town field barn loss love
Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.
Copyright © 2021 www.findthatmovie.com. All Rights Reserved
FindThatMovie.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Watch Trailer
