20 movies like Free the Mind, ordered by similarity : Transformers: The Last Knight(2017), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), National Bird(2016), Legion of Brothers(2017), Black Panther(2018), Wonder Woman(2017), Bumblebee(2018), Armadillo(2010), Under Fire(1983), Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience(2007), Mongol(2007), Star Trek Into Darkness(2013) ...
Documentary, Adventure
USA|Sweden|Netherlands|Australia|Finland|Denmark
2012
80 Minutes
Richard Davidson Emma Seppala Richard Low
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In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and ... See full summary »
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
USA|China|Canada
2017
148 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Anthony Hopkins Josh Duhamel Stanley Tucci Laura Haddock Santiago Cabrera Isabela Moner Jerrod Carmichael Liam Garrigan Martin McCreadie John Turturro
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A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Documentary
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Jesselyn Radack
veteran pilot government official terrorist soldier narrator somber emotional intense house office middle east military base street car war terrorism bombing guilt whistle-blowing
Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.
Documentary
USA
2017
79 Minutes
green beret terrorist soldier george w. bush intense patriotic powerful tense afghanistan battlefield warfare special ops terror terrorism combat secret mission war adventure 2000s
Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, fewer than 100 US Troops were sent on a secret mission to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war-origin story and cautionary tale, ... See full summary »
Fantasy, Action, Adventure
USA
2018
134 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Michael B. Jordan Lupita Nyong'o Danai Gurira Martin Freeman Daniel Kaluuya Letitia Wright Winston Duke Angela Bassett Forest Whitaker Andy Serkis
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T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
Fantasy, Action, Adventure
USA|UK
2017
141 Minutes
Gal Gadot Chris Pine Connie Nielsen Robin Wright Danny Huston David Thewlis Saïd Taghmaoui Ewen Bremner Eugene Brave Rock Lucy Davis Elena Anaya
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When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
China|USA
2018
114 Minutes
Hailee Steinfeld John Cena Jorge Lendeborg Jr. John Ortiz Jason Drucker Pamela Adlon Stephen Schneider Ricardo Hoyos Gracie Dzienny
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On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. On the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, Charlie Watson discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.
Documentary, War
Denmark|Sweden
2010
100 Minutes
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Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.
Adventure, Drama
USA|Mexico
1983
128 Minutes
Nick Nolte Joanna Cassidy Gene Hackman Ed Harris Alma Martinez Holly Palance Ella Laboriel Samuel Zarzosa Jonathan Zarzosa Raul Picasso Oswaldo Doria
photojournalist journalist love interest rebel soldier president gritty intense suspenseful nicaragua revolution death corruption media love triangle civil war love transformation 1970s
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
Documentary
USA
2007
81 Minutes
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A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A... See full summary »
Adventure, Drama, History, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Kazakhstan|China
2007
126 Minutes
Tadanobu Asano Honglei Sun Khulan Chuluun Amadu Mamadakov Bayertsetseg Erdenebat Amarbold Tuvshinbayar Tegen Ao Sai Xing Ga
warrior wife father soldier slave brooding gripping intense mongolia outdoors camp genghis khan childhood marriage betrayal slavery friendship growing up love rivalry
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
USA
2013
132 Minutes
Chris Pine Zachary Quinto Karl Urban Zoe Saldana Anton Yelchin Simon Pegg John Cho Benedict Cumberbatch Alice Eve Bruce Greenwood Peter Weller
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After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
Biography, Documentary
UK|USA
1996
55 Minutes
quentin tarantino martin scorsese writer soldier reporter director creative engaging passionate new york city hollywood, calif. europe samuel fuller journalism film industry world war ii adventure discovery transformation 1980s
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|China|Colombia
2018
95 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Lauren Cohan Iko Uwais John Malkovich Ronda Rousey Carlo Alban Natasha Goubskaya Chae Rin Lee Sam Medina Keith Arthur Bolden Jenique Hendrix
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A small team of elite American intelligence officers, part of a top-secret tactical command unit, try to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of Indonesia.
Drama
USA
1940
100 Minutes
Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Robert Young Frank Morgan Robert Stack Bonita Granville Irene Rich William T. Orr Maria Ouspenskaya Gene Reynolds Russell Hicks
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The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Adventure, Drama
1975
140 Minutes
Maxim Munzuk Yuri Solomin V. Kremena Suymenkul Chokmorov Svetlana Danilchenko Igor Sykhra
hunter soldier explorer friend dark intense heartwarming forest siberia friendship retribution travel hope adventure discovery transformation 20th century
A Russian explorer develops a unique and lasting relationship with a frontiersman during an expedition in Siberia.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|UK|Canada
2014
165 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Anne Hathaway Jessica Chastain Michael Caine Ellen Burstyn Mackenzie Foy Timothée Chalamet Wes Bentley David Gyasi John Lithgow Casey Affleck
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A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Crime, Drama
USA
1963
126 Minutes
Marcello Mastroianni Renato Salvatori Gabriella Giorgelli Folco Lulli Bernard Blier Raffaella Carrà François Périer Vittorio Sanipoli Mario Pisu Kenneth Kove Annie Girardot
professor factory worker intense spirited turin, italy factory italy social change protest blue collar class distinctions quest transformation 1960s
Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.
Adventure
UK
1943
68 Minutes
Jack Lambert Gordon Jackson Fredrick Piper Grant Sutherland Bill Blewett Eric Micklewood
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The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they ... See full summary »
War, Drama, History
USA
2017
118 Minutes
Max Hubacher Milan Peschel Frederick Lau Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi Wolfram Koch Britta Hammelstein Bernd Hölscher Sascha Alexander Gersak Blerim Destani
soldier nazi nazi commandant prison guard prisoner deserter uneasy intense tense unrestrained brutal bleak concentration camp truck woods base camp office fraud nazi collaboration power
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience ... See full summary »