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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

Summary: A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Release Date: July 05, 2012

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Directors: Matthew Akers

, Jeff Dupre

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Show of Force, AVRO Close Up, Dakota Group

Distributor: HBO Documentary Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 86,637

International: $ 70,058

Zeitgeist (2007)

Summary: Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.

Release Date: June 01, 2007

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Peter Joseph

Writer: Peter Joseph

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Gentle Machine Productions

Distributor: Gravitas Ventures, Passion River Films, Sideways Films, Peter Joseph, Quantum Earth Radio, Spectra Filmworks

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000

Rome (2005)

Summary: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Release Date: August 28, 2005

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Runtime: 0 h 52 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: HD Vision Studios, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Home Box Office (HBO)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

TV Series budget: $ 100,000,000

Dark Side of the Ring (2019)

Summary: From backstage controversies to mysterious deaths and unsolved homicides, this series explores the darkest stories from the golden age of professional wrestling, and tries to find truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality.

Release Date: April 10, 2019

Genres: Drama, Documentary, History

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Vice Studio Canada

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (2022)

Summary: Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

Release Date: August 02, 2022

Genres: Music, Documentary, History

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: BBH Entertainment, RAW

Country: United States

Language: English

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Summary: Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Release Date: January 27, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Chris Gerolmo

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Image Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,603,943

Schindler's List (1993)

Summary: In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Release Date: February 04, 1994

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Thomas Keneally

, Steven Zaillian

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: MCA/Universal Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 96,898,818

International: $ 225,262,427

The Terror (2018)

Summary: Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy.

Release Date: March 25, 2018

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: American Movie Classics (AMC), Scott Free Productions, Entertainment 360

Country: United States

Language: English

It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)

Summary: The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959; it uses archive footage and American pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

Release Date: February 26, 2010

Genres: Music, Documentary, History

Director: Adam Curtis

Writer: Adam Curtis

Runtime: 0 h 54 min

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Summary: World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Release Date: November 04, 2016

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Mel Gibson

Writers: Robert Schenkkan

, Andrew Knight

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: R

Production: Summit Entertainment, Cross Creek Pictures, Demarest Films, Pandemonium, Argent Pictures, Bliss Media, Vendian Entertainment, IM Global, AI-Film, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Kylin Pictures, Icon Productions, Permut Presentations, Screen Australia, Screen NSW

Distributor: Lionsgate

Countries: Australia, United States, United Kingdom, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,209,615

International: $ 113,354,021

Cleopatra (1963)

Summary: Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Release Date: July 31, 1963

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

, Ranald MacDougall

, Sidney Buchman

Runtime: 3 h 12 min

MPAA: G

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, MCL Films S.A., Walwa Films S.A.

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 44,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,777,778

Braveheart (1995)

Summary: Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

Release Date: May 24, 1995

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Mel Gibson

Writer: Randall Wallace

Runtime: 2 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Icon Entertainment International, The Ladd Company, B.H. Finance C.V., Icon Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), HBO Max, Paramount+, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 72,000,000

Domestic: $ 75,609,945

International: $ 137,606,271

Terror's Advocate (2007)

Summary: A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.

Release Date: June 06, 2007

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: La Sofica Uni Etoile 3, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Magnolia Pictures, Wild Bunch, Yalla Film, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 47,724

International: $ 1,038,932

Hidden Figures (2016)

Summary: The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Release Date: January 06, 2017

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Theodore Melfi

Writers: Allison Schroeder

, Theodore Melfi

, Margot Lee Shetterly

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, Levantine Films

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 169,607,287

International: $ 66,349,611

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Summary: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Release Date: December 18, 1975

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick

, William Makepeace Thackeray

Runtime: 3 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Peregrine, Hawk Films, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Don't Be a Sucker (1943)

Summary: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.

Release Date: July 04, 1943

Genres: History, Short, War

Runtime: 0 h 18 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: U.S. War Department

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, The Prelinger Archives

Country: United States

Language: English

Becket (1964)

Summary: King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.

Release Date: March 11, 1964

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Peter Glenville

Writers: Jean Anouilh

, Lucienne Hill

, Edward Anhalt

Runtime: 2 h 28 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Wallis-Hazen, Keep Films

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MPI Home Video, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, Video Communications (VCI)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 149,327

The King (2019)

Summary: Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past ...

Release Date: November 01, 2019

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: David Michôd

Writers: David Michôd

, Joel Edgerton

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Netflix, Plan B Entertainment, Porchlight Films, Blue-Tongue Films, Pioneer Stilking Films, Yoki

Distributor: Netflix

Countries: United Kingdom, Hungary, United States, Australia

Language: English