Top rated boring and uneventful movies that are also like a history lesson
Check out today’s highest ranked boring and uneventful and like a history lesson movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are boring and uneventful and like a history lesson, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
Last Update Apr 12 2021
1 Peterloo (2018)
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
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- 2018-11-01 | History / Drama
Cast
- Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake
Rating
6.9
2 The Lost City of Z (2016)
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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- 2016-10-15 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson
Rating
6.3
3 Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
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- 2012-12-07 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Bill Murray, Laura Linney
Rating
5.3
4 Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
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- 2011-06-23 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Andy Lau, Chow Yun-Fat
Rating
4.6
5 The King (2019)
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
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- 2019-10-11 | Drama / History
Cast
- Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton
Rating
7.2
6 Out of Africa (1985)
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
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- 1985-12-20 | History / Romance
Cast
- Robert Redford, Meryl Streep
Rating
7.2
7 The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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- 2019-11-27 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Rating
7.6
8 Hickok (2017)
Legendary Lawman and Gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the West, while delivering his own brand of frontier Justice and infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the West is put to the test
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- 2017-07-07 | Western
Cast
- Luke Hemsworth, Trace Adkins
Rating
5.0
9 Kalank (2019)
Set in 1945, in Pre-Independent India, the elite, opulent and solemn world of the Chaudhry family, and the wild, mysterious and musical underbelly of the town, Hira Mandi, clash when Roop Chaudhry encounters Zafar, a daredevil from Hira Mandi, unleashing deep-buried truths, secrets of betrayal and affairs that threaten to bring both worlds crashing down.
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- 2019-04-17 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit
Rating
5.5
10 Black Death (2010)
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
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- 2010-06-07 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne
Rating
5.9