Top rated broad-minded movies that are also like a history lesson
Check out today’s highest ranked broad-minded and like a history lesson movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are broad-minded and like a history lesson, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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 / History
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Rating
7.499
2 The Legend of Tomiris (2019)
This is the story of the life of the great queen of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.
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- 2019-10-01 | History / War
Cast
- Almira Tursyn, Erkebulan Dairov
Rating
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6.9
3 Wasp Network (2020)
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
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- 2020-01-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez
Rating
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6.049
4 Marighella (2021)
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
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- 2021-01-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso
Rating
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7.624
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5 Edge of the World (2021)
Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer James Brooke is appointed rajah by the Sultan of Brunei, and as an independent ruler he embarks on a personal crusade to eradicate piracy, slavery and headhunting, while trying to curb the malevolent expansionist ambitions of the British Empire.
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- 2021-08-27 | Drama / Adventure
Cast
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Josie Ho
Rating
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5.493
6 The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
From the 1960's to the 1980's, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
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- 2021-09-17 | Drama / History
Cast
- Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield
Rating
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6.513
7 Benediction (2021)
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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- 2021-12-23 | Drama / History
Cast
- Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi
Rating
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6.0
8 Corsage (2022)
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
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- 2022-07-07 | Drama / History
Cast
- Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister
Rating
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6.264
9 Happening (2021)
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
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- 2021-11-04 | Drama
Cast
- Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein
Rating
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7.236
10 The Woman King (2022)
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
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- 2022-09-16 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu
Rating
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7.674
