Top rated heroic movies that are also historically important
Check out today’s highest ranked heroic and historically important movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are heroic and historically important, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
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- 2019-08-08 | War / Action
Cast
- Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey
Rating
6.82
2 Harriet (2019)
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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- 2019-11-01 | Drama / History
Cast
- Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.
Rating
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7.332
3 Mr. Jones (2019)
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
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- 2019-10-03 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- James Norton, Vanessa Kirby
Rating
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6.755
4 A Call to Spy (2020)
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
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- 2020-10-02 | History / Crime
Cast
- Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic
Rating
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6.9
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5 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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7.694
6 Official Secrets (2019)
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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- 2019-08-30 | Thriller / History
Cast
- Keira Knightley, Matt Smith
Rating
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7.231
7 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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7.642
8 The Forgotten Battle (2021)
November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others.
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- 2021-06-05 | War / History
Cast
- Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters
Rating
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7.109
9 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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6.896
10 The Eight Hundred (2020)
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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- 2020-08-14 | War / History
Cast
- Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi
Rating
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6.968
