Top rated like a history lesson movies with a thrilling ride at finish

Check out today’s highest ranked like a history lesson movies with a thrilling ride at finish! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best like a history lesson movies with a thrilling ride at finish, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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

rating icon 7.231
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shaking head in disbelief
  2. Ranked #1 for
    moral
  3. Ranked #2 for
    moderately entertaining

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2 Valkyrie (2008)

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

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2008-12-25 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh

Rating

rating icon 6.922
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #79 for
    history buff
  2. Ranked #86 for
    life and limb story
  3. Ranked #128 for
    with cockney accent

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3 War of the Arrows (2011)

After the death of their father, two siblings are raised by their father's best friend. However, when one gets kidnapped just before her wedding, the other rises against the Manchus.

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2011-08-10 | Drama / Action

Cast

Park Hae-il, Moon Chae-won

Rating

rating icon 7.204
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #85 for
    crowd-pleaser
  2. Ranked #127 for
    implacable
  3. Ranked #129 for
    cat-and-mouse

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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

rating icon 7.642
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    national hero
  2. Ranked #1 for
    reconstituting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    idealized

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5 Tetris (2023)

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.

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2023-03-15 | Thriller / History

Cast

Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov

Rating

rating icon 7.732
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    based on a video game
  2. Ranked #22 for
    trending now
  3. Ranked #31 for
    intense drama

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6 Hunt (2022)

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.

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2022-08-10 | Action / Mystery

Cast

Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung

Rating

rating icon 6.679
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    convoluted
  2. Ranked #1 for
    explosive
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cluttered

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7 The East (2021)

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.

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2021-08-13 | War / Drama

Cast

Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    room for improvement
  2. Ranked #2 for
    historical
  3. Ranked #3 for
    act of cruelty

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8 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

rating icon 6.755
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    evil tyrant
  3. Ranked #2 for
    biblical proportion

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9 Ford v Ferrari (2019)

American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

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2019-11-13 | Drama / Action

Cast

Christian Bale, Matt Damon

Rating

rating icon 8.003
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    terrific
  2. Ranked #1 for
    superb
  3. Ranked #1 for
    exhilarating

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10 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

rating icon 6.063
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly confusing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crammed plot
  3. Ranked #2 for
    historical point of view

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Wasp Network trailer
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