Top rated scintillating movies that are also historically accurate

Check out today’s highest ranked scintillating and historically accurate movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are scintillating and historically accurate, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Dig (2021)

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future‎.

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2021-01-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes

Rating

rating icon 6.878
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    various plots
  2. Ranked #1 for
    flawless directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    tangential

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2 Farha (2021)

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

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2021-09-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Ashraf Barhom, Karam Taher

Rating

rating icon 7.663
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    harrowing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gut-wrenching
  3. Ranked #1 for
    immensely powerful

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3 The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

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2020-09-25 | Drama / History

Cast

Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen

Rating

rating icon 7.711
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    depicting social justice
  2. Ranked #2 for
    crisp dialogue
  3. Ranked #2 for
    with memorable moments

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4 Ammonite (2020)

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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2020-11-13 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan

Rating

rating icon 7.009
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    glum
  2. Ranked #1 for
    acting with subtle gesture
  3. Ranked #2 for
    veteran actress

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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

rating icon 7.694
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fierce
  2. Ranked #1 for
    accurate
  3. Ranked #2 for
    repackaged

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6 Parallel Mothers (2021)

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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2021-10-08 | Drama

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit

Rating

rating icon 6.847
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    melodramatic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    parallel story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sensational

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7 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

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2021-07-02 | Music / Documentary

Cast

Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda

Rating

rating icon 7.637
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    with memorable moments
  2. Ranked #1 for
    political context
  3. Ranked #2 for
    abruptly cut

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8 Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

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2021-02-12 | Drama / History

Cast

Lakeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya

Rating

rating icon 7.348
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    potent
  2. Ranked #1 for
    impactful
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ably played

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9 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

rating icon 7.499
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    splendid
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely magnificent
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for Catholic contemplation

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10 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
    evil deeds

Trailer

The East trailer
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