Top rated trigger-happy movies that are also like a history lesson
Check out today’s highest ranked trigger-happy and like a history lesson movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are trigger-happy and like a history lesson, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020)
Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.
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- 2020-02-20 | War / History
Cast
- Yuriy Borisov, Olga Lerman
Rating
7.4
2 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
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7.348
3 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
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- Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.
Rating
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7.332
4 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
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6.82
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5 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
6 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
7 The Outpost (2020)
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
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- 2020-06-24 | War / Drama
Cast
- Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones
Rating
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6.876
8 The Irishman (2019)
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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- 2019-11-01 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Robert De Niro, Al Pacino
Rating
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7.608
9 Blizzard of Souls (2019)
The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
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- 2019-11-11 | War / Drama
Cast
- Oto Brantevics, Vilis Daudziņš
Rating
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7.196
10 Radioactive (2020)
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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- 2020-03-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley
Rating
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6.621
