Movies Like First Journey, Fort William
If you liked First Journey, Fort William (1987), a history movie directed by Joan Henson, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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First Cow (2020)
★ 7/10Also historyIn the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy…
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Unconquered (1947)
★ 6.5/10Also historyEngland, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and…
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Black Robe (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also historyMissionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules…
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Outlaw King (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also historyForced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also historyIt's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured by visiting sailors who take him back to England. Monk Brother Daniel teaches him social customs, but other Englishmen…
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also historyIn war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron…
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The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also historyIn Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
★ 6.4/10Also historyAs Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue…
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
★ 6.7/10Also historyHarvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected…
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Northwest Passage (1940)
★ 6.6/10Also historyBased on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses…
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Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also historyIn early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He…
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The Lost City of Z (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also historyA true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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The Alamo (1960)
★ 7.1/10Also historyThe legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
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Against the Ice (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also historyIn 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also historyBeginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of…
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End of the Spear (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also history"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series…
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Maudie (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also historyCanadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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Victoria & Abdul (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also historyQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Killer Legends (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also historyDelving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
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The Lost King (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also historyAn amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.