Movies Like Shanawdithit: A Beothuk Story

If you liked Shanawdithit: A Beothuk Story (2023), a history movie directed by Eric White, 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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Maudie (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also history
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
2
The New World (2005)
★ 6.5/10Also history
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
3
Against the Ice (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also history
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
4
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also history
It'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…
5
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
★ 6.4/10Also history
As 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…
6
Sometimes in April (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also history
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
7
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also history
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
8
Apocalypto (2006)
★ 7.7/10Also history
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits…
9
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also history
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
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Glory (1989)
★ 7.5/10Also history
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
★ 5.9/10Also history
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In…
12
Australia (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also history
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000…
13
Killer Legends (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also history
Delving 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.
14
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also history
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
15
Unconquered (1947)
★ 6.5/10Also history
England, 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…
16
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also history
Beginning 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…
17
The Lost City of Z (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also history
A 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.
18
Audrey (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also history
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
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Black Robe (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also history
Missionary 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…
20
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also history
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.