Movies Like Wait for the «John Grafton»
If you liked Wait for the «John Grafton» (1979), a history and tv movie movie directed by Andris Rozenbergs, 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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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also history and tv movieFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…
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The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
★ 7/10Also history and tv movieA seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movieThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Confirmation (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also history and tv movieJudge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
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The Miniaturist (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also history and tv movieA woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also history and tv movieAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
★ 6/10Also tv movieDespite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to…
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Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also historyRegent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movieBa'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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Cheaters (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieIn the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also historyA chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
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Oslo (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and historyThe true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also historyAt 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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Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also history and tv movieFor the 20th anniversary of "Titanic," James Cameron reopens the file on the disaster.
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The Eichmann Show (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also history and tv movieThe behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's…
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Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
★ 6/10Also tv movieMitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden…
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Free State of Jones (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also historyIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to…
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Purgatory (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also tv movieAn outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…
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I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also tv movieThe story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
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S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
★ 6/10Also history and tv movieThe Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.