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Movies Like Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

If you liked Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Daniel Petrie, 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.

  1. 1All the Way

    All the Way (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually…

  2. 2W.

    W. (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up to his decision to invade Iraq.

  3. 3Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In 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.

  4. 4Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young…

  5. 5Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    The 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.

  6. 6TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  7. 7My Dinner with Hervé

    My Dinner with Hervé (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

  8. 8Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

    Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and tv movie

    Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial…

  9. 9The Perfect Cheerleader

    The Perfect Cheerleader (2019)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and tv movie

    When college freshman Cassie earns a spot on the cheerleading squad, she is overjoyed about the new friendships, status, and access to social events that come along with being on the team. When she meets Terry, the…

  10. 10True Colors

    True Colors (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

  11. 11Hello Sister, Goodbye Life

    Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.

  12. 12The Rosa Parks Story

    The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

  13. 13The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    An 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.

  14. 14The Christmas Shoes

    The Christmas Shoes (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…

  15. 15The Butler

    The Butler (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency…

  16. 16Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  17. 17The Audrey Hepburn Story

    The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and tv movie

    The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II…

  18. 18The Miniaturist

    The Miniaturist (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.

  19. 19Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  20. 20A Bramble House Christmas

    A Bramble House Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and drama

    While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…

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