Movies Like The Last Days of Pompeii
If you liked The Last Days of Pompeii (1926), a history movie directed by Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi, 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 Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
★ 6.2/10Also historyGlaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby…
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The 33 (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also historyBased on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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The King of Kings (1927)
★ 6.4/10Also historyThe King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a…
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Houdini (1953)
★ 6.6/10Also historyBy the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
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Quo Vadis (1951)
★ 7.1/10Also historyAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
★ 7.1/10Also historyThe story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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David and Bathsheba (1951)
★ 5.8/10Also historyKing David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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The Robe (1953)
★ 6.8/10Also historyDrunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe…
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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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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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Radioactive (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also historyThe story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of…
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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.
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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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Titus (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also historyTitus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
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True Spirit (2023)
★ 7/10Also historyWhen the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben…
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also historyWhen Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
★ 7/10Also historyTsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Radium Girls (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also historyYoung women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also historyThe epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished…
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Glory (1989)
★ 7.5/10Also historyRobert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.