Movies Like UnBowed
If you liked UnBowed (1999), a drama and history movie directed by Nanci Rossov, 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 of the Mohicans (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also history and dramaIn 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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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceKansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too…
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The New World (2005)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyA drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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Woman Walks Ahead (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyBased on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.
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The Woman King (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and historyThe story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains…
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Legends of the Fall (1994)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceIn early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by…
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Hostiles (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and historyA legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
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Cold Mountain (2003)
★ 6.9/10Also history and romanceIn this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young…
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The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and 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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Glory (1989)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and 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.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and 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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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also history and dramaWhen oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and 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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The Unforgiven (1960)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceThe neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyAlbany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that…
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The Edge of Love (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyWhen the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many…
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Brooklyn (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and historyIn 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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Raintree County (1957)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and dramaIn 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further…
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and historyTwo 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…
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Where Hands Touch (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and romanceGermany, 1944. Leyna, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an…