Movies Like Five from Fergana
If you liked Five from Fergana (1963), a history movie directed by Yuldash Agzamov, 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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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also historyThe history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
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All Eyez on Me (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also historyAll Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row…
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The Barber of Siberia (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also historyDouglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two…
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Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also historyA Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the…
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The Current War (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also historyElectricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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J. Edgar (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also historyAs the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his…
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Blaze (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also historyInspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw country movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three periods in Blaze's life…
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Plan A (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also historyGermany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families…
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Driven (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also historyFBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
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Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and…
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Kings of the Sun (1963)
★ 6.1/10Also historyIn order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into…
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Belfast (2021)
★ 7/10Also historyBuddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a…
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also historyA story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
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Eight Men Out (1988)
★ 6.8/10Also historyBuck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with…
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7 Women (1965)
★ 6.5/10Also historyIn a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
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The Conquest of Siberia (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also historyIvan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the First’s new guards, follows the Tsar’s order and goes to the frontier town of Tobolsk, deep in the Siberian forest. There Ivan falls in love for the first time and he and his…
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The Secrets We Keep (2020)
★ 6/10Also historyIn post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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The Unknown Known (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also historyFormer United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also historyIn this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious…
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Victoria & Abdul (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also historyQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.