Movies Like Vivat, Naval Cadets!

If you liked Vivat, Naval Cadets! (1991), a adventure and history movie directed by Svetlana Druzhinina, 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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Ivanhoe (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also history and adventure
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the…
2
Esther (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and tv movie
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.
3
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and tv movie
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…
4
The Legion (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and history
Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.
5
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and history
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo…
6
End of the Spear (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and history
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series…
7
Dr. Strange (1978)
★ 6/10Also tv movie and adventure
A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
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Sahara (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movie
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied…
9
Confirmation (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also history and tv movie
Judge 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.
10
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and history
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
11
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and tv movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor…
12
The Lost City of Z (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and history
A 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.
13
Moonfleet (1955)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and history
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character…
14
The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and history
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her…
15
Airwolf: The Movie (1984)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and tv movie
Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries…
16
Oslo (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and history
The 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…
17
Shout at the Devil (1976)
★ 6/10Also adventure and history
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar…
18
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also history and tv movie
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in…
19
Helen of Troy (1956)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and history
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions…
20
Ironclad (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and history
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself…