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Movies Like Shadow Country

If you liked Shadow Country (2020), a drama and history movie directed by Bohdan Sláma, 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. 1Adventures of a Mathematician

    Adventures of a Mathematician (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and history

    The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and…

  2. 2Plan A

    Plan A (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and history

    Germany 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…

  3. 3Oranges and Sunshine

    Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and history

    The 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…

  4. 4Panther

    Panther (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and history

    In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.

  5. 5Suffragette

    Suffragette (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and history

    Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

  6. 6Waiting for the Barbarians

    Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and history

    At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the…

  7. 7Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also history and drama

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

  8. 8The Secrets We Keep

    The Secrets We Keep (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also history and drama

    In 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.

  9. 9Schindler's List

    Schindler's List (1993)

    ★ 8.6/10Also drama and history

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  10. 10Truth & Treason

    Truth & Treason (2025)

    ★ 8.1/10Also history and drama

    In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign…

  11. 11The World Will Tremble

    The World Will Tremble (2025)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and history

    The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

  12. 12Oslo

    Oslo (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama 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…

  13. 13Minamata

    Minamata (2020)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and history

    War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

  14. 14The Grey Zone

    The Grey Zone (2001)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and history

    The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow…

  15. 15Nightwatching

    Nightwatching (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and history

    An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

  16. 16Nuremberg

    Nuremberg (2025)

    ★ 7.6/10Also history and drama

    In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's…

  17. 17Confirmation

    Confirmation (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and history

    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.

  18. 18Mr. Jones

    Mr. Jones (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and history

    In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the…

  19. 19Sometimes in April

    Sometimes in April (2005)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and history

    Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

  20. 20The Kill Team

    The Kill Team (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma…

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