Movies Like River of Hope
If you liked River of Hope (2020), a drama and history movie directed by Calvin Grimm, 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 Birth of a Nation (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaNat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
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12 Years a Slave (2013)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and historyIn the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive…
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The Beguiled (1971)
★ 7/10Also history and dramaOffbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The…
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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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The Dead Don't Hurt (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaIn the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger…
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Free State of Jones (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to…
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Rosewood (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historySpurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
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Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and historyA Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
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Matewan (1987)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and historyFilmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and…
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The Beguiled (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaDuring the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous…
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The Great Debaters (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the…
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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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Till (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and historyThe true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
★ 8/10Also dramaScout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their…
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Glory Road (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and historyIn 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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By Any Means (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also history and dramaIn 1960s Mississippi, a young Black FBI agent is forced to partner with a notorious mafia hitman to investigate a wave of brutal civil rights murders.
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The Best of Enemies (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and historyCenters on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation…
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The Defiant Ones (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaTwo convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
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The Help (2011)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaAibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers…
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A Time to Kill (1996)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.