Movies Like One Against the World

If you liked One Against the World (1939), a history movie directed by Fred Zinnemann, 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
The Current War (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also history
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
2
Radium Girls (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also history
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
3
Houdini (1953)
★ 6.6/10Also history
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
4
Eight Men Out (1988)
★ 6.8/10Also history
Buck 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…
5
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also history
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished…
6
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also history
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
7
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
★ 7/10Also history
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on…
8
A Passage to India (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also history
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
9
The Duke (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also history
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happens next becomes…
10
Small Things Like These (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also history
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…
11
The Untold History Of The United States (2012)
★ 8.2/10Also history
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
12
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also history
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning…
13
55 Days at Peking (1963)
★ 6.9/10Also history
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing…
14
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
★ 8.4/10Also history
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
15
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also history
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
16
Genius (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also history
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown…
17
The Elephant Man (1980)
★ 8/10Also history
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
18
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also history
It's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured by visiting sailors who take him back to England. Monk Brother Daniel teaches him social customs, but other Englishmen…
19
The Cardinal (1963)
★ 6.5/10Also history
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
20
Steve Jobs (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also history
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at…