Movies Like Gandhi
If you liked Gandhi (1982), a drama and history movie directed by Richard Attenborough, 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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Some Mother's Son (1996)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyBased on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film…
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also history and dramaResistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for…
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and historyA chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and historyAgainst all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
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The Way Back (2010)
★ 7/10Also drama and historyA small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
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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 Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…
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The Last Emperor (1987)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and historyA dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and…
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Shirley (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also history and dramaShirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and historyJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
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Journey's End (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaSet in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
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Passage to Marseille (1944)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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Snowden (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyCIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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55 Days at Peking (1963)
★ 6.9/10Also history and dramaDiplomats, 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…
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Official Secrets (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also history and dramaThe true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security…
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The Imitation Game (2014)
★ 8/10Also history and dramaBased on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and…
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Victoria & Abdul (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and historyQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Chaplin (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAn aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.