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1	Malcolm X (1992) more movies like this directed by Spike Lee featuring Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative begins moments later, it jumps back to World War II-era ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.27!
2	Amazing Grace (2007) more movies like this directed by Michael Apted featuring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon One man's role in the long battle to outlaw slavery in the United Kingdom sets the stage for this historical drama from director Michael Apted. In 1784, 21-year-old William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) was elected to the British House of Commons, and soon established himself as a politician with a conscience. Several years later, his close friend ... see all copies from $5.89! new only from $9.99!
3	The Last King of Scotland (2006) more movies like this directed by Kevin MacDonald featuring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes that he is trapped in an inescapable nightmare, and Forest Whitaker assumes the role of the ... see all copies from $6.17! new only from $14.99!
4	The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) more movies like this directed by Michael Anderson featuring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier) releases him and he is made a ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.93!
5	The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own good, he is brought back to earth by his "conscience ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.57!
6	Michael Collins (1996) more movies like this directed by Neil Jordan featuring Paul Hickey, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts The rise and fall of one of the most important and controversial figures in Ireland's struggle for independence is chronicled in this biographical drama. In 1916, the British government ruled Ireland with a firm and cruel hand, as they had for 700 years. When a group of Irish rebels staged a six-day siege at Dublin's General Post Office, only one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.27!
7	All the President's Men (1976) more movies like this directed by Alan J. Pakula featuring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr. Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green Washington Post ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.73!
8	Hotel Rwanda (2004) more movies like this directed by Terry George featuring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Jean Reno Hotel Rwanda tackles one of the most horrifically ugly events in recent history, when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis (who had been given power by the departed Belgian colonists), while the rest of the world looked on and did nothing. Don Cheadle stars ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
9	Not Without My Daughter (1991) more movies like this directed by Brian Gilbert featuring Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel In this docudrama based on true events, a mid-'80s Michigan housewife finds her life turned upside down when a vacation to Tehran with her Iranian husband turns into virtual imprisonment for her and her young daughter. Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) is reluctant to visit the wartorn homeland of her doctor husband, Moody (Alfred Molina). But, ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $10.95!
10	Courage Under Fire (1996) more movies like this directed by Edward Zwick featuring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon A soldier discovers how elusive the truth can be in this first major film about America's role in the Gulf War. Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) was the commander of a unit during Operation Desert Storm who mistakenly ordered the destruction of what he believed to be an enemy tank, only to discover that it actually held U.S. soldiers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.15!
11 view cover	In the Name of the Father (1993) more movies like this directed by Jim Sheridan featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal interrogation forces him to sign a false confession, Gerry is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.66!
12 view cover	G.I. Jane (1997) more movies like this directed by Ridley Scott featuring Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Scott Wilson Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is chosen as a test case for the presence of women in combat. Aware that she is making history and knowing that 60% of all male trainees will fail the rigorous training, Lt. O'Neil struggles to prove herself physically and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.51!
13 view cover	Besieged (1999) more movies like this directed by Bernardo Bertolucci featuring Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria Bernardo Bertolucci directed this Italian drama co-scripted by Bertolucci and Clare Peploe from a story by British-born writer James Lasdun (co-scripter of Jonathan Nossiter's Sunday). In Rome, reclusive British composer Jason Kinsky (David Thewlis) lives in the building he inherited from his aunt, while his cleaning woman Shandurai (Thandie ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.48!
14 view cover	Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) more movies like this directed by George Clooney featuring David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both the talk show Person to Person and the pioneering ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $8.95!
15 view cover	Battleship Potemkin (1925) more movies like this directed by Sergei Eisenstein featuring Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigory Alexandrov, Marusov, Mikhail Gomorov After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin . Fed up with the extreme cruelties of their officers and ... see all copies from $12.99! new only from $14.99!
16 view cover	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) more movies like this directed by Philip Kaufman featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed, Tomas continues his wanton womanizing, notably ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $23.62!
17 view cover	The Quiet American (2002) more movies like this directed by Phillip Noyce featuring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija Graham Greene's allegorical novel about America's role in the Vietnam conflict, and how it was perceived by the rest of the world, is brought to the screen for the second time in this adaptation directed by Phillip Noyce. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) is a British journalist who in 1952 is covering the early stages of the war in Indo-China for the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95!
18 view cover	Exodus (1960) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of the occupying British government and sail to ... see all copies from $4.61! new only from $10.95!
19 view cover	The Contender (2000) more movies like this directed by Rod Lurie featuring Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, Christian Slater The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he chooses a new VP. Sen. Jack Hathaway (William ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44!
20 view cover	All the King's Men (1949) more movies like this directed by Robert Rossen featuring Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his constituents by bucking the corrupt state government. ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.99!
21 view cover	Lord of War (2005) more movies like this directed by Andrew Niccol featuring Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm, Ethan Hawke One man demonstrates how to get rich selling warring nations the tools of their deadly trade in this dark comedy drama. Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) is an opportunistic businessman who stumbled into a gold mine after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Huge caches of Soviet weapons became available at bargain prices (and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
22 view cover	Before Night Falls (2000) more movies like this directed by Julian Schnabel featuring Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and support he receives from his mother (played by the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95!
23 view cover	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2006) more movies like this directed by Marc Rothemund featuring Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke Filmmaker Marc Rothemund utilizes long-buried historical records to reconstruct the last six days in the life of renowned German anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) in an Academy Award-nominated feature that earned star Julia Jentsch a Best Actress award at both the 2005 Lolas and the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival. The year ... see all copies from $20.80! new only from $20.80!
24 view cover	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) more movies like this directed by Oliver Stone featuring Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Larkin, Willem Dafoe The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by enlisting with the Marines to fight in the Vietnam War ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.07!
25 view cover	City Hall (1996) more movies like this directed by Harold Becker featuring Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau Three A-list screenwriters -- (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman, and Paul Schrader) -- contributed to the script of this idealistic political drama. John Pappas (Al Pacino) is the popular, ethical Mayor of New York; Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) is his even more idealistic and principled deputy. When a detective and mobster kill each other and an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!

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