Top rated gleaming movies with a historical point of view
Check out today’s highest ranked gleaming movies with a historical point of view! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best gleaming movies with a historical point of view, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Edge of the World (2021)
Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer James Brooke is appointed rajah by the Sultan of Brunei, and as an independent ruler he embarks on a personal crusade to eradicate piracy, slavery and headhunting, while trying to curb the malevolent expansionist ambitions of the British Empire.
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- 2021-08-27 | Drama / Adventure
Cast
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Josie Ho
Rating
- 5.493
2 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
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- 2021-07-02 | Music / Documentary
Cast
- Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Rating
- 7.659
3 Tesla (2020)
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
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- 2020-08-14 | History / Drama
Cast
- Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson
Rating
- 5.859
4 The Eight Hundred (2020)
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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- 2020-08-14 | War / History
Cast
- Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi
Rating
- 6.952
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5 Radioactive (2020)
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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- 2020-03-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley
Rating
- 6.612
6 The Automat (2021)
The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.
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- 2021-09-02 | Documentary / History
Cast
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mel Brooks
Rating
- 7.063
7 Mank (2020)
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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- 2020-11-13 | Drama / History
Cast
- Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried
Rating
- 6.699
8 The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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- 2019-11-27 | Drama / History
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Rating
- 7.499
9 Harriet (2019)
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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- 2019-11-01 | Drama / History
Cast
- Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.
Rating
- 7.343
10 The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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- 2020-09-25 | Drama / History
Cast
- Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen
Rating
- 7.702