Battle for Haditha(2007)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 52

An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.



The Duchess(2008)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.



Des hommes et des dieux(2010)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.



Nanking(2007)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.



Lumumba(2000)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical ...



Joyeux Noël(2005)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 35

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.



Der Tunnel(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. ...



K-19: The Widowmaker(2002)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 29

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.



Tau ming chong(2007)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 35

It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about ...



Katyn(2007)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 41

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.



The Time that Remains(2009)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 62

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.



Nanjing! Nanjing!(2009)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Ye Liu, Hideo Nakaizumi, Wei Fan, Yuanyuan Gao,
Chuan Lu,

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.



Pearl Harbor(2001)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.



Bobby(2006)

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Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 27

The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.



Amazing Grace(2006)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 33

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.



John Rabe(2009)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.



Black Friday(2004)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.



Laissez-passer(2002)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in ...



La rafle(2010)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.



The Affair of the Necklace(2001)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 49

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.




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