The Last Emperor(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The story of the final Emperor of China.



Apollo 13(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.



Shattered Glass(2003)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.



The Good Shepherd(2006)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.



Defiance(2008)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



The Way Back(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.



The Young Victoria(2009)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.



Quiz Show(1994)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.



Babylon(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.



JFK(1991)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.



Quo vadis, Aida?(2020)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.



Malcolm X(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.



Being the Ricardos(2021)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.



Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom(2013)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A 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.



Kon-Tiki(2012)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.



Victoria & Abdul(2017)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.



Empire of the Sun(1987)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.



Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.



Kundun(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 65

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.



Nixon(1995)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.




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