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The Revenant

The Revenant

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 8

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up a...

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Man in the Wilderness

Man in the Wilderness

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 6.8

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is...

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Harriet

Harriet

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.7

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 co...

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The Newton Boys

The Newton Boys

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 6.1

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon...

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Emperor

Emperor

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 5.9

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

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Deadman Standing

Deadman Standing

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 4.8

The true story of a recently widowered lawman who befriends a boy dying of tuberculosis and a madam of the local brothel while their town is being politically and violently overtaken by a gang of reck...

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Alien Thunder

Alien Thunder

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 4.5

The true story of Canadian Mountie Dan Candy's pursuit of a Native American that killed his partner.

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