Historical Movies 2021 List

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Lady of Heaven R

The heart-wrenching journey of Lady Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad. Separated by 1400 years, an Iraqi child, in the midst of a war-torn country, learns the importance and power of patience. After losing his mother, the child finds himself in a new home, where a loving grandmother narrates the historical story of The Lady and how her suffering as the first victim of terrorism spun out of control into the 21st century.
Eli King, Oscar Garland, Andrew Harrison, Sheikh Al-Habib, Ray Fearon, Mark Anthony Brighton, Denise Black, Chris Jarman
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Margrete - Queen of the North

The year is 1402. Margrete has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union, which she single-handedly rules through her young, adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and an English princess. An alliance with England should secure the union’s status as an emerging European power but a breathtaking conspiracy is under way that can tear Margrete and all she believes in apart.
Charlotte Sieling, Trine Dyrholm, Jakob Oftebro, Jesper Fink, Maya Ilsøe, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Paul Blackthorne

Munich - The Edge of War PG-13

Based on the international bestseller by Robert Harris. It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain's government desperately seeks a peaceful solution. With the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger. With the whole world watching, can war be averted and, if so, at what cost?
George MacKay, Robert Bathurst, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sandra Hüller, Christian Schwochow, Ben Power, Jeremy Irons, August Diehl
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The War Below

In the midst of the Great War, Colonel "Hellfire Jack" Norton-Griffiths hatches a daring plan to break the deadly stalemate at the Battle of Messines. He recruits a group of local miners to dig a tunnel underneath no man's land, from the allied trenches to the German trenches, in hopes of successfully setting off bombs from below the German line and saving the allied war effort.
Joseph Steyne, J.P. Watts, Sam Clemmett, Sam Hazeldine, Tom Goodman-Hill, Kris Hitchen, Elliot James Langridge, Anna Maguire
VOD / Digital
3 / 5
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The Last Duel R

When Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight, returns from combat in Scotland to find his wife, Marguerite, accusing Jacques LeGris, her husband’s old friend and fellow courtier, of brutally raping her, the knight takes his cause before the teenage King Charles VI.
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Fox, Kevin J. Walsh, Michael McElhatton, Ridley Scott, Nicole Holofcener, Adam Driver

Worth PG-13

Following the horrific 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress appoints attorney and renowned mediator Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Assigned with allocating financial resources to the victims of the tragedy, Feinberg and his firm’s head of operations, Camille Biros (Amy Ryan), face the impossible task of determining the worth of a life to help the families who had suffered incalculable losses. When Feinberg locks horns with Charles Wolf (Stanley Tucci), a community organizer mourning the death of his wife, his initial cynicism turns to compassion as he begins to learn the true human costs of the tragedy.
Michael Keaton, Talia Balsam, Chris Tardio, Sara Colangelo, Marc Butan, Sean Sorensen, Stanley Tucci, Amy Ryan

The Mad Women’s Ball

At the end of the 19th century in Paris, a woman who was unfairly institutionalized at the Salpêtrière hospital manages to escape.
Melanie Laurent, Axelle Boucaï, Emmanuelle Bercot, Cedric Kahn, Alain Goldman, César Domboy, Lou de Laâge, Benjamin Voisin
Prime Video
3 / 5
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Into the Darkness

Through a family and the relation between father and son, the film describes the dilemmas of the Danish population during World War II. Like the government, the farmers and the industry, the father, a successful owner of a big electronics factory, tries to make the best of the situation to keep the wheels rolling. However this leads him into a problematic collaboration with the Germans. His son, on the contrary, reacts against the increasing oppression and persecution of Jews and communists by joining the rising resistance movement.
Anders Refn, Jesper Christensen, Lene Børglum, Flemming Quist Møller, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Sara Viktoria Bjerregaard
VOD / Digital
4 / 5
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The Courier PG-13

THE COURIER is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Rachel Brosnahan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessie Buckley, Rory Aitken, Tom O’Connor, Leah Clarke, Adam Ackland, Tom O'Connor

MLK/FBI NR

Based on newly discovered and declassified files, the film documents the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Sam Pollard, Benjamin Hedin