Movies like Braveheart
12 films like Braveheart (1995), We Were Soldiers, The Butcher Boy, Michael Collins among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with Braveheart: its director, cast, franchise or setting.
1995 · 178 min · Biography, Drama, War. Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
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We Were Soldiers
Also stars Mel GibsonThe story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
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The Butcher Boy
Also dramaThe antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
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Michael Collins
Also biography and dramaNeil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
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Outlaw King
Also biography and dramaA true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.
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Troy
Also dramaAn adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces.
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Gandhi
Also biography and dramaThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Also biography and dramaA young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
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Some Mother's Son
Also dramaThe 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
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War Horse
Also drama and warA young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
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Gangs of New York
Also dramaIn 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer.
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Ironclad
Also dramaIn thirteenth-century England, a Knights Templar and a few of the Barons men fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.
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The Reckoning
Also dramaA priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.
