Moneyball (2011)
Bennett Miller's 2011 baseball analytics drama. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Jonah Hill as Peter Brand.
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BiopicGotti (2018)
2018 Kevin Connolly biopic with Travolta as Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. Notorious zero-percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
BiopicAmerican Gangster (2007)
Ridley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
DramaIn the Name of the Father (1993)
Jim Sheridan's 1993 film on the Guildford Four miscarriage of justice. Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite turn courtroom rage into pure craft.
CrimeZodiac (2007)
David Fincher's 2007 procedural on the SF Zodiac killer investigation. Three protagonists, no killer caught.
BiopicBlack Mass (2015)
Scott Cooper's 2015 Whitey Bulger biopic. FBI corruption as central subject.
True StoryPasschendaele (2008)
The project was inspired by stories his grandfather told him about fighting in the mud of Belgium. Gross plays Sergeant Michael Dunne, a Canadian veteran of Vimy Ridge sent home with combat fatigue.
True StoryBeneath Hill 60 (2010)
Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian war film about a part of the First World War nobody talks about. Brendan Cowell plays Captain.
True StorySergeant York (1941)
Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
True StoryThe Lost Battalion (2001)
The Lost Battalion is an A&E television movie that punches above its budget. Rick Schroder plays Major Charles Whittlesey, a New York lawyer who took five hundred and fifty-four men of the 77th Infantry Division into the Argonne Forest in…
Civil WarGettysburg (1993)
Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Tom Berenger plays James Longstreet.
Civil WarGlory (1989)
Matthew Broderick plays Colonel. Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing Private Trip, a runaway slave with no patience for white officers.