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1. Sound of Freedom (2023)
PG-13 | 131 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The incredible true story of a former government agent turned vigilante who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from traffickers.
Director: Alejandro Monteverde | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Cristal Aparicio
Votes: 114,729
2. The Outpost (2019)
R | 123 min | Action, Drama, History
A small team of U.S. soldiers battles against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy
Votes: 40,629
3. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1971, twenty-four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Stars: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 46,163 | Gross: $0.64M
4. The Kerala Story (2023)
138 min | Drama
A converted Muslim woman Fatima Ba narrates her ordeal of how she once wanted to become a nurse but was abducted from her home and manipulated by religious vanguards, turned into an ISIS terrorist and landed in Afghanistan jail.
Directors: Sudipto Sen, Vipul Amrutlal Shah | Stars: Adah Sharma, Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, Siddhi Idnani
Votes: 72,034
5. Kon-Tiki (2012)
PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl'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.
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson
Votes: 52,009 | Gross: $1.52M
6. America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988–2013)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Crime
True crimes are dramatized in hopes that viewers can give information leading to the capture of the criminals.
Stars: John Walsh, Daniel David Sim, Don LaFontaine, Jon Leiberman
Votes: 2,268
7. An Adventure in Space and Time (2013 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 86 min | Biography, Drama, History
An actor tapped by a succession of hard-man roles and a wannabe producer frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama, time travel and monsters.
Director: Terry McDonough | Stars: David Bradley, Ross Gurney-Randall, Roger May, Sam Hoare
Votes: 7,551
8. Nightmare Next Door (2011– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Tells the tales of mysterious murders that rocked small-town America.
Stars: Greg Diefenbach, James Davenjay, Dorian Lough, Tom Gambrill
Votes: 1,088
9. Wild West Chronicles (2020– )
TV-PG | 22 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Once a feared lawman, the legendary Bat Masterson trades his sheriff's badge for a pen and becomes a newspaper reporter. He now travels the frontier to chronicle the amazing true stories of the Wild West and bring them to life once more.
Stars: Jack Elliott, Leslie Koch Foumberg, Robert Gatewood, Tom Gelo
Votes: 186
10. Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back exposes the intricate seductive power of Allison and Keith and the mental and physical abuse inflicted on her daughter.
Director: Lisa Robinson | Stars: Andrea Roth, Jasper Polish, Sara Fletcher, Kristin Booth
Votes: 598
11. Spycraft (2020–2022)
TV-MA | 271 min | Documentary
Follows intelligence experts who offer an look behind the CIA's most secretive operations throughout history and the devices that made them possible.
Stars: H. Keith Melton, Dylan Berry, Robert Bigman, Hamet Yousef
Votes: 2,506
12. Codebreaker (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life... See full summary »
Directors: Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey | Stars: Ed Stoppard, Henry Goodman, Paul McGann, Asa Briggs
Votes: 1,133
13. The Night That Panicked America (1975 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles's radio play "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provokes mass panic.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine, Walter McGinn
Votes: 745
14. This Is Elvis (1981)
PG | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.
Directors: Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt | Stars: Elvis Presley, David Scott, Paul Boensch III, Johnny Harra
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $2.03M
15. The Death and Return of Superman (2011)
PG-13 | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Screenwriter Max Landis accounts DC's 1992 multi-issue story arc "The Death and Return of Superman," pointing out various plot holes and featuring a number of celebrity cameos.
Director: Max Landis | Stars: Max Landis, Kit Willesee, Yuri Lowenthal, Grae Drake
Votes: 1,229
16. The Infiltrators (2019)
95 min | Drama
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
Directors: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera | Stars: Mohammad Abdollahi, Maynor Alvarado, Roman Arabia, Scott Broderick
Votes: 306
17. Operation Mincemeat (2010 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Drama, War
A documentary that looks at the World War 2 deception of 1943. British Naval intelligence devised a plan so ludicrous that Churchill loved it, the German High Command fell for it, and ... See full summary »
Director: Russell England | Stars: Ben Macintyre, Peternel Hankin, Jeremy Montagu, Patricia Trehearne
Votes: 122
18. First Oscar (2022)
114 min | Drama, History, War
Dramatizes the story behind the making of the first documentary winner of the Academy awards in 1943.
Director: Sergey Mokritskiy | Stars: Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Benjamin Schnau, Anton Momot, Darya Zhovner
Votes: 164
19. Unstoppable (2013)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
The death of his 15-year-old friend sparks Kirk Cameron to address the question of why bad things happen to good people. Through storytelling and dramatizations, Cameron goes back to the ... See full summary »
Director: Darren Doane | Stars: Kirk Cameron, Kelly Burke, Cari Burke, Denny Deutsch
Votes: 737
20. Deep Undercover (II) (2016– )
Documentary, Crime, Drama
Deep Undercover is a true crimes series from writer and producer Joe Pistone, the real "Donnie Brasco." Each episode tells the story of a different undercover operation from the POV of the undercover officers involved.
Stars: Dave B. Mitchell, Damon O'Daniel, Judy Ho, Michael Fleeman
Votes: 114
21. The Monster of Mangatiti (2015 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Heather Walsh tells her story of the time she was an emotional prisoner of Bill Cornelius at his remote farm.
Directors: Riccardo Pellizzeri, Philly de Lacey | Stars: Greta Gregory, Mark Mitchinson, Flynn Allan, Mark Warren
Votes: 824
22. The Attacks of 26/11 (2013)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The real story of ten terrorists, who sail to Mumbai and wage war on the populace for the next 72 hours.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma | Stars: Nana Patekar, Atul Kulkarni, Sanjeev Jaiswal, Rahaao
Votes: 5,515 | Gross: $0.25M
23. The English Programme (1976–2003)
Not Rated | Drama
Long-running series for schools and colleges produced by Thames Television, and in its final years by independent companies - although documentaries and dramas produced by other ITV ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlie Stafford, Stephen Warbeck, Christopher Neame, Ann Hasson
Votes: 11
24. The Day of the Roses (1998)
220 min | Drama
The dramatized true-story of the Granville train disaster in Jan 1977 and the subsequent inquiry. Told across two time-frames: the impossible conditions of rescuers, victims and survivors and the divisive investigation by the Coroner.
Stars: Cormac Costello, Stephen Curry, Helen Dallimore, Gigi Edgley
Votes: 200
25. Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Drama
A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Director: Anna Broinowski | Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini, Caroline Overington
Votes: 633
26. You Are the Jury (1984–1987)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Viewers watch a reenactment of an actual courtroom trial and then call a special 900-telephone number to vote whether the defendant is innocent or guilty.
Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Robert Vaughn, Peter Graves, Joe Regalbuto
Votes: 19
27. Edict of Expulsion 1492
110 min | Adventure, Drama, History | Pre-production
The Edict of Expulsion of the Sephardic Jews in Spain went public with the Alhambra Decree in April 1492. The charter declared that no Jews were permitted to remain within the Spanish ... See full summary »
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Robert Maillet, Kabir Bedi, Bill Oberst Jr., Kevin Duffy
28. Banned from Broadcast 3: Stalker Hell (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 46 min | Horror, Mystery
A woman agrees to have confrontations with her stalker recorded by hidden cameras. Mockumentary that looks like a documentary program but is a fiction, with the setting of "re-editing and broadcasting a VTR".
Director: Toshikazu Nagae | Stars: Takehiko Kasuga, Rena Sakaki, Yuko Suzuki, Hideo Yamada
29. Krakatoa (2008 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, Drama
The greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history, the Krakatoa explosion of August 27 1883.
Directors: Jeremy Hall, Stuart Everett | Stars: John Shrapnel, Michael Bernardin, Sasha Waddell, Nick Ewans
Votes: 126
30. Straight Up (1988– )
30 min | Family, Fantasy
A anti drug dramatization about the dangers of substance abuse.
Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Chad Allen, Tuck Milligan, Merrya Small
Votes: 29
31. The Snow Wolf: A Winter's Tale (2018 TV Movie)
57 min | Adventure, Drama
Dramatized story shot like a documentary about an alpha she-wolf and her six cubs who must navigate the treacherous Alps in order to find a safe place to live after her alpha mate is killed by a bear.
Directors: Fred Fougea, Christian Gaume | Stars: Emilia Fox, Matthias Korneli
Votes: 134
32. Frontkjempere (2021)
Documentary, War
Around 3600 Norwegians fought in the Waffen SS during World War II, and took part in bloody battles on the Eastern Front. Why? Here are their stories.
Stars: Eirik Hallert, Peder Lauvås, Even Vesterhus, Christoffer Mæland
Votes: 89
33. Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale (2015)
58 min | Documentary
A chronicle of the birth and development of one penguin chick, born late and smaller than any of its fellow toddlers.
Director: John Downer | Star: Kate Winslet
Votes: 283
34. The Battle of Broken Hill (1981)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, History
On January 1 1915, two Muslim men from British India went on a murderous rampage near a place called Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia.
Director: Robin Levinson | Stars: Michael Pate, David Robertson, Harold Berrett, Margaret Atkinson
35. A Day Without a Mexican (1998)
28 min | Short
News reports, with dramatizations within the faux documentary footage, explain that people across California have awakened to a state from which the Mexicans have disappeared: husbands, ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Arau | Stars: Dawn Westlake, Michael White, Tina S. Nieto, Louis Hock
Votes: 60
36. She's Safe!: A Curated Package of Woman-to-Woman Safer-Sex Videos (1993 Video)
55 min
A witty as well as fact-filled compilation of short films intended to convince lesbians of the need for and the fun of safe sex. It begins with facts about sexually transmitted disease, and... See full summary »
Director: Jenni Olson
Votes: 30
37. Leah Smock, the Legend Awakens (2016)
90 min | Horror
In a hollow, deep in the back woods of Kentucky, there is an unassuming grave of a young woman who died at the young age of twenty-two. Folklore tells that a beautiful and intelligent woman... See full summary »
Director: Edward B. Franke | Stars: Morgan Pyle, Jeff Armstrong, Barbara Helton, Shannon Stockin
Votes: 10
38. Shulie (1998)
37 min | Short, Biography, Drama
A shot-by-shot reenactment of an unreleased 1967 documentary portrait of SAIC student Shulamith Firestone, who, a few years later, would become a central figure in the rise of radical feminism.
Director: Elisabeth Subrin | Stars: Kim Soss, Elisabeth Subrin
Votes: 52
39. Durchbruch Lok 234 (1963)
85 min | Drama
Based on the real story of an East German machinist, disenchanted by the building of the Wall, who plans to use a train to cross the border with family members and other disaffected citizens.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Erik Schumann, Maria Körber, Rainer Eggers, Ingo Eggers
Votes: 46
40. The King's Breakfast (1963)
28 min | Short
Dramatisation in dance and mime, of the A.A. Milne poem about a king who had no butter for the royal slice of bread.
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Maurice Denham, Mischa Auer, Robert Flemyng, Reginald Beckwith
Votes: 9
41. Snow Bears (2017 TV Movie)
Documentary, Adventure, Family
Dramatized story about a polar bear mother and her two cubs who must reach the far north before the ice bridges they need to cross to get there melt, all the while being relentlessly pursued by a raging male bear in search of a mate.
Director: Philip Dalton | Star: Kate Winslet
Votes: 75
42. Gekijôban Hontô ni atta kowai hanashi 2016 (2016)
70 min | Horror
Film version of the popular horror series "Honto ni Aru Haoshi Monogatari", in which horror stories collected from the public are made into films.
Director: Yasumasa Konno | Stars: Mina Ohba, Megumi Kobashi, Ryûju Kobayashi, Eriko Kumagai
43. Reward Hunt (2010 TV Movie)
22 min | Comedy
Reward Hunt provides information on the thousands of rewards available to the general public and provides up-to-date information on most wanted criminals, suspected criminals, ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Francis Colon | Stars: Bill Bean, Skye Bernard, Yva Brighton, Anita Nicole Brown
44. The Rebels (1976– )
30 min | Biography, Drama, History
NBC television series where actors portraying famous historical figures are interviewed for a modern audience.
Stars: Ron Thompson, Ketih Berwick
45. Two Stars for Comfort (1977 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama
It's 1953 and hotel owner Sam Turner is looking forward to the summer regatta, where he has high hopes of pepping up his love life by seducing the Queen of the Regatta.
Director: Dennis Vance | Stars: Kenneth More, William Fox, Judy Parfitt, Sheridan Fitzgerald
46. StormWatch (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Martin Lisius | Stars: Sam Barricklow, Brad E. Barton, Al Moller, Gary Woodall
47. Douglas Mawson: The Survivor (1983)
53 min | Documentary, Drama
A dramatised reconstruction of the tragic 1912 expedition of Professor Sir Douglas Mawson to Antarctica. Australia owes its claim to 40 per cent of Antarctic territory to Mawson, who died ... See full summary »
Director: David Parer | Star: Douglas Mawson
48. War and Peace of Mind (2016)
72 min | Documentary, History, War
War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.
Director: Ari Matikainen | Stars: Markku Jokisipilä, Jenni Kirves, Ville Kivimäki, Juha Mälkki
Votes: 71
49. Court in the Act (1988 Video)
24 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
Director: Andrew Ellis | Stars: Rory Walker, Joey Kennedy
50. Love Me Haiti (2014)
14 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A woman struggles to free her husband after he's kidnapped and trapped in a prison cell. What she encounters would become one of the greatest true stories ever told.
Director: Hugues Gentillon | Stars: Aurelia Khazan, Pierre-louis Dieufaite, Deoud Gentillon, François Meknes
Votes: 1,185