1. The Woman King
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
It has an average vote of 7.681 on TMDB.
2. Magnicidios Poe (Magnicidios Poe)
The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
3. Park Row
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
4. The Lincoln Cycle
This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a vehicle for his performance as Abraham Lincoln, are structured entirely around memory and recollections of the past.
5. Jack the Ripper
An English woman is unwittingly sold into prostitution and joins a brothel run by a mysterious baron.
6. No Māori Allowed
When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa (Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa)
(Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa)
8. The Current War
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
It has an average vote of 6.702 on TMDB.
9. The Heiress
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
It has an average vote of 7.72 on TMDB.
10. Gare du Nord : La Plus Grande Gare d'Europe (Gare du Nord : La Plus Grande Gare d'Europe)
(Gare du Nord : La Plus Grande Gare d'Europe)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
11. Ako listy jedného stromu (Ako listy jedného stromu)
(Ako listy jedného stromu)
12. The Gates of Jerusalem: A History of the Holy City
This fascinating program presents the story of Jerusalem and the Holy Land against the backdrop of history and prophecy. Jerusalem is the city where history began, and where many believe history will end.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Walker
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
15. Madame Bovary (Madame Bovary)
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
It has an average vote of 6.295 on TMDB.
16. Woman Walks Ahead
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
17. Glory
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
It has an average vote of 7.471 on TMDB.
18. 1212. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212. La batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa)
On 16 July 1212, a Crusader army made up of Castilians, Aragonese and Navarrese confronted the army of the Almohad Caliph an-Nasir at the foot of the Sierra Morena mountain range. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, as the battle is known, is considered the most important battle of the Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula and is a key event in the history of Spain. More than 800 years later, a group of archaeologists and specialists have begun an archaeological study of the battlefield. Is everything that has been said about the battle true? What secrets does the terrain hide? And, above all, what can we learn today about events that took place hundreds of years ago and that pitted tens of thousands of people against each other in the south of our country?
It has an average vote of 5.625 on TMDB.
19. The White Dawn
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
20. Robber of the Cruel Streets
This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in 19th century England. He never asked anyone for money. Instead he prayed, and his children never missed a meal.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.