Movies like Quiz Show
Quiz Show (1994) is a history movie directed by Robert Redford. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Snowden (2016)
★ 7.1 · 4,810 votes · Drama, History, Crime
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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2. Invictus (2009)
★ 7.2 · 4,458 votes · Drama, History
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
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3. Gandhi (1982)
★ 7.6 · 2,593 votes · Drama, History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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4. Serpico (1973)
★ 7.5 · 2,303 votes · Crime, Drama, History
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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5. Just Mercy (2019)
★ 7.8 · 2,566 votes · Drama, Crime, History
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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6. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
★ 7.1 · 1,163 votes · Drama, History
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
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7. The Hill (2023)
★ 7.6 · 325 votes · History, Drama
The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.
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8. All the Way (2016)
★ 6.7 · 328 votes · Drama, History, TV Movie
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
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9. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
★ 7.3 · 1,154 votes · Drama, History
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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10. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
★ 7.0 · 1,821 votes · History, Family, Drama
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
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11. Shattered Glass (2003)
★ 7.0 · 499 votes · Drama, History
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
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12. Worth (2021)
★ 6.7 · 402 votes · History, Drama
Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers what life is worth.
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