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Baadasssss!

Baadasssss! is Mario Van Peebles's 2003 biographical drama about his father Melvin making Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss S...

American Film Cinema

7.5 Good

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499

499 is a 2020 Mexico-U.S. docudrama by Rodrigo Reyes, using a returned conquistador to examine colonialism's legacy in m...

American Historical Film

7.3 Good

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Fort Apache, The Bronx

Fort Apache, The Bronx is a 1981 American crime drama starring Paul Newman as an NYPD officer in a troubled South Bronx...

American Crime Film

7.3 Good

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The Challenger Disaster

The Challenger Disaster is a 2013 BBC and Science Channel film starring William Hurt as Richard Feynman during the Roger...

American Space Film

7.2 Good

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Native Land

Native Land is a 1942 U.S. docudrama by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, using staged scenes to depict labor repression cite...

American Film Labor

7.1 Good

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The Honeymoon Killers

The Honeymoon Killers is Leonard Kastle's 1970 crime film inspired by Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the 1940s lonel...

American Crime Film

7.1 Good

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Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius is a 2008 biographical drama about inventor Robert Kearns and his patent fight with Ford over intermitte...

American Film Legal

7.0 Good

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The Street with No Name

The Street with No Name is a 1948 William Keighley film noir using a semidocumentary style to follow an FBI agent infilt...

American Crime Film

7.0 Good

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Not a Pretty Picture

Not a Pretty Picture is Martha Coolidge's 1976 American docudrama reconstructing her teenage rape and blending reenactme...

American Crime Film

6.8 Fair

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Conquest of the Air

Conquest of the Air is a British aviation docudrama produced by Alexander Korda, notable for tracing flight history in a...

Film British Aviation

6.6 Fair

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Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond is a 1952 MGM World War II docudrama about Paul Tibbets, the Enola Gay pilot who dropped the atomic bom...

American Film War

6.5 Fair

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Chain

Chain is Jem Cohen's 2004 docufiction film about two women navigating global retail spaces, noted for blurring fiction,...

American Social Film

6.5 Fair

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Greased Lightning

Greased Lightning is a 1977 biographical film starring Richard Pryor as Wendell Scott, the first Black driver credited w...

American Film Sports

6.4 Fair

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The Super Cops

The Super Cops is Gordon Parks's 1974 action film based on the book about NYPD officers David Greenberg and Robert Hantz...

American Crime Film

6.4 Fair

15

Party Monster

Party Monster is a 2003 biographical crime film by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato about New York club promoter Michael...

American Crime Film

6.3 Fair

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown

The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 U.S. horror docudrama by Charles B. Pierce, loosely based on the 1946 Texarkana...

American Crime Film

6.2 Fair

17

Bikini Moon

Bikini Moon is a New York indie film by Milcho Manchevski, filmed in 2016 and premiered at the 41st Mostra Internacional...

American Social Film

6.2 Fair

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The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End is a 1947 MGM docudrama by Norman Taurog about the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombing of...

American Science Film

6.1 Fair

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Buddy

Buddy is a 1997 U.S. biographical family film by Caroline Thompson, loosely based on Gertrude Lintz and the gorillas Mas...

American Film Animal

6.1 Fair

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Stand Tall

Stand Tall is a 1997 bodybuilding documentary centered on Lou Ferrigno's hearing loss and comeback, with Arnold Schwarze...

American Film Sports

6.1 Fair