Tagged: genre: historical

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Lincoln (2012)

Steven Spielberg’s latest proves to be a reserved, timely biopic of Abraham Lincoln’s last few months as President of the United States.

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Silent War, The

You’d think The Silent War is a slick spy thriller set in the historical backdrop, and you wouldn’t be wrong because the film IS about spies breaking codes circa 1949 with the backdrop of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.

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Argo

Ben Affleck returns with an extremely well-executed thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis as his third feature.

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War of the Arrows

Set after the second Manchu invasion of the country, War of Arrows follows a skilled archer who must rescue his sister when she’s taken by the Qing army.