Movies like Waterloo
If Waterloo's mix of napoleon bonaparte, 19th century and waterloo stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Waterloo's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
2002 · Directed by Kevin Reynolds · 131 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: napoleon bonaparte, 19th century · Also drama and history
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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Zulu
1964 · Directed by Cy Endfield · 138 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith Jack Hawkins · Shares: 19th century · Also drama and history
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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The Duellists
1977 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 100 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century, waterloo · Also drama and war · From the same decade (1970s)
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Directed by David Lean · 162 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Jack Hawkins · Also drama and history
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col.
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Lion of the Desert
1981 · Directed by Moustapha Akkad · 173 min7.3
Why you'll like itWith Rod Steiger · Also history and war
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for…
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · Directed by Peter Weir · 138 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and war
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh…
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Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 112 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and history
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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The Current War
2018 · Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon · 108 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and history
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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Gods and Generals
2003 · Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell · 219 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and history
Follows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.