Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Movie2003 • Adventure • Fantasy • Action
When wily Captain Barbossa steals Jack Sparrow's ship and kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, her childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack to save h…
Similar themes: Adventure, Fantasy
Lawrence of Arabia
Movie1962 • Adventure • History • War
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Similar themes: Adventure, History
Shaka Zulu
TV1986 • War & Politics • Drama • Action & Adventure
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre…
Matched on: empire
Khartoum
Movie1966 • Adventure • History • War
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on…
Similar themes: Adventure, History
Zulu
Movie1964 • Drama • History • War
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 D…
Similar themes: Drama, History
The Man Who Would Be King
Movie1975 • Drama • Adventure
Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. Af…
Similar themes: Drama, Adventure
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Movie1968 • Drama
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the U…
Similar themes: Drama
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Movie2006 • Drama • War
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive,…
Similar themes: Drama, War
Mountains of the Moon
Movie1990 • Drama • Adventure • History
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
Matched on: empire
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie1968 • Drama • History • War
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic deb…
Similar themes: Drama, History
North West Frontier
Movie1959 • Drama • Adventure
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relent…
Similar themes: Drama, Adventure
Carry On Up the Khyber
Movie1968 • Adventure • Comedy
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khaz…
Similar themes: Adventure, Comedy