Directed by Gary Ross. With Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell. A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves, and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.

Source: Free State of Jones (2016) – IMDb

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

Source: Spartacus (1960) – IMDb

Directed by John Ford. With John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt. A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence. The Union officers each have different reasons for wanting to be on the mission.

Source: The Horse Soldiers (1959) – IMDb

Directed by William Wyler. With Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power. A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

Source: Roman Holiday (1953) – IMDb

Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall. With James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda. A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century – including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

Source: How the West Was Won (1962) – IMDb

Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy. Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) – IMDb

Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore. The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter’s life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

Source: Young at Heart (1954) – IMDb

Directed by Susanna White. With Carlos Acosta, Radivoje Bukvic, Stellan Skarsgård, Mariya Fomina. A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

Source: Our Kind of Traitor (2016) – IMDb