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Best Historical Screenplays
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ALTA CALIFORNIAHis tribe slaughtered by Spanish forces, and his unbaptized mother condemned to Hell by the padres, Paco Palido, a young mixed-blood Californian now seeks a home, a place he belongs in a radically evolving world. |
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The Passage of SunThree brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War. |
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THE BANNERThough haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent. |
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Maeta's StoryIn the Occupied Netherlands, a widow and her 7 year old son go into hiding with the help of her brother, a WW1 veteran who struggles with PTSD. * "Recommend" by Dave Trottier |
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The Wayward SonOrphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair. (Formerly titled BLOOD LAW) |
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KibouA tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII. |
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RestorationDiscovering a centuries-old religious painting that shouldn't exist, an introverted art restorer slowly succumbs to the evil temptations of the mystical canvas, even as otherworldly forces strive to prevent her from revealing the artwork's unholy secret. Script Excerpt |
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LudlowA beleaguered Greek miner draws a reluctant strike instigator into the throes of a Colorado mining revolt, sparking a labor dispute with horrifying consequences. Based on a true story. Script Excerpt |
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Between the Salt and the SkyIt's 1942 in a small Portuguese fishing village at the edge of war. An out-of-work fisherman with nothing to live for meets an unlikely ally with nothing to lose. Two little Jewish girls change everything. Script Excerpt |
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LABYRINTH OF DESTINYDuring the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but years later they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. |
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Colter's RunBased on a true story, John Colter becomes a legend during the early days of the American frontier due to his adventures in the Yellowstone region and encounters with dangers that lead to an arduous eleven-day, two-hundred mile flight across the wilderness in which he has only his wits to survive. |
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WHITE SHADOWS, BLACK DREAMS - now adapted into novel My Journey to Lewaro: Stories Along the WayDR ANDREW HORTON UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES Professor Emeritus Justin Swingle's WHITE SHADOWS, BLACK DREAMS, is a compelling dramatic script based on the life of one of America's most important but least known women, Madam C.J.Walker. An African-American who was born the daughter of slaves, orphaned at seven, she became through both strength of character and good fortune, Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in the country and champion of the rights of not only blacks and women, but of all people. Swingle evokes the era as well as the character and aptly carries us through something of an epic |
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GreenmanA rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world. |
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The Revenge (Formerly Another Color) - Adapted from the novel - My Journey to Lewaro: Stories Along the WayNew Orleans, the French Quarter, c1850. Severine, a white woman, has two daughters outside of marriage. One is black, the other white. Their father is black. Severine is dying. She must do anything she can so that her daughters do not have the life she has had. She aims to have Marbella, her white daughter pursue the placage system. She will become the courtesan of a rich Creole man. But what will happen to her sister? JUSTINSWINGLE.com Script Excerpt |
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TRITONImagine going around the world under the sea onboard the world's most advanced submarine. It sounds like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," but it really happened. In this dramatic true story, an American nuclear submarine captain announces to his new, untested crew that their maiden voyage is now a far more dangerous top-secret mission - to make the first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth. |
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Hard-Hearted HannahA rookie detective on a routine hotel skip case instead finds himself pitted against a diabolical serial killer with a deadly grudge against the Eighth Air Force, whose reunion is being held there...and no one even suspects a murderer is in the house. Can he stop him before he kills again...and again? Script Excerpt |
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The Odyssey of John BuchananWhen a Scottish soldier loses his father in the Battle of Culloden, he rushes home only to see his wife and mother slain by British soldiers. John Buchanan is captured and must not only escape his captors but fight against his eventual banishment to the British Colonies and escape his life as an indentured servant on a tobacco plantation in Maryland. Script Excerpt |
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E Pluribus UnumVirginia 1860 – when a profitable, free plantation founded by disguised aliens and supported by famous Abolitionists is attacked by pro-slavers, two former slaves - a fighter and a pacifist, leave to seek help from newly-elected President Lincoln. Script Excerpt |
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Panama FeverWhen the Army sends a young doctor to Panama, his adventures- and misadventures- with the natives, the Army and his wife come fast and furious. Script Excerpt |
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The Dumb Ox BellowsA 13th-century friar struggles to revitalize Christian theology using logic and reason, but intellectual opposition from peers, malicious slander by envious brethren, and “slavery of the pen” under two Popes drive him to mental collapse and loss of faith in his life’s work -- until God intervenes miraculously to affirm its merit. The extraordinary, true story of Saint Thomas Aquinas.- Script Excerpt |
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AND WE WERE LEFT DARKLINGIn the aftermath of WW2, in an undefined place, two men, Eichmann and Wallenberg, play chess, using humans as pawns. Each represents the extreme of man’s humanity and inhumanity to man. https://andwewereleft.com/ |
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Behind The VeilFilm Noir. Los Angeles, 1947. A private investigator's search for a gay man among those marginalized by society results in a battle against the powerful elite who exploit them. (Recent Quarter Finalist Santa Barbara 2022 Diverse Writers outreach) Script Excerpt |
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DUEL AND DEATHFamous Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, dies in a duel defending his and his wife's honor. Script Excerpt |
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Turtle Eggs for AgassizA famous scientist's strange need challenges a young teacher to tackle it, launching a great adventure. Script Excerpt |
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GODSONLOGLINE: When the son of mafia boss leaves the family business and is wrongly charged for murder, he must choose whether to stay loyal to his mob family and serve a prison sentence, or defy them by proving his innocence and risk assassination. ____________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS: Chosen as next head of his family’s crime business, the eldest son of a New Orleans Mafia boss facing deportation orders abandons his Sicilian heritage by marrying an American woman and going into legitimate business. After his father is deported and his younger brother inherits the family business, the elder son is indicted for murder when a restaurant owner he had previously refused orders to kill turns up dead. Then he learns who is real family is and risks certain assassination by teaming up with an investigation lawyer against his blood family in court to avoid a death row prison sentence. |
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The Ed Dennehy StoryEd always wanted to act or direct in theatre. Infant epilepsy, a lifelong battle with booze, or the bizarre hallucinations of van Gogh, Barrymore and spiders the size of dogs were not going to stop him. Living in reality was another matter. This is a physiological journey where a man struggles to find peace between the worlds of the real and the imaginary. |
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The MaccabeesA father and his self-righteous son attempt to live in peace until the Greek King forces them to renounce their traditions to follow their many Greek gods and customs. The revolt begins. |
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A Journey With DestinyIn 1906, a young man’s journey by automobile leaves him stranded in a remote mining town about to erupt into a battle royale between company goons and radical labor. Script Excerpt |
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WHITE DEVIL OF SHANGHAIRomantic war adventure set against the backdrop of World War II China. Two mismatched fugitives of war, a jaded American newsman and a strong-willed Jewish refugee girl, escape Japanese-occupied Shanghai to reach Free China. They evolve into unlikely heroes among the Chinese, one as a mercenary destroying lives, the other as a Red Cross miracle worker saving lives. Their stormy relationship ultimately brings them together to save Shanghai's Jewish refugees from Nazi extermination. Script Excerpt |
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A Risk of ExposureA Russian ballet teacher plots to smuggle photos of Stalin's crimes while part of a cultural exchange to the U.S. in 1953. With the KGB in close pursuit, she finds an unexpected ally. Script Excerpt |
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East Meets WesternA runaway indentured Asian cook bakes his way into the good graces of a frontier town, where he struggles to win the skills and allies he needs to avoid recapture by the ruthless outlaw who 'owns' him. |
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The First CasualtyWhen a reporter uncovers a secret that could doom the war-torn Spanish Republic, he must help the whistleblower escape before a Communist death squad silences them both. |
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In the Broad Face of DayHistorical Drama (1843): When a lunatic guns down the secretary of the British Prime Minister in broad daylight in the streets of central London, the ensuing courtroom battle and outcome was to change forever the way insanity was viewed by courts around the world. |
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Dunkirk: Miracle of DeliveranceVice Admiral Bertram Ramsay masterminded the plans to rescue the British Expeditionary force from the beaches of Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo would bring them home. This docudrama starts from the very beginning of an insane plan to use 'little ships', captained by normal everyday people, to save the troops before they are cut down by Hitler's forces. |
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When Doves CryIn 1991, fraternal twins navigate the treachery of young adulthood, dealing with bullies, racists, homophobes, and abusive authority figures while seeking the ultimate Minneapolis experience; seeing the legendary Prince perform live at First Avenue on Halloween night but a freak blizzard threatens their plans. Script Excerpt |
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The Redemption of John ParkerAn embittered former slave risks life and limb as an Underground Railroad “conductor” until, targeted for death by angry slave owners and a sociopathic slave hunter, he must confront and resolve his inner rage or bring tragedy on his family. Based on a true story. |
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ErikssonThe Viking Leif Eriksson, who, to prove himself to his legendary father Erik the Red, embarks on a dangerous voyage to find new lands and inadvertently discovers America. Script Excerpt |
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LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLANDWhen a museum curator and his female assistant translate clues in an American Revolution-era journal to a British payroll buried on Oak Island, they must go undercover to unearth the treasure before two rival treasure hunters discover it. Wealth of the century or the island's deft insult? (From the novel Last Assault on Oak Island by Jenn Rekka.) |
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ParateichionA 15th-century monk-warrior goes through dramatic adventures - he crisscrosses Europe, takes part in the efforts to reunite Christianity, fights in the battle for Constantinople (1453), and describes the fall of the city in his famous book. |
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PITTSBURGH PHILBiopic of Pittsburgh Phil, a notorious mafia hitman in the 1930’s, who juggles love, the law and life, while lusting to be at the top of his profession. Script Excerpt |
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ODE TO FREEDOMAlexander Pushkin, Russia's most famous poet in the nineteenth century, overcomes internal insecurity to inspire the fight against serfdom and the Tsar. Script Excerpt |
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Me and the O.G. Genghis KhanWithin a madcap weekend, a misfit pacifist must prove to his father that he has value for Genghis Khan, or else he must fight in the Mongol army. |
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SQUADRESicily, 1859, a giant mountain man (Carlo Sovrumano) leads 5000 fierce fighters alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi in the brutal fight for Italian freedom at Palermo. |
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The VentureTHE VENTURE: -At the peak of hippie counterculture, a drug dealer and an ex-Army clerk embark on an adventure of free love, psychedelic drugs, and transient life with their like-minded friends, eventually leading to the birth of the first counterculture mall. Script Excerpt |
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Time Travel: Many Happy ReturnsTwo simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time—and now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home. |
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The March of the 18thIn 1864 the Veteran Reserve Corps was formed to allow disabled Union army men to continue to perform their duty for God and Country. This is the story of six invalid soldiers of the 18th Regiment and their 25 mile march into history, as they battled the elements, their own disabilities & self-doubt, and a band of vicious, scavenging marauders. Script Excerpt |
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Duty to WarnLegal thriller based on the true 1969 stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff and the Supreme Court case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws in America. Script Excerpt |
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REVELATIONSA young nurse investigates her mother’s disturbing death and becomes entangled in a decades old political cover up involving her family and the illicit love affair of America’s most infamous lovers. |
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Mother SeacoleBritish soldiers are transported from Jamaica to fight in the Crimean War. From her own resources, a Scottish-Jamaican lady provides home comforts and medical assistance to her boys in Crimea and becomes a British heroine. Script Excerpt |
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MARY BAKER EDDYWhen the leader of a new Christian religion is targeted by a vicious smear campaign by a leading newspaper, it launches a suit against the popular but controversial 85-year-old woman for control of her newly found church; but a famous literary figure (Mark Twain) surprisingly comes to her aid, and the church leader wins the suit and starts a newspaper that decades later wins awards named after the publisher (Pulitzer) that attacked her. |
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Fair WarningThriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. Script Excerpt |
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Race Across AmericaAfter an impulsive dare and a $50 bet, a determined doctor races to become the first American to drive an automobile across the country ... and return home to his pregnant wife. |
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SCHERZO CODEAn aspiring New York pianist is tutored by a world-famous Russian concert master and falls in love with his daughter, only to discover that the maestro leads a double life as a Soviet assassin who murdered his father. Seeking vengeance, the young pianist finds himself embroiled in a mysterious KGB plot to smuggle out an American prototype of the "Suitcase Bomb" -- the first portable nuclear device designed at the height of the Cold War. Script Excerpt |
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Curbside Service
A recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the Arizona desert on their way to a family holiday function.
The Gotaways
A successful producers world is turned upside down when she's given the unexpected news that her hit TV show has been canceled.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
A rare book dealer uses the reading of his will to seal heirs who he believes wronged him, in a panic room with no air or escape, unless they decode a mystery hidden in a centuries old book.
FULL CONTACT
FULL CONTACT is a high-octane, adrenaline rush Action Thriller about a fearsome Super Bowl-obsessed linebacker who struggles to defeat an unhinged locker room psychopath out to destroy everything and everyone he cherishes in his life.
Child of the Disappeared
Maria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth.
ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE PIGS!
THEY WANT YOU FOR BREAKFAST.
SCARRED!
FROM DARKNESS A LEGEND IS BORN.
TEXT ME
MAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT A DOG, IT'S A CELL PHONE.
REFLECTION
HEADS YOU LOSE AND TAILS YOU DIE.