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10 Best Movies Like The Unknown Woman

If you loved The Unknown Woman, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Night Will Fall

Night Will Fall

2014★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Woman for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full...

#2
Five Came Back

Five Came Back

2017★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Woman for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to ...

#3
To Be Takei

To Be Takei

2014★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Woman for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five m...

#4
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Woman for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs....

#5
Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Woman for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed m...

#6
One Child Nation

One Child Nation

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Woman for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and d...

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