Movies like Being Heumann: 20 to watch next
If you loved Being Heumann (2026) — a drama and history film directed by Sian Heder — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Being Heumann most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on novel or book, san francisco, california and 1970s. 7 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020★ 7.7
Shares: Drama, History
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Stream in India on Netflix
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In Dubious Battle 2016★ 5.8
Shares: Drama
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Rustin 2023★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, History
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Escape from Pretoria 2020★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, History
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Born on the Fourth of July 1989★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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I Shot Andy Warhol 1996★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
The story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "SCUM" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he repeatedly ignored her. So she shot him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Bloody Sunday 2002★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, History
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Panther 1995★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, History
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Stanford Prison Experiment 2015★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, History
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Truth & Treason 2025★ 8.1
Shares: History, Drama
In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign broadcasts and distributes leaflets exposing Nazi lies. As the Gestapo closes in, the teenagers face mounting danger for choosing conscience over obedience. Based on the true story of one of Germany’s youngest resistance fighters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Cloud Atlas 2012★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Resistance 2020★ 7.0
Shares: History, Drama
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Oranges and Sunshine 2010★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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American Pastoral 2016★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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BlacKkKlansman 2018★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, History
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Beautiful Boy 2018★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Nuremberg 2025★ 7.6
Shares: History, Drama
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Lost Bus 2025★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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Nickel Boys 2024★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, History
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Zabriskie Point 1970★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now