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10 Best Movies Like 1968

If you loved 1968, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Manny

Manny

2014★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1968 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

From abject poverty to becoming a ten-time boxing world champion, congressman, and international icon, Manny Pacquiao is the true definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippin...

#2
4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1968 for fans of Documentary & TV Movie. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--an...

#3
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1968 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States....

#4
All the Way

All the Way

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1968 for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, cu...

#5
Icarus

Icarus

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1968 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “a...

#6
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1968 for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

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