650 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1970s
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The Founder
Minnesota Illinois Missouri Arizona California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sRisk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer. — The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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Miles Ahead
New York The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sIf you gonna tell a story, come with some attitude. — An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
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Eddie the Eagle
Alberta England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980sWin or lose, always aim high — The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
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American Pastoral
New Jersey The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sA radically ordinary story. — 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.
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The Odyssey
New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1940s The 1950sThe aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
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Christine
Florida The 1970sBased on a true story. — The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
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Kate Plays Christine
Florida The 2010s The 1970sFollow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her subject.
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20th Century Women
California The 1970sIn 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
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Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
New York The 1970s The 1980sDonald Trump has it all. Money, power, respect, and an Eastern European bride. But all his success didn't come for nothing. First, he inherited millions of dollars from his rich father, then he grabbed New York City by the balls. Now you can learn the art of negotiation, real estate, and high-quality brass.
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Amityville Toybox
Nebraska The 1970s The 2010sEvil Comes In All Forms — A cursed antique toy monkey from the original DeFeo home wrecks havoc and possesses a father after being gifted during an annual family reunion.
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Weirdos
Nova Scotia The 1970sIt's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road, with their sights on Sydney, and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?
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The Last Gold
Quebec The 1970sNarrated by Emmy-winner Julianna Margulies, The Last Gold is a feature-length documentary film that reveals one of the greatest untold stories in Olympic swimming history. Forty years ago, at the 1976 Montreal Games, a team of doped East German athletes thrashed their rivals from the United States, until a remarkable final race.
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Terminator Genisys
California The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2010s The 2020sReset the future — The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
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Pawn Sacrifice
New York California 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇧🇬 Bulgaria The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sOn the board he fought the Cold War. In his mind he fought his madness. — American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
California The 1970sSome things are best kept secret — Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
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Black Mass
Massachusetts California Florida The 1970sKeep your enemies close. — The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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Love & Mercy
California The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sThe Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson — In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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Joy
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Texas The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sA story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
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The Walk
New York 🇫🇷 France The 1970sDream High. — The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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We Are Still Here
New England The 1970sThis house needs a family. — After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
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Trumbo
Kentucky District of Columbia California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAre you now or have you ever been... — The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
California The 1970sThey were given 2 weeks. It lasted 6 days. — This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
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Experimenter
Connecticut New York The 1960s The 1970sThe Stanley Milgram Story — Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
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Spotlight
Massachusetts The 2000s The 1970sBreak the story. Break the silence. — The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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The Big Short
New York Nevada Colorado Florida The 2000s The 1970sThis is a true story. — The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
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