If You Liked The Right Stuff, Watch These Next
Finished The Right Stuff (1983) and want more of the same? These 17 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Right Stuff, most of them are drama, history.
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17 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.Fat Man and Little Boy(1989)
6.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent…
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3.Sully(2016)
7.2DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an…
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4.Against the Ice(2022)
6.8DramaAdventureHistoryAlso drama and history
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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5.Richard Jewell(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryCrimeAlso drama and history
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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7.Ford v Ferrari(2019)
8.0DramaHistoryActionAlso drama and history
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in…
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8.The Aviator(2004)
7.2DramaAlso drama
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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10.Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend(2022)
6.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehicles during World War II, and the designer of Lamborghini cars, which he launched in 1963 as the high-end sports car company Automobili Lamborghini.
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11.Bridge of Spies(2015)
7.2ThrillerDramaAlso drama
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young…
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12.The Finest Hours(2016)
6.6ActionDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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13.The Gathering Storm(2002)
6.7DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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15.Thirteen Days(2000)
7.0HistoryThrillerAlso history
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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16.The Boys in the Boat(2023)
7.2DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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17.The Perfect Storm(2000)
6.5DramaAdventureActionAlso drama
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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