Princess Ka'lulani

Gorgeous costumes, scenery, and cinematography highlight this fascinating, 2009 biographical film the follows a headstrong Hawaiian princess (Q'orianka Kilcher) as she leaves her native islands with her widowed Scottish father during political unrest in 1889, falls for a handsome British gentlemen (Shaun Evans) while reluctantly receiving an education in England, and eventually returns to Hawaii when the reigning queen (Leo Anderson Akana) is arrested and the monarchy is threatened to become a political activist to gain voting rights for all her people with the help of an American politician (Bill Paxton).
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