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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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Gerard Butler |
Lena Headey |
Dominic West |
David Wenham |
Vincent Regan |
Michael Fassbender |
Tom Wisdom |
Andrew Pleavin |
Andrew Tiernan |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Giovani Cimmino |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Kramer |
Alex Ivanovici |
Craig Kelly |
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Zack Snyder |
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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
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Richard Egan |
Ralph Richardson |
Diane Baker |
Barry Coe |
David Farrar |
Donald Houston |
Anna Synodinou |
Kieron Moore |
John Crawford |
Robert Brown |
Laurence Naismith |
Anne Wakefield |
Ivan Triesault |
Charles Fawcett |
Michalis Nikolinakos |
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Rudolph Maté |
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers' sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.
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Humphrey Bogart |
Katharine Hepburn |
Robert Morley |
Peter Bull |
Theodore Bikel |
Walter Gotell |
Peter Swanwick |
Richard Marner |
Errol John |
Gerald Onn |
John von Kotze |
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John Huston |
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Craig Erickson |
Dennis Quaid |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Jason Patric |
Patrick Wilson |
Emilio Echevarría |
Jordi Mollà |
Leon Rippy |
Tom Davidson |
Marc Blucas |
Robert Prentiss |
Kevin Page |
Joe Stevens |
Stephen Bruton |
Laura Clifton |
Ricardo Chavira |
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John Lee Hancock |
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
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Anthony Hopkins |
Jared Leto |
Colin Farrell |
David Bedella |
Jessie Kamm |
Angelina Jolie |
Val Kilmer |
Fiona O'Shaughnessy |
Connor Paolo |
Patrick Carroll |
Brian Blessed |
Peter Williamson |
Morgan Christopher Ferris |
Robert Earley |
Aleczander Gordon |
Christopher Plummer |
Gary Stretch |
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Oliver Stone |
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Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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Robert Duvall |
Marlon Brando |
Martin Sheen |
Frederic Forrest |
Sam Bottoms |
Laurence Fishburne |
Dennis Hopper |
Albert Hall |
Harrison Ford |
G.D. Spradlin |
Jerry Ziesmer |
Scott Glenn |
Bo Byers |
James Keane |
Kerry Rossall |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant's son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony's misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.
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Saoirse Ronan |
Brenda Blethyn |
Julia West |
James McAvoy |
Harriet Walter |
Keira Knightley |
Juno Temple |
Felix von Simson |
Charlie von Simson |
Alfie Allen |
Patrick Kennedy |
Benedict Cumberbatch |
Peter Wight |
Peter O'Connor |
Daniel Mays |
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Joe Wright |
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A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
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Trevor Roberts |
Stefan Arngrim |
Victor Ayala |
Steve Bacic |
Jamie Bamber |
Graham Beckel |
Matthew Bennett |
Jacob Blair |
Chris Bradford |
Peter Bryant |
James Callis |
Fulvio Cecere |
Nico Cortez |
Ben Cotton |
Aaron Douglas |
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Félix Enríquez Alcalá |
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.
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Thriller |
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Clint Eastwood |
Geraldine Page |
Elizabeth Hartman |
Jo Ann Harris |
Darleen Carr |
Mae Mercer |
Pamelyn Ferdin |
Melody Thomas Scott |
Peggy Drier |
Patricia Mattick |
Charlie Briggs |
George Dunn |
Charles Martin |
Matt Clark |
Patrick Culliton |
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Don Siegel |
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Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
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Angelina Jolie |
Clive Owen |
Teri Polo |
Linus Roache |
Noah Emmerich |
Yorick van Wageningen |
Timothy West |
Kate Trotter |
Jonathan Higgins |
John Gausden |
Isabelle Horler |
Iain Lee |
Keelan Anthony |
John Bourgeois |
Kalyane Tea |
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Martin Campbell |
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Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.
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Josh Hartnett |
Ewan McGregor |
Jason Isaacs |
Tom Sizemore |
Eric Bana |
Sam Shepard |
Ewen Bremner |
Tom Hardy |
Ron Eldard |
Charlie Hofheimer |
Hugh Dancy |
Tom Guiry |
Brian Van Holt |
Steven Ford |
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Ridley Scott |
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