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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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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.
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William Holden |
Jack Hawkins |
Alec Guinness |
Sessue Hayakawa |
James Donald |
Geoffrey Horne |
André Morell |
Peter Williams |
John Boxer |
Percy Herbert |
Harold Goodwin |
Ann Sears |
Heihachiro Okawa |
Keiichiro Katsumoto |
M.R.B. Chakrabandhu |
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David Lean |
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
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Biography |
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War |
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Michael J. Fox |
Sean Penn |
Don Harvey |
John C. Reilly |
John Leguizamo |
Thuy Thu Le |
Erik King |
Jack Gwaltney |
Ving Rhames |
Dan Martin |
Dale Dye |
Steve Larson |
John Linton |
Vyto Ruginis |
Al Shannon |
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Brian De Palma |
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.
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Drama |
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Christian Bale |
John Malkovich |
Miranda Richardson |
Nigel Havers |
Joe Pantoliano |
Leslie Phillips |
Masatô Ibu |
Emily Richard |
Rupert Frazer |
Peter Gale |
Takatoro Kataoka |
Ben Stiller |
David Neidorf |
Ralph Seymour |
Robert Stephens |
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Steven Spielberg |
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John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman Rambo's old commander appears to shed light on the situation.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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Sylvester Stallone |
Richard Crenna |
Brian Dennehy |
Bill McKinney |
Jack Starrett |
Michael Talbott |
Chris Mulkey |
John McLiam |
Alf Humphreys |
David Caruso |
David L. Crowley |
Don MacKay |
Charles A. Tamburro |
David Petersen |
Craig Huston |
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| Directors: |
Ted Kotcheff |
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Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.
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Adventure |
Drama |
Thriller |
War |
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Steve McQueen |
James Garner |
Richard Attenborough |
James Donald |
Charles Bronson |
Donald Pleasence |
James Coburn |
Hannes Messemer |
David McCallum |
Gordon Jackson |
John Leyton |
Angus Lennie |
Nigel Stock |
Robert Graf |
Jud Taylor |
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| Directors: |
John Sturges |
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
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Benjamin Bratt |
James Franco |
Robert Mammone |
Max Martini |
James Carpinello |
Mark Consuelos |
Craig McLachlan |
Freddie Joe Farnsworth |
Laird Macintosh |
Jeremy Callaghan |
Scott McLean |
Paolo Montalban |
Clayne Crawford |
Sam Worthington |
Royston Innes |
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John Dahl |
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The best laid plans of mice and men ... A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower's use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR's influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?
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Comedy |
War |
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Peter Sellers |
Jean Seberg |
William Hartnell |
David Kossoff |
Leo McKern |
MacDonald Parke |
Austin Willis |
Timothy Bateson |
Monte Landis |
Alan Gifford |
Colin Gordon |
Harold Kasket |
Wally Brown |
Jacques Cey |
Charles Clay |
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Jack Arnold |
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
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Biography |
Drama |
Music |
War |
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Adrien Brody |
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Frank Finlay |
Maureen Lipman |
Emilia Fox |
Ed Stoppard |
Julia Rayner |
Jessica Kate Meyer |
Michal Zebrowski |
Wanja Mues |
Richard Ridings |
Nomi Sharron |
Anthony Milner |
Lucy Skeaping |
Roddy Skeaping |
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| Directors: |
Roman Polanski |
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John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with Co Bao, and when Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh, Rambo wants revenge, so he starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.
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Adventure |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Sylvester Stallone |
Richard Crenna |
Charles Napier |
Steven Berkoff |
Julia Nickson-Soul |
Martin Kove |
George Cheung |
Andy Wood |
William Ghent |
Voyo Goric |
Dana Lee |
Baoan Coleman |
Steven Williams |
Don Collins |
Christopher Grant |
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| Directors: |
George P. Cosmatos |
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This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin.
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Christian Bale |
Marshall Bell |
François Chau |
Jeremy Davies |
Craig Gellis |
GQ |
Zach Grenier |
Pat Healy |
Toby Huss |
Bonnie Z. Hutchinson |
Evan Jones |
Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul |
Mr. Tony B. King |
Mr. Richard Manning |
Mr. Garrett D. Melich |
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Werner Herzog |
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