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Chariots of Fire
Year: 1981
Country: UK
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Patrick Magee, Ben Cross, Alice Krige, Ian Holm, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud, Nicholas Farrell
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The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice.
The Great Escape
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1963
Country: USA
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Charles Bronson, James Garner, James Coburn, James Donald, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough
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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.
Julius Caesar
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands, Italy
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Christopher Walken, Sean Pertwee, Chris Noth, Jeremy Sisto, Ian Duncan, Valeria Golino, Richard Harris
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The story of the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar, born July 13, 100 B.C., and starting his career as a young Roman with visions of greatness for the Eternal City. When Sulla conquers Rome with his troops, Caesar is one of the very few to stand up against the despotic dictator. This impresses Pompeius, Sulla's general, and he protects the young man, who is a nephew of Marius, a well known veteran, against the wrath of Sulla. After Sulla's death, Caesar returns from exile and starts his political career. Caesar's daughter Julia marries general and senator Pompeius, and Caesar takes Pompeius' troops in order to simply safe...
The 300 Spartans
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Rudolph Maté
Starring: Barry Coe, Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, David Farrar, Donald Houston, Anna Synodinou
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The Persian king of kings Xerxes has devoted his reign to realizing the ambition of his father, stopped by Greeks, to extend his Achaemenid slave empire to and beyond Greece, and marches in 480 BC with an unprecedentedly vast army. When a captured Spartan explorer shows unconditional courage even on the chopping block, he is spared and send to the assembled Greek states at Corinth to report the Persian might. There the Athenian leader Themistocles manages to turn the defeatist tide by formally placing the Athenian fleet under the supreme command of Sparta, whose king Leonidas promises to defend Greece regardless who follows- but back in Spart...
Roger & Me
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Burns
Starring: Anne Archer, Gene Simmons, Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Sam Huntington, Jack Larson
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.
Australia
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Max Cullen, Bryan Brown, Essie Davis, Eddie Baroo, Shea Adams, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry
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In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.In 1939, the aristocratic Lady Sarah Ashley travels from Great Britain to Australia to meet her husband Maitland Ashley in northern Australia. The husband's drover comes to the city of Darwin to ...
The Last Emperor
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Year: 1987
Country: UK, Italy, France, China
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Victor Wong, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ric Young, Dennis Dun, John Lone
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959.
King Arthur
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Til Schweiger, Ken Stott, Stephen Dillane, Ray Winstone, Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ivano Marescotti
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Based on a more realistic portrayal of "Arthur" than has ever been presented onscreen. The film will focus on the history and politics of the period during which Arthur ruled -- when the Roman empire collapsed and skirmishes over power broke out in outlying countries -- as opposed to the mystical elements of the tale on which past Arthur films have focused.
The Bounty
Year: 1984
Country: USA, UK
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, John Sessions
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Hollywoodland
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Adrien Brody, Bob Hoskins, Neil Crone, Molly Parker, Lois Smith
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fianc
Amistad
Genres: Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou, Razaaq Adoti, Pete Postlethwaite, Anthony Hopkins, Anna Paquin, Nigel Hawthorne
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Once Upon a Time in China and America
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 1997
Country: Hong Kong
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xin Xin Xiong, Kwok-Pong Chan, Jeff Wolfe, Joseph Sayah, Chrysta Bell Zucht
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The story is set in both Hong Kong and the U.S. So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.
Les misérables
Year: 1998
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: Bille August
Starring: Tim Barlow, Claire Danes, Christopher Adamson, Ben Crompton, Reine Brynolfsson, Timothy Bateson, David Birkin
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Gladiator
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 2000
Country: USA, UK
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Spencer Treat Clark, Djimon Hounsou, Tommy Flanagan, John Shrapnel, Joaquin Phoenix, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Russell Crowe
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In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus Decimus Meridias has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate. Marcus' neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas, however. Escaping an ordered execution, Maximus hurries back to his home in Spain, too late to save his wife and son from the same order. Taken into slavery and trained as a gladiator by Proximo, Maximus lives only that he might someday take his revenge and fulfill the dying wish of his emperor. The time soon comes when Proximo's troupe is called to Rome to participate in...
Gallipoli
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1981
Country: Australia
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Mel Gibson, Reg Evans, Tim McKenzie, Robert Grubb, Bill Kerr, David Argue, Mark Lee
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The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Nightwatching
Genres: Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 2007
Country: UK, Canada, Netherlands, France, Poland
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Martin Freeman, Toby Jones, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Kevin McNulty, Michael Teigen, Eva Birthistle, Emily Holmes
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The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son an...
Sharpe's Peril
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Director: Tom Clegg
Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley
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Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
The Killing Fields
Year: 1984
Country: UK
Director: Roland Joffé
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson, Athol Fugard, Sam Waterston
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
A Passage to India
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1984
Country: USA, UK
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, James Fox, Art Malik, Richard Wilson, Nigel Havers, Saeed Jaffrey, Judy Davis
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fianc