Archive for the 'History' Category
Flags of Our Fathers
In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.
Flags of Our Fathers DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.20 out of 10 (14583 votes)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas McCarthy, Chris Bauer, Judith Ivey, Myra Turley,
Tags: History, War, Drama, Action, 1940s, alcoholism, based-on-book, blood, blood-splatter, corpse, death, decapitation, exploding-body, fame, gore, head-blown-off, heroism, idolatry, imperial-japan, iwo-jima, japan, japanese-army, loss-of-friend, military, narration, native-american, pacific-ocean, racism, severed-arm, severed-head, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, soldier, suicide, tokyo-japan, torture, vomit, wwii
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United 93
September 11, 2001. The nation was under attack by suicide hijackers, who hit Three famous buildings. The fourth plane United 93 was a story of 40 passengers who were strangers. Who sat through terrifying event. But found courage, rebelled and become hero’s. And stood united.
United 93 DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.90 out of 10 (26730 votes)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: J.J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Opal Alladin, Starla Benford, Trish Gates, Nancy McDoniel, David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Polly Adams, Christian Clemenson, Liza Colón-Zayas, Lorna Dallas, Denny Dillon,
Tags: History, Drama, air-traffic-control, air-traffic-controller, airplane, airplane-accident, airplane-hijack, airport, arab, aviation, beaten-to-death, blood-splatter, bomb, boston-massachusetts, brawl, brief-nudity, cleveland-ohio, cockpit, controversial, corpse, disturbing, docudrama, exploding-building, fire-extinguisher, flight-attendant, hostage, hotel, lord's-prayer, mass-murder, military, murder, muslim, neck-breaking-scene, new-jersey, new-york, new-york-city, number-in-title, one-day, plane-crash, prayer, self-sacrifice, september-11-2001, stabbed-in-the-neck, stabbing, suicide, terrorism, terrorist, title-spoken-by-character, virginia, vulgarity, what-happened-to-epilogue, world-trade-center, world-trade-center-new-york
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Hollywoodland
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 fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.
Hollywoodland DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.60 out of 10 (6558 votes)
Director: Allen Coulter
Actors: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney, Larry Cedar, Jeffrey DeMunn, Brad William Henke, Dash Mihok, Molly Parker, Caroline Dhavernas, Kathleen Robertson, Joe Spano, Gareth Williams, Zach Mills,
Tags: Mystery, History, Drama, Crime, Thriller, 1950s, actor, bigot, bigotry, blood, blood-splatter, car-accident, child-with-gun, corpse, death, depression, divorced, ethnic-conflict, ethnic-diversity, ethnic-hatred, ethnic-slur, fame, father-son-relationship, fellatio, film-industry, held-at-gunpoint, los-angeles-california, loss-of-loved-one, loss-of-son, murder, neo-noir, pistol, premarital-sex, racial-discrimination, racial-injustice, racial-issues, racial-mores, racial-overtones, racial-prejudice, racial-segregation, racial-slur, racial-tension, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-crotch, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-throat, superman, suspected-murder
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World Trade Center
On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.
World Trade Center DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.50 out of 10 (15163 votes)
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Connor Paolo, Anthony Piccininni, Alexa Gerasimovich, Morgan Flynn, Michael Pena, Armando Riesco, Jay Hernandez, Joe Starr, Jon Bernthal, William Jimeno, Nick Damici, Jude Ciccolella, Martin Pfefferkorn,
Tags: History, Drama, accountant, african-american, airplane, alarm-clock, ambulance, barber-shop, based-on-true-story, bible, blood, boy, brother-sister-relationship, building-collapse, burning, bus, car-radio, caricature, cave-in, cell-phone, church, courage, cross, darkness, day-care-center, death, death-of-friend, debris, disaster, documentary-footage, drawing, drugstore, dying, elevator, emergency-room, empire-state-building-new-york, evacuation, explosion, family-crisis, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, ferry, fire, fireball, fireman, firetruck, flashback-sequence, flashlight, friend, friendship, girl, god, gun, gunshot, gurney, hallucination, hammer, helmet, hospital, husband-wife-relationship, jesus, jumping-off-of-a-building, locker-room, loudspeaker, male-female-relationship, marine, marriage, military-veteran, missing, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-son-relationship, new-york-city, nypd, pain, paramedic, pastor, pentagon, photograph, police, police-officer, policeman, prayer, pregnancy, pregnant-wife, radio-news, rescue, rescue-team, revenge, runaway, satellite, screaming, search-and-rescue, self-sacrifice, september-11-2001, shower, skyscraper, sleeping, slow-motion, statue-of-liberty, street-life, stretcher, subway, survival, tattoo, teenage-boy, terrorism, traffic-light, train, trapped, tv-news, underwear, vomit, walkie-talkie, wall-street, watching-tv, world-trade-center-new-york
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300
In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn’t stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them.
300 DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.90 out of 10 (105513 votes)
Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: 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,
Tags: History, War, Drama, Action, 5th-century-b.c., ambassador, ancient-greece, animal-attack, archery, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, battle, battle-axe, beach, beaten-to-death, betrayal, blockbuster, blood-splatter, canyon, child-in-peril, cliff, corpse, death-of-hero, death-of-protagonist, decapitation, deformity, disembowelment, dismemberment, elephant, epic, evisceration, eye-patch, face-slap, fall-from-height, fall-off-cliff, father-son-relationship, gash-in-the-face, giant, gore, grenade, hand-to-hand-combat, harem, helmet, honor, hunchback, impalement, king, lesbian-kiss, loss-of-husband, loss-of-son, love-slave, loyalty, male-nudity, marriage, mask, massacre, no-opening-credits, number-in-title, ogre, oracle, persian, pit, political, prologue, queen, rape, rhinoceros, rite-of-passage, severed-arm, severed-head, severed-leg, sex, shield, siege, slow-motion, soldier, spartan, spear, speech, spit-in-the-face, stabbed-in-the-arm, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-in-the-eye, stabbed-in-the-head, stabbed-in-the-mouth, stabbed-in-the-shoulder, stylization, sword, sword-and-sandal, title-spoken-by-character, told-in-flashback, topless, trampled-to-death, treason, warrior, wolf
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Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman
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.
Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (158 votes)
Director: Kevin Burns
Actors: Forrest J Ackerman, Gilbert Adler, Stephan Bender, Marlon Brando, Dean Cain, Mike Carlin, Gerard Christopher, Jackie Cooper, Dan Didio, Richard Donner, Michael Dougherty, Stephen Fishler, Alfred Gough, Gary H. Grossman, Mark Hamill,
Tags: Documentary, History, comic-book, making-of, radio, superhero, superman, television
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Last King of Scotland, The
In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.
Last King of Scotland, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.80 out of 10 (14190 votes)
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Actors: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney, David Oyelowo, Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Adam Kotz, Barbara Rafferty, David Ashton, Giles Foden, Andy Williams, Martina Amati, Peter Salmon, Michael Wawuyo,
Tags: History, Drama, Thriller, 1970s, abortion, attempted-murder, based-on-novel, blood, breasts, corpse, death, dictator, dismemberment, doctor, female-nudity, genocide, hostage, hung-by-hook, infidelity, invasion, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, murderer, political-assassination, pregnant-woman-murdered, premarital-sex, scottish, severed-arm, severed-leg, sex-maniac, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, title-spoken-by-character, torture, uganda
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Catch a Fire
A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives.
Catch a Fire DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.70 out of 10 (1869 votes)
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha, Sithembiso Khumalo, Terry Pheto, Michele Burgers, Mpho Lovinga, Mxo, Jessica Anstey, Charlotte Savage, Nomhlé Nkyonyeni, Michael Mabizela, Eduan van Jaarsveldt,
Tags: History, Drama, Thriller, 1980s, african-national-congress, apartheid, archive-footage, based-on-fact, bomb, explosion, freedom-fighter, husband-wife-relationship, interrogation, nelson-mandela, political, political-prisoner, political-thriller, racism, sabotage, soccer-coach, soccer-match, south-africa, terrorism-prevention, torture, white-supremacist
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