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Intense training begins for a team of Navy Seals who ready themselves for an unknown mission, with the only Intel that it will be top priority. With orders received from the Pentagon, the team lands at the US Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan and learn their target will be known as Geronimo, AKA America’s public enemy number one, Bin Laden. find out more...

DOWNFALL (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Germany 1945; in a bunker complex buried deep within the bowels of Berlin find out more...

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A truly epic epic and winner of 7 Academy Awards. Lawrence serves British colonial interests during the First World War by uniting the Arabs against the fast collapsing Ottoman Empire. Stupendous cinemascope drama with a cast of thousands and some of cinema's most famous shots; Sheik Ali's emergence from the desert haze and the storming of Aquaba for example. This is the director's cut, a more coherent version than the original cinema release. find out more...

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A chronicle of the movements of a squad, from the US 1st Infantry Division, through WWII, from a beach-head assault in North Africa to the liberation of a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The sergeant, played by Marvin, and four young riflemen are the only ones to survive the war, and one (Carradine) is Fuller's surrogate, and this is Fuller telling his own story, synthesising every thought he ever had about the experience of warfare, no heroics, no anti-heroics, no 'drama' to speak of, ins find out more...

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A thoughtful and sympathetic portrait of legendary German tactician Field Marshal Rommel's final years, as his disillusionment with the Third Reich led to conspiracy and ultimately his undoing. A sensitive and impassioned performance from James Mason in the title role. find out more...
THE SUN (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's tetrology, following "Moloch" and "Taurus", focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by Gen. Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival. Captivating, surreal and humane. A profoundly good movie. find out more...

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Returning to the topic of The Troubles, after his 1990 effort Hidden Agenda, Ken Loach has confirmed his place as a Grand Old Duke of British Cinema with the Palme d'Or winning 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley'. Leaving his traditional hunting ground of contemporary urban environs Loach takes us to Eire, in the 1920s, and to labourers joining forces to oust the British 'Black and Tan' soldiers sent in to crush the rebellion. Brothers Damien and Teddy join forces in the battle, Damien sacrificing find out more...

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This was a TV movie done by the BBC in 1988, aired in the UK in 1989 that stirred all sorts of attitudes and drew a lot of flak within the UK. Yet it sticks to the memories of Lt. Lawrence, the Scots Guards officer who came to fight for the Queen and for his country, contributed to final victory at the summit of Mount Tumbledown in the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands, but paid a price higher than being killed: to stay alive, but critically wounded, useless for the Army, and not able to return to find out more...