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1) Beyond glory
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"Presents the stories of eight veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, rendering firsthand accounts of the actions which resulted in each of them receiving the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor"--Back cover.
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Presents an annotated edition of Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," in which a love that begins during the siege of Troy ends in betrayal and death, and includes a scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis, commentary on various productions of the play, an overview of Shakespeare's work, and other resources.
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In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
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Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright's free-ranging political analysis.
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Graduates from West Point Military Academy are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume. However, tensions arise as a conflict erupts between the graduates and the abolitionist John Brown, along with his supporters.
1940 American Drama War Western Film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures
At West Point Military Academy in 1854, cadet Rader, an agent of the abolitionist John Brown, is discharged...
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" Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. The future first emperor, Octavius Caesar (later called Augustus Caesar), cold-bloodedly manipulates other characters and exercises iron control over himself. Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. The future first emperor, Octavius Caesar (later called Augustus Caesar), cold-bloodedly manipulates...
7) Torn curtain
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"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
10) Lysistrata
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After the women become sick of war, they decide to deny the men sex until they get rid of their weapons and find a peaceful solution.
11) Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln is one of the earliest film biographies of America's sixteenth president. Lincoln (Walter Huston) is shown from his early days to his assassination at age fifty-six. Featuring a superb ensemble that also includes Jason Robards Sr., Una Merkel, and Kay Hammond, the Lincoln saga was directed by groundbreaking filmmaker D.W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation) and will leave you enthralled!
14) Resurrected
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Kevin Deakin (David Thewlis) was believed dead during the Falklands War. Seven weeks after the war ends, Kevin returns home, only to be charged with desertion by the British government.
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4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
17) Gung Ho!
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7 weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. Men selected come from varied walks of life but have toughness in common. Under command of Randolph Scott, they're trained in all imaginable forms of combat. There first mission: annihilate the much larger Japanese garrison on Makin Island, in a lengthy battle sequence.
18) The Revolt
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Tula, The Revolt' is an international English spoken feature length movie about the leader of the big slave uprising on the island of Curacao, a Dutch colony in 1795. 'Tula The Revolt' tells the true story of a man who dared to stand up against his oppressors leading his people in a peaceful march for freedom, equality and brotherhood. An action movie, but at the same time a character movie, giving the audience the insights of a reluctant leader,...
19) Broken Keys
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A pianist living in a war-torn town where music has been banned, has his piano is broken and embarks on a dangerous mission to repair it.
20) Private Peaceful
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Set in WW1, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.