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Centurion (2010)

Director : Neil Marshall

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Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Cast : (Credited cast) , Michael Fassbender as Quintus Dias , Dominic West as Virilus , Olga Kurylenko as Etain , Noel Clarke as Macros , David Morrissey as Bothos , JJ Feild as Thax , Axelle Carolyn as Aeron , Riz Ahmed , Dave Legeno as Vortix , Ulrich Thomsen as Gorlacon rest of cast listed alphabetically: , James Currie as Maximus, Dhaffer L'Abidine as Vigo, Hamish Moir as Pictish Warrior, Imogen Poots as Arian, Rachael Stirling as Drusilla

Plot : A splinter range of Roman military bawl for the ground that their lives in the rear of foe libretto beyond their several is decimated inside a appalling guerrilla attack.

Run Time : 97 min | Finland:130 min

Country : UK

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Language : English

Filming Locations : Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire, England, UK

Company : Celador Films

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Plot Summary : Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the major survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north as well as General Virilus’ legendary Ninth Legion, not wide awake to directives to wipe the Picts take entertaining in the facial features of the Earth plus eradicate their leader, Gorlacon.

AD 117. The Roman Empire spaces delight in Egypt to Spain, also East because far-flung because the Black Sea. But inside northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has reason to a halt inside facial features of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage also spine-chilling Picts. Quintus Dias (Fassbender), merely survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north and General Virilus’ (West) legendary Ninth Legion, not unsleeping to instructions to wipe the Picts delight in the facial features of the globe also eradicate their principal Gorlacon. But whilst the uncountable is ambushed on alien ground, also Virilus carried captive, Quintus faces a fraught war to hold his petty platoon existing at the rear of adversary lines. Enduring the abrading terrain also evading their remorseless Pict pursuers led by revenge-hungry Pict Warrior Etain (Kurylenko), the band of military race to rescue their General also to get to the security of the Roman frontier.

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Genre : Drama, History, Romance

Cast : (Series Cast Summary - 16 of 20) , Keith Michell as Henry VIII (6 episodes, 1970), Anthony Quayle as Narrator (6 episodes, 1970), Patrick Troughton as Duke of Norfolk (5 episodes, 1970), Bernard Hepton as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (4 episodes, 1970), Sheila Burrell as Lady Rochford (3 episodes, 1970), Basil Dignam as Bishop Gardiner (3 episodes, 1970), Wolfe Morris as Thomas Cromwell (3 episodes, 1970), Angela Pleasence as Catherine Howard (2 episodes, 1970), Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour (2 episodes, 1970), Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn (2 episodes, 1970), Daniel Moynihan as Edward Seymour (Lord Hertford) (2 episodes, 1970), John Ronane as Thomas Seymour (2 episodes, 1970), Howard Goorney as Will Somers (2 episodes, 1970), Patrick Godfrey as Sir Thomas Wriothesley (2 episodes, 1970), Alison Frazer as Princess Mary (2 episodes, 1970), Edward Atienza as Eustache Chapuys (2 episodes, 1970)

Plot : A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII’s romances in addition to each of his six wives. Each moment is dutiful to lone wife, with is a end fiddle inside itself.

Run Time : USA:540 min

Country : UK

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Language : English

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Company : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Goofs : Boom mic visible: In the courtroom shot inside age one, because Catherine of Aragon kneels ahead of Henry VIII to solicite him to acknowledge the legality of their marriage, a microphone is evident responsible for the frame.

Tag Lines : The legendary, BAFTA award-winning BBC historical drama!

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"The First World War" (2003)

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Genre : History, War

Cast : (Series Credited cast) , Archduke Franz Ferdinand as Himself (archive footage), Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Himself (archive footage), Andrée Bernard as Narration (voice), Emperor Franz Josef as Himself (archive footage), Hermann Göring as Himself (archive footage), Kaiser Wilhelm II as Himself (archive footage), King Ferdinand of Bulgaria as Himself (archive footage), V.I. Lenin as Himself (archive footage), Jonathan Lewis as Narrator, David Lloyd George as Himself (archive footage), Erich Ludendorff as Himself (archive footage), Philippe Pétain as Himself (archive footage), Queen Marie of Rumania as Herself (archive footage), Jan Smuts as Himself (archive footage), Paul von Hindenburg as Himself (archive footage), Manfred von Richthofen as Himself (archive footage), Woodrow Wilson as Himself (archive footage)

Plot : A conclude contemplate of the times of yore of World War I.

Run Time : 500 min (10 parts)

Country : UK

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Language : English

Filming Locations : Amiens, Somme, France

Company : Hamilton Film Partnership

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The Young Victoria (2009)

Director : Jean-Marc Vallée

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Genre : Drama, History, Romance

Cast : : , Emily Blunt as Young Victoria , Rupert Friend as Prince Albert , Paul Bettany as Lord Melbourne , Miranda Richardson as Duchess of Kent , Jim Broadbent as King William , Thomas Kretschmann as King Leopold of Belgium , Mark Strong as Sir John Conroy , Jesper Christensen as Baron Stockmar , Harriet Walter as Queen Adelaide , Jeanette Hain as Baroness Lehzen , Julian Glover as Duke of Wellington , Michael Maloney as Sir Robert Peel , Michiel Huisman as Ernest , Genevieve O'Reilly as Lady Flora Hastings , Rachael Stirling as Duchess of Sutherland

Plot : A dramatization of the turbulent originally existence of Queen Victoria’s rule, furthermore her enduring romance along furthermore Prince Albert. |

Run Time : USA:100 min | Germany:100 min (European Film Market)

Country : UK | USA

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Language : English | German

Filming Locations : Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, England, UK

Company : GK Films

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Director : Michael Moore

Release Date : 9 October 2002 (France)

Genre : Documentary, History

Cast : (Credited cast) , Jacobo Arbenz as Himself, President of Guatemala (archive footage) (as President Arbenz), Mike Bradley as Himself, Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Arthur A. Busch as Himself, County prosecutor, Flint, Michigan (as Arthur Busch), George Bush as Himself (archive footage) (as Bush), George W. Bush as Himself, President of the United States (archive footage), Michael Caldwell as Himself, police detective, Richard Castaldo as Himself, Columbine victim, Dick Clark as Himself, restaurant owner, Steve Davis as Himself, deputy sheriff (archive footage), Byron Dorgan as Himself (archive footage), Mike Epstein as Shopper in Mall, Joe Farmer as Himself, superintendent of schools (archive footage), Mike Fasolo as Corporate Criminal (DVD only) (archive footage), Denny Fennell as Himself, home security consultant, Barry Glassner as Himself, author of "The Culture of Fear" (as Prof. Barry Glassner), John Harris as Himself (voice), Dick Herlan as Himself (as Richard Herlan), Charlton Heston as Himself, actor / NRA president, Jeremy Hicks as Himself, suspended student for wearing kilts (archive footage), Ernest F. Hollings as Himself (archive footage) (as Senator Fritz Hollings), Jimmie Hughes as Herself, principal of Buell Elementary School, Dick Hurlin as Himself, former producer of "Cops", Amanda Lamante as Herself, Columbine student, Mary Lorenz as Herself, K-Mart official, Marilyn Manson as Himself, entertainer, Daniel Mauser as Himself (archive footage), Tom Mauser as Himself, father of victim, Evan McCollum as Himself, Lockheed Martin public relations, Timothy McVeigh as Himself, Oklahoma City bomber (archive footage), Carey McWilliams as Himself, blind gun owner (archive footage), Gerald Miller as Himself, Welfare-to-Work creator (archive footage), Michael Moore as Himself / Narrator, Mohammed Mossadegh as Himself, Prime Minister of Iran (archive footage) (as Prime Minister Mossadeq), Dinh Diem Ngo as Himself, President of South Vietnam (archive footage) (as President Diem), James Nichols as Himself, brother of Terry Nichols, Terry Nichols as Himself, Oklahoma City bombing accomplice (archive footage), Manuel Noriega as Himself, President of Panama (archive footage), Tamarla Owens as Herself, mother of boy who shot girl (archive footage), Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as Himself, Shah of Iran (archive footage), Robert J. Pickell as Himself, sheriff of Flint, Michigan (as Sheriff Robert Pickell), Augusto Pinochet as Himself, Chilean dictator (archive footage), Jeff Rossen as Himself, FOX reporter (archive footage), David Satcher as Himself (archive footage) (as Dr. David Satcher), Nicole Schlief as Herself, David Smith as Himself, Sarah's husband (voice) (archive footage), Susan Smith as Herself, child murderess (archive footage), Matt Stone as Himself, former Columbine student, Mark Taylor as Himself, Columbine victim

Plot : Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America’s predilection because gun violence.

Run Time : 120 min

Country : Canada | USA | Germany

MPAA : Rated R for some violent images and language.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA

Company : Alliance Atlantis Communications

Trivia : Formerly highest-grossing documentary of the inclusive thing time. The highest-grossing documentary is nowadays Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), likewise by Michael Moore, which produced other inside its likelihood weekend than this show ended inside its comprehensive run.

Goofs : Factual errors: The flick claims that that Eric Harris plus Dylan Klebold attended a hitting style in the beginning on the daybreak of the offense. This is wrong because testified inside a judicial review.

Tag Lines : Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?
One Nation Under The Gun

Plot Summary : The United States of America is hot as its astronomical amount of mortals assassinated by firearms as a advanced geographical region without a civil war. With his signature good judgment of unfulfilled humor, activist filmmaker <a href="/name/nm0601619/">Michael Moore</a> types out to look into the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the established ways out of effortless availability of guns, far-reaching centralized history, far-reaching enjoyable as nonetheless as also poverty are inadequate to silhouette this violence as variegated cultures allowance those equivalent issues without the analogous carnage. In make a request to find by chance a probable explanation, Michael Moore removes on a deeper study of America’s way of life of fear, bigotry as nonetheless as violence inside a geographical region in addition to universal gun ownership. Furthermore, he endeavors to inspect as nonetheless as ordeal the great elite partisan as nonetheless as commercial cares fanning this way of life as their own unscrupulous gain.

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Biruma no tategoto (1956)

Director : Kon Ichikawa

Release Date : 28 April 1967 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, War

Cast : Rentaro Mikuni as Captain Inouye, Shôji Yasui as Mizushima, Jun Hamamura as Ito, Taketoshi Naitô as Kobayashi (as Takeo Naito), Shunji Kasuga as Maki, Kô Nishimura as Baba (as Akira Nishimura), Keishichi Nakahara as Takagi, Toshiaki Ito as Hashimoto, Hiroshi Tsuchikata as Okada, Tomio Aoki as Oyama, Nobuteru Hanamura as Nakamura, Sanpei Mine as Abe, Takashi Koshiba as Shimizu, Tomoko Tonai, Tokuhei Miyahara as Nagai

Plot : In the War’s winding up days, once a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to obtain his countrymen to concede to intimidating force, he adopts the daily life of a Buddhist monk.

Run Time : 116 min

Country : Japan

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Language : Japanese | English

Filming Locations : Burma

Company : Nikkatsu

Trivia : The picture was foremost slated to insert inside three-strip color, other than director Kon Ichikawa sweating bullets that the sturdy camera may mash slurp on destination with he may not engagement able to taste it fixed, as a result he picture inside black-and-white.

Goofs : Revealing mistakes: The ‘British’ officer inside hire of the funerary cremation repository speaks along furthermore a decidedly Australian, not British, accent.

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Plot Summary : July, 1943: Japan’s army is on the run. A platoon inside Burma sings to carry its enthusiasm up. Inspiration comes like their one another taught lute player, Mizushima. At war’s end, moment they stay conscious for repatriation at Mudon penitentiary camp, Mizushima is sent to encourage a Japanese firm dug into a heap that it must surrender. He fails, the British attack, uncountable die, as anyhow as his companions likelihood he’s been killed. However, he has held on as anyhow as disguised himself for a Buddhist priest. En course to Mudon to congregate his comrades, the visit focus on of frozen Japanese military overwhelms him. He agrees to live a existence of prayer, burying bones as anyhow as bodies; his friends covet him to go back plus one another to Japan.

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Director : Pier Paolo Pasolini

Release Date : 2 October 1964 (Italy)

Genre : Biography, Drama, History

Cast : Enrique Irazoqui as Christ, Margherita Caruso as Mary (younger), Susanna Pasolini as Mary (older), Marcello Morante as Joseph, Mario Socrate as John the Baptist, Settimio Di Porto as Peter, Alfonso Gatto as Andrew, Luigi Barbini as James, Giacomo Morante as John, Giorgio Agamben as Philip, Guido Cerretani as Bartholomew, Rosario Migale as Thomas, Ferruccio Nuzzo as Matthew, Marcello Galdini as James son of Alphus, Elio Spaziani as Thaddeus

Plot : The existence of Jesus Christ on the answers of the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ because a marxist avant-la-lettre as in any case as so styles half of the essay of Matthew.

Run Time : 137 min | USA:136 min | USA:91 min (edited version)

Country : Italy | France

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Language : Italian

Filming Locations : Apulia, Italy

Company : Arco Film

Trivia : In keeping along furthermore his tips of Jesus Christ because the superlative revolutionary of everything time, Pier Paolo Pasolini counted casting Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg inside the role. He transformed his attention whilst he arrived at Enrique Irazoqui, a Spanish student of literature, who has written a thesis around Pasolini’s different “Ragazzi di vita” plus was extraordinarily snooping to link up him.

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Plot Summary : Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, originally by means of parables. He attracts disciples; he’s stern, brusque, plus demanding. He comes to transport a sword, not peace, he says. He’s inside a hurry, pouring loves locality to locality on the horizon the Sea of Galilee, every now and then attracting a multitude, every now and then individual driven away. His parables repeatedly battle the powers that be, as a result he plus his teachings make headway to the notification of the Pharisees, the main priests, plus elders. They conspire to withstand him arrested, beaten, tried, plus crucified, without problems for he prophesied to his followers. After he dies, he gives the look to his disciples plus affords one another concluding instructions.

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Il gattopardo (1963)

Director : Luchino Visconti

Release Date : 15 July 1963 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History, Romance, War

Cast : Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina, Claudia Cardinale as Angelica Sedara / Bertiana, Alain Delon as Tancredi Falconeri, Paolo Stoppa as Don Calogero Sedara, Rina Morelli as Princess Maria Stella Salina, Romolo Valli as Father Pirrone, Terence Hill as Count Cavriaghi (as Mario Girotti), Pierre Clémenti as Francesco Paolo, Lucilla Morlacchi as Concetta, Giuliano Gemma as Garibaldi's General, Ida Galli as Carolina, Ottavia Piccolo as Caterina, Carlo Valenzano as Paolo, Brook Fuller as Little Prince, Anna Maria Bottini as Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess

Plot : The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, attempts to uphold his classification along with product in the core of the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860’s Sicily.

Run Time : 187 min | Spain:151 min (cut version) | UK:161 min (cut version) | USA:165 min (cut version) | France:195 min (Cannes Film Festival) | 205 min (premiere version) | Germany:161 min (cut version)

Country : Italy | France

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Language : Italian | Latin

Filming Locations : Ariccia, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company : Titanus

Trivia : ‘Darryl Zanuck’, whose workshop deposit unsleeping financing for the ground that the film, made ready not wish Lancaster to wear a mustache.

Goofs : Anachronisms: There is a great deal of kissing of manpower for the duration of the movie. According to the work “Histoire de la politesse de 1789 à nos jours (History of fine course of actions derive pleasure 1789 until today)” by F. Rouvillois, the kissing of manpower sole showed at the whirl of the XXth century as soon as the yarn inside the flick was alleged to receive spot inside 1860-1862, more 40 life before.

Tag Lines : Luchino Visconti&#x27;s Enduring Romantic Adventure

Plot Summary : In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy endeavors to contend itself opposed to a bumpy Sicilian landscape. The flick traces as well as a relaxed with concentrate rhythm the lessening of the noble domestic of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) with the corresponding materialization to daintiness of the absolutely prosperous ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to get lively steps to halt the reject of his intimate fortunes or to be of facility to construct an added Sicily save for his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri swims as well as the tide with pledges his own outlook by marrying Don Calogero’s smart baby girl Angelica. The climatic shot is the sumptuous forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.

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Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964)

Director : Sergei Parajanov

Release Date : 29 April 1966 (East Germany)

Genre : Drama, History, Romance

Cast : (Credited cast) , Ivan Mikolajchuk as Ivan, Larisa Kadochnikova as Marichka, Tatyana Bestayeva as Palagna, Spartak Bagashvili as Yurko, Nikolai Grinko as Batag, Leonid Yengibarov as Miko, Nina Alisova as Paliychuk, Aleksandr Gaj as Paliychuk (as O. Gaj), Neonila Gnepovskaya as Gutenyuk, A. Raydanov as Gutenyuk, I. Dzyura as Ivan as a Child, V. Glyanko as Marichka as a Child rest of cast listed alphabetically: , O. Ryazanov

Plot : In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls inside affection also Marichka, the female descendant of his father’s killer. When adversity befalls her… more |

Run Time : 97 min

Country : Soviet Union

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Language : Ukrainian

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Company : Dovzhenko Film Studios

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Goofs : Crew or furniture visible: When the two tykes gush slurp the hill to suffer a bath inside the river, the absolute camera rig, coupled with the operator, may perhaps engagement realized inside a shadow on the ground.

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Plot Summary : In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls inside intimacy plus Marichka, the female descendant of his father’s killer. When calamity befalls her, his anguish lasts months; at last he rejoins the colorful subsistence almost him, marrying Palagna. She desires youngsters save for his attention stays on his omitted love. To bring to mind his attention, Palagna attempts sorcery, in addition to inside the technique comes lower than the jinx of the sorcerer, authoritatively debasing Ivan, who at that time fights the sorcerer. The vigorous rhythms of village life, the make effort in addition to the holidays, the gala in addition to revelry of weddings in addition to funerals, the adjust of seasons, in addition to nature’s gorgeousness crumble percentage to Ivan’s tragedy.

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Director : Carl Theodor Dreyer

Release Date : 21 April 1928 (Denmark)

Genre : Biography, Drama, History

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Maria Falconetti as Jeanne d'Arc (as Melle Falconetti), Eugene Silvain as Évêque Pierre Cauchon (Bishop Pierre Cauchon) (as Eugène Silvain), André Berley as Jean d'Estivet, Maurice Schutz as Nicolas Loyseleur, Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu, Michel Simon as Jean Lemaître, Jean d'Yd as Guillaume Evrard, Louis Ravet as Jean Beaupère (as Ravet), Armand Lurville as Juge (Judge) (as André Lurville), Jacques Arnna as Juge (Judge), Alexandre Mihalesco as Juge (Judge), Léon Larive as Juge (Judge)

Plot : A data of the practice of Jeanne d’Arc on fees of heresy, in addition to the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to vigor Jeanne to recant her claims of blessed visions.

Run Time : 110 min | France:88 min (1952 re-release) | USA:114 min | 82 min (restored DVD version) (24 fps) | Denmark:96 min

Country : France

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Filming Locations : Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Company : Société générale des films

Trivia : None of the actors wears any makeup, which was remarkable inside the still era. Dreyer attention this lent might to the characters’ faces.

Goofs : Anachronisms: The defense force wear helmets plus current chin girdle fasteners (likely WW1 British infantry helmets). Those helmets might engagement a muse anachronism though.

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Plot Summary : The sufferings of a martyr, Jeanne D’Arc (1412-1431). Jeanne gives the impression inside court where Cauchon samples her furthermore d’Estivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue, is conveyed to her cell, furthermore judges come about proof opposed to her. In her cell, priests interrogate her furthermore judges deny her the Mass. Threatened initially inside a torture space furthermore afterward supplied communion if she will recant, she refuses. At a cemetery, inside front of a crowd, a priest furthermore supporters counsel her to recant; she does, furthermore Cauchon makes known her sentence. In her cell, she explains her vary of brain furthermore receives communion. In the backyard at Rouen castle, she burns at the stake; the military activate the whining crowd.

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