Archive for the 'History movies' Category
Other Boleyn Girl, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Do mesmo sangue, o mesmo amor. O destino decide. (Brazil) 2: In an age where a woman’s destiny was determined by her father, one sister followed the rules. The other defied them. 3: The only thing that could come between these sisters… is a kingdom. 4: They were the closest of sisters, until the most powerful man in the world made them rivals. 5: Two sisters divided for the love for a king. 6: What if you could have everything you ever wanted? What if all you had to do was betray the sister you loved? |
| Plot Summary: | A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. |
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300 Spartans, The
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| Plot Summary: | Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC. |
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Goodbye Bafana
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| Taglines: | 1: Based on the memoirs of Nelson Mandela’s prison guard |
| Plot Summary: | GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela. |
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Amistad
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| Taglines: | 1: Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. |
| Plot Summary: | 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. |
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Nomad
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| Taglines: | 1: Courage know no limit |
| Plot Summary: | An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country’s three warring tribes. |
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Seabiscuit
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| Taglines: | 1: A long shot becomes a legend. 2: The hopes of a nation rode on a long shot. 3: The true story of a long shot who became a legend. |
| Plot Summary: | In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.” |
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Glory
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| Taglines: | 1: Their innocence. Their heritage. Their lives. Nothing would be spared in the fight for their freedom. |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers. |
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Nightwatching
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| Plot Summary: | With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist’s infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. 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 and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt’s great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt’s most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially. |
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Good Night, and Good Luck
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| Taglines: | 1: In A Nation Terrorized By Its Own Government, One Man Dared to Tell The Truth 2: They Took On The Government With Nothing But The Truth 3: We will not walk in fear of one another. |
| Plot Summary: | In the early 1950’s, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator ‘Joseph McCarthy (II)’ (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter ‘Edward R. Murrow (I)’ (qv) and his producer ‘Fred W. Friendly’ (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history. |
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Last Emperor, The
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| Taglines: | 1: He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. |
| Plot Summary: | A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic. |
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