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HD 96
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne
Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...
HD 108
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan
On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...
HD 10 Episode
Director: Ciaran Donnelly
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Clive Standen
Ragnar and King Horiks forces begin their fight against Jarl Borg who is joined by Rollo; Princess Aslaug makes her way to Kattegat with a surprise that will change...
HD 9 Episode
Director: Johan Renck
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Jessalyn Gilsig
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok: the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the saga of Ragnars band of Viking brothers and his family as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods: legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin the god of war and...
HD 102
Director: Noam Murro
Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey
After its victory over Leonidas 300 the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens first on the path of Xerxes army bases its strength on its fleet led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior...
HD 23
Director: François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy
Stars: Keith Gilmore, Mark Ivanir, Chook Sibtain
Ghost Recon: Alpha sees a team led by Ghost Leader infiltrate a trade at a Russian depot between a general and a mysterious other...
HD 96
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands
In 1970s Iran Marjane Marji Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shahs defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up she witnesses first hand how the new Iran now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent...
HD 118
Director: George Clooney
Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines and with the German army under orders to...
HD 85
Director: Aaron Kurmey
Stars: Ryan Agnew, Gin Fedotov, Jeff Graham
A squad of Canadian soldiers survive a helicopter crash deep behind enemy lines during an alien invasion of Earth now they have to survive the...
HD 92
Director: Andy De Emmony
Stars: Ben Chaplin, Patrick Fitzsymons, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how in the trenches in 1916 he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from...
HD 131
Director: Brian Percival
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Based on the beloved bestselling book THE BOOK THIEF tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II...
HD 121
Director: Peter Berg
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch
Based on the failed mission Operation Red Wings which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 on June 28 2005 to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They were quickly compromised and under...
HD 90
Director: David Drury
Stars: Matthew McNulty, Lacey Turner, Andrew Scarborough
Our Girl is the story of Molly Dawes born and raised in the London Borough of Newham. Molly is the eldest of five kids with little future a difficult father and a mother who always wanted more for her. Leaving school with no qualifications Molly has a part-time job in a local nail bar. Drunk and despondent on the evening of her 18th birthday she throws up in the doorway of an Army Recruitment...
HD 123
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George
In the early years of World War II a German U-boat U-37 sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boats Fanatical Nazi captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party lead by Lieutenant...
HD 115
Director: George Seaton
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
In this psychological war-drama an Army Major is captured by the Germans during World War II. They attempt to brainwash him into believing the war is over and that he is safe in an Allied hospital so that he will divulge Allied invasion...
HD 95
Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte
Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. One of the group is a German mole; leaders Gibson and Sharkey are aware of this and scheme to feed him false info about the invasion of Europe while the real agents go to France to find a secret V-2 rocket depot. But the German spy outsmarts them and rejoins his people knowing too much; Bob Sharkey...
HD 139
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Stars: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov
The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from a boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The action is not like a boot camp at all. It is very bloody and dirty. The 9th company is defending the hill 3234. They are hopelessly calling for...
HD 100
Director: Danny Mooney
Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Aimee Teegarden
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her...
HD 90
Director: Adrian Moat
Stars: Tom Hanks, Regen Wilson, Billy Campbell
Based on The New York Times best-selling novel Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham...
HD 85
Director: Lex Lvovsky, Joe Walser
Stars: Lex Lvovsky, Mark Metcalf, Corey Feldman
A rock and roll musician travels to Afghanistan to win the hearts and minds of its...
HD 101
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, George MacKay
An American girl sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around...
HD 95
Director: Johan Earl, Adrian Powers
Stars: Johan Earl, Tim Pocock, Martin Copping
When an allied charge on the German lines goes horribly wrong one man finds himself stranded in No Mans Land. Reuniting with two other survivors together they must help each other as they charge into the unknown across the muddy wasteland as the Germans quickly hone in on the desperate trio. Tensions rise between the soldiers as they are surrounded by explosions of grenades with the constant...
HD 100
Director: Don Michael Paul
Stars: Tom Sizemore, Alastair Mackenzie, Chad Michael Collins
During the last major German offensive of World War II a company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and they make a horrific discovery - Hitler has a super bomb in development. The soldiers soon learn about a secret allied mission to retrieve a defecting German scientist in charge of a Hitlers weapons program. Faced with impossible odds the company...
HD 125
Director: Rafa Lara
Stars: Christian Vasquez, Angélica Aragón, Liz Gallardo
On May 5th 1862 a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the worlds largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for...
HD 106
Director: Carl Franklin
Stars: Luke Ganalon, Joseph A. Garcia, Miriam Colon
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his...
HD 85
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo
Stars: Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio
Frankie is a war vet whose life sucks. He has no money a nagging wife junkie friends and a deformed baby. This is the story of one day in his pathetic post-war...
HD 137
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. Its not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight despite their peaceful attitide?...
HD 120
Director: Robert M. Young
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to...
HD 104
Director: John Ford
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
In Revolutionary America Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they are happy living in their one room cabin. With the declaration independence the settlers soon find themselves at war with the British and their Indian allies. Their farm is burned out and the Martins take work with Sarah McKlennar. The war...
HD 90
Director: Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant
World War II: What if Nazis seized London and all of England had to band together? When scarily campy Nazi leaders invade by drilling under the English Channel and up through the cobblestones on Whitehall Churchill leaves his quiet retirement with a cat that looks like Hitler to issue a call to arms from his bunker under Downing Street. Chris a young farm worker with large hands rallies the...
