HD 170 min
Hoop Dreams
Director: Steve James
Stars: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates
This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago residents, Arthur Agee and William Gates, as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginning at the start of their high school years, and ending almost 5 years later, as they start college, we watch the boys mature into men, still retaining their "Hoop Dreams". Both are recruited into the same elite high school as their idol, former Detroit Piston superstar Isiah Thomas. Only one survives the first year; the other must return to a high school closer to his home. Along the way, there is much tragedy, some joy, a great wealth of information about inner city life, and the suspense of not knowing what will occur next. This is not a "by-the-numbers" film...
HD 170 min
HD 92 m
The Wipers Times
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...
FHD 1h55m
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