Posts Tagged ‘general’

Game of Their Lives, The (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Bentley, Wes | Jenik, Richard | Rodan, Jay | Mandylor, Louis | Jean-Louis, Jimmy | Bryan, Zachery Ty | Vargas, Nelson | Rhys-Davies, John | Rossdale, Gavin | Bertrand, Maria | Kinney, Terry | Erker, Joe
Directors: Anspaugh, David
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In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world’s most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.

Siege, The (1998)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Bening, Annette | Willis, Bruce | Shalhoub, Tony | Bouajila, Sami | Larby, Ahmed Ben | Mohamed, Mosleh | Pai, Lianna | Valley, Mark | Gwaltney, Jack | Proval, David | Reddick, Lance | Knaster, Jeremy | Hill, William | Mandvi, Aasif
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.

Rock, The (1996)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Cage, Nicolas | Harris, Ed | Spencer, John | Morse, David | Forsythe, William | Biehn, Michael | Marcil, Vanessa | McGinley, John C. | Sporleder, Gregory | Todd, Tony | Woodbine, Bokeem | Maniaci, Jim | Collins, Greg | Kelly, Brendan
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel, who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Himmel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.

Glory (1989)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Broderick, Matthew | Washington, Denzel | Elwes, Cary | Freeman, Morgan | Kennedy, Jihmi | Braugher, Andre | Finn, John | Leitch, Donovan | Cullum, JD | North, Alan | Gunton, Bob | De Young, Cliff | Baskous, Christian | Lee, RonReaco | Sanders, Jay O.
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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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.

Great Raid, The (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Bratt, Benjamin | Franco, James | Mammone, Robert | Martini, Max | Carpinello, James | Consuelos, Mark | McLachlan, Craig | Farnsworth, Freddie Joe | Macintosh, Laird | Callaghan, Jeremy | McLean, Scott | Montalban, Paolo | Crawford, Clayne | Worthington, Sam | Innes, Royston
Directors: Dahl, John
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.

Munich (2005)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Craig, Daniel | Hinds, Ciarán | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Zischler, Hanns | Zorer, Ayelet | Rush, Geoffrey | Almagor, Gila | Lonsdale, Michael | Amalric, Mathieu | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria | Becker, Meret | Croze, Marie-Josée | Attal, Yvan
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Alexander (2004)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Leto, Jared | Hopkins, Anthony | Farrell, Colin | Bedella, David | Kamm, Jessie | Jolie, Angelina | Kilmer, Val | O'Shaughnessy, Fiona | Paolo, Connor | Carroll, Patrick | Blessed, Brian | Williamson, Peter | Ferris, Morgan Christopher | Earley, Robert | Gordon, Aleczander | Plummer, Christopher | Stretch, Gary
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Portman, Natalie | Christensen, Hayden | McDiarmid, Ian | Jackson, Samuel L. | Smits, Jimmy | Oz, Frank | Daniels, Anthony | Lee, Christopher | Castle-Hughes, Keisha | Carson, Silas | Laga'aia, Jay | Spence, Bruce | Pygram, Wayne | Morrison, Temuera
Directors: Lucas, George
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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.

Fifth Element, The (1997)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Oldman, Gary | Holm, Ian | Jovovich, Milla | Tucker, Chris | Perry, Luke | James, Brion | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Evans, Lee | Creed-Miles, Charlie | Tricky | Neville, John | Bluthal, John | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Fairbank, Christopher
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hamill, Mark | Ford, Harrison | Fisher, Carrie | Cushing, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Daniels, Anthony | Baker, Kenny | Mayhew, Peter | Prowse, David | Jones, James Earl | Brown, Phil | Fraser, Shelagh | Purvis, Jack | McCrindle, Alex | Byrne, Eddie
Directors: Lucas, George
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In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.