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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Smithsonian has been farsighted in acquiring artifacts from America's modern myth machine: Hollywood. View some prime specimens, from the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz to the costumes for the robotic sidekicks in Star Wars.
3) The Visitor
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An intergalactic warrior is in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. THE VISITOR fuses elements of The Omen, Rosemary's Baby and even Star Wars creating the greatest of all '70s mindwarps.
4) Mad God
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
5) Mad God
Author
Language
English
Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
6) Airborne
Author
Language
English
Description
When a storm starts closing in, air traffic controller Malcolm (Mark Hamill, Star Wars) sends one last plane into the sky – but after takeoff, the passengers aboard discover the pilots have been brutally murdered. Suddenly the plane disappears from radar, and one by one, the people aboard turn into dangerous, bloody psychopaths. With time running out, the survivors must unlock the deadly mystery in their midst – and find a way to land the plane...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1978, CBS aired the "Star Wars Holiday Special" the week before Thanksgiving to an audience of 13 million people. Considered one of the worst shows in television history, it aired only once. George Lucas tried to bury it and an infamous camp legend was born. The documentary unravels the mysteries behind the most bizarre Star Wars spin-offs.
8) In Country
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Bruce Willis stars as a Vietnam War veteran and uncle of a 19-year-old Kentucky girl trying to learn about her father, who was killed in the war before she was born, in this gentle, but probing story of overcoming loss, grief and the horror of war.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award®-Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. Academy Award®-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch shines as real-life war hero and pioneer of modern-day computing, Alan Turing. THE IMITATION GAME follows Turing as he leads a motley crew of scholars, linguists, chess champions, and intelligence officers in cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine, potentially saving millions of lives by helping to shorten the...
11) Fleming
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Starring Dominic Cooper, this action-packed drama tells the real story of Ian Fleming, the man who created James Bond. London, 1939: Ian Fleming is an irresponsible playboy living in the shadow of his dead war hero father and his domineering mother. When the Second World War breaks out, Ian finds himself with a job in Naval Intelligence. At first, Ian is inclined to treat his new job as an adventure but, as the shocking consequences of war become...
12) Mr. Pip
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling novel, MR. PIP is a film by Andrew Adamson and stars Hugh Laurie as Mr. Watts, the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s.
13) The Railway Man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Colin Firth stars as a former army officer who sets out on a mission of revenge to confront the man who tormented him while he was prisoner at a Japanese labor camp during World War II.
15) Faster
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Action star Dwayne Johnson stars as Driver, now a free man after a decade in prison, focused on hunting down the people responsible for the brutal killing of his brother. But fast on his mission are two men who will do anything to stop him.
16) Walking Tall
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to laying down the law, one man can make a difference! Action superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson takes no prisoners as he fights for justice and crushes corruption in this hard-hitting adventure that "endlessly enjoyable and a whole lot of fun" (Fox-TV)! Johnny Knoxville and the beautiful Ashley Scott co-star in this bone-cracking, adrenaline-pumping: (Arizona Daily Star) ride inspired by the true story of a man who decided to take...
17) Spies Like Us
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd star in this Cold War farce as two complete misfits who aspire to spy for the CIA. Much to their surprise, they are trained as operatives and sent to Central Asia. But the biggest secret of their covert operation is that they are expendable decoys--for another team of agents sent on the real mission--and no one expects them to survive.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Paul Henreid, perhaps most famous for his roles in Casablanca and Now, Voyager became a star at Warner Brothers during World War II, as the exotic lead with the European accent. After the war, his contract was cancelled and he was left to his own devices. He continued acting and also began producing and directing. In his choices, both as actor and director, his work evinces an increasing bitterness and cynicism. A personal statement? Or a result of...
19) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Craig stars as Tuvia Bielski, an ordinary citizen turned hero, in this action-packed epic of family, honor, vengeance and salvation. DEFIANCE is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers -outnumbered and outgunned- who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. Tuvia, along with his unyielding brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber), motivate hundreds of civilians to join...
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