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Thirteen Days (2000)
IMDB rating: 7.30
Plot: In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors [...]

Mar 15th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Crucible, The (1996)
IMDB rating: 6.80
Plot: A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into [...]

Mar 11th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Lion in Winter, The (1968)
IMDB rating: 7.90
Plot: In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years [...]

Feb 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Bounty, The (1984)
IMDB rating: 6.70
Plot: The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in [...]

Jan 3rd, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Last Emperor, The (1987)
IMDB rating: 7.80
Plot: 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 [...]

Nov 28th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized