20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Midway through Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, interrupting its bizarre mix of war pornography and dour isolationist posturing, there’s a shoehorned moment of mawkishness. Jack (John Krasinski) is one of the ex-armed forces contractors taking a babysitting job as security to CIA specialists halfway around the world. He’s Skyping w find out more...

1911: REVOLUTION (2011)

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A GENERATION (1955)

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Part 1 of Wajda's trilogy of wartime films, the hopeful one, is set in Wola, a working-class area of Warsaw in 1942, and deals with the graduation of a bunch of semi-delinquent street kids, through individual acts of defiance and courage, into a youth resistance group. The heroism is not simple, neither loyalties nor self-sacrifice are assured, but united they will be. find out more...

A SYRIAN LOVE STORY (2015)

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Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

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BAARIA (2009)

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Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in the small town in Sicily where he was born. We see a number of important historical events through the eyes of young Peppino, watching the fortunes of his town and his family rise and fall. While open to accusations of nostalgia, superficiality and indulgence the film is something of a feast for the senses.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON 1 DISC 4 (2004)

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Episodes on this disc are: Colonial Day; President Roslin has reconstructed the legislative branch of the government, but terrorist leader/political dissident Tom Zarek is elected as a member and immediately motions that the Quorum vote to appoint a new Vice President. Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1; Galactica stumbles upon Kobol, the long-lost home that the 13 Tribes came from, which legend says holds clues to the location of Earth. Roslin convinces Starbuck to steal the captured Cylon raider and find out more...

BENEDICTION (2021)

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The story of soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirised gener find out more...

BITTER HARVEST (2017)

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Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, BITTER HARVEST conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union. With an exceptional cast of established and rising stars, the film epically recreates one of the most dramatic and dange find out more...

BLOODY SUNDAY (2002)

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A harrowing and necessarily disturbing re-enactment of the terrible events that took place on January 30th 1972, when soldiers of the parachute regiment shot dead 13 unarmed civilians. The exact truth of events is not fully known even today, but the killings, on what would become known as "Bloody Sunday", must bare much responsibility for the escalation of violence in Northern Ireland. A conflict lost in blind hatred, where religious denomination became the focus for morally defunct and murderou find out more...

BON VOYAGE (2003)

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Seven people take refuge in the Hotel Splendide as Hitler's Third Reich close in on Paris. One is a movie starlet, one a politician under her spell, two others are scientists with a new invention that might prove deadly in the wrong hands, and slap bang in the middle is a young writer who, courtesy of his fellow guests, will soon find himself risking his life for the sake not only of his country, but the free world itself. Bon Voyage is a delicious old-fashioned comedic adventure, oozing with Ga find out more...