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Nick Broomfield's docu-dramatisation of the massacre of twenty-four men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq, killed by US Marines in retaliation for the death of one of their number in a roadside bomb. Characteristically broad in its approach, following as it does with equal lack of judgement the soldiers, the Iraqi families and the insurgents. A traumatic, gripping and thoughtful re-enactment of events.
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An autobiographical account of the last IDF unit to occupy Beaufort, an old Crusader mountain stronghold, captured, and held till 2000, during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. The morale of the men slowly sinks as their lives are at risk, and lost, protecting a position beyond the Israeli defence line, under regular missile bombardment and which they know will soon be abandoned. A 2007 Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination.
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October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia and a force of elite American troops, under the banner of the UN, are sent into the city to abduct a warlord's henchmen. But the carefully laid plan quickly goes belly up and the soldiers are left fighting for their lives with little support and vastly out numbered. Black Hawk Down is a relentless slab of action and though based on true events, no attempt is made to explain the why or the wherefore beyond "badman" versus "goodman" and heroic stereotypes abound. A
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The harrowing true story of teacher Brian Keenan and journalist John Mccarthy who were kidnapped in war torn Beirut and held hostage for over four years. This is a remarkable and powerful dramatisation of survival and friendship under the most difficult, uncertain and terrifying of circumstances.
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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
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In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the company of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US.
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This four-part series attempts to dramatise the real-life events of four Cambridge students, recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in 1934. The four (Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby and Donald Maclean) became career spies, sacrificing any possibility of living a normal life, and in the process disclosing some of the most highly guarded information possessed by British intelligence, including test results from the Atom bomb and the Enigma codes. Impressively played and an intriguing story,
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A dramatic re-telling of Violette Szabo's role as secret agent in occupied France during the Second World War. Captured by the Wiermarcht and handed over to the Gestapo who eventually send her to Ravensbruck concentration camp and from there to the firing squad, Carve Her Name With Pride is a powerful and moving story of one woman's unbreakable spirit and unfaltering heroism.
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