The tragic story of a World War 2 operation that went wrong. As the Allies advanced, in late 1944, they attempted to form a bridgehead behind enemy lines by parachuting down and taking the Dutch-German bridge at Arnhem. This is a tale of the heroic failure of the many involved. Action-packed war movie.
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ASSEMBLY (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A Chinese soldier's tale; Guzidi was a child of poverty who became a successful guerrilla soldier and then officer in the Liberation Army. After a fierce battle with the KMT Guzidi and his remaining 46 troops are sent to a front line defensive position, where they are abandoned by the main army corps to a fight to the death. After a heroic act in the Korean War Guzidi, riddled with guilt and loss of meaningful identity, fights a long battle to atone for the loss of his company by gaining recogni
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AUSTRALIA (2008)
Certification12 Our Rating
It is 1941 and English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, inherits a ranch in the Australian outback, but when cattle barons plot to take her land, she is forced, reluctantly at first, to team up with a rough-hewn cattle driver. Together with a young aboriginal orphan the unlikely band must take 1500 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land only to face the Japanese forces on their arrival in Darwin. Australia is Baz Luhrmann's (‘Moulin Rouge', ‘Romeo and Juliet
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BAND OF BROTHERS DISC 1 (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Part 1- Currahee: Young lads in Georgia begin training for America's newest military faction - paratroopers and soon become an elite and known as Easy Company. A rivalry breaks out between Lt Sobel and Lt Winters. Part 2 - Day of Days: D-Day arrives, and the paratroopers come under heavy fire. They get lost, lose their weapons and their supplies and hook up with Winters to find their units. Winters loses his first man after a German attack.
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BAND OF BROTHERS DISC 2 (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Part 3 - Carentan: Easy Company is sent to take Carentan but Blithe and some others have trouble adjusting to combat. After 36 days in Normandy Easy heads back to England only to be told they will ship out again. Part 4 - Replacements: Some green paratroopers come to help out Easy Co as they prepare to drop on Holland. Originally met with little resistance, the group is crippled by a well-prepared German force. The Allies plan to end the war by Christmas.
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BAND OF BROTHERS DISC 3 (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Part 5 - Crossroads: Winters is promoted after a successful raid on a Dutch dike. He learns of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest and sends in an ill-equipped Easy Company. Part 6 - Bastogne: In the bitter weather of Belgium the boys of Easy try to hold the line alone. The medic befriends a Belgian nurse as the crew spends Christmas in the trench and is asked to surrender.
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BAND OF BROTHERS DISC 4 (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Part 7 - The Breaking Point: After succeeding at Bastogne Easy is sent to capture Foy. Fierce shelling ensues and the Co takes a few casualties under the incompentant leadership of Lt Dike. Part 8 - The Last Patrol: Easy is ordered to take care of POWs after arriving in Haguenau. Lt Jones, fresh from West Point, takes command and another life is lost, causing Winters to disregard a recommendation to send another troop the next day.
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BAND OF BROTHERS DISC 5 (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Part 9 - Why We Fight: FInally in Germany the crew takes it easy for the first time. Another troop finds an abandoned concentration camp still occupied by emaciated prisoners and news arrives that Hitler is dead. Part 10 - Points: Entering Berchtesgarten Easy Co takes control of 'Eagle's Nest', Hitler's hilltop fortress. Preparing to go to the Pacific the men try to compare points to see who gets to go home. When the Japanese surrender everyone gets to go home...to very different circumstances.
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BATTLE OF THE BULGE (1965)
CertificationPG Our Rating
In the winter of 1944 the Allies prepared to invade Germany but to the surprise of everybody (bar the Enigma code-breaking team) Hitler not only managed a counter-attack in the Ardennes, but a remarkably successful one. The film shows the conflict from the perspectives of an American intelligence officer and a German Panzer Commander.
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BLACK BOOK (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
The Netherlands towards the end of WWII and Jewess Rachel Stein must abandon her hiding place and make a break for freedom. After escaping the massacre of a boat load of refugees fleeing toward Allied lines, Rachel, alone, bereft and terrified, joins the Resistance and, using her feminine wiles and intelligence, infiltrates the lair of those responsible for her grief. Black Book is a cracking thriller; tense, gripping, and full of irony, Dutch resistance heroes aren't all models of virtue and we
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