As the successor to a martyred president, Lyndon B. Johnson sought to transform America into a 'Great Society' of equal opportunity. Instead, he became the symbol for the most unpopular war in U.S. history. Michael Gambon (as President Johnson), Donald Sutherland (as Clark Gifford) and Alec Baldwin (as Robert McNamara) star in a compelling drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams, set inside the LBJ White House in the volatile years leading up to and during Vietnam.
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THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A gripping, Oscar nominated, reconstruction of the rise of the Baader-Meinhof Group, a bunch of radical terrorists who rose in the mid-70s using military means, arson, bank raids, assassinations and kidnappings, to attempt the overthrow of the German state, many of whose personnel had their roots in the country's Nazi state.
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THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Certification12 Our Rating
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THIRTEEN DAYS (2001)
Certification12 Our Rating
Gripping dramatization of the goings on in the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how close the American military were to starting World War 3 after the Soviets responded to the placement of first strike nuclear weapons in Turkey by trying to place them in Cuba. As the world teetered on the nuclear brink a small number of White House aides fought off the majority view, and peace prevailed as Kennedy capitulated and agreed the withdrawal of US weapons from Turkey. Excellent.
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