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Battle of the Sexes
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Release Date: September 22, 2017 | Fox Searchlight Pictures, Cloud Eight Films, Decibel Films
Battleship Potemkin
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Release Date: December 24, 1925 | Goskino Productions, Mosfilm
Summary: A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
Beaufort
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Release Date: February 02, 2007 | Metro Communications
Summary: BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
Director: Joseph Cedar
Runtime: 2 h 11 min
Becket
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Release Date: March 11, 1964 | Paramount, Paramount Film Service, Keep Films
Summary: King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.
Director: Peter Glenville
Runtime: 2 h 28 min
Beloved Sisters
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Release Date: July 31, 2014 | Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH, ARD/Degeto Film GmbH, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Kiddinx Filmproduktion, Senator Film Produktion, WS Filmproduktion, Wega Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), ARTE
Ben-Hur (1959)
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Release Date: December 26, 1959 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Summary: Judah Ben-Hur, a Palestinian Jew, is battling the Roman empire at the time of Christ. His actions send him and his family into slavery, but an inspirational encounter with Jesus changes everything. He finally meets his rival in a justly famous chariot race and rescues his suffering family.
Director: William Wyler
Runtime: 3 h 32 min
Beneath Hill 60
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Release Date: April 15, 2010 | The Silence Productions, Lucky Country Productions, Screen Australia, Pacific Film and Television Commission, New South Wales Film & Television Office
Summary: The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
Director: Jeremy Sims
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
Bent
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Release Date: November 26, 1997 | ASK Kodansha, Channel Four Films, NDF Inc.
Summary: Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Director: Sean Mathias
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
Best of Enemies
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Release Date: July 31, 2015 | Motto Pictures, Tremolo Productions, Media Ranch
Summary: A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'
Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
Bismarck's Dismissal
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Release Date: October 06, 1942 | Tobis Filmkunst
Bitter Harvest
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Release Date: February 23, 2017 | Pandastorm Pictures, Devil's Harvest Production, Andamar Entertainment
Summary: 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.
Director: George Mendeluk
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
Black Hawk Down
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Release Date: December 28, 2001 | Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Revolution Studios, Scott Free Productions
Summary: When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Director: Ridley Scott
Runtime: 2 h 24 min
Black Robe
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Release Date: September 05, 1991 | Téléfilm Canada, Alliance Communications Corporation, Samson Productions, First Choice Canadian Communication Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (II), Rogers Telefund, Australian Film Finance Corporation
Summary: Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
Bloody Sunday
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Release Date: January 16, 2002 | Portman Entertainment Group, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann, Hell's Kitchen Films, Granada Television
Braveheart
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Release Date: May 24, 1995 | Icon Entertainment International, The Ladd Company, B.H. Finance C.V.
Summary: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Director: Mel Gibson
Runtime: 2 h 57 min
Breach (2007)
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Release Date: February 12, 2007 | Universal Pictures, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Intermedia Films, Outlaw Productions
Summary: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States.
Director: Billy Ray
Runtime: 1 h 50 min