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Yamato
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Yamato

Dec. 17, 2005

Yamato

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, “Yamato” has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to ...
Memoirs of a Geisha
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Memoirs of a Geisha

Dec. 06, 2005

Memoirs of a Geisha

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Joyeux Noel
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Joyeux Noel

Nov. 09, 2005

Joyeux Noel

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man’s land that the French and the ...
The World’s Fastest Indian
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The World’s Fastest Indian

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world ...
9th Company
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9th Company

Sep. 19, 2005

9th Company

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Good Night, and Good Luck.

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow’s stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Two Sons of Francisco
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Two Sons of Francisco

Aug. 19, 2005

Two Sons of Francisco

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts ...
The Great Raid
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The Great Raid

Aug. 12, 2005

The Great Raid

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate ...
Cinderella Man
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Cinderella Man

Jun. 02, 2005

Cinderella Man

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
Sometimes in April
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Sometimes in April

Feb. 17, 2005

Sometimes in April

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated ...
Coach Carter
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Coach Carter

Jan. 14, 2005

Coach Carter

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due ...
Hotel Rwanda
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Hotel Rwanda

Dec. 22, 2004

Hotel Rwanda

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly ...
Alexander
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Alexander

Nov. 21, 2004

Alexander

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the ...
Downfall
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Downfall

Sep. 16, 2004

Downfall

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force ...
The Edelweiss Pirates
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The Edelweiss Pirates

Aug. 29, 2004

The Edelweiss Pirates

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. ...
R-Point
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R-Point

Aug. 13, 2004

R-Point

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
King Arthur
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King Arthur

Jul. 07, 2004

King Arthur

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the ‘Sarmatian hypothesis’ which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the ...
Troy
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Troy

May. 13, 2004

Troy

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to ...
The Alamo
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The Alamo

Apr. 07, 2004

The Alamo

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s ...
Miracle
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Miracle

Feb. 06, 2004

Miracle

When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. ...
Heir To An Execution
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Heir To An Execution

Jan. 01, 2004

Heir To An Execution

When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every ...
Cold Mountain
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Cold Mountain

Dec. 24, 2003

Cold Mountain

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman ...
Mona Lisa Smile
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Mona Lisa Smile

Dec. 19, 2003

Mona Lisa Smile

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to ...
Shattered Glass
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Shattered Glass

Nov. 14, 2003

Shattered Glass

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a ...
Luther
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Luther

Oct. 29, 2003

Luther

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will ...
Path to War
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Path to War

Oct. 28, 2003

Path to War

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider’s look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen ...
The Fog of War
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The Fog of War

Oct. 26, 2003

The Fog of War

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, ...