Introduction The Gathering Storm is a 1974 British/American television biopic film, about Winston Churchill’s life in the years just prior to, and at the start of, World War II, from 1936 to 1940. The film was broadcast on United Kingdom television under the title Walk with Destiny. Although another film about Churchill, made in 2002,… Read More
Introduction The Gathering Storm is a BBC-HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II. The title of the film is that of the first volume of Churchill’s largely autobiographical six-volume history of the war, which covered the period from 1919 to 03 September 1939, the day… Read More
Introduction Into the Storm is a 2009 biographical film about Winston Churchill and his days in office during the Second World War. The movie is directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and stars Brendan Gleeson as the British Prime Minister. Into the Storm is a sequel to the 2002 television film The Gathering Storm, which details the… Read More
Introduction Mussolini and I (alternatively titled Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce) is a 1985 made-for-television docudrama film directed by Alberto Negrin. It chronicles the strained relationship between Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law and foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, based on Ciano’s diaries. Made in English as an Italian-French-German-Swiss-Spanish-US co-production,… Read More
Introduction The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalises Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilise the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter,… Read More
Introduction Fátima is a 2020 faith-based drama film directed by Marco Pontecorvo. It stars Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Višnjić, Harvey Keitel, Sônia Braga, Stephanie Gil, Alejandra Howard, Jorge Lamelas and Lúcia Moniz. Outline A 10-year-old shepherd, Lúcia dos Santos, and her two young cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, report having received apparitions of the Blessed… Read More
Introduction Hell Hath No Fury is a 2021 action war film by director Jesse V. Johnson. Also known as Ave Marie (US, working title). Outline Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold hunted… Read More
Introduction The Objective is a 2008 science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Myrick, and co-written by Myrick, Mark A. Patton, and Wesley Clark Jr. The film stars Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, and Michael C. Williams. The plot revolves around CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes recalling the time when he led a Special Forces team… Read More
Introduction One Shot is a 2014 action science fiction film by director John Lyde. Refer to One Shot (2021) starring Scott Adkins. Also known as Sniper Elite (UK and English worldwide title) and One Shot: Space Trooper or Space Trooper (Germany). Outline Kevin Sorbo stars in this sci-fi action film in which a squad of… Read More
Introduction One Shot is a 2021 British action thriller film directed by James Nunn and starring Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene and Ryan Phillippe. Refer to One Shot (2014) starring Kevin Sorbo. Outline An elite squad of Navy SEAL’s, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped… Read More
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