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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Bridge on the River Kwai, The - download movie
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge. Written by alfiehitchie

Rescue Dawn (2006)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Rescue Dawn - download movie
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Marshall Bell | François Chau | Jeremy Davies | Craig Gellis | GQ | Zach Grenier | Pat Healy | Toby Huss | Bonnie Z. Hutchinson | Evan Jones | Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul | Mr. Tony B. King | Mr. Richard Manning | Mr. Garrett D. Melich
Directors: Werner Herzog
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This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin. Written by Ryan

The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Road to Guantanamo, The - download movie
Genres: Documentary | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Riz Ahmed | Farhad Harun | Waqar Siddiqui | Afran Usman | Shahid Iqbal | Sher Khan | Jason Salkey | Jacob Gaffney | Mark Holden | Duane Henry | William Meredith | Payman Bina | Adam James | Ian Hughes | James Buller
Directors: Mat Whitecross
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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

The Great Raid (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Great Raid, The - download movie
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Benjamin Bratt | James Franco | Robert Mammone | Max Martini | James Carpinello | Mark Consuelos | Craig McLachlan | Freddie Joe Farnsworth | Laird Macintosh | Jeremy Callaghan | Scott McLean | Paolo Montalban | Clayne Crawford | Sam Worthington | Royston Innes
Directors: John Dahl
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever. Written by themusicman999