Tag Archives: afghanistan

Lions for Lambs

IMDB Rating: 6.10
4631 votes

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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates.
Actors
Professor Stephen MalleyRobert Redford
Janine RothMeryl Streep
Senator Jasper IrvingTom Cruise
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, War | Comments (0)

Death of a President

IMDB Rating: 6.30
2247 votes

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Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.
Actors
Zahra Abi ZikriHend Ayoub
Larry StaffordBrian Boland
Eleanor DrakeBecky Ann Baker
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Road to Guantanamo

IMDB Rating: 7.70
3095 votes

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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.
Actors
ShafiqRiz Ahmed
RuhelFarhad Harun
MonirWaqar Siddiqui
Also posted in 2006, Documentary, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Domino

IMDB Rating: 5.90
14928 votes

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The daughter of an actor with a high-society woman, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Mosley and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Mosley and his crew are in action participating of a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation becomes out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while FBI is monitoring the two gangs of mobsters.
Actors
Domino HarveyKeira Knightley
Ed MosbeyMickey Rourke
ChocoEdgar Ramirez
Also posted in 2005, Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Fahrenheit 9/11

IMDB Rating: 7.70
50398 votes

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In this film, muckraker Michael Moore turns his eye on George W. Bush and his War on Terrorism agenda. He illustrates his argument about how this failed businessman with deep connections to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the Bin Ladins got elected on fraudulent circumstances and proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When that treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend his nation, only to later cynically manipulate it to serve his wealthy backers' corrupt ambitions. Through facts, footage and interviews, Moore illustrates his contention of how Bush and his cronies have gotten America into worse trouble than ever before and why Americans should not stand for it.
Actors
HimselfMichael Moore
HimselfJeffrey Toobin
Himself - IntervieweeJack Cloonan
Also posted in 2004, Documentary, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (6)

Tomorrow Never Dies

IMDB Rating: 6.40
27872 votes

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Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People's Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People's External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin's help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver's ego.
Actors
James BondPierce Brosnan
Elliot CarverJonathan Pryce
Wai LinMichelle Yeoh
Also posted in 1997, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Rambo III

IMDB Rating: 4.10
9056 votes

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John Rambo's former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman's request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen.
Actors
John J. RamboSylvester Stallone
Col. Samuel TrautmanRichard Crenna
Col. ZaysenMarc de Jonge
Also posted in 1988, Action, War | Comments (0)

The Living Daylights

IMDB Rating: 6.50
8700 votes

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After Bond helps Russian officer Georgi Koskov ('Jeroen Krabbe'(qv)) make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara ('Maryam d'Abo'(qv)), who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into hair-raising chases, a riveting jailbreak and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback.
Actors
James BondTimothy Dalton
Kara MilovyMaryam d'Abo
General Georgi KoskovJeroen Krabbé
Also posted in 1987, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)