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Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb and All The President's Men
All The President's Men (Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Alan J Pakula; Writer: William Goldman, based on the book by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward; Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Meredith Baxter, Ned Beatty, Stephen Collins) , Trailer
Story of the Watergate scandal from the perspective of the reporters who broke the story.
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The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (Country: Algeria, Italy; Year: 1966; Director: Gillo Pontecorvo; Writer: Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas; Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Michele Kerbash, Franco Morici, Tommaso Neri)
A vivid recreation of the events leading up to Algerian independence.
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Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Doctor Strangelove, Dr Strangelove) (Country: UK; Year: 1964; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick, based on the book by Peter George.; Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed) , Trailer
Classic black comedy about frantic politicians trying to avert a nuclear war.
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Erin Brockovich (Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: Susannah Grant; Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Coyote, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Conchata Ferrell)
A feisty single mother uncovers a toxic scandal.
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Good Night, And Good Luck (Good Night, and Good Luck.) (Country: Japan, France, UK, US; Year: 2005; Director: George Clooney; Writer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Fred W Friendly; Stars: David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney, Tate Donovan, Matt Ross, Reed Diamond, Robert John Burke)
The integrity of journalism is pitted against the politics of the Cold War in Fifties America.
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The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers and Selma
In The Name Of The Father (Country: Ireland, UK, US; Year: 1993; Director: Jim Sheridan; Writer: Gerry Conlon, Terry George, Jim Sheridan; Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Anthony Brophy, Emma Thompson, Frankie McCafferty, Alison Crosbie)
An Irish man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
Selma (Country: UK, US; Year: 2014; Director: Ava DuVernay; Writer: Paul Webb; Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Andre Holland, Oprah Winfrey, Dylan Baker, Common, Wendell Pierce, Tim Roth, Sten Houston, Nigel Thatch, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alessandro Nivola)
Chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights.
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