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Black Hawk down

With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.

Goal II

living the dream
Newcastle United's favorite player, Santiago Mu??ez, reaches superstardom and starts to live every footballer's dream when he is transferred to Real Madrid to play in the UEFA European Champions League. He gets to play alongside some of the greatest players, including David Beckham. As Santiago basks in the glory, acclaim and money, he discovers that success has an ugly face, one that threatens to destroy everything he has worked for and everyone that he loves.

4 film favorites

A collection of four family comedies.

The Tuskegee Airmen

In the midst of World War II, four African-American recruits strive to be Army Air Force pilots, though offical segregation is especially strong among the Air Forces. The four complete their training in Alabama before serving with distinction in the European theatre.

Lee Daniels' The butler

Inspired by a true story
A butler tells the story of a White House who serves eight presidents over three decades. During his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Spartacus

Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic. Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.

Guilty by suspicion

The career of Hollywood director David Merrill is ruined when he refuses to testify against friends before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the communist witch hunt of the 1950s.

Friday night lights

Dramatizes the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, exploring the lives of the players and the impact of the championship team on the small town.

Titanic

The story of a passionate romance aboard the Titanic's 1912 maiden voyage, framed by a present-day tale of a salvager who encounters a survivor of that ill-fated voyage.

Sixties

An attempt to encapsulate the whole of the 1960's through the experiences of two families, one white and one black, who are torn apart by the social forces of the time: the civil rights movement, the student revolution, and the Vietnam War. The Herlihy's are a white, middle class, Catholic family in Chicago. The Taylor's are the family of a black preacher in Mississippi. The eldest Herlihy son (O'Connell) enlists in the Marines on graduation from high school, is sent to Vietnam, and returns as a disillusioned head case. His younger brother (Hamilton), becomes a freedom rider and later, in college, an anti-war activist. Their sister (Stiles), winds up pregnant and unmarried on the streets of Haight Asbury. The black family, active in civil rights protests in the South, moves to Los Angeles where the father (Dutton) is killed during the Watts riots. His son Emmet (Roberts), eventually becomes a bodyguard for Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Grier). In the end, everyone who survives finds a modicum of happiness. The Herlihy children are reunited at Woodstock and reconcile with their parents who accept their children for what they have become. Emmet Taylor returns to Watts to organize a breakfast program for needy children.

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