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In a time when the world is so focused on the conflict unfolding in Iraq, the thing that is most clear to me after watching this movie is the old saying that after thousands of years of wars fought in the name of religion, we are not a second closer to peace than we ever were.
The Flying Tigers fought against the Japanese Air Force which flew Ki-43 'Oscars'.
My heart goes out to the people who fought in that war, the survivors and the dead.
They fought because governments can't simply learn to live with their differences, or they can't just sit down and decide to have a poker game instead.
Someone who fought not for herself, but for other people as much as herself.
Ira Hayes (Adam Beach), who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima.
Having fought heroically in World War I, Gen. Billy Mitchell (Gary Cooper) tried to get his superiors to establish an Air Force.
Although "Dodge City" is loosely based on the early career of Wyatt Earp, the main character, here called Wade Hatton, is an Irishman who has served as an officer with the British Army in India, taken part in a revolution in Cuba and fought with the Confederates during the American Civil War.
Pursued is something of a New Mexico film-noir: a psychological thriller fought out in the prairie lands and rural country more commonly associated with straight rootin', tootin' Western shoot'em ups.
Finally, this is a wonderful movie about all the brave heroes who fought in those campaigns, dying, maimed, or just lucky enough to come home at the end.
This story of great Americans who fought to preserve out safety and way of life, illustrates that like George Washington and all of the Founding Fathers..We must continue to believe in and have faith in the God that inspired the creators of this nation.. Alan Hale who plays the priest always amazed me.
Kudos for the fact that the sympathetic characters in the movie (played by Quaid and McDowell) were actually suggesting that marriage problems need to be fought through and marriage held on to rather than thrown away, but still, frankly, I thought this thing would never end, and the ending, when it finally did arrive, was entirely forgettable.
How could he have fought those battles with Hercules.
Any sensitive man or woman who knows the depth of detail of the greatest battle in the WWII Pacific Theater, the "Battle for Iwo Jima" gets tears in their eyes not just for the incredible loss of Marines but startlingly enough, for the tragic, needless loss of the Japanese soldiers who had dug themselves deeply into the island's rock-like volcanic ground and fought to their deaths from bunkers, many remainders committing suicide in keeping with the then prevailing philosophy of war in Japan.
Only a fair western but it did carry a good finale as the rescuers fought their way across a ruggedly beautiful Mexican landscape.
Arna Mer, a Jewish woman who fought in the 1948 war dedicated her life to helping Palestinian refugees after the 1967 war.
I'm thinking of millions of Germans who fought and lost a world war from 1914 to 1918 and tens of millions of Germans being affected by the terms of the Versaille treaty .
Hitler himself fought in the war and was lying in hospital when the war ended and all these factors had far more importance in the creation of Nazi Germany than Hitler's father being a civil servant .
He fought it, but being a guy, he finally agreed to humor me.
You might be surprised when I point out that Carter never fought Griffith for a world championship in 1963 though he did fight for the middlewight championship a year later against champion Joey Giardello who beat him on points with plenty to spare .
Showing clearly Stalins ruthlessness but also giving so much well deserved credit to the ordinary Soviet peoples struggles and efforts to survive both their own and a foreign dictator.It gives a much more balanced look on how the war was fought and can give much understanding also to the development of the cold war and also understanding on what can be seen as a Russian obsession with the war.After have studied this documentary and read books in the subject one have no doubt anymore that the war affected the Russian people hardest of all nations.A brilliant historical documentary at its best!
The bad guys fought among themselves and acted like a bunch of morons.
My favorite line is "I fought those guys.
In this film, she chooses instead to play a schoolgirl prank on him (now there's a smart thing to do to a psychopath!), and needless to say, he comes back for a laughably violent showdown (fought with D.I.Y. equipment) which ends when he happens to falls onto some conveniently waiting iron spikes.
Cities bombed to ruins, then fought over to the last man.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra has always been the master stylist...repertoire is full of cinematic brilliance...whether it was Parinda where he showcased a underworld gangster with haunting memories...or 1947 a love story..a power house packed romantic film in the backdrop of Quit India movement...or it was Mission Kashmir where estranged son and father fought and valley burnt in their anguish...his narration has always been packed with a grip, sheer brilliance of dialog delivery, daunting back score music and use of lights and camera angles which reminds you of Guru Dutt's work...no doubt Vidhu has his traits in all his protégé, be it Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Hirani or Pardeep Sarkar... so when one hears it took him five years to pen the screenplay of Eklavya, the expectations had to be high.
Also a big let down was that Dudikoff actually fought a ninja master but here Bradley's one on one is with Marjoe Gortner.
Tremendous sea scenes , aided by the fact that most of the original ships which fought the actual battle are used in the movie.
For those out there that are either too young to remember or have not had the privilege of learning these stories in history classes, knowing how hard some people fought and how much they struggled to achieve a right that many current citizens take for granted is tantamount.
The well-intentioned people that fought tooth and nail to produce the lackluster Civil War romance "The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams," a.k.a.
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