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June 5th, 2014: The Longest Day (1962)
The actions of the men and women-American, English, French, German-who fought in Normandy on D-Day are covered in this modern epic.
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June 14th, 2014: Casablanca
Everyone from Nazi officers to the members of the international resistance to criminals comes to Rick’s (Humphrey Bogart). When criminal Ugarte (Peter Lorre) leaves letters of transit in Rick’s hand...
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August 9th, 2014: Attack aka Attack! (1956)
During the closing days of the Second World War, a National Guard infantry company is ordered to move into a town that could be occupied by Nazi forces. Earlier in the day their cowardly, politically...
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August 25th, 2014: Passage to Marseille (1944)
A French freighter rushing nickel ore back to France in the early days of the Second World War picks up five men floating in a raft. The men claim to be French prospectors who want to come back to...
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September 5th, 2014: King Rat
Captured with the fall of Singapore, Corporal King (George Segal) is the "King" of Changi prison camp, wheeling and dealing to get what the men want and need, but as the war approaches its end, and the...
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September 27, 2014: The Sound of Music (1965)
Cast and Crew: Robert Wise (Director), Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Music); Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Angela Cartwright What It’s About: Looking at...
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October 5th, 2014: Frankenstein’s Army (2013)
Cast and Crew: Richard Raaphorst (Director); Chris W. Mitchell and Miguel Tejada-Flores (Writers); Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury, and Luke Newberry What It’s About: Toward...
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December 13th, 2014: Inside Man (2006)
Cast and Crew: Spike Lee (Director); Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor What It’s About: A police detective and hostage negotiator, Keith...
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December 16th, 2014: Castle Keep
While the Battle of the Bulge rages and the German Army approaches, a group of walking wounded recuperating in a 10th century castle must decide if they should join those retreating from the Germans,...
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September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list...
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