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2) A common man
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Ben Kingsley stars as a seemingly average citizen who plants five powerful bombs in different locations around a major city and threatens to detonate them unless his demand is met: The release of four of the most deadly international terrorists from government prisons. But in an urban jungle already torn apart by fear, what could be the real motive behind a cunning madman's ultimate plan? Ben Cross co-stars in this explosive action-thriller about...
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"North, Central, and South American Indians have a rich religious heritage, though much has been lost since these peoples were conquered by Europeans. Characteristic features of Native American religion included the master of the animals, a protective spirit of a species or of all animals. Shamans, ecstatic medicine men, used supernatural powers to cure the ill. Totemism was a mysterious religious bond between the human clan and their animal guardians....
4) Tut
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Saga of Tutankhamun's rise to power and struggle to lead Egypt despite scheming advisors, friends, and lovers.
8) Moses
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Tells the story of reluctant leader Moses leading the Jews out of bondage in Egypt.
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Rumpelstiltskin: A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
The tiger and the Brahmin: The Indian folktale about a Brahmin who learns a valuable lesson when he is deceived by a ferocious tiger and rescued by a lowly jackal.
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Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her parents managed to survive several deportations and mass killings by the Gestapo. In autumn 1943, however, the family was deported to a slave labor camp in central...
11) Elegy
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Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of "emancipated manhood'" thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story is born.
12) Life
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The story of the friendship between Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock and Hollywood actor James Dean.
13) Security
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When the leader of a vengeful biker gang and his followers chase a crime witness into a mall, the head security guard and his team try to protect her from becoming a victim.
15) An ordinary man
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When a war criminal goes into hiding, he begins a relationship with his maid who is his only connection to the outside world.
17) The walk
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Dramatizes the events leading up to Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
18) Schindler's list
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The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
19) Operation Finale
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Tells the real life story of how a group of Israeli agents tracked down and captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.