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Captain America Winter Soldier
For Steve Rogers, awakening after decades of suspended animation involves more than catching up on pop culture; it also means that this old school idealist must face a world of subtler threats and difficult moral complexities. That comes clear when Director Nick Fury is killed by the mysterious assassin, the Winter Soldier, but not before warning Rogers that SHIELD has been subverted by its enemies.
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Foreign Films
A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.
An account of the American Evangelicals’ attempts to indoctrinate their Christian Right beliefs in Uganda.
Honest and dedicated police commissioner Awadesh Pratap Singh lives a middle class lifestyle in Bombay with his family consisting of wife Shushma, daughter Anu and a son who is also a police inspector Abhay. When Abhay is posted as a security guard at wealthy and influential Mahendra Pratap Rana bungalow he gets to learn that Rana have links with terrorists who have plans to destroy India.
It is the story of two men in a girl’s life. One loves her, the other wants to kill her. The girl is an heiress and her stepfather is waiting for her to turn 18, so he can inherit her wealth. He tries to coax, cajole and coerce the boy out of her life but to no avail. Finally, he takes the help of a corrupt inspector to eliminate the boy.
Documentaries
This documentary series looks at the evolution of specific character types appearing on American primetime episodic television from post WWII to the early twenty-first century. These characters were often a reflection of the times and often shaped by world events such as WWII, the Vietnam War and 9/11, but some also influenced behavior and attitudes, especially of such characterizations in future television shows.
James Burke explores key moments in Western History where new knowledge in science changed the way the modern Western world thinks.
Once Were Enemies
US Tank Commander Lee Smith and Platoon Leader Bill Cumbaa return to the island of Peleliu to meet their former enemies, Tsuchida Kiyokazu and Shinji Karasumaru, 60 years after their battle during WWII.
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