Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Mutiny on the Bounty movie storyline. Based on a true story: The Bounty, a British sailing ship commanded by Captain Bligh sails for Tahiti to pick up breadfruit plants and take them to Jamaica where they are to be planted and help supply the British with a compact, easy to grow, nutritious plant. Lt. Christian is the executive officer – that is, second in command of the vessel.
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This Sporting Life movie storyline. In drab early-1960s Wakefield, the volatile and aggressive young miner, Frank Machin, is determined to earn himself a place in the tough world of professional rugby and the local team
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Il Deserto Rosso movie storyline. Against the grim backdrop of Ravenna’s barren industrial wastelands brimming with flame-belching factories and deleterious chemical fumes, Giuliana, a deeply dejected young mother on the brink of a total existential breakdown, seeks solace in one of her neglectful husband’s handsome associates, Corrado Zeller.
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A Terrible Beauty movie storyline. In Ireland, it’s 1941 and Irish Republicans have made a tentative bond with Nazi Germany to help Ireland in its never-ending struggle with Great Britain. A small cell of IRA soldiers is recruited in one village, under the flimsy leadership of the morally and physically lame Don McGinnis.
A Terrible Beauty (1960) Read More
During the early 1800s, English Lord John Morgan (Richard Harris) is hunting in the Dakotas, but he is captured by a group of Sioux warriors. Morgan’s guides are killed, but he is spared by Sioux Chief Yellow Hand (Manu Tupou), who marvels at Morgan’s blond hair. Brought to Yellow Hand’s tribal village, Morgan has to endure physical abuse and mockery at the hands of women and children who consider him to be a wild horse.
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Camelot movie synopsis. Merlin taught King Arthur well. He establishes the perfect kingdom of Camelot, the best knights in the world at the Round Table, and even finds himself a kind, loving wife in Queen Guenevere. Then, along comes the French knight, Lancelot.
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Hawaii movie storyline. In 1819, young Prince Keoki Kanakoa appeals to the Yale Divinity School to bring Christianity to the Islands of Hawaii.
Hawaii (1966) Read More
The Bible: In the Beginning… movie storyline. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with our first ancestral parents.
The Bible: In the Beginning… (1966) Read More
The Guns of Navarone movie storyline. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis.
The Guns of Navarone (1961) Read More
Caprice movie storyline. There is an on-going battle of industrial espionage between rival cosmetics companies, Femina, owned by Sir Jason Fox, and May Fortune, owned by Matthew Cutter.
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