Cast:

Russell Crowe as Maximus
Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus
Connie Nielsen as Lucilla
Oliver Reed as Proximo
Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius
Derek Jacobi as Gracchus
Djimon Hounsou as Juba
David Schofield as Falco
John Shrapnel as Gaius
Tomas Arana as Quintus
Ralf Moeller as Hagen
Spencer Treat Clark as Lucius
David Hemmings as Cassius
Tommy Flanagan as Cicero
Sven-Ole Thorsen as Tiger

A hero will rise. The general who became a slave. The slave that became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an empire. After another mighty victory on the battlefield, the great Roman General Maximus (Russell Crowe) is requested by the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) to assume his mantle of power. Jealous of Maximus’ favor, the original heir to the throne, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) orders his execution–and that of his family. Barely escaping death, Maximus is forced into slavery and trained as a gladiator in the arena where his fame grows into the great hero in the empire. When he comes to Rome, the Gladiator is intent on avenging the murder of his family.

Quotes:

[Maximus looks at images of his wife and son]
Juba: Can they hear you?
Maximus: Who?
Juba: Your family. In the afterlife.
Maximus: Oh yes.
Juba: What do you say to them?
Maximus: To my son – I tell him I will see him again soon. To keep his heels down while riding his horse. To my wife… that is not your business.

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Lucilla: Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.

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Maximus: At my signal, unleash hell.

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Maximus: What we do in life echoes in eternity.

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Maximus: I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.
Proximo: That’s enough for the provinces, but not enough for Rome.

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Cast:

Brad Pitt as Achilles
Brian Cox as Agamemnon
Diane Kruger as Helen
Eric Bana as Hector
Orlando Bloom as Paris
Brendan Gleeson as Menelaus

An adaptation of Homer’s great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

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Cast:

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas
Lena Headey as Queen Gorgo
Dominic West as Theron
David Wenham as Dilios
Vincent Regan as Captain
Michael Fassbender as Stelios
Tom Wisdom as Astinos
Andrew Pleavin as Daxos
Andrew Tiernan as Ephialtes
Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes

King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

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Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
Richard Loncraine
Mikael Salomon
David Nutter
Tom Hanks
David Leland
David Frankel
Tony To

DVD Release Date: 5 November 2002
Blu-ray Release Date: 11 November 2008

Original Airdates: Episode 1: 9 September 2001
Episode 2: 9 September 2001
Episode 3: 16 September 2001
Episode 4: 23 September 2001
Episode 5: 30 September 2001
Episode 6: 7 October 2001
Episode 7: 14 October 2001
Episode 8: 21 October 2001
Episode 9: 28 October 2001
Episode 10: 4 November 2001

Cast:

Scott Grimes as TSgt. Donald Malarkey
Damian Lewis as Maj. Richard D. Winters
Ron Livingston as Capt. Lewis Nixon
Donnie Wahlberg as 2nd Lt. C. Carwood Lipton
Shane Taylor as Cpl. Eugene Roe
Peter Youngblood Hills as SSgt. Darrel ‘Shifty’ Powers
Michael Cudlitz as Sgt. Denver ‘Bull’ Randleman
Rick Gomez as Sgt. George Luz
Neal McDonough as 1st Lt. Lynn ‘Buck’ Compton

Band of Brothers is a 2001 ten-part television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks after their collaboration on the World War II film Saving Private Ryan (1998). The episodes first aired in 2001 on HBO and are still run frequently on various TV networks around the world.

The narrative centers on the experiences of E Company (”Easy Company”) of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, from Easy’s basic training at Toccoa, Georgia, through the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Bastogne and on to the end of the war.

The events portrayed are based on Ambrose’s research and recorded interviews with Easy Company veterans. A large amount of literary license was taken with the episodes, and other reference books will highlight the differences between recorded history and the film version. All of the characters portrayed are based on actual members of Easy Company; some of them can be seen in prerecorded interviews as a prelude to each episode (their identities, however, are not revealed until the close of the finale). Spielberg is producing a sequel miniseries called The Pacific that will premiere in March 2010.

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Cast:

Jet Li as General Pang Qingyun (as Lianjie Li)
Andy Lau as Zhao Er-Hu (as Dehua Liu)
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhang Wen-Xiang (as Wu Jincheng)
Jinglei Xu as Lian

It’s a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on “The Assassination of Ma,” a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers.

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Cast:

Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn
Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn
Eric Bana as Henry Tudor
Jim Sturgess as George Boleyn
Mark Rylance as Sir Thomas Boleyn
Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
David Morrissey as The Duke of Norfolk

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

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