Posts tonen met het label History. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label History. Alle posts tonen

Capsule (2015)

maandag, oktober 10, 2016
 Nederlands HierSummary 
Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Tyuratam deep in Soviet Russia. Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?

Genre : SF/History
Country : UK

Cast : 
Edmund Kingsley : Guy Taylor
Lisa Greenwood : Charlotte Taylor
David Wayman : Harry

Director : Andrew Martin

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The finest hours (2016)

maandag, mei 09, 2016

 Nederlands HierSummary
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.

Genre
: Drama/History
Country : USA

Cast
:

Chris Pine : Bernie Webber
Casey Affleck : Ray Sybert
Holiday Grainger : Miriam Webber

Director : Craig Gillespie

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Bhopal : A prayer for Rain (2014)

donderdag, februari 05, 2015
 Nederlands HierSummary
The story follows a young rickshaw-puller in Bhopal who gets a menial job at a chemical plant, but in December of 1984 a chemical spill in India takes the lives of almost 15,000 people and injuring more than 100,000. The film follows how the industrial disaster in the city changes his life and those of others.

Genre
: Drama/History
Country : UK/India
  
Cast
:

Rajpal Yadav : Dilip
Martin Sheen : Warren ANderson
Kal Penn : Motwani

Director
: Ravi Kumar



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The Butler (2013)

zaterdag, december 28, 2013
Genre : Drama/History
Country: USA

Cast :
Forest Whitaker : Cecil Gaines
Oprah Winfrey :  Gloria Gaines
John Cusack : Richard Nixon
Robin Williams : Eisenhower

Director :
Lee Daniels

Summary

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
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Lo Imposible (2012)

zondag, augustus 04, 2013

Summary :
A regular family - Maria, Henry and their three kids - travel to http://meningvanfilmfreak.blogspot.be/2016/06/it-follows-2014.htmlThailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vacation until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them?

Genre : Drama/Thriller/History
Country
: Spain


Cast :
Naomi Watts : Maria
Ewan McGregor : Henry
Tom Holland
: Lucas

Director :
J.A. Bayona

Alternative title : The Impossible
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