Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time on an unadjusted basis, and the war film The Hurt Locker each earned nine nominations including nods for best director pitting former married couple James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow against one another.
The song became better known in America after its ironic use to soundtrack the carnage of war in the 1987 film Good Morning Vietnam.
Because of their long-standing relationship, de Ponfilly is able to film the war councils, the mountaintop scouting, and, in one defining moment, Massoud asleep on a rock, before yet another battle.
He turned to acting after decorated service in the Second World War and made his film debut in 1950's Panic In The Streets.
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These have included one about Saladin, the (Kurdish) warrior who drove the crusaders out of Jerusalem, a film about the Iran-Iraq war and one about the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973.
Mr. Ford's Field Photographic Branch, which produced Academy Award-winning documentaries for the military on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, created a film to be shown at the war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg.
Yet Irish writer Isaac Eppel still managed to get his influential 1926 narrative film about the War of Independence, Irish Destiny, made.
The link leads to a page on internet book, music and video seller Amazon, offering a DVD version of the classic 1963 anti-war film Doctor Strangelove.
The subtle scripting of the relationship between Larson and Wali takes the film beyond the harsh reality of the war and into the personal.
The play's creative team returned to the time period author Truman Capote originally set his story, meaning during World War II, not the 1960s of the film.
Television work includes Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter, Love Soup by David Renwick and UN Weapons Inspector Eric Howlitt in the Newsnight film 10 Days To War.
Israel's controversial "Waltz With Bashir, " an animated film about a soldier's memories of the 1982 war in Lebanon, received a nomination for best foreign-language film.
Beyond the Greater China release of The Flowers of War, Blu-ray Disc titles including the Joe Satriani concert film, Satchurated: Live in Montreal, and San Francisco Symphony at 100 have been premastered using Dolby TrueHD with advanced 96k upsampling.
The bad memories of the hero (Denzel Washington), who suspects that the war hero is a fake, are accompanied by the conventional horror-film frights of painted faces, spooky doctors, and smoky, distorted cinematography.
The film stresses how societies at war nurture perverse values and dubious heroes.
The film, set during World War II, is based on the novel of the same name by Abergavenny author Owen Sheers.
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During World War II Harryhausen joined director Frank Capra's film unit, which made the Why We Fight series to back the US war effort.
He co-wrote "Tropic Thunder" based on an idea he had in 1987, when many of his friends were making war movies, he recalls in the film's production notes.
His most recent film score featured in the 2001 war thriller Enigma, while a musical version of Brighton Rock, created with lyricist Don Black, had its London premiere in 2004.
The UMCF press release claims that the film is part of a conspiracy involving "media terrorism" to cause war between Muslims and Christians and its content should not be protected as free speech.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Among the best TV movies, this film tells the story of the life of a woman born during the Civil War and living through the end of slavery, segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement, and it was awarded with many Emmy awards, including Best Lead Actress (Drama), Best Directing (Drama), Outstanding Special, and Actress of the Year.
It is considered by many to be the quintessential film about the nightmare of the Vietnam war.
The film, a satire on the Cold War, starring Peter Sellars delighted and provoked audiences around the world.
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Viewers of this film can harbor no illusion that the war we are in is confined to Iraq.
Overwhelmingly, the theatre of war struck Keane as being like a film set.
If the Titanic is a vehicle for working out our cultural anxieties, the 1953 film makes it clear that one of those, during the first years of the Cold War, was the question of who the good guys were.
The event, which is part of the East End Film Festival, will also screen archive footage of street parties from the end of World War I to the present.
Then, in the autumn, she will film Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks.
Everything about this anti-war film is geared for poignancy, from the snow-swept settings (the area around Park City, Utah, stands in for Europe) to the Christian symbolism.
The British film, directed and co-written by Nick Murphy, shows how the colossal losses of World War I led some of the bereaved to seek comfort in spiritualism.
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