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1. (1993) As unlikely a hero as you'll ever find, Oskar started out looking for cheap labour to help him make a profit in his factory. But when he saw the way the Jews were being brutalized in the Krakow ghetto, before being shipped to Auschwitz for extermination, he made it his life's work to save as many as he could.
2. (1997) At the age of 8, Frankie saw his father gunned down by a Loyalist assassin. Raised on hatred, Frankie soon became an important man in the I.R.A. When things get too hot, he's sent to America, to bring back weapons. Tom O'Meara, the cop who offers Frankie a room in his basement, discovers Frankie's mission, and makes it his mission to stop Frankie and the killing.
3. (1988) Set in the American South, two FBI agents attempt to investigate the disappearance (and assumed murder) of young civil rights workers in the '60s. The agents have their work cut out for them, getting someone to break the code of silence in a town where prejudice and segregation are the accepted way of life.
4. (1991) Although the main part of this movie takes place in Sherwood Forest, it does have a much darker beginning. Following their king on his 'Crusade' to win back their Holy Land, two young Englishmen find themselves captured and imprisoned by the Turks. With the help of a fellow prisoner, who happens to be a Moor, they escape, but one is mortally wounded, and only our hero and his Moorish companion make it to the shores of England alive.
5. (1970) Somewhere around the age of 100, Jack Crabb looks back on his life in the American west. Raised by Native Americans, Jack's done it all, including serving as a scout for General Custer at Little Big Horn, after seeing his Native wife killed.
6. (1982) In 1973, Chilean dictator Pinochet staged a coup to overthrow the elected reformist party, who had been backed in the election by the Chilean Communist Party. In the ensuing bloodbath thousands were killed, including 2 U.S. citizens. This movie tells the story of the father and widow of Charles Hormon, and their attempts to find some answers.
7. (1984) Sydney Schanberg was a journalist in Cambodia in 1975, when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge launched their 'Cambodian Holocaust'. His colleague, Dith Pran was a local. Being American, Schanberg had no trouble getting out of Cambodia, but his friend was not allowed to leave.
8. (1986) It's 1327, and a strange series of murders in a Benedictine Abbey has everyone terrified of the upcoming visit of the Holy Inquisitor, Bernardo Gui. It's up to William of Baskerville, a travelling monk, and his young apprentice to solve the murders before the Holy Inquisition arrives.
9. (1983) British officers find themselves imprisoned in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp, run by the particularly cruel and ruthless Capt. Yanoi. Yanoi believes in honour and discipline, and sees his charges as cowards because they allowed themselves to become imprisoned, instead of taking the honourable route and committing suicide. In the hopes of making things easier all around, one British Officer tries to understand Yanoi's point of view. His comrades treat him as a traitor for his efforts.
10. (1987) Raised in South Africa, Donald Woods had no reason to question the system of laws known as Apartheid...at least not until he met Steve Biko, an activist for black rights. Woods soon becomes an admirer of Biko's, a fact that does not go unnoticed by the police. When Biko dies in jail, Woods writes a book about him, but finds that he has to leave South Africa to get it published.
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