Posts Tagged ‘1830s’

Amistad (1997)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Hawthorne, Nigel | Hopkins, Anthony | Hounsou, Djimon | McConaughey, Matthew | Paymer, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Skarsgård, Stellan | Adoti, Razaaq | Fofanah, Abu Bakaar | Paquin, Anna | Milian, Tomas | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Ashong, Derrick N. | Silva, Geno
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Oliver Twist (2005)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Clark, Barney | Swift, Jeremy | McNeice, Ian | Durden, Richard | Bateson, Timothy | de la Tour, Andy | Hess, Filip | Papadopoulos, Andreas | Athey, Laurie | Tremain, Joseph | Copley, Peter | Linden, Andy | Nettleton, John | Noble, Tony | Heath, Michael
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?

Alamo, The (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Erickson, Craig | Quaid, Dennis | Thornton, Billy Bob | Patric, Jason | Wilson, Patrick | Echevarría, Emilio | Mollà, Jordi | Rippy, Leon | Davidson, Tom | Blucas, Marc | Prentiss, Robert | Page, Kevin | Stevens, Joe | Bruton, Stephen | Clifton, Laura | Chavira, Ricardo
Directors: Hancock, John Lee
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas.

National Treasure (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Kruger, Diane | Bartha, Justin | Bean, Sean | Voight, Jon | Keitel, Harvey | Plummer, Christopher | Fisher, David Dayan | Finlay-McLennan, Stewart | Taktarov, Oleg | Pope, Stephen A. | Parisse, Annie | Pellegrino, Mark | Riesco, Armando | King, Erik
Directors: Turteltaub, Jon
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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who’ve all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben’s close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.