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College-bound Sam Witwicky learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. He will have to accept his destiny and join Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their epic battle against the Decepticons. The Decepticon forces, who have returned stronger than ever, have come to Earth on a mission to take Sam prisoner and destroy the world.
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Ash and Pikachu meet Lizabeth, a descendant of the People of the Water, and learn about their legend. They meet Jackie, a Pokémon Ranger on a secret mission to protect a Manaphy egg, also known as The Prince of the Sea, and find the Sea Temple as well. The Phantom plans to obtain the Sea Crown and take over the world, but he needs the Manaphy egg first. Now Lizabeth and Ash must help Jackie protect the egg and stop the nefarious pirate!
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"Detroit": Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
"The hurt locker": During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
"Point break": An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
"The...
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After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
5) Megan Leavey
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Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
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"...[a] narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor."--
he New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor."Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it."...
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A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
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In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
10) Overlord
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American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion's success, on the eve of D-Day. But as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They find themselves fighting against supernatural forces, part of a Nazi experiment.
11) Seal team
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Master chief Devon Mackefy (Ken Gamble) heads the five-man special operations unit, including rookie petty officer Michael Davis (Jeremy Davis), that bleeds red, white and blue and is supposed to meet an Iraqi informant on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. When an Iraqi boy is accidentally caught in the crossfire with enemy soldiers, Mackefy is brought face-to-face with the mental wounds and guilt surrounding the death of his own young...
12) Sadie
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The devoted daughter of a soldier, thirteen-year-old Sadie is disappointed to learn her father is once again re-deploying rather than returning home. When she sees that her mom is developing feelings for a new man, Sadie channels her disappointment into a fierce new mission, preserve her father's place on the home front, whatever it takes. She has her enemy in her sights, and if there's one thing she's learned from the world around her, it's that...
13) The Lucky ones
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Colee, TK, and Cheever are three soldiers who return home from the Iraq War after suffering injuries. They learn that life has moved on without them. The three end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S. Colee is on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family. TK is seeking the confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury threatens his sexual function. Cheever is a middle-aged man who is planning to hit the casinos in...
14) Eye in the sky
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Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
15) Kiss
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Bruno finds it very interesting that his father, Daan, shaves his beard and head before he leaves on a military mission. When Daan offers his son to shave him, Bruno finds it an offer he cannot refuse. Along with this intimate way of saying goodbye, we see what happens to Daan on his mission in Afghanistan through Bruno playing with his toy soldiers. Nominated for Best Narrative Short at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
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Hundreds of years in the future, humans have colonized the solar system. The UN controls Earth. Mars is an independent military power. The planets rely on the resources of the Asteroid Belt, where air and water are more precious than gold. Earth, Mars, and the Belt are now on the brink of war. And all it will take is a single spark.
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13 hours: A six-man security team struggles to fight off a militant attack on an American diplomatic compound in Libya.
American sniper : Legendary Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. Returning home to his wife and kids after 4 tours of duty in Afghanistan, Chris finds it difficult to leave the war behind him.
Black Hawk down: It is a riveting documentary about the heroic efforts of the soldiers...
18) Stranded
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When the isolated U.S. military moonbase is bombarded by a meteor storm, Colonel Gerard Brauchman and his small crew are cut off from Earth with their life support failing. Before long, the crew discovers the meteors harbored alien spores and they're replicating. Now a vicious, shape-shifting, predatory life form is loose inside the crippled facility. Locked in a desperate fight for survival, the terrified remaining astronauts have one final mission:...
19) Megan Leavey
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A film based on the true life story of a young marine corporal (Kate Mara) whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED...
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In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies--the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary--that captured the imagination of the city. The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production...
