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Based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, Julius Caesar was the first of Shakespeare's Roman history plays. Presented for the first time in 1599, the play reveals the great dramatist's consummate ability to explore and express the most profound human emotions and instincts. So clearly and urgently does it impact its insights into history and human behavior, Julius Caesar is traditionally among the first of...
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On June 28, 1914, a nineteen-year-old Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip stepped up to an open car on a Sarajevo street and fired two shots. The bullets from Pricip's gun killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, Sofie. The gunfire also set the stage for the most disastrous armed conflict the world had yet experienced. Exactly one month after the assassination in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared...
1329) Pan śmierci
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Kolejna powieść z inspektorem Shanem (bohaterem bestsellerowej Mantry czaszki) w roli głównej. Shan Tao Yun, eks-inspektor z Pekinu warunkowo zwolniony z obozu pracy w Tybecie, na prośbę miejscowej wróżbitki sprowadza ze stoków Everestu przytroczone do grzbietu muła ludzkie zwłoki. Shan musi rozwikłać zagadkę nie tylko tej śmierci, ale również dwóch kobiet, które zginęły w tym samym czasie ? chińskiej minister turystyki i Amerykanki...
1330) Lust, caution
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Set against the backdrop of a transforming country, the film tells the provocative story of a young woman who finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game that will ultimately determine her fate.
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The late President Gerald R. Ford gives direct rebuttal to the forty-years of conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and explains the many connections between key figures of his administration and key figures within American politics. His foreword is followed by a reissue of the Warren Commission report.
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A look at the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968 as well as his career. It examines the possibility that James Earl Ray was not the only shooter or totally innocent of the crime. It looks at the FBI's surveillance of Dr. King and J. Edgar Hoover's feelings about him.
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"Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie--a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big--agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she signs her life away, her memory is wiped clean of the agreement, leaving her with no idea she will soon be killed spectacularly for global entertainment. After years of working in low-rent theaters,...
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The film is set in the late 1980s and early '90s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Major Vikram Singh is an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping force was forced to withdraw. As he journeys to Sri Lanka, with the intention...
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Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961, met his death in a mysterious plane crash while on a mission in Katanga. Although officially seen as an accident, the circumstances in which the plane crashed, the general hostility against the UN at the time in the region, and the many financial and political interests at stake in that part of Africa during the Cold War, all seem to point now to the fact that his death could have suited many...
1339) Countdown America
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"After the loss of her husband, CIA agent Isabella Bendel accepts a promotion to Chief Supervisor-a much less dangerous position than what she's accustomed to-so she can raise her two children without fear of leaving her children without any parents. But any illusions of safety are shattered when, while on her Sunday morning jog in a Washington, DC park, Isabella survives a brutal assassination attempt. She hauls her assailant into CIA headquarters,...
1340) American presidents
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National Geographic reveals intimate portraits and hidden secrets behind some of the most powerful men in American history, The Presidents.