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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.
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Cast: Ali Suliman, Uri Gavriel, Karim Saleh, Ofri Fuchs, Reymond Amsalem, Abdallah El Akal, Nathalie Rozanes. Directed by Ziad Doueiri.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ National Security ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 150 min.
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Plot: A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction, during the 1960's and 70's. In German, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Martin Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Stipe Erceg. Directed by Uli Edel.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Biography ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: An amnesia victim wakes up to find he has the skills of a secret agent, and races to discover the truth about his past.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adwalw Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Directed by Doug Liman.
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Categories: Action ∙ International ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: Jason Bourne circles the globe to discover the truth about his past.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn. Directed by Paul Greengrass.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A FBI upstart enters into a power game with his boss, an agent who is ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
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Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Caroline Dhavernas. Directed by Bill Ray.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 124 min.
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Plot: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending the USA's ideals.
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Cast: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Joe Johnston.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Military ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: Finding difficult to fit in to the era of today Captain America leads an assault against a friend turned rival from World War II, a Soviet emissary known as "The Winter Soldier".
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Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo.
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Categories: Action ∙ National Security ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 144 min.
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Plot: James Bond must stop a banker to the world's terrorist organizations from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
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Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench. Directed by Martin Campbell.
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Categories: International ∙ Action ∙ National Security |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 114 min.
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Plot: A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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Cast: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald. Directed by Laura Poitras.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ National Security ∙ Politics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: A close friend of the President and his family are murdered aboard their yacht in the Caribbean, setting off a chain of events that leads the Deputy Director of the C.I.A. into a dangerous confrontation with the Columbian drug cartel.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida. Directed by Phillip Noyce.
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Categories: Action ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 119 min.
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Plot: The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.
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Cast: Clancy Brown, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell. Directed by Jon Favreau.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Western ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square.
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Cast: Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi. Directed by Julia Loktev.
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Categories: Drama ∙ National Security |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
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Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin. Directed by Robert Wise.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ National Security ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, an American family causes an international spying incident when one of them photographs a sunset in a sensitive region.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Mayim Bialik, Dom Deluise, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: International ∙ Comedy ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
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Cast: Peter Hooten, Clyde Kusatsu, Jessica Walter. Directed by Philip DeGuere.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 91 min. B&W
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Plot: A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack.
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Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Military ∙ National Security ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: Two strangers are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met, threatening their lives and family.
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Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by D. J. Caruso.
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Categories: Privacy ∙ Action ∙ National Security |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A successful lawyer finds himself the target of a treacherous NSA official and his goons after receiving evidence to a politically motivated murder, the only man that can help him is a former government operative turned surveillance expert.
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Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Bussey. Directed by Tony Scott.
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Categories: Privacy ∙ National Security ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A nine-year-old amateur inventor searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Max Von Sydow, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn. Directed by Stephen Daldry.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ National Security |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Michael Moore's scathing documentary look into the policies of the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A child mysteriously vanishes from an airplane at 40,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean. Directed by Robert Schwentke.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
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Cast: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar, Benedict Cumberbatch. Directed by Christopher Morris.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Religion ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 123 min.
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Plot: The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
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Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche. Directed by Gareth Edwards.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ National Security |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 168 min.
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Plot: The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro. Directed by Robert De Niro.
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Categories: Politics ∙ National Security ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A group of space criminals must work together to stop the fanatical villain Ronan the Accuser from destroying the galaxy.
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Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper. Directed by James Gunn.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A group of friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, and use their hacking skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the virus' creator.
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Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco. Directed by Iain Softley.
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Categories: Computer ∙ National Security ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Suspected of being terrorists, the pot-smoking duo try to outrun the authorities.
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Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Cordry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris. Directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ National Security ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Fifty years after the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their granddaughter reflects on their lives, principles, and ultimate sacrifice.
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Cast: Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Robert Meeropol, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg. Directed by Ivy Meeropol.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 143 min. B&W
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Plot: An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company. In Japanese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Mifune Toshirō, Nakadai Tatsuya, Kagawa Kyōko, Mihashi Tatsuya. Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in charge of their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill. Directed by John McTiernan.
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Categories: Action ∙ Military ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A counter-espionage agent investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Drama ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
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Cast: Michael Parks, Maya Sansa, Andrea Tidona, James Parks. Directed by Giacomo Martelli.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Foreign ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A small-time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Cast: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martie, Lisa Jakub. Directed by Joe Dante.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: A secret agent is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ National Security ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.
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Cast: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel. Directed by Lee Tamahori.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min. B&W
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Plot: A woman is enlisted by an American agent to spy on a a group of Nazis in post-war Rio de Janeiro.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.
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Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Gavin Hood.
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Categories: International ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president.
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster, Kim Basinger. Directed by Clark Johnson.
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Categories: Action ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A battle of wits and brawn against a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
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Cast: Robert Downy Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marson. Directed by Guy Ritchie.
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Categories: Action ∙ National Security ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of attacks in New York that in turn lead to the declaration of martial law.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Annette Benning, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, David Proval. Directed by Edward Zwick.
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Categories: Government ∙ National Security ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 143 min.
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Plot: MI6 is under attack, and only James Bond can track down and destroy the threat.
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Cast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Judi Dench. Directed by Sam Medes.
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Categories: Action ∙ National Security ∙ Computer |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A raggedy group of corporate security experts get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Government ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A CIA operative is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege has been arrested in China for espionage.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane. Directed by Tony Scott.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 112 min.
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Plot: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
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Cast: Amanda Michalka, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler, Ryan Lee. Directed by J.J. Abrams.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Discovery ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
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Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness. Directed by Gordon Douglas.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Horror ∙ National Security |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min. B&W
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Plot: A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.
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Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar. Directed by Frank Tuttle.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: An American musician becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.
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Cast: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge. Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ War ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: An attempted assassination on the President of the United States is told from several different perspectives.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt. Directed by Pete Travis.
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Categories: Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 66 min.
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Plot: Highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.
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Cast: . Directed by Robert Greenwald.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Free Speech ∙ National Security |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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