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Last updated April 20, 2024
Braveheart
1995 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsEnraged at the slaughter of Murron (Catherine McCormack) -- his new bride and childhood love -- legendary Scottish warrior William Wallace (Mel Gibson, who also directed the film) slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule. With vivid battle scenes and a heaping portion of legend, Gibson's epic won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
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We Were Soldiers
2002 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis Vietnam War epic tells the true story of the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang through the eyes of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, who led 450 American soldiers into battle against thousands of well-armed Vietnamese troops.
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Get the Gringo
2012 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsMel Gibson stars as a man who ends up in a notorious Mexican prison after his attempt to get away with a million-dollar stash ends in his arrest. With no friends among his fellow inmates, the American has to rely on help from a young Mexican boy.
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Pocahontas
1995 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsHistory comes to life in Disney's animated tale about love and adventure in the New World. Pocahontas, an American Indian woman, is supposed to marry the village's best warrior, but she yearns for something more -- and soon meets Capt. John Smith.
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Gallipoli
1981 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAustralian Director Peter Weir takes on one of his country's most tragic moments in history: the World War I confrontation with the German allied Turks. As the film leads up to the battle in act three, we get to know the young men destined to be casualties of war. A young Mel Gibson (on the heels of his successful turn in Mad Max) plays one of the innocent doomed. This poignant war drama swept the Australian Film Institute Awards with eight wins.
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Fairy Tale: A True Story
1997 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn this charming fantasy, two precocious cousins discover sprites in their garden -- and to prove the pixies exist, the girls produce photographic evidence that draws worldwide attention. But are the fairies real, or is it all a hoax?
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The Bounty
1984 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter a month of battling sea squalls and the cruel reign of Capt. William Bligh, the HMS Bounty's crew at last finds respite on Tahiti. But the imperious Bligh soon wants to set sail, and first mate Fletcher Christian leads a full-blown revolt.
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For Love of Liberty
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis moving documentary series chronicles the sacrificial courage of African-American men and woman who have served our country in time of war, from the Revolution to Iraq, to help secure freedom for all American citizens.
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For Love of Liberty
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African-American servicemen and women since the earliest days of the republic.
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