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True life story of Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. Later, during the war, as his foster parents are interned at a camp for Japanese Americans, Gabaldon's ability to speak Japanese helps him become a lone-operating Marine hero. During the bloody capture of the island of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

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War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Later, he catches up with the unit in Italy and accompanies it through the battles of San Vittorio and Cassino. He learns from its commanding officer, Lt. (later Capt.) Bill Walker of the loneliness of command, and from the individual G.I.'s of the human capacity to survive drudgery, discomfort, and the terror of combat.

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By the time electronic pop chanteuse Dido reached her teens, she had already mastered piano, violin, and recorder. She went a long way since. Dido started working on her third album in October 2005 in Los Angeles. The album has been produced by Jon Brion and herself. Collaborators include Brian Eno, and Rollo Armstrong, among others. Recording sessions were held at London's Abbey Road and at Jon Brion's home studio in Los Angeles.

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The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.

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En 1993, le Lieutenant Général Roméo Dallaire est envoyé par les Nations Unies au Rwanda. Sa mission, de veiller au cessez-le-feu est sous financée, bureaucratisée à outrance et constituée d'unités militaires qui proviennent de dizaines de pays et qui disposent chacune d'un programme bien différent...

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Songwriter Gus Kahn gets the Hollywood treatment. The film chronicles his success and decline, with his wife Grace sticking by him the whole time.

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“Il Divo” is an Italian film directed in 2008 by Paolo Sorrentino. It is a Biopic based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. It was nominated for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, where it was awarded the Prix du Jury. The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Italian PM in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia. Sometimes referred to as “Il Divo”, a title given to ‘his divine’ namesake, Julius Caesar, Giulio Andreotti is the eminence grise of Italian politics (2008 marks his uninterrupted 62nd year as a parliamentarian).

In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of ‘Forbidden Love’, was exposed as a fake. She’d won fame and fortune as a Jordanian virgin on the run from Islamic extremists who’d put a Fatwah on her head for her campaign against honour killings.