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- A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
- An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
- Intro by Producer Vin Diesel on how #6 was made with Paul Walker and the Skyline R35, Justin Lin says the title says 'Furious 6,' it was intentional as it was supposed to be the last film for this cast of characters. Vin talks about the character Hobbs and the skill and dominance he brings to the role.
- The bears are told by the Once-ler that they can sit on the wagon and that it had better not move. They and the donkey nod in agreement. The bears try to get the donkey to move. He won't move. The small bear taunts the donkey with what looks like an apple in front of him on a long pole the he's off. Did they get the wagon back in time? Yes, but what transpired from start to finish?
- Traudl Junge wanted to dance the ballet and so she went to Berlin. She already knew shorthand and typing, she applied for a vacancy in Hitler's chancellery. She became one of his private secretaries because of her resemblance to Eva Braun. Here she talks of Hitler in greater detail.
- James Cameron always had an intense interest in the woods and the dwellers that might live within them. He wanted to delve deeply into the world of visual effects and what could be accomplished or even tried. There are four parts that capture this documentary in all of its areas of creation. Part One - (27:08); Part Two - (27:18); Part Three - (24:07); and Part Four - (19:52)
- Clint tells us how he yearned to be a director from the time he was on 'Rawhide' to finally obtaining the approval of his mentor, Don Siegel. He then asked Lew R. Wasserman, a Universal studio executive if he could direct a story called 'Play Misty For Me.' Lew said yes but that he wouldn't be paid as the Director. Clint agreed and began to locate the cast and crew he desired. Cast and crew members chosen were not known but they fit his vision for the film.
- Both Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette are invited by Joon-ho Bong, the director for the film, "Snowpiercer" to Korea and other locations as well as given small character roles in the French comic book's film adaptation. They had learned that the comic book had become a major hit in Korea and that Joon-ho Bong wanted to create a film of it. The comic book "Transperceneige" had been pirated and published as a Korean version two years before they had attained knowledge of it.
- The Russians claimed that Hitler was still alive and was a British prisoner, at first. Then they said his corpse had been autopsied by themselves. Hitler's in-house people in the bunker said he had shot himself and that Eva had taken cyanide. The Russians claimed he had poisoned himself. The manner of Hitler's actual death remains a mystery. Attempts in this documentary try to clarify the conflicting stories.
- The making of 'The World At War.' Each film in the 26 episode series had to be an essay on an aspect of the war, because the length and separate aspects of the war was far too much to cover in detail. Jeremy Isaacs talks about the production process and the aims of the project. The intention of the crew that were involved with the various skills in making 'The World at War' had no desire to use film from British, German, French, Polish, Russian, Japanese, or the Americans because of their specific means of showing the winning side of a specific action. Rather, an effort was made to interview people who were not part of the establishment, but rather the common people or assistants and secretaries of historical persons. Film was researched for those films from cameras where there was no special subject, but those that would allow the viewer to make their own decisions about what they had just seen and heard. Let the viewer be the judge. Jeremy Isaacs resurrected studies of military history. He desired to portray the true reality of how life and death throughout the war years affected soldiers, sailors and airmen, civilians, concentration camp inmates and other victims of the war. The portrayal of key conflicts without the issues of specific moralities that were to kept from the television audience of their nations. The real results of engagements the world over were to be seen in their aftermaths.
- People who saw 'The Searchers' came away from the theater seeing a western with wide ranging vistas of Monument Valley in Vista Vision, the film depicting a true western bio drama that depicted the realism of the west. It was replete with class divisions that occurred in the era presented. The violence shown portrayed the true realism of the real western days and the real halcyon days inculcated in the times of America's growth.
- 'Escape from Iran' commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 'Canadian Caper,' beginning with the direct testimony of the Americans who found sanctuary with the Canadian embassy in Tehran and the Canadians who risked their own safety to shelter their country's neighbors.
- The possible occurrence of what might happen should a person attain more than 10 percent of the brains cerebral capacity and increased cellular growth..
- The girl is assisted to her feet and has a bird's head placed on her. The girl is led to another figure who is wearing a horse's head. The bird's head is removed after the horse head and bird size each other up. The girl is the left by herself. She wanders into a fog bank and lands on the ground. She sees an angel. The angel frees her from her mortal bonds.
- Tensions began to build, the mountain men make their appearance and 'Bobby' is raped. The joy and frivolity of riding the rivers has changed. Lewis shoots an arrow into the mountain man and later Drew falls out of the canoe and drowns, other events occur.
- All U.S. military engagements during the period of 1700-2004. The French, English, Spanish, and Native Americans vied for control on the North American continent beginning in the 1700's. The Americans had to become self-reliant on themselves as their mother country wasn't going to help them. In the process, America became a world power of her own. The American will to protect themselves, their land, freedoms, and any infringement upon them and even their families, drove Americans to excel in all areas of endeavor.
- When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police.
- Creating the infrastructure for the jungle location and veldt needed with a variety of CG aspects to make it real to the viewer. A number of the locations had to be built on a Warner Brothers studio in Leedston, England. They also had to create a complete menagerie of African wildlife through visual effects, animatronics, models, and graphics. Actors and stuntmen were used to create the animals and their movements.
- Inspired by a series of articles by Thomas Duggan Goss. Part One - Vietnam:The People and the War - The Vietnamese in their normal daily routine. Their lives when having been affected by insurgents. Wives of prisoners of war in Vietnam talking about their incessant activities on behalf of their husband's plights. (36:28) and Part Two - Vietnam:The Debate Students, Wounded U.S. Soldiers, Demonstrators, and a number of elected officials, foreign dignitaries, and lawyers air their personal and/or political feelings about the Vietnam War in the 1960's and in the early 1970's. (21:21)
- Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid fishermen. They leave, so Daisy calls Mr. Gill at the Aquarium and asks if he likes fish. He doesn't, so she invites him over.
- To prepare, Christopher Walken went to Parkinson's Disease meetings to learn how he should comport himself and to some people with which he could learn how to mime key cello playing for the films necessary realism. Presented is a dramatic and classical music production filled with onset of Parkinson's Disease to one of the members of a string quartet comprised of two violins a viola and one cello.
- Richard Matheson explains he cam about to writing 'The Comedy of Terrors.' After the final casting was determined to be consisting of, Richard went to work writing the script with a strong desire to give Vincent some worthy lines to say and to intentionally make the characters be allowed to perform as humorously as they could in the given scenes.
- Travel through time, look at the most dramatic eruptions in history and on different continents. Experience a journey deep inside volcanoes. An instructional documentary about how different types of volcanoes are created and where they are or were located, what they have done and what they might do when and if they erupt. The details of the type of volcano one is and the devastation it caused when it did erupt.
- This film is all about the two characters - Agents J and K - learning more their relationship and any secrets they have tried to hide from the other. The time -travel established was required to right a wrong that had been made by Agent K years earlier that caused his death.
- As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.
- Against a background of archive film, the voices of some sixty men drawn from all theaters of war recall the stories and thoughts of fighting and getting caught up in a conflict.
- Luc Besson had the idea about intelligence. After talking to a scientist, he learned that we only use 10% of the brain's capacity. He thought about what would happen at different stages of the brain's capacity? He talked with 12 Nobel Prize winning scientists who worked at the Institute of Brain and Spinal Cord in Paris, France. It took him about 10 years to understand that might be real and that which is fantasy. The reality is that no one really knows what the brains actual capacity is. One has to think 'outside the box.'
- John Ford's knowledge of Monument Valley was provided by the visit of Harry Goulding to where John Ford was by happenstance at Walter Wanger Productions in Los Angeles that day, Harry showed his collection of glossy prints to John Ford. John said he needed to see Monument Valley himself as he was struck by the prints, when he got there, he became enamored with filming his westerns there. He made it happen for the next film he made, 'Stagecoach.'
- The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
- A 2012 interview with director / producer Pete Walker and actor Jack Jones, directed / produced by Elijah Drenner. Pete teamed with another writer to create a more natural horror escapade. He was then able to sign up Jack Jones to perform as the character.
- An old, retired judge who resides in an old house conducts a correctional institute for girls who have the rules of public nudity. He is assisted by a matron who enjoys ensuring girls are charged and presented before the delusional old man who thinks he is the law of his own court and he doles out punishment.
- A 2012 Interview with Director / Producer Pete Walker, directed / produced by Elijah Drenner. Pete goes through the process of directing films by taking a script and visualizing the scenes and inserting his own viewpoints and idioms into the product as the actors are performing.
- Three stuntmen who knew John Wayne and worked on pictures with him, said that the Duke was a real cowboy. He knew what every department did, and if said something, he always knew what he was talking about. Those that worked on 'The Train Robbers' said that Ann-Margaret was a true professional and could be the lady next door.
- Returns from a party and states that he's still hungry. He eats the cigar he was smoking and then does some shimmying around the room. He then proceeds to light and eat his matches and then the matchbox. After that he begins to tear apart and eat his tuxedo and his flower. He breaks apart his ukulele and eats it. He proclaims that he's still so hungry that he could eat a horse.
- Mr. Fiasco, a producer of plays gets three plays explained to him. In one of the plays, a man chooses scotch for a drink and dies. In the second play the man slaps his new wife in the face for nothing. The final play the man leaves his wife for work. The wife greets the iceman who knows the husband just left. He is greeted with open arms. The husband returns early and knows the iceman is under the table. After his wife gives him a lump of sugar, he smashes the iceman on the head with a lump of ice. Mr. Fiasco has the man thrown out.
- Joss Whedon and others in interviews discussing the aims for this new franchise.
- Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.
- Being aware by the writer / director Boaz Yakin that the required action and technical details required for this film were supported by the emotional nuances that were enveloped by the many actors performing the characters roles required to be truly acceptable to all.
- See the submariners training, relaxation styles, and preparation for warfare. Admiral Lockwood the Commander, Submarines, Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) announced that unrestricted warfare against Japanese merchant and war shipping was authorized.
- The Imperial Japanese had every intention of expanding its Greater Asia Co-Prosperity sphere of influence and Guadalcanal was necessary for the Japanese's continuing expansion of it. The United States had every intention of obtaining Guadalcanal by wresting it away from them.
- Benito Mussolini uses 'mare nostrum' which means 'our sea.' Italy's enters into the war with Germany. Britain provides military aid to Greece to help them against the fascists. The German's then storm into Greece. Erwin Rommel and the German's and Italians face Montgomery's British 8th Army repel Rommel in Egypt.
- Malta, the central access point to various locations in the Mediterranean Sea is a key island possessed by the U.K. but also desired by the Germans and Italians. Malta was therefore subjected to 'round the clock bombing so as to garner it;s capitulation.Malta survives 1774 bombardments. With Gibraltar also being the property of the U.K., every means must be taken to control entry into the Mediterranean Sea.
- After the victory at Guadalcanal, Australia and the U.S. next planned to remove the Japanese from Rabaul, New Britain. This involved creating airfields on the surrounding Solomon islands and causing the ultimate defeat of Rabaul by air, sea, and ground.
- The Murmansk Run required the shipping of lend-lease material by convoys to allied Russia. This meant skirting the German occupied territory of Norway replete with air, land, and sea forces and even the weather. On another side, the Japanese and the Aleutian Islands had to be dealt with.
- September 1944's focal point was the bridge at Arnhem. Operation Market Garden was born from the Allies need for fuel and of Montgomery' plan that received Eisenhower's approval for Sunday, September 17th, 1944. Critical flaws in the overall battle plan led to its ultimate failure and personnel loss.
- In Hitler's quest and obstinacy to take Stalingrad at all costs, he underestimated both the Russian winter, the steadfastness of the Russian people in the face of the Nazi threat, and Japan's refusal to break their non-aggression pact with Russia. Hitler's desire to control the attack and continuing belief in Hermann Göring led to a decisive Russian victory.
- On June 4, 1942, the fanatical and efficient Japanese war machine wanted to finish off the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but their blind arrogance and underestimation of American willpower led them to disaster instead when at Midway with their aicraft carrier losses. The Japanese high command split the available naval forces by attacking the Aleutian Islands and Port Moresby, New Guinea.
- In the wake of the British army's flight from Dunkirk and France, the British were all but beaten. But a Nazi invasion of England was inexplicably postponed owing to a mistake on Hitler that he believed that Britain would surrender for peace, this belief caused a certain triumphal action that would ultimately lead to a desired Allied victory.
- The Allies had entered Rome and were advancing northwards. Ultimate defeat was staring at Germany. Of course, Hitler had no belief in the Third Reich's defeat. Conspirators had failed in their attempt to assassinate Hitler. All political dissidents were executed. There were a number of plots to kill Hitler with none succeeding.
- Convoys were necessary to transport varied foodstuffs and materials from western ports through the North Atlantic for delivery to Russia. Britain's belief that the Tirpitz was going to attack convoy PQ17 led First Sea Lord Pound to misinterpret where the Tirpitz was heading and told the escorts and convoy ships to scatter and allow them to proceed on their own. A decision that led to major losses of ships, goods and crews.