MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
01. “Saving Private Ryan”	19 November 1998

STARRING:

•Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller, company commander, 2nd Ranger Battalion, U.S. Army •Edward Burns as Private First Class Richard Reiben, a BAR gunner •Tom Sizemore as Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath •Matt Damon as Private First Class James Francis Ryan, a paratrooper •Harrison Young as James Francis Ryan, present day •Barry Pepper as Private Daniel Jackson, a left-handed sniper •Adam Goldberg as Private Stanley "Fish" Mellish, a rifleman •Vin Diesel as Private First Class Adrian Caparzo, a rifleman •Giovanni Ribisi as Technician Fourth Grade Irwin Wade, a medic •Jeremy Davies as Technician Fifth Grade Timothy E. Upham, a cartographer and interpreter •Ted Danson as Captain Fred Hamill, a pathfinder •Paul Giamatti as Staff Sergeant Hill, a paratrooper •Dennis Farina as Lieutenant Colonel Walter Anderson, battalion commander, 2nd Rangers •Harve Presnell as General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army •Leland Orser as Second lieutenant DeWindt, pilot of a crashed glider •Bryan Cranston as Colonel I.W. Bryce, an officer at the War Department •Nathan Fillion as Private James Frederick Ryan ("Minnesota Ryan") •Max Martini as Corporal Henderson, ranking paratrooper at Ramelle •Demetri Goritsas as Private Parker, a paratrooper at Ramelle •Stephane Cornicard as Jean, a French survivor •Glenn Wrage as Doyle, a soldier of the 2nd Ranger Battalion •Joerg Stadler as "Steamboat Willie", a German soldier •Dale Dye as a War Department Colonel

SYNOPSIS:

In the present day, an elderly World War II veteran and his family visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy, France. The veteran walks around the cemetery and, upon seeing one specific gravestone, collapses to his knees, overwhelmed by emotion. The film flashes back to the morning of June 6, 1944, the beginning of the Normandy Invasion, as American soldiers prepare to land on Omaha Beach. They suffer heavily from their struggle against German infantry, machine gun nests, and artillery fire. Captain John H. Miller, a company commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, survives the initial landing and assembles a group of his Rangers to penetrate the German defenses, leading to a breakout from the beach. After the battle, the body of a dead soldier lying face down on the beach, with "S. Ryan" inscribed on the back of his uniform, is shown. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C, at the U.S. War Department, General George Marshall is informed that three of the four brothers of the Ryan family were killed in action and that their mother is to receive all three telegrams on the same day. He learns that the fourth son, Private First Class James Francis Ryan, is a paratrooper and is missing in action somewhere in Normandy. Marshall, after reading Abraham Lincoln's Bixby letter, orders that Ryan must be found and sent home immediately. Three days after D-Day, Miller receives orders to find Ryan and bring him back from the front. He assembles six men from his company - T/Sgt. Mike Horvath, Privates First Class Richard Reiben and Adrian Caparzo, Privates Stanley Mellish and Danny Jackson, medic Irwin Wade - and T/5 Timothy Upham, a cartographer who speaks French and German, loaned from the 29th Infantry Division. Miller and his men move out to Neuville; there, they meet a squad from the 101st Airborne Division. Caparzo dies after being shot by a sniper. Eventually, they locate a Private James Ryan, but soon learn that he is not their man. They find a member of Ryan's regiment who informs them that his drop zone was at Vierville and that his and Ryan's companies had the same rally point. Once they reach it, Miller meets a friend of Ryan's, who reveals that Ryan is defending a strategically important bridge over the Merderet River in the fictional town of Ramelle. On the way to Ramelle, Miller decides to neutralize a German machine gun position, despite the misgivings of his men. Wade is fatally wounded in the ensuing skirmish, but Miller, at Upham's urging, declines to execute a surviving German, nicknamed "Steamboat Willie", and sets him free on condition that he give himself up as a prisoner of war to the first Allied unit he encounters. No longer confident in Miller's leadership, Reiben declares his intention to desert the squad and the mission, prompting a confrontation with Horvath. The argument heats up until Miller defuses the situation by disclosing his background in civilian life, about which the squad had earlier set up a betting pool. Reiben then reluctantly decides to stay. Upon arrival at Ramelle, Miller and the squad come upon a small group of paratroopers, one of whom is Ryan. Ryan is told of his brothers' deaths, the mission to bring him home, and that two men had been lost in the quest to find him. He is distressed at the loss of his brothers, but does not consider it fair to go home, asking Miller to tell his mother that he intends to stay "with the only brothers [he has] left." Miller decides to take command and defend the bridge with what little manpower and resources are available. Using his own men and the accompanying paratroopers, Miller forms ambush positions throughout the ruined town for the tanks and infantry utilizing Molotov cocktails, detonation cords, and "sticky bombs" made from socks and TNT. Elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division arrive with infantry and armor. Although they inflict heavy casualties on the Germans, most of the paratroopers, along with Jackson, Mellish, and Horvath, are killed. While attempting to blow the bridge, Miller is shot and mortally wounded by Steamboat Willie, who has rejoined the Germans. Just before a Tiger tank reaches the bridge, an American P-51 Mustang flies overhead and destroys the tank, followed by American armored units which rout the remaining Germans. Upham surprises a group of German soldiers as they attempt to retreat. Steamboat Willie, raises his hands in surrender, believing that Upham will accept because of their earlier encounter. Having witnessed Captain Miller being shot by Steamboat Willie, Upham shoots him and lets the other surviving Germans flee. Reiben and Ryan are with Miller as he dies and says his last words, "James ... earn this. Earn it." The film returns to the present and it is revealed that the veteran is Ryan and the grave he is standing at is Miller's. Ryan asks his wife to confirm that he has led a good life, that he is a "good man" and thus worthy of the sacrifice of Miller and the others. His wife replies, "You are." At this point, Ryan stands at attention and delivers a salute toward Miller's grave.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
02. “The Thin Red Line”	18 February 1999

STARRING:

•Sean Penn as 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh •Adrien Brody as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife •Jim Caviezel as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Witt •Ben Chaplin as Pvt. Jack Bell •George Clooney as Capt. Charles Bosche •John Cusack as Capt. John Gaff •Woody Harrelson as Sgt. Brian William Keck •Elias Koteas as Capt. James Staros •Jared Leto as 2nd Lt. William Whyte •Dash Mihok as Pfc. Don Doll •Tim Blake Nelson as Pvt. Lysander Tills •Nick Nolte as Lt. Col. Gordon Tall •John C. Reilly as Sgt. Maynard Storm •Larry Romano as Pvt. Leonardo Mazzi •John Savage as Sgt. Jack McCron John Travolta as Brig. Gen. Howard Quintard •Arie Verveen as Pfc. Charlie Dale Beyond these numerous top-billed cast, the ensemble included appearances in smaller roles by many other well-known actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Penny Allen, Mark Boone Junior, Matt Doran, Don Harvey, Danny Hoch, Thomas Jane, Miranda Otto, Donal Logue, and Nick Stahl.

SYNOPSIS:

In 1942, United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit to live among the carefree Melanesian natives in the South Pacific. He is found and imprisoned on a troopship by First Sergeant Welsh of his company. Witt is not allowed to rejoin his unit, and is instead punitively assigned to act as a stretcher bearer for the upcoming campaign. The men of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division have been brought to the island of Guadalcanal as reinforcements in the campaign to secure Henderson Field, seize the island from the Japanese, and block off their route to Australia. As they wait in the hold of a Navy transport ship, they contemplate their lives and the upcoming invasion. Among them is Private Bell, a married former officer; Private Doll, a cocky soldier; and Captain James Staros, the sensitive company commander. Elsewhere on the ship, Lieutenant Colonel Tall, the aging battalion commander, mulls over the importance of the invasion, which he sees as his last chance for glory in combat. The company lands on Guadalcanal unopposed. They march into the interior of the island, and along the way encounter natives and evidence of the ongoing Japanese presence. The company soon finds their objective: Hill 210, a key enemy position. The Japanese have placed bunkers at the top of the hill, and anyone attempting the climb will be cut down by machine-gun fire. The attack commences at dawn the next day. Charlie Company storms up the hill, but are immediately repelled by heavy machine-gun fire. Among the first killed is one of the platoon leaders, Lieutenant Whyte. Many of the men are scattered in the carnage. One group, a squad led by Sergeant Keck, hides behind a knoll safe from enemy fire to await reinforcements. When they are fired upon, Keck reaches for a grenade on his belt and accidentally pulls the pin, then throws himself back so that he will be the only one killed by the concussion. At another point, Sergeant Welsh attempts to rescue a dying soldier, only to provide him enough morphine to put him out of his misery. Tall orders Staros over the radio to capture the bunker by frontal assault, at whatever cost. Staros balks, stating that he will not commit his men to what he sees as a suicide mission. Meanwhile, Bell (one of the men who was with Keck's squad) covertly scouts the summit of the hill by himself and assesses the Japanese stronghold. Furious at Staros's refusal to obey his command, Tall ventures up to Charlie Company's position, accompanied by his battalion executive officer, Captain John Gaff. When they arrive, they find that the Japanese resistance seems to have lessened, and Tall's opinion of Staros is sealed. After being advised on Bell's reconnaissance of the Japanese position, Tall suggests a small detachment of men to perform a flanking maneuver on the bunker to capture it. Among the men to volunteer for the mission are Witt (who has since rejoined the company during the battle), Doll, and Bell. Captain Gaff is given command of the detachment, and they proceed up the hill toward the bunker. A pitched battle ensues, but ultimately the American forces are victorious, and the hill is captured. For their efforts, the men are given a week's leave, though they find little joy in the respite in the fighting: the airfield where they are stationed comes under frequent enemy artillery bombardment. While the company is bivouacked, Staros is relieved of his command by Tall, who deems him too soft for the pressures of combat and suggests that he apply for reassignment and become a lawyer in the JAG Corps in Washington, D.C. He offers to arrange a Silver Star for Staros, to avoid the unit's name being tarnished for having an officer removed from command. During this time, Bell receives a letter from his wife, informing him that she has fallen in love with another man and seeks a divorce. Witt, meanwhile, comes across some of the locals and notices that, unlike the idyllic life he'd shared with the Melanesian natives when he went AWOL, the villagers have grown distant and distrustful of outsiders, and regularly quarrel with each other. Weeks later, the company is sent on patrol up a river under the command of the inexperienced Lieutenant Band. As Japanese artillery fire falls close to their positions and with communications severed, Band orders Corporal Fife and Private Coombs to scout upriver. Witt, sensing danger, volunteers to go along. The three men encounter an advancing Japanese column, but as they attempt to retreat back to the company, they are fired upon and Coombs is wounded. In order to buy time for Fife to go back to inform the rest of the unit, Witt draws away the Japanese but is encircled by one of their squads, who demand that he surrender. Despite this, Witt raises his rifle to provoke them and is killed. After Witt's body is recovered and buried by his squadmates, the company receives a new commander, Captain Bosche. They are subsequently relieved of duty and board a waiting LCT, which evacuates them from Guadalcanal.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
03. “Pearl Harbor”	7 June 2001

STARRING:

Fictional characters •Ben Affleck as the First Lieutenant (later Captain) Rafe McCawley, a USAAC combat pilot and one of the three protagonists. •Jesse James as young Rafe McCawley •Josh Hartnett as First Lieutenant (later Captain) Daniel "Danny" Walker, a USAAC combat pilot and Rafe's lifelong best friend, one of the three protagonists. •Reiley McClendon as young Danny Walker •Kate Beckinsale as Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson, a nurse and Rafe and Danny's mutual love interest, one of the three protagonists. •Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Earl Sistern, the lead aircraft mechanic at Wheeler Airfield. •Jaime King as Betty Bayer, a nurse at Tripler Army Hospital and colleague of Evelyn's. •Catherine Kellner as Barbara, a nurse at Tripler Army Hospital and colleague of Evelyn's. •Jennifer Garner as Sandra, a nurse at Tripler Army Hospital and colleague of Evelyn's. •William Lee Scott as First Lieutenant Billy Thompson, a USAAC combat pilot stationed at Wheeler Airfield. •Ewen Bremner as First Lieutenant Red Winkle, a USAAC combat pilot stationed at Wheeler Airfield. •Greg Zola as First Lieutenant Anthony Fusco, a USAAC combat pilot stationed at Wheeler Airfield. •Michael Shannon as First Lieutenant Gooz Wood, a USAAC combat pilot stationed at Wheeler Airfield. •Matt Davis as Second Lieutenant Joe McKinnon, a USAF combat pilot stationed at Wheeler Airfield. •Dan Aykroyd as Captain Harold Thurman, a US Naval Intelligence officer overseeing the monitoring of Japanese espionage efforts. He is a fictionalized composite of several real-world individuals. •Kim Coates as Lieutenant Jack Richards, a [[[United States Army Air Corps| USAAC]] flight officer who participates in the Doolittle Raid. •Sara Rue as Martha, a nurse at Tripler Army Hospital and colleague of Evelyn's. •Tony Curran as Ian, a Royal Air Force combat pilot in Eagle Squadron. •Nicholas Farrell as a Royal Air Force combat pilot leading Eagle Squadron. •William Fichtner as Mr. Walker, Danny's father. •Steve Rankin as Mr. McCawley, Rafe's father. •John Fujioka as General Nishikura, head of the Japanese Supreme War Council. He is a fictionalized composite of several real-world individuals. •Leland Orser as Major Jackson, a USAAC officer injured during the attack on Pearl Harbor. •Ted McGinley as Major Newman, a US Army officer. •Andrew Bryniarski as Joe, a crewmember and amateur boxer aboard the USS West Virginia. •Seth Sakai as a Japanese spy. •Brandon Lozano as Baby Danny McCawley, Danny and Evelyn's son. •Eric Christian Olsen as a B-25 gunner to McCawley. •Sean Faris as a B-25 gunner to Walker. Historical characters •Cuba Gooding Jr. as Petty Officer Second Class Doris "Dorie" Miller, a messman aboard the USS West Virginia who manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack on Pearl Harbor. •Jon Voight as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States •Colm Feore as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet and the U.S. Pacific Fleet. •Mako as Kaigun Taish? (Admiral) Isoroku Yamamoto, Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. •Alec Baldwin as Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Jimmy Doolittle, USAF commander and leader of the Doolittle Raid. •Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Kaigun Chüsa (Commander) Minoru Genda, lead planner of the attack on Pearl Harbor. •Scott Wilson as General George Marshall, the US Army's Chief of Staff. •Graham Beckel as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, a US Naval commander who later succeeded Kimmel's as the Pacific Fleet's Commander-in-Chief. •Tom Everett as Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. •Tomas Arana as Rear-Admiral Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher, Commander Cruiser Division Four. •Peter Firth as Captain Mervyn S. Bennion, commanding officer of the USS West Virginia •Glenn Morshower as Vice Admiral William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr., commander of Carrier Division 2 and the Aircraft Battle Force. •Yuji Okumoto as Kaigun-Daii (Lieutenant) Zenji Abe, bomber pilot in the attack on Pearl Harbor. •Madison Mason as Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, commander of Cruiser Division Five. •Michael Shamus Wiles as Captain Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher, captain of the USS Hornet.

SYNOPSIS:

In 1923 Tennessee, two best friends, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the German Empire in World War I. In January 1941, with World War II raging, Danny and Rafe are both first lieutenants under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle informs Rafe that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (a RAF outfit for American pilots during the Battle of Britain). Rafe meets a nurse named Evelyn, who passes his medical exam despite his dyslexia. That night, Rafe and Evelyn enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later, a jaunt in the New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day. During a mission to intercept a Luftwaffe bombing raid, Rafe is shot down over the English Channel and is presumed killed in action. A mourning Evelyn turns to Danny, which spurs a new romance between the two. On the night of December 6, Evelyn is shocked to discover Rafe standing outside her door, having survived his downing and spending the ensuing months trapped in Nazi-occupied France. Rafe, in turn, discovers Danny's romance with Evelyn and leaves for the Hula bar, where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed fellow pilots. Danny finds a drunken Rafe in the bar with the intention of making things right, but the two get into a fight. They drive away, avoiding being put in the brig when the military police arrive at the Hula bar. The next morning, on December 7, the Imperial Japanese Navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. The US Pacific Fleet suffers severe damage in the surprise attack, and most of the defending airfields are obliterated before they are able to launch fighters to defend the harbor. Rafe and Danny manage to take off in P-40 fighter planes, and are able to shoot down several of the attacking planes. They later assist in the rescue of the crew of the capsized USS Oklahoma, but are too late to save the crew of the sinking USS Arizona. The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Day of Infamy Speech to the nation and requests the US Congress declare a state of war with the Empire of Japan. Later, Danny and Rafe are both assigned to travel stateside under newly promoted Lt. Colonel Doolittle for a secret mission. Before they leave, Evelyn reveals to Rafe that she is pregnant with Danny's child, and intends to stay with Danny. Upon their arrival in California, Danny and Rafe are both promoted to Captain and awarded the Silver Star, and volunteer for a secret mission under Doolittle. During the next three months, Rafe, Danny and other pilots train with specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers. In April, the raiders are sent towards Japan aboard the USS Hornet. Their mission: bomb Tokyo and land in allied Chinaafter. The mission is successful, and Rafe and Danny crash-land into a rice field in China where Japanese soldiers are present. Danny is shot in the crossfire. Rafe reveals Evelyn's pregnancy to the dying Danny; before he expires, Danny tells Rafe that he will have to be the father. After the war, Rafe and Evelyn, visit Danny's grave with Danny and Evelyn's son, also named Danny. Rafe then asks his stepson if he would like to go flying, and they fly off into the sunset in the old biplane that he and his father once had.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
04. “Black Hawk Down”	21 February 2002

STARRING:

75th Rangers •Josh Hartnett as SSG Matt Eversmann •Ewan McGregor as SPC John "Grimesey" Grimes (based on SPC John Stebbins) •Tom Sizemore as LTC Danny McKnight •Ewen Bremner as SPC Shawn Nelson •Gabriel Casseus as SPC Mike Kurth •Hugh Dancy as SFC Kurt "Doc" Schmid (was a Delta operator in real life) •Ioan Gruffudd as LT John Beales •Tom Guiry as SGT Ed Yurek •Charlie Hofheimer as CPL Jamie Smith •Danny Hoch as SGT Dominick Pilla •Jason Isaacs as CPT Mike Steele •Brendan Sexton III as PVT Richard "Alphabet" Kowalewski •Brian Van Holt as SSG Jeff Struecker •Ian Virgo as PFC John Waddell •Tom Hardy as SPC Lance Twombly •Gregory Sporleder as SGT Scott Galentine •Carmine Giovinazzo as SGT Mike Goodale •Chris Beetem as SGT Casey Joyce •Tac Fitzgerald as SPC Brad Thomas •Matthew Marsden as SPC Dale Sizemore •Orlando Bloom as PFC Todd Blackburn •Enrique Murciano as SGT Lorenzo Ruiz •Michael Roof as PVT John Maddox •Kent Linville as PFC Clay Othic •Norman Campbell Rees as LT Tom DiTomasso •Corey Johnson as US Army medic in Pakistan stadium Delta Force •Sam Shepard as MG William F. Garrison •Eric Bana as SFC Norm "Hoot" Gibson (based on SFC John Macejunas, SFC Norm Hooten and SFC Matthew Rierson) •William Fichtner as SFC Jeff Sanderson (based on SFC Paul Howe) •Kim Coates as MSG Chris Wex (based on MSG Tim “Griz” Martin) •Steven Ford as LTC Joe Cribbs (based on LTC Lee Van Arsdale) • Željko Ivanek as LTC Gary L. Harrell •Johnny Strong as SFC Randy Shughart •Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as MSG Gary Gordon •Richard Tyson as SSG Daniel Busch 160th SOAR (Night Stalkers) •Ron Eldard as CWO4 Michael Durant, pilot of Super 64 •Glenn Morshower as COL Thomas Matthews, commander of 1st Battalion, 160th SOAR Jeremy Piven as CW4 Clifton Wolcott, pilot of Super 61 •Boyd Kestner as CW3 Mike Goffena, pilot of Super 62 •Pavel Vokoun as CW3 Bull Briley, co-pilot of Super 61 •Jason Hildebrandt as CW3 Dan Jollota, pilot of Super 68 •Keith Jones as himself, co-pilot of Star 41 Miscellaneous •George Harris as Osman Atto •Razaaq Adoti as Yousuf Dahir Mo'alim, the main commander of Aidid's militia in the film •Treva Etienne as Firimbi, propaganda minister for Aidid and Durant's caretaker •Ty Burrell as United States Air Force Pararescue TSgt Timothy A Wilkinson •Dan Woods as United States Air Force Pararescue MSG Scott C. Fales •Giannina Facio as Stephanie Shughart

SYNOPSIS:

Following the ousting of the central government in 1993 amid the civil war in Somalia, the United Nations Security Council authorizes a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. After the bulk of the peacekeepers withdraw, the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid declares war on the remaining UN personnel. In response, U.S. President Clinton deploys Task Force Ranger - consisting of 3rd Battalion/75th Ranger Regiment, Delta Force operators, and flight crew of the 160th SOAR - to Mogadishu to capture Aidid, who has proclaimed himself president. To consolidate his power and subdue the population in the south, Aidid and his militia seize Red Cross food shipments. The UN forces are powerless to intervene directly. Outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force capture Osman Ali Atto, a faction leader selling arms to Aidid's militia. The US then plans a mission to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdiid, two of Aidid's top advisers. The U.S. forces include experienced men as well as new recruits, including 18-year-old Private First Class Todd Blackburn and Specialist John Grimes, a desk clerk. Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann receives his first command, of Ranger Chalk Four, after his lieutenant suffers a seizure. Eversmann responds to mocking remarks about Somalis from fellow soldiers by saying he respects the Somalis and has compassion for the terrible conditions of civil war for the Somali people, saying there are two things they can do, "We can help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN." The operation begins, and Delta Force operators capture Aidid's advisers inside the target building, while the Rangers and helicopters escorting the ground-extraction convoy take heavy fire. Blackburn is severely injured when he falls from one of the Black Hawk helicopters, so three Humvees led by Staff Sergeant Jeff Struecker are detached from the convoy to return Blackburn to the UN-held Mogadishu Airport. Sergeant Dominick Pilla is shot and killed just as Struecker's column departs, and shortly thereafter Black Hawk Super Six-One, piloted by Chief Warrant Officer Clifton "Elvis" Wolcott, is shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. Wolcott and his co-pilot are killed, the two crew chiefs are wounded, and one Delta Force sniper on board, Busch, escapes in an MH-6 Little Bird helicopter but dies later from his wounds. The ground forces are rerouted to converge on the crash site. The Somali militia erects roadblocks, and Lieutenant Colonel Danny McKnight's Humvee column is unable to reach the crash area and sustains heavy casualties. Meanwhile, two Ranger Chalks, including Eversmann's unit, reach Super-Six One's crash site and set up a defensive perimeter to await evacuation with the two wounded men and the fallen pilots. In the interim, Super Six-Four, piloted by Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant, is also shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashes several blocks away. With Captain Mike Steele's Rangers pinned down and sustaining heavy casualties, no ground forces can reach Super Six-Four's crash site nor reinforce the Rangers defending Super Six-One. Two Delta Force snipers, Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, are inserted by helicopter to Super Six-Four's crash site, where they find Durant still alive. The site is eventually overrun, Gordon and Shughart are killed, and Durant is captured by Aidid's militia. McKnight's column relinquishes their attempt to reach Six-One's crash site, and returns to base with their prisoners and the casualties. The men prepare to go back to extract the Rangers and the fallen pilots, and Major General Garrison sends Lieutenant Colonel Joe Cribbs to ask for reinforcements from the 10th Mountain Division, including Malaysian and Pakistani armored units from the UN coalition. As night falls, Aidid's militia launches a sustained assault on the trapped Americans at Super Six-One's crash site. The militants are held off throughout the night by strafing runs and rocket attacks from AH-6J Little Bird helicopter gunships until the 10th Mountain Division's relief column is able to reach the American soldiers. The wounded and casualties are evacuated in the vehicles, but a few Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are forced to run on foot from the crash site to reach the Safe Zone at the stadium. The end titles recount the immediate aftermath of the mission and end of US military operations in Somalia: Michael Durant was released after 11 days of captivity, after which President Bill Clinton withdrew all US forces from Somalia. During the raid, more than 1000 Somalis and 19 American soldiers died. The names of the 19 soldiers who died, including Delta Sgts. Gordon and Shughart, who were the first soldiers to receive the Medal of Honor posthumously since the Vietnam War, were listed by name. Mohamed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996. The following day, General Garrison retired.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
05. “Enemy at the Gates”	26 July 2001

STARRING:

•Jude Law as Vasily Zaitsev •Alexander Schwan as young Vasily •Joseph Fiennes as Commissar Danilov •Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova •Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev •Ed Harris as Major Erwin König •Ron Perlman as Koulikov •Eva Mattes as Mother Filippova •Gabriel Marshall-Thomson as Sasha Filippov •Matthias Habich as General Friedrich Paulus •Sophie Rois as Ludmilla •Ivan Shvedoff as Volodya •Mario Bandi as Anton •Gennadi Vengerov as Starshina •Mikhail Matveyev as Grandfather •Clemens Schick as Voigt •Hans Martin Stier as General Prudius •Gennadi Vengerov as Kushnir •Robert Stadlober as Spotter •Holger Handtke as Baumann •Werner Daehn as Anosov •Birol Ünel as Kuklin •Valentin Platareanu as General Arthur Schmidt •Tom Wlaschiha as Soldier •Lenn Kudrjawizki as Comrade in Train

SYNOPSIS:

A young Vasily Zaitsev is taught how to shoot with a hunting rifle by his grandfather, in the Ural Mountains. The timeline then shifts to 1942, following the invasion of the Soviet Union the year before. Zaitsev is now a soldier in the Red Army and finds himself on the front lines of the Battle of Stalingrad. Forced into a suicidal charge without a rifle, Vasily barely survives the onslaught. Later, a tank shell hits and incapacitates a car. The vehicle's occupant, Commissar Danilov, hides among numerous bodies, coincidentally next to Vasily, who uses his marksmanship skills to kill all German soldiers nearby and grant them both safety. Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Stalingrad to coordinate defense of the city and demands ideas from his subordinates on how to improve morale. Danilov, now a senior lieutenant, suggests that the people need "an example, but an example to follow" and give them hope. When Khrushchev asks if he knows any such men, Danilov recommends Zaitsev. Soon after, Danilov begins publishing tales of Vasily's exploits in the army's newspaper that paint him as a national hero and propaganda icon. Vasily is transferred to the sniper division and becomes friends with Danilov. Both also become romantically interested in Tania Chernova, a citizen of Stalingrad who has become a private in the local militia. In fear for her safety, Danilov has her transferred to an intelligence unit away from the battlefield, ostensibly to make use of her German skills in translating radio intercepts. With the Soviet snipers taking an increasing toll on the German forces, German Major Erwin König is deployed to Stalingrad to kill Vasily to crush Soviet morale. A renowned marksman and head of the German Army sniper school at Zossen, he lures Vasily into a trap and kills two of his fellow snipers, but Vasily manages to escape. When the Red Army command learns of König's mission, they dispatch König's former student Koulikov to help Vasily kill him. König, however, outmaneuvers Koulikov and kills him with a very skillful shot, shaking Vasily's spirits considerably. Khrushchev pressures Danilov to bring the sniper standoff to a conclusion. Sasha, a young Soviet boy, volunteers to act as a double agent by passing König false information about Vasily's whereabouts to give Vasily a chance to ambush the major. Vasily sets a trap for König and manages to wound him with help of Tania who came to rescue Vasily, but during a second attempt, Vasily falls asleep after many sleepless hours, and his sniper log is stolen by a looting German soldier. The German command takes the log as evidence of Vasily's death and plans to send König home, but König does not believe that Vasily is dead. The commanding German general takes König's dog tags to prevent Soviet propaganda from profiting if König is killed. König also gives the general a War Merit Cross that was posthumously awarded to König's son, who was a lieutenant in the 116th Infantry Division and was killed in the early days of the Battle for Stalingrad. König tells Sasha where he will be next, suspecting that the boy will tell Vasily. Tania and Vasily have meanwhile fallen in love. That night, Tania secretly goes to the Soviet barracks and makes love with Vasily. The jealous Danilov disparages Vasily in a letter to his superiors. König spots Tania and Vasily waiting for him at his next ambush spot, confirming his suspicions about Sasha. He then kills the boy and hangs his body off a pole to bait Vasily. Vasily vows to kill König and sends Tania and Danilov to evacuate Sasha's mother from the city, but Tania is wounded by shrapnel en route to the evacuation boats. Thinking that she is dead, Danilov regrets his jealousy of Vasily and expresses disenchantment over his previous ardour for the communist cause. Finding Vasily waiting to ambush König, Danilov intentionally exposes himself in order to provoke König into shooting him and revealing his hidden position, sacrificing his life in the process. Thinking that he has killed Vasily, König goes to inspect the body but realizes too late that he has fallen into a trap and is in Vasily's sights. Accepting his fate, König removes his hat and turns to face Vasily, who shoots him squarely in the eye and takes his rifle. Two months later, after Stalingrad has been liberated and the German forces have surrendered, Vasily finds Tania recovering in a field hospital.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
06. “We Were Soldiers”	25 February 2002

STARRING:

•Mel Gibson as Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel Hal Moore •Madeleine Stowe as Julia Moore •Greg Kinnear as Major Bruce P. Crandall •Sam Elliott as Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley •Chris Klein as 2nd Lieutenant Jack Geoghegan •Luke Benward as David Moore •Taylor Momsen as Julie Moore •Devon Werkheiser as Steve Moore •Keri Russell as Barbara Geoghegan •Barry Pepper as Joe Galloway •Mark McCracken as Captain Ed "Too Tall" Freeman • Đơn Dương as NVA Lieutenant Colonel Nguyẻn Hửu An •Ryan Hurst as Sergeant Ernie Savage •Marc Blucas as 2nd Lieutenant Henry Herrick •Jsu Garcia as Captain Tony Nadal •Jon Hamm as Captain Matt Dillon •Clark Gregg as Captain Tom Metsker •Blake Heron as Sp4. Galen Bungum •Desmond Harrington as Sp4. Bill Beck •Dylan Walsh as Capt. Robert Edwards •Brian Tee as Pfc. Jimmy Nakayama •Robert Bagnell as 1st Lieutenant Charlie Hastings, USAF •Bellamy Young as Catherine LaPlante Metsker •Patrick St. Esprit as Maj. Gen. Henry E. Emerson •Jim Grimshaw as Maj. Gen. Harry Kinnard

SYNOPSIS:

In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces. Viet Minh commander Nguyen Huu An orders his soldiers to "kill all they send, and they will stop coming". Eleven years later, the United States is fighting the Vietnam War. US Army Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore is chosen to train and lead a battalion. After arriving in Vietnam, he learns that an American base has been attacked and is ordered to take his 400 men after the enemy and eliminate the North Vietnamese attackers although intelligence has no idea of the number of enemy troops. Moore leads a newly-created air cavalry unit into the Ia Drang Valley. After landing, the soldiers capture a North Vietnamese soldier and learn from him that the location they were sent to is actually the base camp for a veteran North Vietnamese army division of 4,000 men. Upon arrival in the area with a platoon of soldiers, 2nd Lt. Henry Herrick spots an enemy scout and runs after him, ordering his reluctant soldiers to follow. The scout lures them into an ambush, which results in several men being killed, including Herrick and his subordinates. The surviving platoon members are surrounded and cut off from the rest of the battalion. Sgt. Savage assumes command, calls in the artillery, and uses the cover of night to keep the Vietnamese from overrunning their defensive position. Meanwhile, with helicopters constantly dropping off units, Moore manages to secure weak points before the North Vietnamese can take advantage of them. Despite being trapped and desperately outnumbered, the main US force manages to hold off the North Vietnamese with artillery, mortars, and helicopter airlifts of supplies and reinforcements. Eventually, Nguyen Huu An, the commander of the North Vietnamese division, orders a large-scale attack on the American position. At the point of being overrun by the enemy, Moore orders 1st Lt. Charlie Hastings, his forward air controller, to call in "Broken Arrow," which is a call for all available combat aircraft to assist and attack enemy positions, even those close to the US troops' position because a position is being overrun and can no longer be defended. The aircraft attack with bombs, napalm, and machine guns, killing many PAVN and Viet Cong troops, but a friendly fire incident also results in American deaths. The North Vietnamese attack is repelled, and the surviving soldiers of Herrick's cut-off platoon, including Savage, are rescued. Meanwhile, back in the United States, Julia Moore has become the leader of the American wives who live on the base. When the Army begins to use yellow cab drivers to deliver telegrams that notify the next of kin of the soldiers' deaths in combat, Julia personally assumes that emotional responsibility instead. Moore's troops regroup and secure the area. Nguyen Huu An plans a final assault on the Americans and sends most of his troops to carry out the attack, but Moore and his men overrun them and approach the enemy command center. Before the base camp guards can open fire, Major Bruce "Snake" Crandall and others helicopter gunships attack and destroy the remnant of the enemy force. With no more troops to call on, Huu An quickly orders the headquarters evacuated. Having achieved his objective, Moore returns to the helicopter landing zone to be picked up. Only after everyone (including the dead and wounded) is removed from the battlefield does he fly out of the valley. Sometime later, Nguyen Huu An and his men arrive on the battlefield to collect their dead. He claims that the Americans will "think this was their victory. So this will become an American war". At the end of the film, it is revealed that the landing zone immediately reverted to North Vietnamese hands after the American troops had been airlifted out. Hal Moore continued the battle in a different landing zone, and after nearly a year, he returns home safely to Julia and his family. His superiors congratulate him for killing over 1,800 North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong soldiers. An older Moore visits the Vietnam War memorial and looks at the names of the soldiers who fell at Ia Drang.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
07. “Stealth”	29 July 2005

STARRING:

•Josh Lucas as Lt. Ben Gannon •Jessica Biel as Kara Wade •Jamie Foxx as Henry Purcell •Sam Shepard as Capt. George Cummings •Joe Morton as Capt. Dick Marshfield •Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Tim •Richard Roxburgh as Dr. Keith Orbit •David Andrews as Ray •Wentworth Miller as voice of EDI

SYNOPSIS:

In the near future, the U.S. Navy develops the F/A-37 Talon, a single-seat fighter-bomber with amazing payload, range, speed, and stealth capabilities. The super secret program, led by Captain George Cummings, is purposefully kept small, with three planes, piloted by Lieutenants Ben Gannon, Kara Wade, and Henry Purcell. Cummings hires Dr. Keith Orbit to develop an artificial intelligence, the "EDI", to control an unmanned jet that further advances the program. EDI joins the others on the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Philippine Sea to learn combat maneuvers from the pilots. This sparks some internal controversy, as human pilots possess both creativity and moral judgment regarding the ugliness of war, while a machine pilot is not subject to the physical limitations of a human pilot and does not suffer from ego. The team is training EDI in air combat maneuvers when they are unexpectedly reassigned to take out the heads of three terrorist cells at a conference in downtown Rangoon. EDI calculates that mission success can be achieved only through a vertical strike, which could cause a human pilot to black out and cause collateral damage. Command orders EDI to take the shot, but Gannon ignores the order, successfully carrying out the strike himself. As the team returns to the Lincoln, EDI is hit by lightning, which reprograms its neural patterns. Though EDI is discovered to be learning exponentially, developing a rudimentary ethical code and an ego, Cummings refuses to take it offline. During a mission to destroy stolen nuclear warheads in Tajikistan, Wade realizes that the nuclear debris will cause significant collateral damage. The human pilots abort, but EDI defies orders and destroys the warheads, causing extensive radioactive fallout. Cummings orders the unit back to base, but EDI refuses to stand down. Gannon, taking things into his own hands, orders that EDI be shot down. In the ensuing dogfight, Purcell crashes into a mountainside and Wade's plane is damaged by debris from the explosion, which in turn triggers her plane's auto-destruct, forcing her to eject over North Korea. Gannon must alone stop EDI from executing a twenty-year-old war scenario called "Caviar Sweep" and attacking a false target in Russia. Gannon chases EDI into Russian territory, where they defeat several Russian attack planes over Lake Baikal, while both receive damage. Gannon calls a truce with EDI in order to keep it from falling into enemy hands and to be able to rescue Wade from North Korea. Cummings instructs him to make an emergency landing with EDI in Alaska. Accountable for ignoring EDI's behavior and facing court-martial, Cummings seeks to eliminate witnesses by leaving Wade stranded in North Korea - where she is being pursued by the Korean People's Army as she heads to the southern border - and by ordering Gannon eliminated in Alaska and EDI's data erased. Gannon’s Talon crash lands at the Alaska base. Suspecting Cummings' treachery, he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by a doctor, who tries to inject him with a supposed tetanus serum - the pair struggle, and the doctor is injected and quickly dies. Meanwhile, when Orbit places EDI into an interface, the AI expresses sadness and regret for its transgressions. Orbit realizes that EDI has developed sentience, and he is unwilling to erase EDI's memory. Gannon allows Orbit to flee, then flies off to North Korea in EDI’s plane, contacting the Lincoln's skipper, Captain Dick Marshfield, to inform him about Cummings' deceit. Marshfield confronts Cummings, who commits suicide during a voicemail message to his financial contact, Ray. Gannon finds the injured and embattled Wade nearing the border. He and EDI land and he runs to her aid. Out of ammunition and taking damage from a Mi-8 helicopter, EDI sacrifices itself by ramming the helicopter, destroying both. This allows Gannon and Wade to cross on foot into South Korea, where they are rescued by US military forces. After attending Purcell's funeral, Gannon awkwardly expresses his feelings of love to Wade. In a post-credits scene, in the debris-strewn border between the Koreas, EDI's "brain" is seen turning back on.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
08. “The Losers”	23 April 2010

STARRING:

•Idris Elba as Captain William Roque - An expert in detonating and deactivating explosives. He is also an expert in knife combat. Elba previously worked with Joel Silver in multiple films, and opined that his ties with Silver helped him sustain a role in the film. "Sylvain White, the director, is someone I've known in the industry, and he said to me 'I've got this thing I'm working on'. And a few directors had looked at the script, and were going to make it, but Sylvain landed it." •Zoe Saldana as Aisha al-Fadhil - A native Bolivian woman offers assistance in locating Max. In preparation for the role, Saldana participated in extensive weapons and physical training. The actress was required to gain a couple of pounds, as she was expected to carry weapons around for eight hours a day.[6] Saldana summated al-Fadhil as a manipulative and mysterious individual. "She's a snake. You don't really know what she's hiding up her sleeve. She definitely had her own prerogative and it's very meaningful for her. She's trying her best to play her cards right, but Jeffrey's character just gets to her. There's just something about him that she's unable to kind of to fill her task, her mission." •Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Clay - A special forces colonel and the de facto leader of the group. Morgan, who starred in the superhero mystery film Watchmen (2009), felt that playing Clay was far less complicated in comparison to his Watchmen role as Comedian. Because of the radically different approach, Morgan stated that it gave him more freedom and allowed him to be more playful with his character. "This guy has a real, actually much better sense of humor than the Comedian did," avouched Morgan. "He's not nihilistic. It's completely different. This is much lighter. A much lighter load for me. There's also kind of room for me to interpret this as a project where, in Watchmen, you had to - look, I was playing the Comedian in the most revered comic book ever written. I was confined to that. In this, I could fine-tune a lot of what I thought Frank Clay is and get to play with it a lot more." •Chris Evans as Captain Jake Jensen - The team's intelligence specialist and computer hacker. Evans professed that portraying the character was considerably different from his previous roles. "He's just a fun guy, you know? He's kind of the comic relief," Evans stated. "He loves life. He's a little nerdy. He's not very smooth." The actor further evaluated Jensen's personality: "He's not only a fun character because of the energy you get to infuse it with, but who he is, it's kind of against type. I don't really get to play guys who are awkward and uncomfortable at times in certain situations, so it's fun to play him." •Columbus Short as Sergeant Linwood "Pooch" Porteous - A member who is a specialist in heavy weapons and transportation. He refers to himself sometimes in third person while speaking. •Óscar Jaenada as Sergeant Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez - The group's sniper. He is precise in long range eliminations and he speaks rarely throughout the film. •Jason Patric as Max •Holt McCallany as Wade Travis - Max's right-hand man and aide. •Peter Macdissi as Vikram •Peter Francis James as Fadhil - The Bolivian drug dealer and terrorist. He is also Aisha's father. •Tanee McCall as Jolene - Pooch's wife.

SYNOPSIS:

The Losers are an elite black-ops team of United States Special Forces operatives that includes leader Clay, Roque, Pooch, Jensen, and Cougar, who are sent to Bolivia on a search-and-destroy mission on a compound run by a drug lord. While painting a target for an upcoming air strike, the Losers spot slave children in the compound and try to call off the attack, but their superior, codenamed Max, ignores their pleas. With no other option, the Losers enter the compound, successfully rescue the children and kill the drug lord in the process. As a helicopter arrives to pick them up, Max, convinced that they know too much, orders it to be destroyed, unaware that they decided to rescue the children first. The Losers watch as a missile destroys the helicopter and kills 25 innocents. Knowing that the attack was meant to kill them, they fake their deaths and become stranded in Bolivia, lacking the funds and paperwork necessary to go home. Four months later, Clay is approached by Aisha, a mysterious woman who offers him the chance to kill Max, against whom she wants revenge. Clay accepts and Aisha arranges for the group to return to the United States, where they proceed to attack a convoy supposedly carrying Max, only to discover Aisha has tricked them into stealing a hard drive with Max's secrets. Unable to access the files, Jensen infiltrates the company that made the drive and steals an algorithm that allows him to crack the code, discovering that the drive contains credits for a $400 million transfer in Max's name, which he received for selling "Snukes" or Sonic Nukes - eco-friendly sonic bombs with the potency of a nuclear warhead that uses sonic fields to crush surrounding environment into oblivion, but no fall-out - to international terrorists. Tracing the money flow to the Los Angeles International Port of Entry, which the Losers deduce is Max's base, they form a plan to attack it and kill Max. While studying the drive, Jensen discovers that their mission in Bolivia was a cover so Max could eliminate the drug lord - who had discovered his plan—and that Aisha is the man's daughter, seeking revenge for his death. After her cover is blown, Aisha shoots Jensen in the arm and escapes. Believing that she might betray them, the Losers decide to speed up their attack on Max's base, only to be betrayed by Roque and captured by Max and his right-hand man and chief of security, Wade. As the Losers are lined up to be executed, Aisha returns and ambushes Max's team. In the ensuing fight, Clay confirms that he killed Aisha's father. Roque steals Max's plane which is loaded with his money and tries to escape. As Roque's jet heads down the runway, Wade takes a motorcycle and goes after him to retrieve Max's money. Cougar shoots the motorcycle's engine, causing Wade to be hurled into the jet's engine and the flaming motorcycle to be hurled into the cockpit of the plane, which explodes, killing Roque. Max then kills the scientist responsible for the development of the Snukes after revealing that his true intention is to use the Snukes to spark global conflict to gain power. As Jensen, Cougar and Aisha help Pooch, who has been shot in both legs by one of Max's security guards, Clay pursues Max to a crane, where Max says that he has activated a Snuke that will destroy Los Angeles, and Clay will have to choose between de-activating it or killing Max. Clay chooses the former and Max escapes, but Clay affirms that he now knows what Max looks like and will soon find him. Max escapes on a bus and is robbed by two thugs. His fate after this is unknown. Shortly thereafter, the Losers help Pooch reach the hospital where his pregnant wife is giving birth to their son and attend Jensen's 8-year-old niece's soccer game.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
09. “Zero Dark Thirty”	31 January 2013

STARRING:

•Jessica Chastain as Maya Harris, a CIA intelligence analyst •Jason Clarke as Dan Fuller, a CIA intelligence officer •Jennifer Ehle as Jessica Karley, a senior CIA analyst •Mark Strong as George Panetta, a senior CIA supervisor •Kyle Chandler as Joseph Bradley, Islamabad CIA Station Chief •James Gandolfini as CIA Director Leon Panetta •Harold Perrineau as Jack Fuller, a CIA analyst •Mark Duplass as Steve Bradley, a CIA analyst •Fredric Lehne as Fred "The Wolf" Guerrero, a CIA section chief •John Barrowman as Jeremy Karley, a CIA executive •Jessie Collins as Debbie Stone, a CIA analyst • Édgar Ramírez as Larry Handley, a CIA SAD/SOG operative •Fares Fares as Hakim, a CIA SAD/SOG operative •Scott Adkins as John Simmons, a CIA SAD/SOG operative •Jeremy Strong as Thomas, a CIA analyst

SYNOPSIS:

Maya Harris is a CIA analyst tasked with finding the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In 2003, she is stationed at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. She and CIA officer Dan attend the black site interrogations of Ammar (Reda Kateb), a detainee with suspected links to several of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks and who is subjected to approved torture interrogation techniques. Ammar provides unreliable information on a suspected attack in Saudi Arabia, but reveals the name of the personal courier for bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Other detainee intelligence connects courier traffic by Abu Ahmed between Abu Faraj al-Libbi and bin Laden. In 2005, Faraj denies knowing about a courier named Abu Ahmed; Maya interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal the importance of Abu Ahmed. In 2009, during the Camp Chapman attack, Maya's fellow officer and friend Jessica is killed by a suicide bomber. A case manager that liked the Abu Ahmed lead shares with her an interrogation with a Jordanian detainee claiming to have buried Abu Ahmed in 2001. Maya learns what the CIA was told five years earlier: Ibrahim Sayeed traveled under the name of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Realizing her lead may be alive, Maya contacts Dan, now a senior officer at the CIA headquarters. She speculates that the CIA's photograph of Ahmed is that of his brother, Habeeb, who was killed in Afghanistan. Maya says that their beards and native clothes make the brothers look alike, explaining the account of Ahmed's "death" in 2001. A Kuwaiti prince trades the phone number of Sayeed's mother for a Lamborghini Gallardo Bicolore. Maya and her CIA team in Pakistan use electronic methods to eventually pinpoint a caller in a moving vehicle who exhibits behaviors that delay confirmation of his identity (which Maya calls tradecraft, thus confirming that the subject is likely a senior courier). They track the vehicle to a large urban compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. After gunmen attack Maya while she is in her vehicle, she is recalled to Washington, D.C. as her cover is believed blown. The CIA puts the compound under surveillance, but obtains no conclusive identification of bin Laden. The President's National Security Advisor tasks the CIA with creating a plan to capture or kill bin Laden. Before briefing President Barack Obama, the CIA director holds a meeting of his senior officers, who estimate that bin Laden is 60-80% likely to be in the compound. Maya, also in the meeting, places her confidence at 100%. On May 2, 2011, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment flies two stealth helicopters from Afghanistan into Pakistan with members of DEVGRU and the CIA's Special Activities Division to raid the compound. The SEALs and their MWD, military working dog (shown in the movie as a German Shepherd, but was actually a Belgian Malinois), gain entry and kill a number of people in the compound, including a man whom they believe is bin Laden. At a U.S. base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Maya confirms the identity of the corpse. She boards a military transport back to the U.S., the sole passenger. She is asked where she wants to go and begins to cry.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
10. “Lone Survivor”	23 January 2014

STARRING:

•Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell: The hospital corpsman and sniper of a four-man reconnaissance and surveillance team, SEAL Team 10. Wahlberg was the first actor to sign on as a star of the film during its early stages of development. He agreed to portray Luttrell after reading Peter Berg's script. Wahlberg chose not to read Luttrell's book Lone Survivor during production to avoid arguments with Berg over events and details that were left out in the book. "The problem when adapting a piece of material like that is that you always feel like something is missing", he explained. "I wanted to come at it from this perspective." Of Wahlberg's portrayal, Luttrell stated, "Wahlberg is a consummate professional, and he's a great actor. It was a little strange watching somebody trying to play me, but we talked about it and I knew it would turn out great. I was more worried about the other guys because they're not around to speak for themselves." Wahlberg has since cited Lone Survivor as his favorite film role as an actor and producer: "This is the best working experience I've ever had, under the toughest conditions. I remember early on as an actor, you worked a long, hard day, but you did something you felt was special, and that car ride home you couldn't stop thinking about it. I had that feeling every day on this movie." •Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Michael P. "Murph" Murphy: The team leader and spotter of SEAL Team 10. Lone Survivor is Kitsch's second feature film collaboration with Berg after Battleship (2012). Kitsch said, "Murph's actions speak louder than anything he's ever said, and they should. I think he was that type of leader who just loved his guys, and getting the nod to play this guy was something special." Prior to production of the film, Kitsch prepared for the role by performing high-intensity workouts with body armor and long runs with a 40-lb weighted vest. •Emile Hirsch as Danny Dietz: SEAL Team 10's communications specialist and spotter. Hirsch was approached by Berg in 2009, and physically prepared for the role by attending a 90-minute weight program for nearly four months. "I wanted a challenge, so I started to train and work out on my own", he said. "I genuinely didn't know what was going to happen. Months went by and it was to the point where I was passing on other movies, but I didn't have this job. I was willing to do anything. I ended up training six days a week, four to five hours a day." •Ben Foster as Matthew "Axe" Axelson: SEAL Team 10's sniper. Wahlberg recommended Foster to Berg, as they had previously collaborated on Contraband (2012). Prior to filming, Foster met with the fallen serviceman's family and friends to understand the person he would be portraying. "It was such a rich opportunity to listen to the Axelsons talk about their son. Their generosity and inclusiveness with me was so touching and open. They love to talk about their boy because they love him; so we, in turn, love him. We can't bring him back, but what we can do is aim, every day, to do the best that we can to honor him." •Eric Bana as Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen: SEAL Team 10's quick-reaction force (QRF) commander. Bana had read the book Lone Survivor prior to production, and was willing to appear in the film, regardless of which role was offered to him. Upon being cast as Kristensen, Bana researched the fallen serviceman and his family. On joining the production of Lone Survivor, Bana stated, "There are two factors that make this story special, and they are the reasons why I jumped on board. One is the story itself, and two is who chooses to direct a project like this. I knew how involved [Berg] would be and that he would know how to portray SEAL teammates. That was what I wanted to be a part of. The greatest way to honor these guys is to make a great film and have it stand the test of time." Bana did not physically prepare for the role. "My responsibility was really to understand the role of the mission commander and the relevant information with respect with the chain of command and what it means to go in the QRF and the processes involved", he explained. "It was far more important to be the person that was responsible for that part of the story and understand that completely. There's no purpose in me going out and firing an M4 in this case." Ali Suliman, who previously collaborated with Berg on the 2007 film The Kingdom, plays Mohammad Gulab, an Afghan villager; Alexander Ludwig plays Navy SEAL Machinist's Mate Shane Patton. Marcus Luttrell appears in the film in an uncredited role. He first appears as a SEAL teammate who lightheartedly hazes Patton, then during a briefing scene where he is seen shaking his head when the Rules of Engagement are being explained, and later as one of the servicemen who perishes when a CH-47 Chinook is shot down. Luttrell said of the latter scene, "I was on the other side of the mountain when those guys came to help me, so getting to die on the helicopter in the movie was a very powerful moment for me." The cast is rounded out by Yousuf Azami as Ahmad Shah, a Taliban leader; Sammy Sheik as Taraq, a field commander of the Taliban group; Rich Ting as SO2 James Suh; Dan Bilzerian as Senior Chief Special Operator (SOCS) Daniel Healy; Jerry Ferrara as United States Marine Corps Sgt Hasslert; Scott Elrod as Peter Musselman; Rohan Chand as Gulab's son; and Corey Large as US Navy SEAL Captain Kenney. Zarin Mohammad Rahimi, who acted as a technical advisor during production, appears as an elderly shepherd who discovers the four-man SEAL team during the mission; Nicholas Patel and Daniel Arroyo play the goat herders who assist the shepherd.

SYNOPSIS:

In 2005 Afghanistan, Taliban leader Ahmad Shah is responsible for killing over twenty United States Marines, as well as villagers and refugees who were aiding American forces. In response to these killings, a United States Navy SEALs unit is ordered to execute a counter-insurgent mission to capture Shah. As part of the mission, a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team is tasked with locating Shah. The four SEALs include team leader Michael Murphy; snipers Marcus Luttrell and Matthew Axelson; and communications specialist Danny Dietz. The team is inserted into the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, where they make a trek through the mountains where they begin to encounter communications problems. Arriving at their designated location, the SEALs are accidentally discovered by local goat herders, who the SEALs detain. Knowing that if they release them, the herders will likely alert the Taliban to their presence, the team is split about whether to kill the herders or not. After a brief debate, the team chooses to release them and abort the mission, but before they can escape, they are attacked by Taliban forces. Although the SEALs kill several Taliban gunmen, they are heavily outnumbered and at a disadvantage, and the men take on various wounds during the firefight, worsened when they jump off the edge of a ridge and into a large ravine. Despite their injuries, the SEALs make a defensive retreat through the steep woods. Dietz begins to lose consciousness and shouts questions to Luttrell, unwittingly revealing the team's position. Murphy and Axelson jump off another ridge lead the escape while Luttrell tries to carry Dietz down the mountain, but Dietz is shot again; the impact forces Luttrell to lose his grip and fall off the cliff. A dying Dietz remains at the top of the cliff and is killed. Murphy attempts to climb back up the cliff to get a phone signal in order to call for support via satellite phone with Axelson and Luttrell providing cover fire. When he finally reaches higher ground, Murphy is able to alert his unit of his team's predicament and request assistance before he is killed himself. In response to Murphy's distress call, a quick reaction force made up of fellow SEALs boards Chinook helicopters and heads toward the location without gunship escort. When they arrive, the Taliban shoot down one of the helicopters, killing all eight Navy SEALs and eight Special Operations aviators aboard, while the second helicopter is forced back. Luttrell and Axelson are left to fend for themselves again. Axelson attempts to find cover but is killed when he leaves his hiding spot to attack several approaching insurgents. When Luttrell is discovered by the Taliban, one of the insurgents fires a rocket-propelled grenade, and its impact throws him to the bottom of a rock crevice where he is able to hide from the Taliban and eventually escape. Luttrell stumbles upon a small body of water where a local Pashtun villager, Mohammad Gulab, discovers him. Gulab takes Luttrell into his care, returning to his village, where he attempts to hide Luttrell in his home. Gulab then sends a mountain man to the nearest American base to alert them to Luttrell's location. Taliban fighters arrive at the village to take Luttrell, but Gulab and the villagers intervene, threatening to kill the fighters if they harm Luttrell. The fighters leave, but later return to punish the villagers for protecting Luttrell. Gulab and his villagers are initially able to fend off the attackers but are nearly overrun and Luttrell badly wounded when American forces arrive and defeat the advancing Taliban. After thanking the villagers who had saved him, Luttrell is evacuated. He almost succumbs to his injuries but is revived in time. Images of the real Luttrell, Gulab and the fallen service members killed during the mission are shown during a four-minute montage, and an epilogue reveals that the Pashtun villagers agreed to help Luttrell as part of a traditional code of honor known as the Pashtunwali.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
11. “American Sniper”	22 January 2015

STARRING:

•Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle •Sienna Miller as Taya Kyle •Luke Grimes as Marc Lee •Jake McDorman as Ryan "Biggles" Job •Cory Hardrict as "D" / Dandridge •Kevin "Dauber" Lacz as himself •Navid Negahban as Sheikh Al-Obodi •Keir O'Donnell as Jeff Kyle •Kyle Gallner as Goat-Winston •Sam Jaeger as Captain Martens •Sammy Sheik as Mustafa, a character partially based on Iraqi sniper Juba •Mido Hamada as "The Butcher", a character possibly based on Abu Deraa •Eric Close as DIA Agent Snead •Eric Ladin as Squirrel •Ben Reed as Wayne Kyle •Brian Hallisay as Captain Gillespie •Tim Griffin as Colonel Gronski •Chance Kelly as Lt. Colonel Jones •Elise Robertson as Deby Kyle •Marnette Patterson as Sara •Cole Konis as Young Chris Kyle •Leonard Roberts as Instructor Rolle •Luke Sunshine as Young Jeff Kyle •Max Charles as Colton Kyle •Troy Vincent as Pastor •Vincent Selhorst-Jones as Eddie Ray Routh

SYNOPSIS:

Growing up in Texas, Chris Kyle is taught by his father how to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. Years later, Kyle has become a ranch hand and rodeo cowboy, and returns home early, to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. After telling her to leave, he is mulling it over with his brother when he sees news coverage of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings and decides to enlist in the Navy. He qualifies for special training and becomes a U.S. Navy SEALs sniper. Kyle meets Taya Studebaker at a bar, and the two soon marry. He is sent to Iraq after the September 11 attacks. His first kills are a woman and boy who attacked U.S. Marines with a Russian made RKG-3 anti-tank grenade. Kyle is visibly upset by the experience, but later earns the nickname "Legend" for his many kills. Assigned to hunt for the al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Kyle interrogates a family whose father offers to lead the SEALs to "The Butcher", al-Zarqawi's second-in-command. The plan goes awry when The Butcher captures the father and his son, killing them while Kyle is pinned down by a sniper. This sniper goes by the name Mustafa and is an Olympic Games medalist from Syria. Meanwhile, the insurgents issue a bounty on Kyle. Kyle returns home to his wife and the birth of his son. He is distracted by memories of his war experiences and by Taya's concern for them as a couple - she wishes he would focus on his home and family. Kyle leaves for a second tour and is promoted to Chief Petty Officer. Involved in a shootout with The Butcher, he helps in killing him. When he returns home to a newborn daughter, Kyle becomes increasingly distant from his family. On Kyle's third tour, Mustafa seriously injures a unit member, Ryan "Biggles" Job, and the unit is evacuated back to base. When they decide to return to the field and continue the mission, another SEAL, Marc Lee, is killed by gunfire. Guilt compels Kyle to undertake a fourth tour, and Taya tells him she may not be there when he returns. Back in Iraq, Kyle is shocked to learn Biggles died in surgery to repair the wounds he sustained. Assigned to kill Mustafa, who has been sniping U.S. Army combat engineers building a barricade, Kyle's sniper team is placed on a rooftop inside enemy territory. Kyle spots Mustafa and takes him out with a risky long distance shot at 2,100 yards (1,920 m), but this exposes his team's position to numerous armed insurgents. In the midst of the gunfight, and low on ammunition, Kyle tearfully calls Taya and tells her he is ready to come home. A sandstorm provides cover for a chaotic escape in which Kyle is injured and almost left behind. After Kyle gets back, on edge and unable to adjust fully to civilian life, he is asked by a Veterans Affairs psychiatrist if he is haunted by all the things he did in war. When he replies it is "all the guys [he] couldn't save" that haunt him, the psychiatrist encourages him to help severely wounded veterans in the VA hospital. After that, Kyle gradually begins to adjust to home life. Years later, on February 2, 2013, Kyle says goodbye to his wife and family as he leaves in good spirits to spend time with Eddie Ray Routh, a veteran suffering from PTSD at a shooting range. An on-screen subtitle reveals that Kyle was killed that day by Routh, followed by archive footage of crowds standing along the highway for his funeral procession. More are shown attending his memorial service.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
12. “Fury”	23 October 2014

STARRING:

•Brad Pitt as First Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier, tank commander •Shia LaBeouf as Technician fifth grade Boyd "Bible" Swan, tank gunner •Logan Lerman as Private First Class Norman "Machine" Ellison, tank assistant driver/bow gunner •Michael Peña as Corporal Trini "Gordo" Garcia, tank driver Jon Bernthal as Private First Class Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis, tank loader •Jason Isaacs as Captain Waggoner •Brad Henke as Staff Sergeant Davis •Jim Parrack as Staff Sergeant Binkowski •Xavier Samuel as 1st Lieutenant Parker •Scott Eastwood as Sergeant Miles •Kevin Vance as Staff Sergeant Peterson •Anamaria Marinca as Irma •Alicia von Rittberg as Emma •Chris Wilson as Chaplain •David Rae as Tiger I Commander •Laurence Spellman as Master Sergeant Dillard •Zach Avery as SS Medic (uncredited) •Adam Ganne as an Obersturmführer •Daniel Dorr as Obersturmführer Schmidt •Berhard Forscher as Sturmbannführer Muller •Edin Gali as Hauptscharführer Wolfe

SYNOPSIS:

In early April 1945, the Western Allied invasion of Germany meets fanatical Schutzstaffel resistance. Don "Wardaddy" Collier, a battle-hardened U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division, commands an M4 Sherman "Easy Eight" tank nicknamed Fury and its veteran crew: gunner Boyd "Bible" Swan, loader Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis, driver Trini "Gordo" Garcia, and assistant driver–bow gunner "Red," all of whom have fought together since the North African campaign. Red is killed by a German anti-tank shell, which went through his head hitting the gun mantlet. Red is replaced by Private First Class Norman Ellison, a young clerk typist from V Corps. As Fury moves deeper into Germany, Norman's inexperience becomes dangerous: He spots but fails to shoot Hitler Youth child soldiers who ambush the platoon leader's tank with a Panzerfaust, killing its entire crew; later, he hesitates under fire during a skirmish with anti-tank guns. After the battle, Don finds a captured German soldier wearing a U.S. Army coat and gives Norman his M1917 Revolver, ordering him to execute the soldier. When he refuses, Don wrestles the revolver into his hand and forces him to pull the trigger, killing the prisoner and traumatizing Norman. With Don now the acting platoon leader, the tanks capture a small town. Don and Norman search an apartment and encounter a German woman, Irma, and her younger cousin, Emma. Don pays them in cigarettes for a meal and some hot water so he can shave. Norman and Emma bond and, at Don's urging, go into the bedroom for sex. Later, as the four sit down to eat, the rest of the crew drunkenly barges in, harassing the women and bullying Norman (which Grady especially does), but they stop after Don berates them and spits at Grady. They are called away for an urgent mission but, as the men prepare to leave, German shells hit the town, killing Emma and Captain Waggoner, further traumatizing Norman. The platoon receives orders to capture and hold a crossroads to protect the division's rear. En route, they are ambushed by an SS Tiger tank, which manages to destroy three U.S. tanks with its superior firepower and armor. Fury destroys the Tiger by outmaneuvering it and firing into its thinner rear armor. Unable to notify his superiors because the radio has been damaged, Don decides they must complete their mission rather than risk going back. Upon arriving at the crossroads, the tank is immobilized by a landmine. Don sends Norman to scout a nearby hill, from which he sees German soldiers approaching. Don identifies the Germans as a Waffen-SS battalion on their way to attack the division and decides to stay, informing the others they are permitted to leave if they want to. Norman volunteers to stay with Don and one by one the rest of the crew decide to stay and fight. The men disguise Fury to appear destroyed and hide inside. While they wait, they give Norman the nickname "Machine" to show their acceptance of him and share their last bottle of liquor. Using the tank as cover, they inflict heavy casualties with small-arms fire over the course of a single day. Grady is killed by a Panzerfaust that penetrates the turret, Gordo is shot while unpinning a grenade and throws himself on it to protect the others, and a German sniper kills Bible and severely wounds Don. Norman wants to surrender, but Don warns him he will be tortured and killed if he does. Out of ammunition (except for Wardaddy's revolver) and surrounded, Don orders Norman to escape through the floor hatch as the Germans drop Stielhandgranate (potato-masher) grenades into the tank. Norman slips out just before they explode, killing Don. Norman tries to hide in the mud underneath the tank as the survivors move on, but is spotted by a young soldier who decides to not say anything, sparing Norman's life. The next morning, Norman is awoken by the sound of a horse and crawls back into the tank to hide. While inside, he covers Don's body with his jacket and arms himself with the revolver. The hatch opens and Norman prepares to fight, but realizes that the soldiers outside the tank are American. As Norman is declared a hero and driven away, he looks back at the tank and numerous dead SS troops lying around it, while the rest of the force continues their march into the heart of Germany. The last scene is of Fury, heavily damaged from above, and the ambulance with Norman being the only survivor.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
13. “Greyhound”	10 July 2020

STARRING:

•Tom Hanks as Commander Ernest Krause, commanding officer of the USS Keeling, codenamed Greyhound •Stephen Graham as Lieutenant Commander Charlie Cole, Krause's executive officer •Rob Morgan as George Cleveland, Mess Attendant 2nd Class •Elisabeth Shue as Evelyn Frechette, Ernest's love interest •Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Melvin Lopez •Karl Glusman as Red Eppstein •Tom Brittney as Lieutenant Watson •Jake Ventimiglia as Harry Fippler •Matt Helm as Lieutenant J. Edgar Nystrom •Joseph Poliquin as Forbrick •Devin Druid as Homer Wallace •Maximilian Osinski as captain of ORP Viktor, Callsign "Eagle" •Dominic Keating as captain of HMS James, Callsign "Harry" •Grayson Russell as Signalman #1 •Dave Davis as Boatswain's Mate #1 •Michael Benz as Lieutenant Carling •Travis Przybylski as LTJG Dawson •Josh Wiggins as Talker #1 •Chet Hanks as Bushnell •Ian James Corlett as captain of HMCS Dodge, callsign "Dicky" •Thomas Kretschmann as captain of Grey Wolf •Michael Carollo as Rico Ochoa, Forward Lookout

SYNOPSIS:

During the Battle of the Atlantic, convoy HX-25, consisting of 37 Allied ships, is making its way to Liverpool. The convoy's escort consists of the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Keeling, radio call sign "Greyhound", captained by Commander Ernest Krause of the United States Navy; the British Tribal-class destroyer HMS James, call sign "Harry"; the Polish Grom-class destroyer ORP Viktor, call sign "Eagle"; and the Canadian Flower-class corvette, HMCS Dodge, call sign "Dicky". Krause is overall commander of the escort ships, but despite his seniority and extensive naval education, it is his first wartime command. The convoy enters the "Black Pit" - the Mid-Atlantic gap where they will be out of range of protective air cover. High-frequency direction finding from the convoy flagship intercepts several German transmissions, indicating the presence of U-boats. Greyhound identifies a surfaced sub heading towards the convoy and moves to attack. The submarine tries to slip under Greyhound, but Krause maneuvers his ship above the U-boat and sinks it with a full pattern of depth charges. The crew's jubilation is cut short as they soon receive reports of distress rockets at the rear of the convoy. A Greek merchant ship was attacked by another U-boat and is quickly sinking. Krause moves Greyhound to assist, evading torpedoes fired at his ship with careful maneuvering. The surviving Greek sailors are rescued, and Greyhound returns to the convoy just as the bridge receives multiple messages from the other escorts: a wolfpack consisting of six U-boats is staying just out of firing range of the convoy; Krause suspects they are waiting for nightfall, when the escorts will have no visibility. The attack commences that evening with five merchant ships being torpedoed and sunk. One U-boat torpedoes an oil tanker and escapes Greyhound by using an underwater decoy, tricking the crew into wasting most of their remaining depth charges. Krause chooses to rescue survivors from the burning oil tanker rather than go to the aid of the other ships first. The next day, the wolf pack targets Greyhound. The captain of the lead submarine taunts the convoy and its escorts via radio transmission. Krause learns that Greyhound is down to just six depth charges. The U-boats launch multiple torpedo runs, which Greyhound is barely able to evade. Greyhound and Dicky combine to sink one of the U-boats in an exchange of surface broadsides. Dicky receives minor damage due to the close range of the engagement and Greyhound is hit on the port side by one of the U-boat's deck guns, which kills Krause's mess attendant, George Cleveland, and two sailors. During the funeral service, Eagle is attacked and eventually sinks. Krause, aware that doing so might expose the shoddy state of the escort fleet, elects to break radio silence by transmitting a single word, "help", to the Admiralty. With the convoy close to reaching air cover, the remaining U-boats mount an all-out assault on the destroyers. After heavy fighting, Greyhound sinks the lead U-boat with a full broadside. Air support deployed from British RAF Coastal Command arrives and Greyhound fires to mark the last visible U-boat, allowing a PBY Catalina bomber to sink the sub. The rest of the pack quickly flees before they can be discovered. While assessing damage, Krause receives radio contact from the head of the relief escorts, HMS Diamond, that his relief has arrived and Greyhound is due for repair and refitting in Derry alongside his two surviving companion vessels. The crew receives a "job well done" on their four U-boat kills. While setting the new course, passengers and crew of the remaining convoy ships cheer to salute Greyhound's crew while Krause retires to his cabin to rest.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
14. “Hart's War”	15 February 2002

STARRING:

•Bruce Willis as Col. William McNamara •Colin Farrell as Lt. Thomas Hart •Terrence Howard as Lt. Lincoln Scott •Cole Hauser as Staff Sgt Vic Bedford •Marcel Iureş as Oberst Werner Visser •Linus Roache as Captain Peter Ross •Vicellous Reon Shannon as Lt. Lamar Archer •Jonathan Brandis as Private Lewis P. Wakely (scenes deleted) •Maury Sterling as Private First Class Dennis A. Gerber •Sam Jaeger as Captain R. G. Sisk •Scott Michael Campbell as Corporal Joe Cromin •Rory Cochrane as Sergeant Carl Webb •Sebastian Tillinger as Private Bert D. "Moose" Codman •Rick Ravanello as Major Joe Clary •Adrian Grenier as Private Daniel E. Abrams •Sam Worthington as Corporal B.J. 'Depot' Guidry •Holger Handtke as Major Johann Wirtz

SYNOPSIS:

During World War II, U.S. Army intelligence officer First Lieutenant Thomas Hart (Farrell) is captured by German forces. While interrogating Hart, the Germans coerce him to divulge intelligence by taking away his boots, causing his feet to become frostbitten and badly injured, and leaving him, naked, in a very cold cell. He is then transferred by train to Stalag VI-A prisoner of war camp at Hemer, Germany. While en route, a P-51 Mustang attacks (the letters POW were painted on the top of the train, but got covered by thick snow). To save themselves, the POWs leave the train and spell P-O-W with their bodies and prevent further strafing. After arriving at the new POW camp, Lt. Hart is interviewed by the ranking American officer, Colonel William McNamara (Willis). When McNamara asks if he cooperated with the Germans after he was captured, Hart denies it. McNamara knows this to be a lie when Hart says he only endured three days of interrogation. McNamara does not reveal this to Hart, but sends him to bunk in a barracks for enlisted men, rather than allow him to bunk with the other officers. Two black pilots are brought to the camp and assigned to Hart's barracks. They are the only blacks in the camp, and their situation is compounded by their status as officers. Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford (Hauser), a racist, is their primary antagonist. One of the pilots, Lt. Lamar Archer, is executed when accused of keeping a weapon that Bedford had planted in his bunk. When Bedford himself subsequently turns up dead, the surviving pilot, Lt. Lincoln A. Scott (Howard) is accused of killing Bedford in retaliation. A law student before the war, Hart is appointed by McNamara to defend the accused pilot at his court-martial, a trial to which the camp commandant, Oberst Werner Visser (Iure?) agrees. Much later, McNamara reveals to Hart that the "defense," like the trial itself, is a sham, an elaborate distraction to hide a planned attack on a nearby ammunition plant (the U.S. Army mistakenly believes it to be a shoe factory) by McNamara and his men, in aid of the war effort. It is revealed that Bedford planted the weapon in Archer's bunk, knowing the guards would kill him for it. In return, he gave them the location of a secret radio. It is also revealed he planned to escape with money and clothes, likely in return for telling the Nazis about McNamara's plan. McNamara realized this, and killed Bedford to prevent it. Hart is shocked that McNamara as a senior officer would sacrifice a fellow American (Scott) to protect the planned attack on the ammunition plant. McNamara reminds Hart that in war, sometimes one man must be sacrificed to save the lives of many. Hart acknowledges this, but retorts that it is McNamara's duty to ensure that he (McNamara), not Lincoln Scott, is the sacrifice. Disgusted, McNamara says that Hart does not know anything about duty, in reference to how Hart gave in to a "Level 1" interrogator after three days, whereas McNamara was tortured for a month. McNamara's ploy nearly succeeds. The escaped soldiers destroy the nearby ammunition plant. However, at the end of the court-martial, Hart falsely confesses to Bedford's murder in order to save Lt. Scott. McNamara overhears Hart's confession; McNamara has a change of heart and voluntarily returns to the camp to accept responsibility. Visser holds McNamara accountable and personally executes him on the spot, but spares the remaining prisoners. Three months later, the German army surrenders to the Allies. The prison camp is liberated and all of the surviving prisoners, including Hart, are sent home. Hart's final comments are that he learned about honor, duty, and sacrifice.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
15. “Braveheart”	1 June 1995

STARRING:

•Mel Gibson as William Wallace •James Robinson as young William Wallace •Sophie Marceau as Princess Isabella of France •Angus Macfadyen as Robert the Bruce •Patrick McGoohan as King Edward "Longshanks" •Catherine McCormack as Murron MacClannough •Mhairi Calvey as young Murron MacClannough •Brendan Gleeson as Hamish •Andrew Weir as young Hamish •Peter Hanly as Prince Edward •James Cosmo as Campbell •David O'Hara as Stephen of Ireland •Ian Bannen as Bruce's father •Seán McGinley as MacClannough vBrian Cox as Argyle Wallace •Sean Lawlor as Malcolm Wallace •Sandy Nelson as John Wallace •Stephen Billington as Phillip •John Kavanagh as Craig •Alun Armstrong as Mornay •John Murtagh as Lochlan •Tommy Flanagan as Morrison •Donal Gibson as Stewart •Jeanne Marine as Nicolette •Michael Byrne as Smythe •Malcolm Tierney as Magistrate •Bernard Horsfall as Balliol •Peter Mullan as Veteran •Gerard McSorley as Cheltham •Richard Leaf as Governor of York •Mark Lees as Old Crippled Scotsman •Tam White as MacGregor •Jimmy Chisholm as Faudron •David Gant as the Royal Magistrate

SYNOPSIS:

In 1280, King Edward "Longshanks" invades and conquers Scotland following the death of Alexander III of Scotland, who left no heir to the throne. Young William Wallace witnesses Longshanks' execution of several Scottish nobles, suffers the deaths of his father and brother fighting against the English, and is taken abroad on a pilgrimage throughout Europe by his paternal uncle Argyle, who has Wallace educated. Years later, Longshanks grants his noblemen land and privileges in Scotland, including Prima Nocte. Meanwhile, a grown Wallace returns to Scotland and falls in love with his childhood friend Murron MacClannough, and the two marry in secret. Wallace rescues Murron from being raped by English soldiers, but as Wallace fights off the soldiers Murron is captured and publicly executed. In retribution, Wallace leads his clan to fight the English garrison in his hometown and sends the surviving garrison back to England with a message of rebellion for Longshanks. Longshanks orders his son Prince Edward to stop Wallace by any means necessary while he visits the French King to secure England's alliance with France. Alongside his friend Hamish, Wallace rebels against the English, and as his legend spreads, hundreds of Scots from the surrounding clans join him. Wallace leads his army to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge where he decapitates the English commander Cheltham. Prince Edward fails to send reinforcements to York, enabling Wallace to sack the city, killing Longshanks' nephew whose severed head is sent to the king. Wallace seeks the assistance of Robert the Bruce, the son of nobleman Robert the Elder, a contender for the Scottish crown. Robert is dominated by his leper father, who wishes to secure the Scottish throne for his son by submitting to the English. Worried by the threat of the rebellion, Longshanks sends his son's wife Isabella of France to try to negotiate with Wallace as a distraction for the landing of another invasion force in Scotland. After meeting him in person, Isabella becomes enamored of Wallace. She warns him of the coming invasion, and Wallace implores the Scottish nobility to take immediate action to counter the threat and take back their country, asking Robert the Bruce to lead. Leading the English army himself, Longshanks confronts the Scots at Falkirk. During the battle, Scottish noblemen Mornay and Lochlan, having been bribed by Longshanks, withdraw their men, resulting Wallace's army being routed and the death of Hamish's father, Campbell. Wallace is further betrayed when he discovers Robert the Bruce was fighting alongside Longshanks; after the battle, seeing the damage he helped do to his countrymen, Robert reprimands his father and vows never to be on the wrong side again. Wallace kills Lochlan and Mornay for their betrayal, and wages a guerrilla war against the English assisted by Isabella, with whom he eventually has an affair. Robert sets up a meeting with Wallace in Edinburgh, but Robert's father conspires with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English. Learning of his treachery, Robert disowns and banishes his father. Isabella exacts revenge on the now terminally ill Longshanks, who can no longer speak, by telling him that his bloodline will be destroyed upon his death as she is pregnant with Wallace's child and will ensure Prince Edward spends as short a time as possible on the throne before Wallace's child replaces him. In London, Wallace is brought before an English magistrate, tried for high treason, and condemned to public torture and beheading. Even whilst being hanged, drawn and quartered, Wallace refuses to submit to the king. The watching crowd, deeply moved by the Scotsman's valor, begin crying for mercy on Wallace's behalf. The magistrate offers him one final chance, asking him only to utter the word, "Mercy", and be granted a quick death. Wallace instead shouts, "Freedom!", and his cry rings through the square, the dying Longshanks hearing it. Before being beheaded, Wallace sees a vision of Murron in the crowd, smiling at him. In 1314, Robert, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn, where he is supposed to formally accept English rule. Instead, he invokes Wallace's memory, imploring his men to fight with him as they did with Wallace. Hamish throws Wallace's sword point-down in front of the English army, and he and the Scots chant Wallace's name as Robert leads them into battle against the English, winning the Scots their freedom.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
16. “Three Kings”	13 January 2000

STARRING:

•George Clooney as Major Archie Gates A career U.S. Army Special Forces officer close to retirement, who is disillusioned with the war. •Mark Wahlberg as Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow An office worker with a wife and baby daughter at home. He wears the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations patch and identifies himself as a Civil Affairs Reservist. •Ice Cube as Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin An airline baggage handler who believes he is protected by a ring of "Jesus-fire", also wears the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations patch. •Spike Jonze as Private First Class Conrad Vig A jobless, semi-literate soldier from a group home who idolizes Troy; also wears the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations patch. •Cliff Curtis as Amir Abdullah A Shi'ite Iraqi rebel who has been captured by Saddam's troops. Educated in the U.S. at Bowling Green State University, he was an entrepreneur in Baghdad, running several cafes before they were destroyed by Coalition bombs. •Nora Dunn as Adriana Cruz A tough cable news correspondent who is determined to get a good story. •Jamie Kennedy as Specialist Walter Wogeman A bumbling soldier whom Archie uses to distract Adriana. •Said Taghmaoui as Said An Iraqi interrogator who tortures Barlow with electric shocks after he is captured. •Mykelti Williamson as Colonel Ron Horn Archie's superior officer, who discovers the plan to steal the gold. •Holt McCallany as Captain Doug Van Meter Troy's superior officer, an obstreperous stickler for the rules. •Judy Greer as Cathy Daitch A journalist competing with Adriana who has sex with Archie early in the film. •Alia Shawkat as Amir's daughter.

SYNOPSIS:

Following the end of the Persian Gulf War, U.S. soldiers are sent over to clean up loose ends. The soldiers are bored over the lack of action and as a result throw parties at night. Major Archie Gates, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, is trading sex for stories with a journalist, Cathy Daitch, when he is interrupted by Adriana Cruz, the television reporter he is assigned to escort. While disarming and searching an Iraqi officer, U.S. Army Reserve Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow, his best friend Private First Class Conrad Vig, and their unit find a map between the officer's buttocks. Troy goes to Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin to help translate the map. Major Gates appears, after tracking down a lead from Adriana. Archie convinces them that the document is a map of bunkers near Karbala, containing gold bullion stolen from Kuwait, which they decide to steal. To keep Adriana off his back, Gates sends Specialist Walter Wogeman to aid her on a false lead. They set off the next day and, among other goods plundered from Kuwait, find the gold, and stumble on the interrogation of Amir Abdullah. As they are leaving, Amir's wife pleads with them not to abandon the anti-Saddam dissidents, but she is executed by the Iraqi Republican Guard. The group decides to free the Iraqi prisoners, triggering a firefight. They pull out just as Iraqi reinforcements arrive, and as they try to evade a CS gas attack, they blunder into a minefield and get separated. Iraqi soldiers capture Troy while a group of rebels rescue the other Americans and take them to their underground hideout. There, Conrad, Chief and Archie agree to help the rebels and their families reach the Iranian border, after they rescue Troy. Troy gets taken back to the bunker, and is thrown in a room full of Kuwaiti cell phones. He manages to call his wife back home and tells her to report his location to his local Army Reserve unit. His call is cut short when he is dragged to an interrogation room where he is interrogated by Iraqi Captain Said. The Americans with the rebels go to a band of Iraqi Army deserters, who are persuaded to sell them luxury cars stolen from Kuwait. The cars are outfitted as Saddam's entourage, in a ruse to scare away the bunker's defenders. After storming the bunker, they free Troy, who spares Said, and find more Shi'ite dissidents held in a dungeon. A few of the soldiers who ran away return, and shoot Conrad and Troy. Conrad dies; Troy's lung is punctured, but he survives. Archie radios Walter and Adriana and arranges transport, while the hapless officers in the camp try to locate the trio after getting the message from Troy's wife. Each of the rebels is given a bar of gold and the rest is buried as they wait for the transport to arrive. The convoy goes to the Iranian border, where the three Americans intend to escort the rebels across to protect them from the Iraqi soldiers guarding the crossing. But the American officers arrive and stop the group, arresting the trio while the rebels are recaptured. Archie offers the buried gold to the American officers in exchange for letting the refugees through. The commanding officer acquiesces to assisting the rebels get into Iran, but still states that charges (of being absent without leave and disobeying orders by contradicting American post-war policy) and courts-martial will be convened against Archie, Troy, and Chief Elgin. As an epilogue, the film states that the three surviving soldiers (Archie, Troy, and Chief Elgin) are cleared of the charges and honorably discharged, thanks to Adriana's reporting. The epilogue goes on to show that Archie goes to work as a military adviser for Hollywood action films, Chief leaves his airport job to work with Archie, and Troy returns to his wife and baby to run his own carpet store. The stolen gold was returned to Kuwait, which claimed that some was missing, implying that some pilfering of the gold took place.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
17. “The Hurt Locker”	4 February 2010

STARRING:

•Jeremy Renner as Sergeant First Class William James •Anthony Mackie as Sergeant J. T. Sanborn •Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge •Guy Pearce as Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson •Christian Camargo as Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge •David Morse as Colonel Reed •Ralph Fiennes as the leader of a Private Military Company unit •Evangeline Lilly as Connie James •Christopher Sayegh as Beckham •Malcolm Barrett as Sergeant Foster •Sam Spruell as Contractor Charlie •Suhail Dabbach as a black-suit suicide bomber

SYNOPSIS:

In 2004, Sergeant First Class William James arrives as the new team leader of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit in the Iraq War. He replaces Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson, who was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. His team includes Sergeant J. T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge. James is often approached by an Iraqi youth nicknamed "Beckham", attempting to sell DVDs. James challenges him to a game of football and takes a liking to him. Sanborn and Eldridge consider James' maverick disposal methods and attitude reckless, raising tensions. When they are assigned to destroy explosives, James returns to the detonation site to pick up his gloves. Sanborn openly contemplates killing him by "accidentally" triggering the explosives, making Eldridge uncomfortable. Nothing is done, and tensions continue to increase. Returning to Camp Victory in their Humvee, the team encounters five armed men in traditional Arab garb and casual attire standing near a Ford Excursion, which has a flat tire. James' team has a tense encounter with their leader, who reveals they are private military contractors and British mercenaries. They have captured two prisoners featured on the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. The group comes under fire; when the prisoners attempt to escape in the confusion, the leader of the mercenaries shoots them, as they are valuable dead or alive. Enemy snipers kill three of the mercenaries, including their leader. Sanborn and James borrow a gun to dispatch three attackers, while Eldridge kills a fourth. During a raid on a warehouse, James discovers a body he believes is Beckham, in which a bomb has been surgically implanted. During the evacuation, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge, the camp's psychiatrist and a friend of Eldridge, is killed in an explosion; Eldridge blames himself for his death. James breaks into an Iraqi professor's house, seeking revenge for Beckham, but his search reveals nothing. Called to a petrol tanker detonation, James decides to hunt for the insurgents responsible, guessing they are still nearby. Sanborn protests, but when James begins a pursuit, he and Eldridge reluctantly follow. After they split up, insurgents capture Eldridge. James and Sanborn rescue him, but one of James' rounds hits Eldridge in the leg. The following morning, James is approached by Beckham, who James believed was dead, and James walks by silently. Before being airlifted for surgery, Eldridge angrily blames James for his injury. James and Sanborn's unit is called to another mission in their last two days of their rotation. An innocent Iraqi civilian has had a bomb vest strapped to his chest. James tries to cut off the locks to remove the vest, but there are too many of them. He abandons the man who is then killed when the bomb explodes. Sanborn is distraught by the man's death. He confesses to James he can no longer cope with the pressure and wants to return home and have a son. After Bravo Company's rotation ends, James returns to his ex-wife Connie and their infant son, who still lives with him in his house. However, he is bored by routine civilian life at home. James confesses to his son there is only one thing he knows he loves. He starts another tour of duty, serving with Delta Company, a U.S. Army EOD unit on its 365-day rotation.