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The story focuses on the final battles of World War II in the Pacific and Eastern Europe involving the United States, the Empire of Japan, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany.

It is told from the perspectives of a Marine Raider and a Red Army soldier, and is based on several historical battles, including the Makin Island raid, the Battle of Peleliu, and the Battle of Berlin.

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System Requirements:

• OS: XP or Vista
• Processor: 2.6ghz Pentium IV or equivalent (3.2ghz recommended for Vista)
• RAM: 1024mb (1536mb recommended for Vista)
• Video Card: DirectX 9-compliant Shader 3.0 card with 128 MB of DDR Video Memory (256 MB recommended) AGP 8x or PCI-Express x16
• Sound Card: 16-bit DirectX 9-compliant sound card
• DirectX9 for XP and 10 for Vista, 8 gigs HD space + 600mb for swap file.

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This movie would have been better as a fantasy instead of a historical drama. It would have made more sense that way.

Children of Huangshi starts off with a bang, appearing as if it’s going to be some epic masterpiece, but by the end of the movie, you’re left wondering where the story went.

It also bothered me that by the end of the move, the plot seems to revolve around the main character and his romance.

Shouldn’t it be less about snogging and more about Hogg’s relationship with the children?

I thought that was the point of the story and that’s why he’s famous: helping kids in the face of war and cultural differences and not screwing some blonde chick.

It doesn’t take a hero to do the latter.

Based on real events, The Children of Huang Shi is a story set against war-torn China in the 1930’s.

The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances.

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Director
Roger Spottiswoode

Writers
Jane Hawksley
James MacManus

Release Date
3 April 2008 (China) 

Genre
Drama | War

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In fact, the spookily powerful child Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren) in this, dominates the first part of the film, undergoing trials and tribulations that make the lives of Dickens’ abused and imperiled children look like a picnic.

From age nine into his 30s, Temudjin was orphaned, hunted, imprisoned, enslaved, and constantly threatened by extinction.

Literally alone in the vast landscape, Temudjin escapes death repeatedly, at times almost mysteriously.

“Mongol” is huge - with endless vistas and epic crowd scenes, quite without special effects - but Bodrov keeps the setting just that, never strutting visuals for their own sake.

The film is about people, and the cast is magnificent.

Asano’s face and eyes hold attention, and make the viewer experience simultaneous feelings of getting to know the character he plays and being held at arm’s length.

Bodrov and Asano escape all the many Hollywood pitfalls in making an epic - they present nothing easy, predictable, trite. The term “Shakespearean” is used here advisedly.

The Mongolian actors are sensational: Khulan Chuluun is luminous as Borte, Temudjin’s wife; Borte’s 10-year-old self, the girl who chooses Temudjin, then 9, while he thinks he is the one making the decision, is unforgettable, even if the name is hard to remember: Bayertsetseg Erdenebat.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Sergei Bodrov

Writers
Arif Aliyev
Sergei Bodrov

Release Date
6 June 2008 (UK)

Genre
Biography | Drama | Romance | War 

Tagline
Greatness comes to those who take it.

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Starting from the title to the credits, the movie is not about a heroic battle or an indelible mistake by a over zealous, self absorbed government.

It is about understanding a mindset.

If any of you have ever read Francis Fukuyama… its about history repeating itself.

Its about the common man being a pawn, about how life really is not a ‘great equalizer’.

Redford does a brilliant job looking at showing the dynamic impact numerous aspects/events and individuals who impact our lives truly have.

The self serving ego of one senator, or the inability of a teacher to persuade a student, or a reporter having to turn a blind eye to conscience because of a need to put a meal on the table the next day.

It is nice to finally watch a Hollywood war related film without a heroic massacre.

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Director
Robert Redford

Writer
Matthew Michael Carnahan

Release Date
9 November 2007 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Thriller | War 

Tagline
If you don’t STAND for something, you might FALL for anything

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The Art of War is a 2000 joint Canadian-American action film directed by Christian Duguay, and starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Biehn, Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland.

The title refers to the ancient Chinese text of the same name by war strategist Sun Tzu, which has some bearing on the film’s plot.

Neil Shaw is an operative for the United Nations’ covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation.

When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China’s ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the U.S., Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.

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Director
Tim Lowry

Writers
Mike Capozzi
Tim Lowry

Genre
Short

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