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In 1924, George Mallory makes an ascent of Mount Everest. But he and Andrew Irvine mysteriously never return from their climb. His legacy involves the possibility that he, and not Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, was the first man to reach the summit.

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A film revolving around the infamous My Lai massacre. Bruce Willis will play William R. Peers, the real-life Army general who investigated the murder of about 350-500 people—mostly women, children and the elderly—by U.S. soldiers.

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The movie follows two wreck divers who discovered the hull of a German U-boat in waters off New Jersey in 1991. The divers spent seven years searching for the truth behind the ship and men who died inside it.

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After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confesses to FBI informant Jack Van Laningham to having ordered JFK's assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI had positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.

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The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with each other during the World War II, in Prague.

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The movie will star Ryan Phillippe as a seventh-century Viking warrior named Thorfinn who, along with his older brother, the battle-scarred Hakon (Sean Bean), invades Britain.

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Autobiography of the Roman emperor written as a series of letters to his nephew, Marcus Aurelius.

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Based on the trilogy of novels by Valerio Manfredi ("Alexander: Child of a Dream", "Alexander: The Sands of Ammon", and "Alexander: The Ends of the Earth"), the film follows the short life of Alexander the Great, who by the age of 25 conquered 90% of the known world.

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The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a firm ruler and military tactician, embarks on a ruthless rise to power. She twice marries brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony help her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undoes both of them.

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Liberation tells the true story of Herbert Heller, who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving for years in Auschwitz hidden from his family. That is until he meets Abbey (Fisher), a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

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Set against the dramatic landscape of the English coastal town of Lyme-Regis and centers on two female 19th century fossil hunters who make significant discoveries that changed the scientific world forever. The story reveals invisible women in science who were influential but marginalized and whose accomplishments were appropriated by men.

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At the end of WWII, three refugees from East Prussia believe their way to safety is on the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff. Just when freedom seems in their grasp, tragedy strikes: the sinking of that ship ias one of the worst maritime disasters that ever occurred.

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Focuses on the formative years of Attila the Hun who later in life becomes the leader of the Hunnic Empire, which brazenly attacks Rome and lays waste to much of Europe. He dies under mysterious circumstances on his wedding night in 453 AD.

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Irena Sendler makes a defiant stand against Polish Nazi occupation. She develops an incredible network to care for and save 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Following her arrest by the Gestapo during the height of the war, it becomes a race against time to save not only herself but the identities of the hidden thousands who'll face certain execution.

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A historical romance, "Napoleon and Betsy" imagines an affair between the emperor and a young woman (Scarlett Johansson) during his final years in power

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The Netflix movie will showcase important battles of the Second Punic War, which was fought between Rome and Carthage.

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The film will chronicle the formative years of Roosevelt as he reinvented himself from a slight and privileged New York politician with a Harvard degree to the burly commander of the Rough Riders, a track that would lead him to the New York governorship, the vice presidency and the White House, when William McKinley was assassinated.

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The story centers on an opera singer (Brittany Murphy) who seeks out the services of Sigmund Freud in post-World War I Vienna. Haunted by hallucinatory dreams about a white hotel, she becomes Freud's famous case study Anna G. Together, they unlock the key to figuring out her memories and her premonitions of the future, which include the Holocaust.

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