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The Middle School History Film Club meets on Thursdays in M101 from
12.45 - 1.30
Packed lunches (and chocolate biscuits!)
are provided by arrangement with Dr. May.
There is now also a Sixth Form History Film Club on Tuesdays after school in M101 from 3.45 - 5.00.
Please see Dr May for further details.
PAST FILMS:
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Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.
Depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
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BLACKADDER
GOES FORTH:
Captain Cook
Corporal Punishment
Major Star
Private Plane
General Hospital
Goodbyeee |
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BEFORE THAT.... (TO AID RECOVERY FROM TOO MUCH HITLER):
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MONTY
PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975).
The movie starts out with Arthur, King of
the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He
finds many knights and through satire of certain events in history
(witch trials, the black plague) they in turn find Camelot, (though
they decide that they do not want to go there). While walking
away, God comes to them from a cloud and tells them to find the
Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search. Throughout their
search they meet interesting people and knights along the way.
In the end, King Arthur and Sir Bedevere find the Castle Arrrghhh
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PREVIOUS FILMS:
DOWNFALL
(2005) .
Set in Berlin, 1945, this powerful and provocative
drama retells the final days of the Second World War as recorded
in the diaries of Adolf Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge
, while barricaded with Hitler and his closest confidants in the
Fuhrer's secret bunker. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel with an
astonishing performance by Bruno Ganz as history's most notorious
figure, this unprecedented and controversial insider's perspective
is a gripping insight into the madness and despertaion of Hitler
in the final hours of the war as the Russian Army closes a ring
around Berlin. |
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SCHINDLER'S
LIST (1993)
Oskar Schindler is a vain and greedy German
businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric
Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into
a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler
who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
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HITLER - THE RISE OF
EVIL.
Starring Robert Carlyle as
the Nazi dictator, Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a lavish made-for-TV
two-parter that traces Adolf Hitler's early life, including
his boyhood in Austria and impoverished period as a struggling
artist in Vienna, culminating in 1934, by which time he had
assumed the chancellorship of Germany.
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KING
ARTHUR.
King Arthur (Clive
Owen) is a half-British, half-Roman leader and warrior who commands
a brave team of knights for the Roman Empire, protecting Hadrian's
Wall from the Woads (ancient Britons) in the North. Arthur and
his Sarmatian knights, are due to be freed from their duties.
But they are asked to complete one last mission - a trip deep
into enemy territory to rescue an important Roman family as the
invading Saxon forces draw nearer. |
KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN
Set in 12th Century Europe
and the exotic East, Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven is a powerful,
epic film about a young peasant (Orlando Bloom), a common man
of extraordinary conscience who rises to knighthood and embarks
upon a life-changing journey to find peace and a better world.
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ENEMY
AT THE GATES
In the winter of 1942, the German and Russian Armies meet in the
great Battle of the Stalingrad, one of the most vicious engagements
of the Second World War. Enter into this horror a young Russian
soldier, formerly a peasant boy with an extraordinary ability
to sharpshoot a rifle from far distances. The Russian sniper soon
gains fame after killing a record number of German officers causing
the Germans to bring in their own sniper expert: a war weathered
Major who always accomplishes his mission no matter what the cost.
With the Battle of Stalingrad raging around them, these two men
must now fight each other. |
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