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The War Lord is a 1965 American drama historical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston. The film, which concerns medieval warfare and culture in 11th-century Normandy , is an adaptation of the play The Lovers by Leslie Stevens .
The 56th NHK taiga drama, Naotora: The Lady Warlord, was the first NHK drama where the female protagonist is the head of a samurai clan. [43] The 52nd NHK taiga drama, Yae no Sakura, focuses on Niijima Yae, a woman warrior who fought in Boshin War. This drama portrays Nakano Takeko, Matsudaira Teru, and other onna-musha. [44]
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1963.
The former Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue where Fairchild was a novice in 1936, now the North Bridge House School.. Margaret Fairchild was born in 1911 in Hellingly in East Sussex, the daughter of Harriett (née Burgess; 1879–1963) and George Bryant Fairchild (1866–1944), a surveyor and sanitary inspector.
The film was a critical and financial success, and while on the surface the plot is both a war story and a romance set in Napoleonic times, it was also intended to function as a film that would portray Britain positively within the context of World War II, which was being fought at that time. At the time it was released, France, Belgium, the ...
The film was released in the United States by Lions Gate Films on September 16, 2005, and grossed US$72.6 million at the box office. Critical reception was mixed. Many publications praised the opening sequence's messaging, along with Cage's performance as Yuri. [4] Others criticized the film's lack of focus and handling of Yuri's character.
Naotora: The Lady Warlord [1] (Japanese: おんな城主 直虎, Hepburn: Onna Jōshu Naotora) is a 2017 Japanese historical drama television series and the 56th NHK taiga drama. [2] It is written by Yoshiko Morishita and stars Ko Shibasaki as Ii Naotora .
The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British [3] comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on the memoir of the same name created by Alan Bennett. It was written by Bennett, and it tells the (mostly [ 6 ] ) true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd , an elderly woman who lived in a ...