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The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke.The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II.
The song's title is said to refer to the star formation (an asterism) known in America as the Big Dipper and in Europe as The Plough. The pointer stars of the Big Dipper align with the North Star. In this song the repeated line "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is thus often interpreted as instructions to escaping slaves to travel north by following ...
A modern-day African-American woman must escape from a 19th-century Southern slave plantation. The Arena: 1974: In the ancient Roman city of Brundisium, a group of slave girls are forced to become gladiators. A Respectable Trade: 1998: A four-part TV miniseries based on a historical novel. [11] Ashanti: 1979
Escape from L.A. [13] The sequel to Escape From New York, the film is set in an America that has become a theocratic dictatorship. Central to the plot is Los Angeles Island, the remains of what was once the city of Los Angeles after "the Big One," where those who break the government's new laws are deported to.
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The last of the short films, Flugten Fra Amerika (Escape from America) has an anti-American message that prevented it from being broadcast. [1] [2] No new Cirkeline films were released until 1998. The first Cirkeline book was published in 1969, and in 1998, she took the leap to the big cinema screen in the first of 3 feature films.
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When his childhood friend Michael England comes to jail on a probation violation, the two plan to escape together. When the guards are not looking, they sneak through a large pipe using a stolen key. They come out on the roof and spend several days making a hole in the roof. Once complete, they and six other inmates escape through the hole.