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Forbidden Ground, also known as Battle Ground in the United States, is a 2013 Australian action drama film, starring Johan Earl, Tim Pocock, and Martin Copping, set against the backdrop of World War I. It was written by Earl, Denai Gracie, and Travis Spiteri, and directed by Earl and Adrian Powers.
The Trench is a 1999 war film written and directed by William Boyd and starring Paul Nicholls and Daniel Craig. It depicts the experiences of a group of young British soldiers in the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme in 1916. [3] James D'Arcy, Cillian Murphy and Ben Whishaw also appear.
The film is a portrait of soldiers fighting in the trenches during World War I. [1] The film premiered in June 2010 at Animafest Zagreb, [1] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. [2] The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011. [3]
1917 is a 2019 British war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.Partially inspired by stories told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather Alfred about his service during World War I, [7] the film takes place after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, and follows two British soldiers, Will Schofield (George MacKay ...
Mexican botanist and explorer who started her career at age 55; discovered one new genus and many new species of plants Béláné Mocsáry: Hungarian 1845: 1917: Hungarian geographer and travel writer who journeyed solo to four continents in the early 1900s Dervla Murphy: Irish 1931: 2022
British (upper) and German (lower) frontline trenches, 1916 German soldiers of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment fighting from a trench, on the Western Front, 1916 Plan of Ruapekapeka Pā 1846, an elaborate and heavily fortified Ngāpuhi innovation, which James Belich has argued laid the groundwork for or essentially invented modern trench warfare.
The historical drama or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography to the degree the available historical research will allow.
Dr. Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) was a German scientist, astrophysicist and "former" Nazi during World War II who was later hired by NASA under the name "Dr. Schmidt" to run the Apollo Moon landing program for them, while using CIA assets to search for the Antikythera, a time travel device built by the ancient Syracusan mathematician ...