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The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD)
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, …
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R25
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Double bill featuring movies that focus on America's recent
involvement in foreign countries. In 'The Kingdom' (2007), when a
terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While
diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special
Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team
and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate
the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom,
however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious
and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a
local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, and with the clock ticking on
their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless
without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate
the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew
finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi
(Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock
the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist,
hell bent on further destruction. 'Jarhead' (2006) is an adaptation
of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit
Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed
'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the
1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which
Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for
the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the
Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do
very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the
middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of
humour as they wait for the war to happen to them.
'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR
'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads
of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War
tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female
members of Britain's 'Greatest Generation'. Whether flying
Spitfires to the frontline, aiding code breaking at Bletchley Park,
plotting the Battle of the Atlantic or working with Churchill in
the Cabinet War Rooms, each of these women made a crucial
contribution to the conflict overseas and helped to buttress the
home front. Here they recount their remarkable experiences during
the Second World War, recalling how their formative years were
shaped by danger and trauma, and how friendship and romance
fortified their spirits. Drawing on the insight that comes with
age, they contemplate how the conflict helped women prove their
worth, transforming society and sparking the later battles for
equal rights. With a reporter's eye for detail, Lucy Fisher
artfully weaves together moving contemporary interviews with
gripping wartime diaries and letters. This is a vivid oral history
that will stay with you long after you've put it down.
'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR
'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads
of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War
tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female
members of Britain's 'Greatest Generation'. Whether flying
Spitfires to the frontline, aiding code breaking at Bletchley Park,
plotting the Battle of the Atlantic or working with Churchill in
the Cabinet War Rooms, each of these women made a crucial
contribution to the conflict overseas and helped to buttress the
home front. Here they recount their remarkable experiences during
the Second World War, recalling how their formative years were
shaped by danger and trauma, and how friendship and romance
fortified their spirits. Drawing on the insight that comes with
age, they contemplate how the conflict helped women prove their
worth, transforming society and sparking the later battles for
equal rights. With a reporter's eye for detail, Lucy Fisher
artfully weaves together moving contemporary interviews with
gripping wartime diaries and letters. This is a vivid oral history
that will stay with you long after you've put it down.
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