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Ali (DVD)
Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, …
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Discovery Miles 550
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Will Smith plays boxing legend Muhammad Ali in this
much-anticipated biopic from director Michael Mann. Beginning with
Ali's 1964 World Heavyweight Championship victory over Sonny
Liston, and moving through his subsequent involvement with the
Nation of Islam and refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam war,
the film tells of Ali's rise to fame, the years in which he was
banned from boxing due to his political and religious commitments,
and his triumphant return in the early 1970s, culminating in the
famous Rumble in the Jungle. Also stars Jon Voight as sports
commentator Howard Cosell, Jamie Foxx as Ali's friend Drew
'Bundini' Brown, and Mario Van Peebles as Malcolm X.
After the fall of the Philippines in 1942 - and after leading the
last horse cavalry charge in U.S. history - Ed Ramsey refused to
surrender. Instead, he joined the Filipino resistance and rose to
command more than 40,000 guerrillas. The Japanese put the elusive
American leader at the top of their death list. Rejecting the
opportunity to escape, Ramsey withstood unimaginable fear, pain,
and loss for three long years. "Lieutenant Ramsey's War" chronicles
a remarkable true story of courage and perseverance.
Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What
had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a
battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the
home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the
cradle of gangster rap. At the centre of it, trying to maintain
order was the Compton Police Department, never more than
130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over
10,000. At any given time, fully one-tenth of Compton's population
was in prison, yet this tidal wave of crime was held back by the
thinnest line of the law - the Compton Police. John R. Baker was
raised in Compton, eventually becoming the city's most decorated
officer involved in some of its most notorious, horrifying and
scandalous criminal cases. Baker's account of Compton from 1950 to
2001 is one of the most powerful and compelling cop memoirs ever
written - an intensely human account of sacrifice and public
service, and the price the men and women of the Compton Police
Department paid to preserve their city.
In "A Booke of Days", Rivele brilliantly recreates the First
Crusade of 1096, a brutal, ungodly expedition of greed and
conquest. "An absorbing and intelligent look at a fascinating
period of history".--"Publishers Weekly".
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