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 In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world’s most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.
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Game of Their Lives, The DVD Release
Director: David Anspaugh
Actors: Gerard Butler; Wes Bentley; Richard Jenik; Jay Rodan; Louis Mandylor; Jimmy Jean-Louis; Zachery Ty Bryan; Nelson Vargas; John Rhys-Davies; Gavin Rossdale; Maria Bertrand; Terry Kinney; Joe Erker;
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (674 votes)
 Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Director: John Lee Hancock
Actors: Craig Erickson; Dennis Quaid; Billy Bob Thornton; Jason Patric; Patrick Wilson; Emilio Echevarría; Jordi Mollà; Leon Rippy; Tom Davidson; Marc Blucas; Robert Prentiss; Kevin Page; Joe Stevens; Stephen Bruton; Laura Clifton; Ricardo Chavira;
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (5822 votes)
 It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”
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Troy DVD Release
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Julian Glover; Brian Cox; Nathan Jones; Adoni Maropis; Jacob Smith; Brad Pitt; John Shrapnel; Brendan Gleeson; Diane Kruger; Eric Bana; Orlando Bloom; Siri Svegler; Lucie Barat; Ken Bones; Manuel Cauchi;
IMDB Rating: 6.90 out of 10 (63815 votes)
 During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Russell Crowe brings great intensity to the role of Captain Jack Aubrey. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director Weir chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. The officers and the mates are well-known by the time the final battle comes. Paul Bettany offers a strong performance as the surgeon and naturalist who balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain’s friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. The horrors of the injuries from the war are frequently implied, but vividly depicted in the reactions of the characters.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World DVD Release
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Russell Crowe; Paul Bettany; James D’Arcy; Edward Woodall; Chris Larkin; Max Pirkis; Jack Randall; Max Benitz; Lee Ingleby; Richard Pates; Robert Pugh; Richard McCabe; Ian Mercer; Tony Dolan; David Threlfall;
IMDB Rating: 7.50 out of 10 (35194 votes)
 As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan’s Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio; Daniel Day-Lewis; Cameron Diaz; Jim Broadbent; Henry Thomas; Liam Neeson; Brendan Gleeson; John C. Reilly; Gary Lewis; Stephen Graham; Eddie Marsan; Alec McCowen; Larry Gilliard Jr.; Cara Seymour; David Hemmings;
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (59936 votes)
 In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once…And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.
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We Were Soldiers DVD Release
Director: Randall Wallace
Actors: Mel Gibson; Madeleine Stowe; Greg Kinnear; Sam Elliott; Chris Klein; Keri Russell; Barry Pepper; Duong Don; Ryan Hurst; Robert Bagnell; Marc Blucas; Josh Daugherty; Jsu Garcia; Jon Hamm; Clark Gregg;
IMDB Rating: 7.00 out of 10 (17524 votes)
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