Terrorism in the Movies
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Boggs, Carl; Pollard, Tom. "Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism." New Political Science, Volume 28, Number 3, September 2006 , pp. 335-351(17)
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Davies, Paul "Terrorism in Film." Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Vol. 1 No. 2 Page 209
Lutticken, Sven. "Suspense and... surprise."(terrorism in movies). New Left Review 40 (July-August 2006): p95(15).
Markovitz, Jonathan. "Reel Terror Post 9/11." In: Film and television after 9/11 / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2004
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Miller, Henry K. "Fatal attraction; Che Guevara, Carlos the Jackal, Andreas "Baader: these are the faces of radical terrorist chic. Henry K Miller examines the myths. (The Back Half).(popular culture)." New Statesman (1996) 131.4611 (Oct 28, 2002): 38(2).
Muravchik, Joshua. "Terrorism at the Multiplex."
Commentary, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 57-60, Winter 1999.UC users only
"Terrorism and Film and Other Media."
p.o.v: A Danish Journal of Film Studies, vol. 20, pp. 4-127, December 2005.
- Air Force One (1997)
- Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Liesel Matthews, Dean Stockwell. An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision - give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter. 125 min. DVD 1269
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- Directed by Ayelet Bargur. Cast: Assaf Dayan, Rivka Neuman, Sivan Shavit.
Lt. Ziv Gonan is returning to his Israeli army base from weekend leave. As he waits at the Beit Lid bus stop, a bomb explodes killing 18 people and wounding 62 others. Ziv's family hears of the bombing and agonizingly waits to hear what happened to him. 49 min. vhs 999:3740
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- Baader (Germany / UK, 2002)
- Directed by Christopher Roth. Cast: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Birge Schade. A fact-based drama that conveys a lot about the life, thinking and hopes of those who became known as terrorists in the RAF, people who thought of themselves as terrorists when they were still only a group of bourgeois youngsters looking for their way. 110 min. DVD 4569
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- The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d'Alger) (Algeria / Italy, 1965)
- Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. A documentary-style re-enactment of the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafes. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed. Special features: Disc 1: Theatrical and re-release trailers; production gallery. Disc 2: "Gillo Pontecorvo: the dictatorship of truth," a 37 min. documentary made in 1992 about Pontecorvo; The making of The battle of Algiers (51 min.); Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone discuss the film (17 min.). Disc 3: "Remembering history," a 69 min. documentary about the Algerian Revolution; "Etats d'armes," 28 min. of excerpts from Patrick Rotman's 3-part documentary, L'Ennemi Intime, which focuses on the horror of the Revolution; "The battle of Algiers, a case study" a 25 min. conversation about the contemporary relevance of The battle of Algiers between former National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism Richard A. Clarke, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Michael A. Sheehan, and Chief of Investigative Projects for ABC News, Christopher E. Isham; "Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers" (1992) (58 min.). 117 min. DVD 3050; VHS 999:111
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- Black Sunday (1976)
- Directed by John Frankenheimer. Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu. A Black September terrorist group attempts to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the President of the United States in attendance. 143 min. DVD 5871
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- Die Bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Julianne) (West Germany, 1981)
- Director, Margarethe von Trotta. Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Jutta Lampe, Rudiger Vogler, Doris Schade, Verenice Rudolph, Luc Bondy. Based on true events this film presents the relationship between two sisters caught up in the turmoil of Germany in the 1970s. The details of the personalities of the two main characters and their development parallels the personal history of the Ensslin sisters: Gudrun (Marianne in the film) who was imprisoned as a terrorist in the Stammheim prison where she died, supposedly a suicide, in the Fall of 1977 ; Christiane (Julianne in the film) who worked for some time as an editor of a women's magazine, "Emma," and was determined to prove that her sister did not kill herself. 102 min. 999:2902
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- Bloody Sunday (UK / Ireland, 2002)
- Directed by Paul Greengrass. Cast: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard Mcsorley, Kathy Keira Clarke.
A dramatic recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day. Special features: Commentaries by writer/director Paul Greengrass, actor James Nesbitt and co-producer Don Mullan; "Bloody Sunday: Ivan Cooper remembers" interview with the real Ivan Cooper and James Nesbitt, the actor who portrays him. 110 min. DVD 6469
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- La Chinoise (France, 1968)
- Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michel Semeniako, Juliet Berto. Centers upon a small group of Parisian students who discuss the implications of the cultural revolution in China and how it may be possible to effect, by means of terrorism, a similar political and cultural upheaval in the West. Non-US format DVD (PAL, Region 2). 93 min. DVD 4262
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- Collateral Damage (2002)
- Director, Andrew Davis. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, Miguel Sandoval, Harry Lennix, John Leguizamo, John Turturro.
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini. Frustrated with the official investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia. 112 min. DVD 5604
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- The Crying Game (UK / Japan, 1992)
- Writer/director, Neil Jordan. Cast: Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker. A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists in the Irish Republican Army, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend. 112 min. DVD 1177; vhs 999:1484
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Movie Review Query Engine - DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (TV, 2003)
- Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, John Cunningham, David Fonteno, Gregory Itzin, Penny Johnson Jerald, Stephen Macht, Mary Gordon Murray, Lawrence Pressman, Scott Alan Smith, George Takei.
A drama telling the story of the days directly after the 9/11 attacks. Focuses on the difficult decisions and tasks faced by President George Bush and his staff on September 11, 2001 and the days following the attacks. Based on in-depth interviews and extensive research, the film recounts the tragic events from the moment Bush hears the news of the attacks to significant briefings with advisors. Chronicles national security meetings, links with Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. Illustrates the Administrations strategy for responding both to the terrorists and the American people. 129 min. DVD 6423
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- The Devil's Own (1997)
- Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Ruben Blades, Treat Williams, George Hearn. One of the top Northern Ireland IRA terrorists escapes to New York where he, under a false name, lives in the house of an Irish cop who knows nothing about his real identity. Their surprising friendship and the cop's growing suspicions force the terrorist to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
111 min. DVD 7808
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- Die Hard (1988)
- Directed by John McTiernan. Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia. John McClane, a New York City detective newly arrived in Los Angeles, is waiting for his wife's office party to break-up when terrorists seize control of the building. While the terrorists round up hostages, McClane slips away unnoticed and armed with only a service revolver and his cunning, he launches his own one-man war. 132 min. DVD 1242
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- Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
- Directed by Renny Harlin. Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald Veljohnson, Franco Nero, William Sadler, John Amos. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop John McClane who battles not only terrorists but an incompetent airport police chief, an anti-terrorist commander, and a snow storm. With an airport runway in the nation's capital littered with death and destruction McClane is in a race against time as his wife is trapped on a plane circling overhead, deperately low on fuel. 124 min. DVD 1243
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- Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)
- Directed by John McTiernan. Cast: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene. New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day. 131 min. DVD 1244
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- Dil Se-- (India, 1998)
- Directed by Mani Ratnam. Romantic drama set in India of a young man who meets an enigmatic girl who later seeks his help without revealing that she is part of a terrorist organization. Incorporates fantasy sequences of dance and song. 165 min. DVD 2257
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- Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) (1972)
- Directed by Luis Buñuel. Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau. An all-star French cast assembles for an elegant dinner party, but whenever they try to eat, something happens to interrupt them. Mixes biting social satire with bold surrealistic invention as the dinner party serves to lampoon such targets as diplomats, wealthy socialites and even radical terrorists.
"Terrorism and bomb explosions accompany Luis Bunuel?s surrealist trilogy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). The title of the last of these does not only refer to the woman the hero has fallen in love with, but also in a wider sense to the terrorism that comes to the surface in various moral, social, cultural, economic, psychological, and political forms and which manifests itself most clearly in the inexplicable bomb outrages accompanying the hero in his sexual quest. As he strides down the street in the concluding scene arm-in-arm with his ?obscure object? seemingly convinced he has finally ?got? her, bombs go off everywhere: The final word in Bunuel?s last film on violence and desire?and terror???" [Davies, Paul "Terrorism in Film." Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Vol. 1 No. 2 Page 209
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100 min. DVD 445; vhs 999:78
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- Directed by Gus Van Sant. Cast: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor, Carrie Finklea, Nicole George, Brittany Mountain, Alicia Miles. A realistic drama depicting students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic schoolshooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No explanation for the shooting is given, it simply places the audience in the interminable window of adolescence when life is both trivial and painfully important all at the sametime. 81 min. DVD 2674
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- Flight 93: The Movie
- Directed by Peter Markle. Cast: Brennan Elliott, Jeffrey Nordling, Kendall Cross, Monnae Michaell, Ty Olsson. A made-for-television docudrama telling the heartbreaking true story of the heroic passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Trapped onboard a hijacked flight, these ordinary citizens disregarded their own personal safety to bond together and overthrow their terrorist captors. 90 min. DVD 5524
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- Four Days in September (O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) (Brazil / USA, 1997)
- Directed by Bruno Barreto. Cast: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Claudia Abreu, Luiz Fernando Guimaraes, Caroline Kava, Fisher Stevens. Based on true life events, political terrorists in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance, helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate and his fear of the captors themselves! 107 min. DVD 1334
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- Friends (South Africa / UK / France, 1993)
- Director, Elaine Proctor. Cast: Kerry Fox, Dambisa Kente, Michele Burgers. Passion and politics mix in this drama set in South Africa about three young women, Sophie, a white political activist, Thoko, a black school teacher, and Annika, a Afrikaner archaeologist, all close friends. But their friendship is severly tested when Sophie plants a bomb that accidentally kills two innocent people. 105 min. 999:3027
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- Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst) (West Germany, 1978)
- Directors: Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rup?, Volker Schl?ndorff, Peter Schubert, and
Bernhard Sinkel. A collective film chronicling seven weeks of political terrorism by the Red Army Faction and political repression in Germany during the fall of 1977. It begins with the kidnap and murder of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer and ends with the deaths of three imprisoned Baader-Meinhof terrorists. Includes the work of many of Germany's top directors. 126 min. DVD 8166; vhs 999:1799
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- Good Morning, Night (Buongiorno, notte) (Italy, 2003)
- Directed by Marco Bellocchio. Cast: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Robert Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Giovanni Calcagno. A young woman, Chiara, moves into a new apartment with her husband. She conceals her true identity as a member of the Red Brigades, Italy's terrorist underground, which is currently planning to kidnap the Prime Minister. Based upon true events in 1978, the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. 103 min. DVD 5557
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- The Hamburg Cell (TV, 2004)
- Directed by Antonia Bird. Cast: Karim Saleh, Kamel, Omar Berdouni. A dramatization of events focused on the hijackers leading up to the September 11th Twin Towers attack. A chilling drama based on exhaustive research, including personal interviews, unpublished correspondence, and the official 9/11 Commission report. 185 min. 999:2052
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- Homeland Security (2004)
- Directed by Daniel Sackheim. Cast: Scott Glenn, Tom Skerritt, Grant Show, Marisol Nichols, Kal Penn, Ross Gibby, Leland Orser, Stephi Lineburg, Beth Broderick, Nicholas Guilak. A riveting fictionalization of the events leading up to and following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the formation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 87 min. DVD 4378
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- In the Name of the Father (Ireland / UK, 1993)
- Directed by Jim Sheridan. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Terry George and Jim Sheridan. The fact-based story of Gerry Conlon, a petty thief from Belfast. When he angers the IRA, his father sends him to England where, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, he is accused of a terrorist bombing and forced to confess. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison as members of the "Guildford Four". Behind bars, Gerry works for 15 years with the help of a dedicated lawyer, to clear their names. Based on the autobiographical book Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon. 185 min. 999:2052
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- Die innere Sicherheit (Germany, 1965)
- Directed by Christian Petzold. Cast: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Muller, Bilge Bingul. Together with their adolescent daughter, two former terrorists have been living underground in Portugal for years. Complications arise when their daughter falls in love and the family's secret life is revealed. On the run, they return to Germany where the parents end up robbing a bank. 105 min. DVD 3647
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- Journeys from Berlin, 1971
- Directed by Yvonne Rainer. In her first color film, Rainer explores the ramifications of terrorism, a subject which dominated Berlin in the early 1970s. Rainer employs an extended therapy session--in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists who each have their back to the camera--to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. 125 min. 999:1773 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Karma (India, 1965)
- Directed by Subhash Ghai. Cast: Dilip Kumar, Nutan, Naseeruddin Shah, Jachie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Poonam Dhillon, Dara Singh, Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor. Rana, a prison warden and a strong and honest jailer, believes in the philosophy of criminal rehabilitation. Following his own beliefs and methods he plans a secret mission employing three death row inmates to infiltrate a terrorist camp. In Hindi with English subtitles. 178 min. DVD 2516
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- The Kingdon (USA / Germany, 2007)
- Directed by Peter Berg. Cast: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven.
A terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, causing an international incident to ignite. FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Fleury and his team discover that the Saudi authorities are suspicious and unwelcoming of the Americans into what they consider a local matter. The agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts. Luckily, the agents find a partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi, who helps them navigate royal politics and helps unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. Special features: Deleted scenes; character-by-character; the apartment shootout; constructing the freeway sequence; creating The Kingdom; history of The Kingdom: an interactive timeline; feature commentary with director Peter Berg. 110 min. DVD 9284
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- Little Drummer Girl (1984)
- Director, George Roy Hill. Cast: Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski. Charlie is a repertory actress and Palestinian sympathizer thrust into the world of international espionage. The cunning head of an Israeli counterspy group sees Charlie's politics and romantic vulnerability as the perfect trap for their quarry, the elusive Palestinian terrorist Khalil. 130 min. 999:2164
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- Lost Command (1966)
- Director, Mark Robson. Cast: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michele Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale. After Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Raspeguy leads his defeated and humiliated French army out of Indochina, he learns that he's been relieved of all command. A French Countess finagles a new position for him in Algeria and he persuades two wartime buddies to join him in shaping up a rag-tag unit. Raspeguy is forced to confront an Arab terrorist and launches a bloody battle against Segal's rebel forces. 130 min. DVD 1286
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- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob) (France / Italy, 1973)
- Director, Gerard Oury. Cast: Louis De Funes, Marcel Dalio, Suzy Delair.
Victor Pivert, a blustering, anti-Semitic French factory owner en route to his daughter's wedding, unwittingly stumbles on a group of Arab terrorists. After Victor is captured and escapes, he hides himself by dressing up as a rabbi, leading to one madcap situation after another. 100 min. DVD 2478
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- Munich (2005)
- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush. Inspired by real events, reveals the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. 164 min. DVD 5564
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- Nada (France / Italy, 1974)
- Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Fabio Testi, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Garrel, Michel Aumont, Lou Castel, Didier Kaminka, Viviane Romance. French terrorists kidnap the American ambassador, leaving dead and wounded in their wake. Soon they begin quarreling as to his fate, while the police purge suspects in an attempt to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the State and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict. 107 min. DVD 1735
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- Naseem (India, 1995)
- Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza. A family drama set in 1992 in the days preceding the demolition of the Babari Masjid by Hindu fanatics. Naseem is a schoolgirl in a middle-class Bombay Muslim family. She enjoys a warm relationship with her aged, grandfather who regales her with poetry and stories of life in pre-Independence Agra. With increasing horror the family watches the news of the build-up while the Naseem's brother tends towards terrorist measures of resistance, which pushes him towards Muslim fundamentalist circles. The film culminates with the death of the grandfather as the news of the mosque's destruction is received. In Hindi (without titles). 89 min. 999:2684 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Omagh (Ireland / UK, TV, 1989)
- Directed by Pete Travis. Cast: Gerard McSorley, Michelle Forbes, Brenda Fricker.
Based on true events, this drama concerns one father's search for justice in the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland. 106 min. DVD 6513
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- Paradise Now (Palestine, 2005 )
- Directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Cast: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhoum. The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions. The first Palestinian film to be nominated for an Academy Award. 91 min. DVD 4901
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- Patriot Games (1992)
- Director, Phillip Noyce. Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch. A former CIA analyst vacationing with his family in London helps thwart a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family and becomes the target of the terrorist whose brother he killed. 116 min. DVD 1255
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- Patty Hearst (1988)
- Director, Paul Schrader. Cast: Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long. Explores the crime/political/media story of the '70s: the kidnapping and mental torture of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army ... and her subsequent transformation into a gun-wielding revolutionary called Tania. Based on the book "Every secret thing" by Patricia Campbell Hearst with Alvin Moscow. 108 min. 999:3271
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- The Peacemaker (1997)
- Directed by Mimi Leder.Cast: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl. When a nuclear bomb goes missing in the former Soviet Union, a U.S. nuclear specialist and a Special Forces Colonel join forces to avert disaster. Putting aside their personal differences they track the last remaining warhead to the steps of the United Nations in this taut apocalyptic thriller.
124 min. DVD 1200
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- Prénom Carmen (First Name, Carmen) (France, 1983)
- Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent. Carmen, a member of a terrorist gang, seduces the hapless policeman who tries to arrest her during a bank robbery. Fleeing together, they hide out with her eccentric uncle until the restless Carmen leads them to an absurd doom. 85 min. DVD 9296; also DVD 626; vhs 999:2402
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- Rachida (Algeria / France, 2002)
- Director, Yamina Bachir. Cast: Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messadouen, Zaki Boulenafed, Amel Chouikh, Abdelkader Belmokadem.
Rachida lives and teaches in an old neighborhood in Algeria. Like most Algerians, she thinks she is far removed from the bloody conflict the country is in, until one day she is attacked by a terrorist group. The terrorists ask her to plant a bomb in her school. After refusing, they shoot her in cold blood. Miraculously, she lives and seeks refuge in a neighboring village.
100 min. DVD 8058
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- Raus aus der Haut (Shedding Skin) (Germany, TV, 1952)
- Directed by Andreas Dresen. In 1977, Anna and Marcus are two teenagers in East Germany undergoing punishment by their high school principal. Inspired by terrorist kidnappings in West Germany, they kidnap the principal and hold him hostage in Anna's grandmother's basement. Special features: Essay "Youth culture, terrorism, and German film history" ; an introduction to Andreas Dresen's films ; Interview with the director ; Director's biography and filmography ; Timeline: terrorism in West Germany, 1967-1968. 89 min. DVD 3717
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- The Road to Guantanamo (UK, 2006)
- Directed by Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross. Cast: Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul, Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddqui, Arfan Usman.
Four British muslims travel to Pakistan for a holiday and a wedding but become involved with the American forces fighting terrorism. This is the true story of the plight of a group of friends who later became known as the Tipton Three, who experienced first hand the conditions in Guantanamo Bay after being held for two years until they were released without charge. 05 min. DVD 6477
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- The Rock (1996)
- Directed by Michael Bay. Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe. A retired U.S. Marine general seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert and a former Alcatraz escapee team up to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out. 136 min. DVD 2241
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- Sabotage (UK, 1936)
- Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; featuring Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester. An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town. Based on the novel The secret agent by Joseph Conrad. 76 min. DVD 111; VHS 999:563
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- The Siege (1998)
- Directed by Edward Zwick. Cast: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, David Proval. The United States government abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law. Now it's up to FBI agent Hubbard and U.S. Army General Devereaux to find out who's responsible and to put an end to the destruction. Together, they face explosive danger at every turn in an all out war against ruthless terrorists. 116 min. DVD 1206
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- Sleeper Cell: The Enemy is Here(TV series, 2005)
- Cast: Michael Ealy, Oded Fehr, Henri Lubatti, Alex Nesic, Blake Shields, Melissa Sagemiller, Grant Heslov, James LeGros.
Go behind the veil of an U.S. home-grown terrorist group, tracking the harrowing challenges faced by an FBI agent determined to learn its secrets. Having posed as a prisoner inside a federal penitentiary, a young agent develops contacts that enable him to infiltrate an Islamic terrorist cell in Los Angeles. The cell is led by an intimidating, charismatic extremist, who considers all acts of violence moral when serving the greater good of his cause. But early in the investigation something goes wrong, placing lives, and the integrity of the mission, in serious jeopardy. Based on the characters created by Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris. Originally broadcast on Showtime in 2005.
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseSeason One, Disc 1 Part 1: Al-Faiha -- Part 2: Target -- Part 3: Money -- Part 4: Scholar. 228 min. DVD 7986
Season One, Disc 2 Part 5: Soldier -- Part 6: Family -- Part 7: Immigrant -- Part 8: Intramural. 226 min. DVD 7987
Season One, Disc 3 Part 9 & 10 (Two-hour season one series finale): Youmud din. Bonus features: Never-before-seen bonus features; making of the 10th episode; filmographies; producers commentary. 205 min. DVD 7988
Season Two, Disc 1: American Terror In this second season of the television drama Darwyn, a Muslim undercover agent for the FBI, finds that another terrorist cell in Southern California is planning an attack deadlier than the first. Farik escapes out of the country and is directing another cell. Contents: Al-Baqara -- Salesman -- Torture. Originally broadcast on Showtime in 2006. 171 min. DVD 7989
Season Two, Disc 2: American Terror Contents: Faith -- Home -- School. Originally broadcast on Showtime in 2006. 167 min. DVD 7990
Season Two, Disc 3: American Terror Contents: Fitna -- Reunion -- Special features. Originally broadcast on Showtime in 2006. 167 min. DVD 7991
- Stammheim: Baader-Meinhof vor Gericht (1986, in German)
- Directed by Reinhard Hauff. A powerful depiction of events that split a country, this movie was equally controversial. Based on the well-publicized Baader-Meinhof terrorists, it concerns five terrorists who were brought to trial and accused of the murder of four U.S. servicemen in Germany. The trial was almost a travesty in that the presiding judge was removed and defense attorneys and prosecutors switched with almost daily regularity during the long and complicated court battle. PAL format. (In German.) 103 min. 999:2788
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- State of Seige (État de siège) (France / West Germany / Italy, 1973)
- Directed by Costa Gavras. A drama based on the true story of the interrogation and execution of CIA agent Dan Mitrione by urban guerillas, the Tupamoros of Uruguay. Kidnapped by the revolutionaries, Mitrone who had been training the country's police in sophisticated counter-insurgency and torture techniques, was held hostage in exchange for the release of political prisoners. Shot in Chile with the approval of President Allende shortly before his assassination, the film was the first to detail the uglier side of the kind of paramilitary training that the U.S. has often performed for its allies. 120 min. 999:3237 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Die Stille nach dem Schuß (The Legend of Rita) (Germany, 1999)
- Director, Volker Schlondorff. This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism. 101 min. DVD 1095
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- Summer Night (Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico) (Italy, 1986)
- Directed by Lina Wertmuller. Cast: Marangela Melato, Michele Placido, Massimo Wertmuller, Roberto Herlitzka. Signora Bolk, a self-made rich-bitch billionairess, fed up with the terrorists who poach Italy hires a former CIA agent to kidnap the lead violator. While in captivity and blindfolded the man discovers that one of the women who kidnapped him agrees to pay the ransom but only with a twist. 98 min. DVD 4417
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- Swiri (Shiri) (South Korea, 1999)
- Directed by Je-gyu Kang. Cast: Cast: Han S?ok-kyu, Ch?oe Min-sik, Song Kang-ho, Kim Yun-jin.
A phantom sniper is methodically assassinating key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee, as being responsible. When a security breach prompts the theft of a high-tech liquid explosive, CTX, from the South Korean authorities, Rhy and Lee are certain there's a mole within their ranks. 120 min. DVD 1493
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- Team America: World Police (2004)
- Directed by Trey Parker. A biting send-up of big-budget action movies utilizing marionette puppets in lieu of computer generated images to breath life into a group of heroic figures who span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to stop the dictator's peace conference, which is a ruse to allow him to attack the world with his weapons of mass destruction? Voices: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Masasa, Daran Morris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche, Chelsea Marquerite, Jeremy Sheba. 98 min. DVD 4071 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The Terrorist (India, 1999)
- Directed by Santosh Sivan. Inspired by the events surrounding the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi, the film focuses on the making of a suicide bomber marching toward the end of her life. Malli, a hardened, trained killer wins the coveted bomber position. However, the path to the assassination allows her to examine her own emotions for the first time. In meditation she reflects on a moment of true love that places her at a psychological divide as she contemplates her future. 95 min. DVD 1037; vhs 999:3209 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Todesspiel(Germany, TV, 1997)
- Directed by Heinrich Breloer. In August 1977 in Germany RAF terrorists kidnapped businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer and demanded the release of incarcerated RAF terrorists. The terrorists also hijacked the Lufthansa jet "Landshut" with 86 passengers on board, with a final showdown at the Mogadishu Airport. A thrilling documentary with fictional elements based on the true story with interviews by the people who were involved. In German with occasional English with German subtitles. A film by Heinrich Breloer. 1997. 177 min. DVD 4568 DD> Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- True Lies (1994)
- Directed by James Cameron. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere. Marital problems arise for an international spy, who works for a top-secret government agency while pretending to be a computer salesman. Together he, his wife and their daughter foil the nefarious schemes of Middle Eastern nuclear terrorists and rescue their marriage.141 min. DVD 8422; vhs 999:1929 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseMovie Review Query Engine
- "James Cameron." (Arab-Americans demonstrated against the director's film 'True Lies' because of its negative portrayal of Arabs) (Brief Article) Facts on File v54, n2822 (Dec 31, 1994):1015.
Hanania, Ray. "One of the Bad Guys?" (November 2, 1998), p. 14
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- Underground Zero (2001)
- A collaborative film project comprised of a collection of short films by a variety of experimental and documentary filmmakers in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Main program : The End of summer (3 min.) / Frazer Bradshaw -- Voice of the prophet (7 min.) / Robert Edwards -- China diary (911) (12 min.) / Eva Brzeski -- Isaiah's rap (3 min.) / Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman -- Brief encounter with Tibetan monks (5 min.) / Paul Harrill -- Scene from an endless war (2 min.) / Norman Cowie -- The World is a classroom (14 min.) / Caveh Zahedi -- A Strange mourning (5 min.) / David Driver -- 21 (3 min.) / Laura Plotkin -- Carefully taught (4 min.) / Valerie Soe -- World as we know it (4 min.) / John Haptas & Kristine Samuelson -- Prayer (3 min.) / Jay Rosenblatt -- Untitled (6 min.) / Ira Sachs. Program two: New York (6 min.) / Chel White -- Brooklyn promenade (3 min.) / Mark Street -- Both towers have fallen (2 min.) / Cathy Cook -- No news (4 min.) / Bushra Azzouz -- Parthenogenesis (2 min.) / Marina Zurkow -- Language lessons (9 min.) / Jeanne C. Finley & John Muse -- End of an era (6 min.) / Lucas Sabean -- Meal (4 min.) -- Cathy Crane & Sarah Lewison -- Collateral damage (3 min.) / Marcia Jarmel -- Drink from the river (3 min.) / Thad Povery & The Scratch Film Junkies -- Fear itself (3 min.) / Dan Weir -- Wake (4 min.) / Abigail Severance & Julia Inez Gandelsonas -- Awake (1 min.) / Greg Watkins -- 9/10 (8 min.) / Thomas Logoreci. 111 min. DVD 2154
- United 93 (2006)
- Directed by Paul Greengrass. Cast: Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin, Gary Commock, Nancy McDoniel, David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert. Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able to discern that this is no mere hijacking. While the real events that caused the ultimate crash of the plane can never be known, the events depicted would appear to be as might be expected. The scariest part of the film is the unpreparedness of the FAA and the military in dealing with the situation. 111 min. DVD 6134 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Cooper, Rand Richards. "Lost: 'UNITED 93'." Commonweal 133.11 (June 2, 2006): 21(2).
Hoberman, J. "Unquiet America." Sight and Sound 16.10 (Oct 2006): 20(4).
Lewis, Michael J. "Hollywood does 9/11." (United 93)(World Trade Center)(On Native Soil)(Critical essay) Commentary 122.3 (Oct 2006): p40(6). (3963 words) UC users only
Tubrett, Dion. "Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the domestic terror of pedophilia." CineAction 70 (Summer 2006): 51(8).
- Ein Virus Kennt Keine Moral (A Virus Knows No Morals) (West Germany, 1985)
- Directed by Rosa von Praunheim. An irreverent black comedy on the AIDS crisis. Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next; the owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits; an epidemic victim is harassed by a reporter on his death bed and sticks her with a contaminated syringe; the government opens a quarantine called Hell Gay Land and gay terrorists kidnap the Minister of Health. 84 min. 999:2892 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- The War Within (2005)
- Directed by Joseph Castelo. Cast: Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji, Nandana Sen, Sarita Choudhury, Charles Daniel Sandoval, John Ventimiglia. Hassan, a Pakistani engineering student in Paris is imprisoned and interrogated by Western intelligence services for suspected terrorist activities. Innocent of the charges, by the time he is released, his attitudes about the West have changed and in time he begins to identify with terrorists with whom he had been unwittingly associated. He renounces his old life, joins a radical group and illegally slips into New York with the aim of staging a major terrorist action. What unfolds is a profound human and political drama as we tensely observe the state of mind of a suicide bomber. 93 min. DVD 5120
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- World Trade Center (2006)
- Directed by Oliver Stone. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pe~na, Maggie Gyllenhall, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Donna Murphy, Frank Whaley.
The true story of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, who volunteered for rescue duty and became trapped in the rubble of the Towers on September 11, 2001. The men became two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero. It is a story of the true heroes and of that fateful time in United States history, when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally from the ashes to inspire the entire human race. 128 min. DVD DVD 7105
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- Hoberman, J. "Unquiet America." Sight and Sound 16.10 (Oct 2006): 20(4).
Lewis, Michael J. "Hollywood does 9/11." (United 93)(World Trade Center)(On Native Soil)(Critical essay) Commentary 122.3 (Oct 2006): p40(6). (3963 words) UC users only
Tubrett, Dion. "Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the domestic terror of pedophilia." CineAction 70 (Summer 2006): 51(8).
- Zero Day (2003)
- Directed by Oliver Stone. Cast: Calvin Robertson, Andre Keuck, Gerhard Keuck, Johanne Keuck, Pam Robertson, Steve Robertson, Christopher Coccio, Rachel Benichank, Eric Robertson, Madelyn Robertson.
"We are the Army of Two!" So begins the video diary of Andre and Cal, two ordinary, alienated high school students who have meticulously planned a "big-ass mission" that will shock and terrify their community. They have officially declared war, stockpiled their weapons, and set the day for destruction. Now, "let the countdown begin." The two teenagers decide to stage a Columbine-style assault against their high school. The film presents their story in the form of video diaries which are found after the fact, using a mix of actors and real students to create a sense of reality. 92 min. DVD DVD 3749
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