Bigger than the legend
Peace. Love. Humanity ... Not In This Movie
The First Film Shot Outside the Realms of Good and Evil
I Have So Much Hate to Show You!
Daniel: I don't think overexposure to cinematic violence is what causes societies ills. I think it's underexposure to the real violence that underpins every aspect of human existence.::Isabelle Jarmen: What violence are you talking about?::Daniel: For instance, Isabelle, you're going to have chicken for dinner tonight. Did you have to ring the bird's neck? Did you have to pull the feathers out of its carcass? Did you have to roast its dead flesh? Of course not... If you want a hamburger you go and get a clown to kill a cow for you. Because you don't have to personally dirty your hands. You can pretend you're not a part of the process of murder. but everybody is, and that's why people don't understand violence. They don't understand its purpose or its function. You know I might not be too wise about a lot of things, but there are a couple of things I know for sure.::Anthony Hart: And they are?::Daniel: One: is that I love violence. I love watching it, I love movies with violence and I refuse to watch any movies that don't have violence in it. Number two is that I want you to shut your fucking mouth so we can relax, have a nice meal and watch a movie, okay? More wine anyone?::Isabelle Jarmen: No thanks...::Daniel: [fills Isabelle's glass anyway]
Daniel: Star Trek? Doctor Who shits all over Star Trek!
Plot
Captain Eo and his rugged crew set out on a mission to deliver a special gift to a wicked queen who lives on a dark, desolate world. Getting there is half the fun, especially when the good captain starts boogying and the special effects start flying.
Keywords: 3-dimensional, 70mm-film, character-name-in-title, disney-park-attraction, space-hero, space-monster, space-travel, spacecraft-officer, spacecraft-pilot, special-venue
We are here to change the world!
[first lines]::Narrator: The Cosmos, a universe of good and evil, where a small group struggles to bring freedom to the countless worlds of despair. A rag-tag band lead by the infamous Captain EO.
Major Domo: Don't panic! That's what got us into trouble the last time!
Captain EO: We've reached the homing beacon, sir.::Commander Bog: Well, so far, so good, Captain EO. I must admit, I am a bit surprised after the mess you made out of your last mission. But now that you've found the beacon, take the map, find the Supreme Leader, and give her the gift. You do have the map, don't you?::Odee: No problem.::Idee: No problem, sir. We've got it right here.::Commander Bog: Then, get going! [his transmission ends]::Idee: Boy, do we have a problem.::Odee: We'll never find a supreme leader without a map.
Hooter: Ah-ah-Achoo!::Captain EO: Hooter, be quiet! You're going to get us killed!::Hooter: I couldn't help it. [grabs some junk and puts it on him]::Captain EO: Hooter...::Hooter: I'm disguising myself.::Captain EO: Hooter, listen, put it back and let's go.::[Hooter puts it on anyway]::Captain EO: Don't be silly.::Hooter: I gotta have a disguise.
Idee: Who is it?::Major Domo: The Supreme Leader.::Hooter: I told you I'd find her.::The Supreme Leader: Silence!... Infidels!::Hooter: Infidels?::The Supreme Leader: You infect my world with your presence! Turn the others into... trash cans!::Hooter: [turns to leave] See ya later, trashcans!
Captain EO: We have come here uninvited and unannounced.::The Supreme Leader: So... then we both admit to your... stupidity! Why have you come?::Captain EO: To bring a gift, your highness. To someone as beautiful as you.::The Supreme Leader: You?... Think me beautiful?::Captain EO: Very beautiful within, your highness, but without a key to unlock it, and that is my gift to you.::The Supreme Leader: So... let me see this gift!::Captain EO: Not only see, your highness... but hear.
Captain EO: Now listen, the command considers us a bunch of losers, but we're gonna do it right because we're the best. If not, we'll be drummed out of the corps.
Major Domo: Sir, the ship is in no condition to go into battle. I thought we might start by cleaning Hooter's bunk.::Hooter: Rust bucket!
Captain EO: Somebody get the map. Where's the map?::Idee: Who's got the map?::Odee: Fuzzball?::Fuzzball: Hooter has it.::Major Domo: Hooter has it!::Captain EO: Hooter!::Hooter: I think I ate it!::Idee, Odee: You ate it?
Plot
In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ancient-rome, ancient-world, antiquity, arena, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bathing, battle, battlefield
They trained him to kill for their pleasure. . .but they trained him a little too well. . .
It roars with fierce excitement!
The thrilling adventure that electrified the world!
More titanic than any story ever told!
[last words]::[looking at two daggers, picks one]::Gracchus: Prettier...
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Great merciful bloodstained gods! Your pardon.
Spartacus: And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.
Batiatus: A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself.
Gracchus: This republic of ours is something like a rich widow. Most Romans love her as their mother but Crassus dreams of marrying the old girl to put it politely.
Spartacus: What's your name?::Draba: You don't want to know my name. I don't want to know your name.::Spartacus: Just a friendly question.::Draba: Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.
Gracchus: You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?
Batiatus: Come with us. See to it I don't misuse the money.::Gracchus: Don't be ridiculous. I'm a Senator.
Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?::Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.
Batiatus: Good luck, and may fortune smile upon... most of you.
Plot
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'.
Keywords: 13th-century-b.c., act-of-god, adoption, afi, ancient-egypt, armor, arranged-marriage, barefoot, based-on-novel, based-on-the-bible
The Greatest Event in Motion Picture History
It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a God.
Paramount Pictures is proud to announce the return of the greatest motion picture of all time! (1966 re-release)
Moses: No son could have more love for you than I.::Sethi: Then why are you forcing me to destroy you? What evil has done this to you?::Moses: The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength - only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.
Sethi: Harden yourself against subordinates. Have no friend. Trust no woman.
Nefretiri: [approaches Rameses as he is praying to an idol, over their dead son] How many more days and nights will you pray? Does he hear you?::Rameses: [praying] Dread Lord of Darkness, I have raised my voice to you, yet life has not come to the body of my son. Hear me!::Nefretiri: He cannot hear you. He's nothing but a piece of stone with the head of a bird.::Rameses: He will hear me. For I am Egypt.::Nefretiri: Egypt? You are nothing. You let Moses kill my son. No god can bring him back. What have you done to Moses? How did he die? Did he cry for mercy when you tortured him? Bring me to his body! I want to see it, Rameses! I want to see it!::Rameses: This is my son. He would have been Pharaoh. He would have ruled the world. Who mourns him now? Not even you. All you can think of is Moses. You will not see his body. I drove him out of Egypt. I cannot fight the power of his God.::Nefretiri: His God? The priests say that Pharaoh is a god, but you are not a god. You are even less than a man. Listen to me, Rameses. You thought I was evil when I went to Moses, and you were right. Shall I tell you what happened, Rameses? He spurned me like a strumpet in the street. I, Nefretiri, Queen of Egypt. All that you wanted from me he would not even take. Do you hear laughter, Pharaoh? Not the laughter of kings, but the laughter of slaves on the desert!::Rameses: [after hearing the word "laughter," he immediately became irate] Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment! They shall remember the name of Moses, only that he died under my chariot wheels!::Nefretiri: [Rameses then threw Nefretiri down and clanged the gong, Nefreteri still lying on ground] Kill him with your own hands.
Bithiah: A conquerer, already conquered?::Moses: The first face I look for and the last I find.::[as Moses saw Bithiah, he knelt to her, to honor her]::Moses: Mother!::Bithiah: I was thanking the gods for your safe return. But I find you in grave danger here.::Moses: An intoxicating danger, mother.::Bithiah: Marry her if you can, my son, but never fall in love with her.::Nefretiri: Oh, I'll be less trouble to him than the Hebrew slaves of Goshen.::Bithiah: Goshen?
Sethi: With so many slaves, you could build an army.::Moses: But I have built a city. These lions of Pharaoh will guard its gates, and it shall be the city of Sethi's glory.::Sethi: Are the slaves loyal to Sethi's glory or to you, Moses?::Moses: The slaves worship their God. And I serve only you.
Yochabel: Why have you come here?::Bithiah: Because Moses will come here.::Yochabel: My son?::Bithiah: No, my son! That's all he must know.::Yochabel: My lips might deny him, Great One, but my eyes never could.::Bithiah: You will leave Goshen, you and your family, tonight.::Yochabel: We are Levites, appointed shepherds of Israel. We cannot leave our people.::Bithiah: Would you take from Moses all that I have given him? Would you undo all that I have done for him? I have put the throne of Egypt within his reach! What can you give him in return?::Yochabel: I gave him life.::Bithiah: I gave him love!
Bithiah: They're going away, Moses, and the secret's going with them. No one need ever know the shame I brought upon you.::Moses: Shame? What change is there in me? Egyptian or Hebrew, I am still Moses. These are the same hands, the same arms, the same face that was mine a moment ago.::Yochabel: A moment ago you were her son, the strength of Egypt. Now you are my son, a slave of Egypt. You find no shame in this?::Moses: If there is no shame in me, how can I feel shame for the woman who bore me, or the race that bred me?
Yochabel: [Yochabel's last line, were said in deep joy] God of our fathers, who has appointed an end to the bondage of Israel, blessed am I among all mothers in the land, for my eyes have beheld Thy deliverer.
Sethi: Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
Jethro: You have come far.::Moses: From Egypt.::Jethro: Across the desert on foot? He who has no name surely guided your steps.::Moses: No name? You Bedouins know the god of Abraham?::Jethro: Abraham is the father of many nations. We are the children of Ishmael, his firstborn. We are the obedient of God.::Moses: My people look to him for deliverance... but they are still in bondage.
Plot
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'.
Keywords: 13th-century-b.c., act-of-god, adoption, afi, ancient-egypt, armor, arranged-marriage, barefoot, based-on-novel, based-on-the-bible
The Greatest Event in Motion Picture History
It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a God.
Paramount Pictures is proud to announce the return of the greatest motion picture of all time! (1966 re-release)
Moses: No son could have more love for you than I.::Sethi: Then why are you forcing me to destroy you? What evil has done this to you?::Moses: The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength - only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.
Sethi: Harden yourself against subordinates. Have no friend. Trust no woman.
Nefretiri: [approaches Rameses as he is praying to an idol, over their dead son] How many more days and nights will you pray? Does he hear you?::Rameses: [praying] Dread Lord of Darkness, I have raised my voice to you, yet life has not come to the body of my son. Hear me!::Nefretiri: He cannot hear you. He's nothing but a piece of stone with the head of a bird.::Rameses: He will hear me. For I am Egypt.::Nefretiri: Egypt? You are nothing. You let Moses kill my son. No god can bring him back. What have you done to Moses? How did he die? Did he cry for mercy when you tortured him? Bring me to his body! I want to see it, Rameses! I want to see it!::Rameses: This is my son. He would have been Pharaoh. He would have ruled the world. Who mourns him now? Not even you. All you can think of is Moses. You will not see his body. I drove him out of Egypt. I cannot fight the power of his God.::Nefretiri: His God? The priests say that Pharaoh is a god, but you are not a god. You are even less than a man. Listen to me, Rameses. You thought I was evil when I went to Moses, and you were right. Shall I tell you what happened, Rameses? He spurned me like a strumpet in the street. I, Nefretiri, Queen of Egypt. All that you wanted from me he would not even take. Do you hear laughter, Pharaoh? Not the laughter of kings, but the laughter of slaves on the desert!::Rameses: [after hearing the word "laughter," he immediately became irate] Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment! They shall remember the name of Moses, only that he died under my chariot wheels!::Nefretiri: [Rameses then threw Nefretiri down and clanged the gong, Nefreteri still lying on ground] Kill him with your own hands.
Bithiah: A conquerer, already conquered?::Moses: The first face I look for and the last I find.::[as Moses saw Bithiah, he knelt to her, to honor her]::Moses: Mother!::Bithiah: I was thanking the gods for your safe return. But I find you in grave danger here.::Moses: An intoxicating danger, mother.::Bithiah: Marry her if you can, my son, but never fall in love with her.::Nefretiri: Oh, I'll be less trouble to him than the Hebrew slaves of Goshen.::Bithiah: Goshen?
Sethi: With so many slaves, you could build an army.::Moses: But I have built a city. These lions of Pharaoh will guard its gates, and it shall be the city of Sethi's glory.::Sethi: Are the slaves loyal to Sethi's glory or to you, Moses?::Moses: The slaves worship their God. And I serve only you.
Yochabel: Why have you come here?::Bithiah: Because Moses will come here.::Yochabel: My son?::Bithiah: No, my son! That's all he must know.::Yochabel: My lips might deny him, Great One, but my eyes never could.::Bithiah: You will leave Goshen, you and your family, tonight.::Yochabel: We are Levites, appointed shepherds of Israel. We cannot leave our people.::Bithiah: Would you take from Moses all that I have given him? Would you undo all that I have done for him? I have put the throne of Egypt within his reach! What can you give him in return?::Yochabel: I gave him life.::Bithiah: I gave him love!
Bithiah: They're going away, Moses, and the secret's going with them. No one need ever know the shame I brought upon you.::Moses: Shame? What change is there in me? Egyptian or Hebrew, I am still Moses. These are the same hands, the same arms, the same face that was mine a moment ago.::Yochabel: A moment ago you were her son, the strength of Egypt. Now you are my son, a slave of Egypt. You find no shame in this?::Moses: If there is no shame in me, how can I feel shame for the woman who bore me, or the race that bred me?
Yochabel: [Yochabel's last line, were said in deep joy] God of our fathers, who has appointed an end to the bondage of Israel, blessed am I among all mothers in the land, for my eyes have beheld Thy deliverer.
Sethi: Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
Jethro: You have come far.::Moses: From Egypt.::Jethro: Across the desert on foot? He who has no name surely guided your steps.::Moses: No name? You Bedouins know the god of Abraham?::Jethro: Abraham is the father of many nations. We are the children of Ishmael, his firstborn. We are the obedient of God.::Moses: My people look to him for deliverance... but they are still in bondage.
Plot
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'.
Keywords: 13th-century-b.c., act-of-god, adoption, afi, ancient-egypt, armor, arranged-marriage, barefoot, based-on-novel, based-on-the-bible
The Greatest Event in Motion Picture History
It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a God.
Paramount Pictures is proud to announce the return of the greatest motion picture of all time! (1966 re-release)
Moses: No son could have more love for you than I.::Sethi: Then why are you forcing me to destroy you? What evil has done this to you?::Moses: The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength - only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.
Sethi: Harden yourself against subordinates. Have no friend. Trust no woman.
Nefretiri: [approaches Rameses as he is praying to an idol, over their dead son] How many more days and nights will you pray? Does he hear you?::Rameses: [praying] Dread Lord of Darkness, I have raised my voice to you, yet life has not come to the body of my son. Hear me!::Nefretiri: He cannot hear you. He's nothing but a piece of stone with the head of a bird.::Rameses: He will hear me. For I am Egypt.::Nefretiri: Egypt? You are nothing. You let Moses kill my son. No god can bring him back. What have you done to Moses? How did he die? Did he cry for mercy when you tortured him? Bring me to his body! I want to see it, Rameses! I want to see it!::Rameses: This is my son. He would have been Pharaoh. He would have ruled the world. Who mourns him now? Not even you. All you can think of is Moses. You will not see his body. I drove him out of Egypt. I cannot fight the power of his God.::Nefretiri: His God? The priests say that Pharaoh is a god, but you are not a god. You are even less than a man. Listen to me, Rameses. You thought I was evil when I went to Moses, and you were right. Shall I tell you what happened, Rameses? He spurned me like a strumpet in the street. I, Nefretiri, Queen of Egypt. All that you wanted from me he would not even take. Do you hear laughter, Pharaoh? Not the laughter of kings, but the laughter of slaves on the desert!::Rameses: [after hearing the word "laughter," he immediately became irate] Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment! They shall remember the name of Moses, only that he died under my chariot wheels!::Nefretiri: [Rameses then threw Nefretiri down and clanged the gong, Nefreteri still lying on ground] Kill him with your own hands.
Bithiah: A conquerer, already conquered?::Moses: The first face I look for and the last I find.::[as Moses saw Bithiah, he knelt to her, to honor her]::Moses: Mother!::Bithiah: I was thanking the gods for your safe return. But I find you in grave danger here.::Moses: An intoxicating danger, mother.::Bithiah: Marry her if you can, my son, but never fall in love with her.::Nefretiri: Oh, I'll be less trouble to him than the Hebrew slaves of Goshen.::Bithiah: Goshen?
Sethi: With so many slaves, you could build an army.::Moses: But I have built a city. These lions of Pharaoh will guard its gates, and it shall be the city of Sethi's glory.::Sethi: Are the slaves loyal to Sethi's glory or to you, Moses?::Moses: The slaves worship their God. And I serve only you.
Yochabel: Why have you come here?::Bithiah: Because Moses will come here.::Yochabel: My son?::Bithiah: No, my son! That's all he must know.::Yochabel: My lips might deny him, Great One, but my eyes never could.::Bithiah: You will leave Goshen, you and your family, tonight.::Yochabel: We are Levites, appointed shepherds of Israel. We cannot leave our people.::Bithiah: Would you take from Moses all that I have given him? Would you undo all that I have done for him? I have put the throne of Egypt within his reach! What can you give him in return?::Yochabel: I gave him life.::Bithiah: I gave him love!
Bithiah: They're going away, Moses, and the secret's going with them. No one need ever know the shame I brought upon you.::Moses: Shame? What change is there in me? Egyptian or Hebrew, I am still Moses. These are the same hands, the same arms, the same face that was mine a moment ago.::Yochabel: A moment ago you were her son, the strength of Egypt. Now you are my son, a slave of Egypt. You find no shame in this?::Moses: If there is no shame in me, how can I feel shame for the woman who bore me, or the race that bred me?
Yochabel: [Yochabel's last line, were said in deep joy] God of our fathers, who has appointed an end to the bondage of Israel, blessed am I among all mothers in the land, for my eyes have beheld Thy deliverer.
Sethi: Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
Jethro: You have come far.::Moses: From Egypt.::Jethro: Across the desert on foot? He who has no name surely guided your steps.::Moses: No name? You Bedouins know the god of Abraham?::Jethro: Abraham is the father of many nations. We are the children of Ishmael, his firstborn. We are the obedient of God.::Moses: My people look to him for deliverance... but they are still in bondage.
Plot
In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. In Virginia, heroic Capt. Holden buys her, intending to free her, but villain Garth foils this plan, and Abby toils at Dave Bone's tavern. Garth is fomenting an Indian uprising to clear the wilderness of settlers, giving him a monopoly of the fur trade. Holden discovers Garth's treachery, but cannot prove anything against him. Can Holden and Abby save Fort Pitt from the Senecas? Many hairbreadth escapes.
Keywords: 1760s, allegheny-mountains, based-on-novel, blacksmith, bondage, canoe, chief-pontiac, colonial-america, compass, epic
Crimson-haired slave girl . . . desired by a man of destiny! Together they shared the thrills of the most daring spectacle De Mille ever filmed !
THEY LIVE AGAIN! DAUNTLESS MEN and WOMEN WHO KEPT AMERICA UNCONQUERED! (original ad - almost all caps)
I bought this woman for my own..and I'll kill the man who touches her!
From A People Like This Came America's Heritage. In A Story Like This Lies America's Greatness!
Lord Chief Justice: Slavery in the colonies or the gallows here? Speak up, girl! Which is it to be?::Abigail 'Abby' Martha Hale: [Resignedly] Slavery, My Lord.
Shopkeeper at the ball: You can't burn my place! It took me two years to build that store!::Capt. Christopher Holden: It'll take you all eternity to grow a new scalp.
Martin Garth: The King's Law moves with the king's muskets, and there are very few King's muskets west of the alleghenies.
John Fraser - blacksmith: I don't know what the Good Lord was about when he made a female out of a perfectly good rib.
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by many societies; in more recent times slavery has been outlawed in most societies but continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.
Slavery predates written records and has existed in many cultures. The number of slaves today is higher than at any point in history, remaining as high as 12 million to 27 million, Most are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generations.Human trafficking is primarily used for forcing women and children into sex industries.
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999, which became the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist. During her first decade in the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s, and became the 'best-selling teen aged artist of all time' before she turned 20, garnering her the honorific title of "Princess of Pop".
Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States. He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged. In the aftermath, the state executed 56 blacks accused of being part of Turner's slave rebellion. Two hundred blacks were also beaten and killed by white militias and mobs reacting with violence. Across Virginia and other southern states, state legislators passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free blacks, restricting rights of assembly and other civil rights for free blacks, and requiring white ministers to be present at black worship services.
At birth, Turner's owner recorded only his given name, Nat, although he may have had a last name within the slave community. In accordance with common practice, the whites referred to him by the last name of his owner, Benjamin Turner. This practice was continued by historians. Turner knew little about the background of his father, who was believed to have escaped from slavery when Turner was a young boy. Turner remained close to his paternal grandmother, Old Bridget, who was also enslaved by Benjamin Turner. Turner's maternal grandmother was one of the Coromantee from present day Ghana, a group known for slave revolts. She was captured in Africa at thirteen years of age and shipped to America.