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Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression by invading Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.
After working in business and local government and after a short spell as Director of National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father and older half-brother in becoming a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election at age 49. He declined a junior ministerial position, remaining a backbencher until 1922. He was rapidly promoted in 1923 to Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer. After a short Labour-led government, he returned as Minister of Health, introducing a range of reform measures from 1924 to 1929. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the National Government in 1931.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
Actors: Erin Fitzgerald (actress), Daran Norris (actor), Jambareeqi (actor), Jambareeqi (writer), Jambareeqi (director), Jambareeqi (editor), Susan Sheridan (actress), Melvyn Ternan (miscellaneous crew), Greg Boulton (miscellaneous crew), Wendy McLoughlin (miscellaneous crew), Kristen Archer (actress), Margaret Cackett (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Animation, Drama, Short, War,Actors: Sam Cox (actor), Simon Lee Phillips (actor), David Anthony Thomas (producer), David Anthony Thomas (director), David Anthony Thomas (writer), Roger Parrott (actor), Andy Done Johnson (actor), Chris Tritschler (editor), Christopher Goulding (actor), David Bowen (actor), Casey Brady (composer), Garry Allsopp (editor), Claudia Mayr (editor), Jennifer Johnson (costume designer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Claire Bloom (actress), Bob Weinstein (producer), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Timothy Spall (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Geoffrey Rush (producer), Guy Pearce (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Colin Firth (actor), Anthony Andrews (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Alexandre Desplat (composer), Harvey Weinstein (producer),
Plot: Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Keywords: 1930s, abdication, apostrophe-in-title, archbishop-of-canterbury, australian, biplane, britain, british-royal-family, bromance, brother-brother-relationshipActors: Janet McTeer (actress), Ridley Scott (producer), Len Cariou (actor), Donald Sumpter (actor), Iain Glen (actor), Jack Shepherd (actor), Aleksey Petrenko (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Robert Pugh (actor), Bill Paterson (actor), Patrick Malahide (actor), Brendan Gleeson (actor), David M. Thompson (producer), Tony Scott (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,Actors: Christopher McDonald (actor), Dennis Hopper (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), David Alan Grier (actor), Robert Davi (actor), Zachary Levi (actor), Kevin P. Farley (actor), David Cohen (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), Gary Coleman (actor), Chriss Anglin (actor), Trace Adkins (actor), Trace Adkins (actor), Leslie Nielsen (actor), Joey Naber (actor),
Plot: At a July 4 barbecue, gramps tells the kids the story of Michael Malone, a documentary filmmaker and Michael Moore look-alike who hates America and wants to abolish July 4th. He refuses to celebrate with his nephew Josh, who's shipping out soon to the Middle East. That night, Michel has a vision of his hero, JFK, who predicts that three ghosts will visit Michael. Sure enough, General Patton, George Washington, and country music star Trace Adkins visit Michael show him the fruits of patriotism, just wars, and pacifism. Meanwhile, Arab terrorists want Malone to help them with a propaganda film. Is he the next Leni Riefenstahl or will he see the light?
Keywords: absurdism, afghanistan, ak-47, american-flag, anti-americanism, anvil, arab-stereotype, award, award-ceremony, banjoActors: Cindy Baer (actress), Annette O'Toole (actress), Steven Weber (actor), John H. Tobin (actor), Eddie Jones (actor), Campbell Scott (actor), Pat Hingle (actor), Casey Affleck (actor), Olek Krupa (actor), Josef Sommer (actor), Thomas Gibson (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Charles Durning (actor), David Shire (composer), Edgar J. Scherick (producer),
Plot: This sweeping mini-series profiling the Kennedy family ran three nights. The film chronicles 55 years in the lives of the family opening in 1906 with the marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, to Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of Boston's Mayor. The first night focuses on the marriage's troubled years and Rose's strength in developing a real family. The second night covered the years of 1928 - 1940 and Jospeh's years as working as a movie producer and then an ambassador. The final night follows the Kennedy's tragedies during World War II and follows the post war years political successes of John Kennedy.
Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title, tv-mini-seriesActors: Ronnie Stevens (actor), Alex Norton (actor), Ronald Harwood (writer), Richard Harvey (composer), Peter Vaughan (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), John Woodvine (actor), Lee Montague (actor), Bob Sherman (actor), James Laurenson (actor), Stephen Moore (actor), Michael Mellinger (actor), Jonathan Coy (actor), Michael Culver (actor), Tony Britton (actor),
Genres: Drama, History, War,Actors: André Maranne (actor), Robert Raglan (actor), Alexander Knox (actor), Jacques Boudet (actor), Patrick Allen (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Terence Alexander (actor), Joseph Cotten (actor), Jacques Duby (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), Peter Copley (actor), Arthur Hill (actor), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Ian Richardson (actor),
Genres: Drama, History, War,Actors: Thorley Walters (actor), Richard Leech (actor), Virginia McKenna (actress), Robert Beatty (actor), Winston Churchill (writer), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Patrick Stewart (actor), Ian Bannen (actor), Robert Hardy (actor), Richard Burton (actor), Edward Evans (actor), Ian Ogilvy (actor), Robin Bailey (actor), Terence Longdon (actor), Steve Plytas (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Gene Coogan (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Ray Collins (actor), Nat 'King' Cole (actor), William Alland (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Eddie Coke (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), Charles Bennett (actor), Fortunio Bonanova (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Joseph Cotten (actor), Sam Ash (actor),
Plot: A group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."
Keywords: 1870s, 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 19th-century, 20th-century, abused-child, actor-director-writer, adulterer, adultery