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A marksman is a person who is skilled in precision, or a sharpshooter shooting, using projectile weapons, such as with a rifle but most commonly with a designated marksman rifle and/or a sniper rifle, to shoot at long range targets. The main difference between a marksman and a normal sniper is that a marksman is usually considered an organic part of a team of soldiers, whereas regular snipers tend to work alone or with other snipers. In the military, marksmen are sometimes attached to an infantry squad where they take accurate long-range shots at valuable targets as needed, thus extending the reach of the squad.[original research?]
Another term for a marksman is a sharpshooter, which was used in the early 19th Century. It is derived from the German word Scharfschütze.
In the Middle Ages, the first use of the term 'marksman' was given to the royal archers, or bowmen, of a palace guard, which was an elite group of troops chosen to guard a royal palace. This was approximately around the 10th century, although records of some 9th century English Kings show the listings of groups of marksmen specifically chosen for their militarys.
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time with a professional career that spans 40 years. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and is noted for his lengthy and highly decorated tenures with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (now known as WWE). Flair is officially recognized by WWE, TNA and PWI as a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion (seven-time NWA Champion, seven-time WCW Champion and two-time WWF Champion) although his actual tally of World Championship reigns varies by source—Flair considers himself a 21-time world champion.
In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he also had two stints as a booker—in 1989–1990 and 1994. Flair also became the first and only man to have won the WWF Championship in a Royal Rumble match, when he accomplished this in the 1992 edition of the event. In 2012, Flair became the first ever double inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, first inducted in 2008 for his individual career, and for a second time in 2012 as a member of the Four Horsemen. He is also an NWA Hall of Famer (class of 2008). Flair's hair styles and mannerisms are based on those of Buddy Rogers, who previously and famously used the "Nature Boy" gimmick in the 1950s and '60s. Coincidentally, Flair also followed Rogers in becoming the second man to win both the WWF and the NWA World Heavyweight Championships.
Actors: Marco Beltrami (composer), Cliff Fleming (miscellaneous crew), Rob Cohen (producer), Neal H. Moritz (producer), Mark Goldblatt (editor), Trisha Burton (miscellaneous crew), Xzibit (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Ice Cube (actor), David Rountree (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Ice Cube (actor), Peter Strauss (actor), Rick Kain (miscellaneous crew), Matthew I. Goldberg (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of Defense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.
Keywords: aikido, aircraft-carrier, ak-47, ambush, assassin, automatic-pistol, automatic-rifle, bare-chested-male, battle, battlefieldActors: Carlton Jarvis (miscellaneous crew), Carlton Jarvis (actor), David Wenham (actor), Domenico Procacci (producer), Gine Lui (miscellaneous crew), Alex Nikolic (producer), Joseph Fiennes (actor), Vera Farmiga (actress), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Nick Sandow (actor), Lars Bloch (producer), Rosemary Murphy (actress), Anne Brochet (actress), Nicolas Gaster (editor), Bruce MacVittie (actor),
Plot: Two inter-cut tales of redemption, a century apart. Late in the 1800s, two brothers feud over a woman. She marries one; the other, Luke, a deadly gunslinger, becomes a soldier of fortune in Macedonia, helping Turks keep local Christians in line. He's after money. Wounded, he's nursed by a pregnant villager who urges him to "kill for good, not for gold." A dying old woman in modern Manhattan tells Luke's story; her listener is Edge, a young thief who's burgled her flat to pay off crooked cops who can send him to jail. He listens with the desperate hope that he'll find gold that he thinks she has. The stories intersect when Edge sorts out the old woman's connection to Luke.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century, african-american, airplane, ambulance, ancestry, babyActors: Claire Riley (actress), Sarah Silverman (actress), Lorena Gale (actress), Norm MacDonald (actor), Tygh Runyan (actor), Sherman Hemsley (actor), Lochlyn Munro (actor), Malcolm Stewart (actor), Mark Acheson (actor), Dave Chappelle (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Tom Heaton (actor), Danny DeVito (actor), April Telek (actress), Elaine Stritch (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Crime,Actors: Shawn Lawrence (actor), Micky Erbe (composer), John Corbett (actor), Rick Parker (miscellaneous crew), Anna Rane (miscellaneous crew), Gordon Clapp (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), Maribeth Solomon (composer), Barry Flatman (actor), Jim Codrington (actor), Reg Dreger (actor), Eve Crawford (actress), Jonathan Scarfe (actor), Marc Donato (actor), John Cosgrove (producer),
Plot: A husband and wife and their youngest son are murdered in this true story. Their two other sons are left to cope with their loss, but the local sherrif begins to suspect that one of the brothers committed the crime, and must convince the other to help him discover the truth.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, brother-brother-relationship, forced-to-strip, fratricide, male-nudity, man-forced-to-strip, mass-murder, matricide, murder, murder-of-familyActors: Joseph Conlan (composer), Nick Searcy (actor), Tracey Gold (actress), Terence Knox (actor), Leonard Hill (producer), Richard Gross (actor), Bess Armstrong (actress), Joel Fields (producer), Bill L. Norton (director), Matt Letscher (actor), Nick Scoggin (actor), Nick Scoggin (actor), George Maguire (actor), Thomas Calabro (actor), Richard Conti (actor),
Plot: Stacy, a rebellious teenager, leaves home for the freedom and adventure of life on the road away from her parents. Afraid and alone, she is befriended by Richard, a handsome ex-con traveling across the country on a crime spree. Her short lived joy soon turns to terror.
Keywords: hostage, parents, ransom, runaway, truckerActors: Elizabeth Hurley (actress), Bill Daly (miscellaneous crew), Tom Sizemore (actor), Brett Rice (actor), Lee Rich (producer), Stanley Clarke (composer), Tom Nowicki (actor), Marc Macaulay (actor), Bruce Payne (actor), Ernie Lively (actor), Wesley Snipes (actor), Sven Granlund (actor), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Michael Riley (miscellaneous crew), Stewart Raffill (writer),
Plot: An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.
Keywords: 1990s, action-hero, african-american, airplane-hijack, airplane-hijacking, airport, ambulance, aviation, beaten-to-death, berettaActors: Jerry Orbach (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Richard Nixon (actor), Ed O'Ross (actor), Allan Graf (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Dolph Lundgren (actor), Dolph Lundgren (actor), Rance Howard (actor), John DeMita (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), George Fisher (actor), Mark Hanson (actor), Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor), Drew Snyder (actor),
Plot: An elite team of soldiers has been used against terrorists where they use astounding physical capabilities to overcome them. Victoria, a reporter, follows them and discovers a part of their secret. When one of the team kills her cameraman she tries to escape. Luc, one of the soldiers begins to have flashbacks and turns sides and helps her as the remainder of the team follows to protect their secrets.
Keywords: action-hero, ambush, amnesia, army, army-of-the-dead, b-movie, back-from-the-dead, battle, blood, blood-splatterActors: Ron Shelton (miscellaneous crew), Joel Silver (miscellaneous crew), Ron Shelton (producer), Buzz Kulik (director), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Roger Spottiswoode (director), Howard K. Smith (actor), Treat Williams (actor), Nicolas Coster (actor), Paul Gleason (actor), James Horner (composer), Robert Duvall (actor), R.G. Armstrong (actor), Jack N. Young (miscellaneous crew), Doris Grau (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop.
Keywords: airplane, airplane-hijack, based-on-book, based-on-novel, caper, character-name-in-title, chase, escape, ex-pow, hijackingActors: William Hootkins (actor), John Ratzenberger (actor), Joseph Cotten (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Roscoe Lee Browne (actor), Burt Lancaster (actor), Charles McGraw (actor), Ed Bishop (actor), Phil Brown (actor), Melvyn Douglas (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Leif Erickson (actor), Richard Jaeckel (actor), William Smith (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor),
Plot: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Keywords: african-american, assassination, based-on-novel, commando, escaped-convict, former-prisoner-of-war, general, helicopter, hostage, independent-filmActors: Desiree Cousteau (actress), John Aprea (actor), Roger Corman (producer), John Cale (composer), Jonathan Demme (director), Patrick Wright (actor), Jonathan Demme (writer), Barbara Steele (actress), Gary Goetzman (actor), Carmen Argenziano (actor), Johanna Demetrakas (editor), Roberta Collins (actress), Cheryl Smith (actress), Gene Borkan (actor), Gary Littlejohn (actor),
Plot: A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow. The iron-handed superintendent takes exception to a skit performed by the girls and takes punitive steps, aided by the sadistic doctor who is doing illegal electroshock experiments and raping drugged prisoners. After a while the prisoners put away their petty differences and plan the Big Prison Escape.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, accidental-killing, air-vent, american-flag, arrest, bank-robbery, bare-chested-male, behavior-modification, breast-fondling, brothelLike a sniper, I've got my sights on you,
Windscreen wiper, there ain't no spoiling my view,
Silver bandoleer, my profession's clear,
Sharpshooter
Infra red vein, don't you come out at night,
Infra red chain, you're gonna buy your life,
Silver pistol too, with a notch for you,
Sharpshooter
You're the contract, I'm gonna nail you down,
I'm the contact, with your final round,
And I'm stalking you, and that ain't all I do,
Sharpshooter