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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author and attorney. She is a member of the influential Kennedy family and the only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
At the time of her father's presidency she was a young child; after his assassination in 1963 her family settled in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended school. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Kennedy's professional life has spanned law and politics as well as education and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family's legacy and co-authored two books on civil liberties with Ellen Alderman.
In the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for President early in the primary race; she later stumped for him in Orlando, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama's selection of then-Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton's vacant Senate seat from New York, but she later withdrew from consideration, citing "personal reasons."
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.
He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily four times, most recently in 2010. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is also known for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his belief that the war in Iraq should be fought to a successful conclusion. McCain has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed spending that he considered to be pork barrel, and played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.
Actors: Rachel Griffiths (miscellaneous crew), Matt Patresi (actor), Bruce McGuire (actor), Jarreth J. Merz (actor), Jay Natelle (actor), Simone Spinazze (actor), Sean James Sutton (actor), Simona De Angelis (producer), Simona De Angelis (writer), Simona De Angelis (director), Simona De Angelis (producer), Miuta Paterni (producer), Sylvia De Fanti (actress), Paolo Buzzetti (editor), Paolo Buzzetti (producer),
Plot: In an hypothetical future, CIA calls Mr Frank to make difficult people disappear with the utmost discretion. Politicians, bankers, famous artists and many others, ask for the help of this mysterious man even if nobody knows anything about him.
Genres: Action, Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: David Paris (miscellaneous crew), Tucker Tooley (producer), Antoni Corone (actor), Rick Shuster (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Roselyn Sanchez (actress), Emilio Rivera (actor), Nestor Serrano (actor), Nick Gomez (actor), Nathan Furst (composer), Jason Clark (producer), Jacob Head (miscellaneous crew), David Fencl (miscellaneous crew), Ernie Reyes Jr. (actor), Ricou Browning Jr. (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. Act of Valor takes audiences deep into the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. As the valiant men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their commitment to country, team and their families back home. Each time they accomplish their mission, a new piece of intelligence reveals another shocking twist to the deadly terror plot, which stretches from Chechnya to the Philippines and from Ukraine to Somalia. The widening operation sends the SEALs across the globe as they track the terrorist ring to the U.S.-Mexico border, where they engage in an epic firefight with an outcome that has potentially unimaginable consequences for the future of America.
Keywords: 21-gun-salute, 50-calibre-machine-gun, advanced-seal-delivery-system, africa, aircraft-carrier, airfield, airplane, ak-47, american-flag, anti-tank-missleActors: Marianne Ahrne (miscellaneous crew), Michael Nyqvist (actor), Patrick Bergin (actor), Daniel Giménez Cacho (actor), Kate del Castillo (actress), Leif Axel Kjeldsen (editor), Jacob Groth (composer), Lumi Cavazos (actress), Cristián Campos (actor), Edgardo Bruna (actor), Luis Gnecco (actor), Lasse Lunderskov (actor), Pedro Vicuña (actor), Carsten Norgaard (actor), Lisa Werlinder (actress),
Plot: The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? Haunted by his own demons the we experiences on close hand how a womanizer desperately searches to find love again, a task only doable, if he can fight his own past and redeem himself. After saving hundreds - maybe even thousands - he is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the regime. Another impossible task and a desperate chase against time. Based on a true story about a man, that did, what all of us only dreams of.
Keywords: ambassador, chile, coup, coup-d'état, golpe, military-coup, year-1973Actors: John Woodvine (actor), Adrian Johnston (composer), Robert Lindsay (actor), Peter Mullan (actor), Christopher Fosh (actor), Dean Wares (miscellaneous crew), Colin Stinton (actor), Alexander Armstrong (actor), Adrian Scarborough (actor), Karl Johnson (actor), Nick Bartlett (actor), Guy Henry (actor), Phoebe Nicholls (actress), Laura Julian (producer), Tom Burke (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Damian Lewis (actor), Jeff Beal (composer), John Slattery (actor), Connie Nielsen (actress), Thomas McCarthy (actor), Curtiss Clayton (editor), Peter Eyre (actor), Dan Murphy (actor), Sean Gullette (actor), Saïd Amadis (actor), Neda Armian (producer), Driss Roukhe (actor), Philip Haas (director), Souheil Halaoui (miscellaneous crew), Youssef Britel (actor),
Plot: Americans in Iraq, insurgency rising, truth illusive. U.S. soldiers in Samarra throw boys off a bridge; one drowns. An American reporter and her Iraqi photographer pursue the story. Samarra's mayor aids the U.S. and fears the rising power of an ex-Republican Guard. The mayor uses a Baathist ex-diplomat to sell out his rival. The diplomat wants a post abroad, so he trades "intel" for safe passage. The reporter's lover, a CIA man in Baghdad, pushes for progress on public works in Sumarra; he promotes cooperation with Rafeeq, an intellectual whom other Americans call an insurgent. Rafeeq is in danger. All roads lead to the village of Al Tawr. War at its most opaque: Iraqis call it "the situation."
Keywords: iraq-war, subtitlesActors: Leon Schuster (actor), Sean Cameron Michael (actor), Leon Schuster (actor), Leon Schuster (writer), Anant Singh (producer), Leon Schuster (actor), Leon Schuster (writer), Gray Hofmeyr (writer), Gray Hofmeyr (director), Helena Spring (producer), Johan Lategan (editor), Paul Slabolepszy (writer), Jerry Mofokeng (actor), Sudhir Pragjee (producer), Sanjeev Singh (producer),
Genres: Comedy,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: Michael Richard Plowman (composer), Patrick Taulère (director), David M. Frank (producer), Roger Tilling (actor), Lance J. Holt (actor), Sarah Kass (writer), Bryan Stefancyk (actor), Fred Challa (producer), Julie Nelson (miscellaneous crew), Maida Counts (miscellaneous crew), Ahmed Saguia (actor), Lisa Mao (miscellaneous crew), Mark Hilliard (miscellaneous crew), Mark Hilliard (actor), David DeSantos (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Gary Chang (composer), Peter Vaughan (actor), Miranda Richardson (actress), John Shrapnel (actor), David Ryall (actor), Jean Marsh (actress), John Woodvine (actor), Clive Russell (actor), Rutger Hauer (actor), Rupert Degas (actor), Michael Kitchen (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Marek Vasut (actor), Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Tariq Anwar (editor),
Plot: Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960's and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Keywords: 1960s, actress, alternative-history, anti-semitism, archive-footage, art-collection, based-on-novel, berlin-germany, betrayal, bus-rideActors: Ringo Lam (producer), Ringo Lam (director), Andrzej Szenajch (actor), Rosamund Kwan (actress), Olivia Hussey (actress), Yin Nam (writer), Kwong Leung Wong (actor), Vernon Wells (actor), Wah-Fan Lam (actor), Danny Lee (actor), Ewa Wisniewska (actress), Mars (actor), Karl Maka (producer), Karl Maka (miscellaneous crew), Kuo-chung Chou (editor),
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,