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Mogadishu, October 1993: a raid meant to take an hour runs all night.

Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.

A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.

Maximus's quest for revenge in ancient Rome (2000).

Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.

Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.

Two New York cops escort a yakuza home to Osaka and lose him on the tarmac.

A CIA operative in Jordan invents a terrorist group to flush out a real one.