西元2048年，人類經歷第三次世界大戰後，在外太空建立殖民地，地球政權重新洗盤，人類世界僅剩不列顛聯邦和殖民地兩區塊。在高科技的輔佐下，人類可以選擇以植入記憶的方式進行虛擬體驗，記憶碼公司便因應而生。 「歡迎來到記憶碼公司，這裡可以讓你的夢境變成現實」。奎德是一個平凡的工人，與深愛的美麗妻子蘿莉過著看似幸福的人生。但奎德似乎無法滿足於現狀，白天的工作生活恍惚，夜間時常作著自己是間諜的怪夢。為了從現實生活中逃逸，他不顧疑慮前往記憶碼公司進行體驗，希望植入超級間諜的記憶，滿足大腦對於冒險的渴望。沒想到在虛擬的過程中發生意外，他突然變成政府追殺的逃犯，連愛妻也對他展開猛烈攻擊。 爾後，奎德與反叛女戰將梅琳娜共同尋找殖民地反抗軍首領Matthias Lair，對抗以柯黑根為首的聯邦大軍。奎德到底是誰？他眼前的人事物，難道都是被設計移植在大腦的假象？當夢境與現實的界線逐漸模糊，奎德已經無法判斷什麼才是他的真實記憶，他必須重新探索自己的真實身份、愛情與命運。
一部很大氣很優秀但又被眾人忽略的佳作，接近五星！查爾登·海斯頓（Charlton Heston）始終都是正義英雄的角色，高大挺拔的外型配合滄桑的氣質，將高登的內在與外在演繹得恰到好處。令人驚喜的是勞倫斯·奧利弗（Laurence Olivier ）改頭換面，抹面化妝後的穆罕默德·阿里，似乎總令人聯想到阿里王朝的開國君主第一代的南征北討的軍事梟雄。按時間推算，大概1880年崛起的赫迪夫應是陶菲克一世，似乎故事的原型只能取其象徵性，不作過多渲染。奧利弗爵士的演技太爐火純青了，招牌的正邪莫辨複雜人物演繹起來舉重若輕，絲毫不遜於海斯頓，絕對壓得住陣腳！ 作為一個異國人身處在一個原本不屬於自身文化的國度裡，高登的角色顯得是那麼尷尬。一面是英國帝國主義下的官員，令一面又要獲得伊斯蘭人物的擁戴，人性在兩面壓逼下到底是向善，抑或向惡呢？人道主義在硝煙瀰漫的國土中，人心惶惶的情況下，又處於一個怎樣的位置？自身的信仰起到一個十分重要的關鍵作用，那不是基督徒或穆斯林的宗教信仰，而是人對真善美的追求，於是成就了偉大的人格，而崇高往往又通向一條悲劇之路。
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vortrekkers, and her older brother's romance of Katie Snee.
Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News Persia and BBC Arabic collaborate in this gripping film, to uncover the secrets and shady deals that underpinned the decolonization process. From eye-witness accounts of a British-organised coup to Iran being left in control of disputed islands, it's a fascinating insight to a murky history.
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under the gruesome working conditions of seal hunting gangs. The story follows a lascar, Dasa, who has been abandoned on the coast of Aotearoa NZ by the East India Company, alongside his sealing gang. When Dasa finds himself in the middle of a conflict between his abusive British superior and two Māori traders, he is faced with a choice: bend the knee or take a stand.
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
《物歸原主？》講述了藝術史上一道複雜難解的課題。歐洲各地的博物館中，收藏了許多非洲文物和藝術品，但其所屬的各個非洲國家此刻正要求將文物返還。在這波返還的聲浪中，本片邀請觀眾重新思考文化遺產與我們的關係，並探問博物館該如何重塑我們與非洲之間的關係。
At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black revolutionaries who had nevertheless been pardoned by the Queen of England. René Vautier, with ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Party for Unity), denounces this killing. Expelled by the Rhodesian police (informed by the French secret services), the filmmaker shoots a film in Algeria in the form of an indictment against colonial savagery. The film was first banned in France, then authorized in 1965.
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.