Sentences with phrase «set during a civil war»

The Retrieval (R for violence) Unlikely - buddies saga, set during the Civil War, about the friendship forged between a 13 year - old orphan (Ashton Sanders) and the fugitive slave (Tishuan Scott) he's been hired to escort back to the South.

Claire Denis resolutely refuses to make simple movies, so this intense drama set during a civil war in central Africa feels somewhat elusive as it concentrates on emotions rather than plotting.

Official Synopsis: Set during the Civil War, The Retrieval follows a fatherless 13 - year - old boy (Ashton Sanders) sent north by his bounty hunter gang on a dangerous mission to retrieve a wanted man (Tishaun Scott) under false pretense.

Politics are at the core of Beirut, a thriller set during the civil war in Lebanon.

Writer / director Gary Ross» film is an overtly political treatise on the cyclical nature of systematic prejudice and oppression that's primarily set during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Set during the Civil War, it features Colin Farrell as a wounded Union soldier who finds refuge on the grounds of a Southern girls school.

Ahead of its release on Friday, STX Entertainment has released a five minute preview from director Gary Ross» upcoming Civil War drama Free State of Jones which features Matthew McConaughey and Jacob Lofland; watch it below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Free State of Jones Set during the Civil War, The Free State of -LSB-...]

In this novel set during the Civil War, a 17 - year - old boy treks to Gatlinburg followed by guilt — and a group of killers.

Set during the civil war, the wife of a slave owning plantation, is sentenced to the lunatic asylum on Sibella Island.

The game also has a multiplayer component set during the civil war (2 years before the first game) with a few different modes for you to try out.

Not exact matches

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

It's a quiet film with no score and set during the height of the Civil War, but it's masterfully edited to be a period piece that keeps you glued to your seat.

Boles, a member of the so - called «Notting Hill set» and Remain supporter, compared the rifts in the Conservative party caused by Brexit to the split allegiances during the Spanish Civil War.

This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth.On Tuesday, the reality TV starlet shared this sneak peek (below) of their 25 days of Christmas starring none other than almost all the females of their clan!With Kimmy, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, grandma Mary Jo, and most of the grandkids featured, it wasn't hard to notice the only two missing: Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner!Legend tells that he lived on the Mason - Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War.To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.They speculate it's a colloquial perversion of «cater - corner.»

A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.

Set during and after the Civil War in Massachusetts, «Little Women» centers on the titular March sisters: responsible eldest daughter Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), tomboyish Jo (Maya Hawke), compassionate Beth (Annes Elwy), and the vain Amy (Kathryn Newton).

The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, are genuinely beautiful pieces of cinema: films that respectively use ghosts and monsters to explore the physical and psychological impact of living under a repressive regimes (both are set during the Spanish Civil War).

Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set during the American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.

Based on images this account tweeted out during production of Captain America: Civil War, many of which were later verified to have revealed tiny details from the movie, there is solid reason to trust that this is indeed a teaser straight from the set.

The movie is a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama «The Girl Of Your Dreams,» also starring Cruz and set during the Spanish Civil War.

The film is set in the 17th century during the English civil war.

With its period setting during the English Civil War and its increasingly abstract visual schema, A Field in England is Ben Wheatley's most ambitious film to date.

Woe to Live on, in contrast to the Southern crime backwoods noir novels, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the American Civil War.

Set in Virginia during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds the desperate Corporal John McBurney (Colin Farrell), an injured Union soldier and a deserter seeking refuge at an all - female Southern boarding school.

«Mr. Pip,» a lower profile adaptation of a less famous book, doesn't carry the same risks as «The Lovely Bones» did, but this gimmicky story set during Papua New Guinea's civil war is similarly overblown, reaching for emotional effect in a fatally hamfisted fashion.

Beirut (R for profanity, violence and a nude image) Espionage thriller, set in the Eighties during Lebanon's civil war, about a retired U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) coaxed back into service by a CIA agent (Rosamund Pike) to negotiate the release of a kidnapped colleague (Mark Pelligrino).

Set during the American Civil War in January 1865, Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) as he attempts to abolish slavery in the USA by passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives.

The director's best - known and most - loved movie (at least until now) may be 2006's Pan's Labyrinth, a dark allegorical fairy tale also set in Spain during the Civil War.

His 2001 film The Devil's Backbone, set during the Spanish Civil War, garnered critical acclaim.

You'll pardon the embroidery metaphor, which comes straight from the movie itself, a darkly absorbing Southern gothic tale set in 1864, during the fraught final days of the Civil War.

The movie is set in Ireland during the tumultuous times of rebellion and civil war.

When you try to form a historical epic set during the Spanish Civil War and you miss out on grounding the film with an emotional...

Set in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the film stars Zhang Hanyu as Yang, a courageous People's Liberation Army reconnaissance officer who discovers a thousand - strong horde of bandits in a seemingly impenetrable mountain stronghold, and goes undercover to see if he can bring them down from within — or at least keep them from slaughtering his tiny band of 30 soldiers.

Colin Farrell plays a wounded soldier who throws himself on the mercy of a ladies» seminary during the American civil war — and sets them all of a decorous flutter

Directed by Sofia Coppola and set during the American Civil War, The Beguiled is a slow - paced but intensely - told story of a group of women...

Newly announced comic book one - shot Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Storms of Crait may sound like it's set in the era of the new films - but it's actually set during the Galactic Civil War - the original trilogy era.

This set of 39 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the time period before the Civil War.

Okparanta's debut novel is a touching coming - of - age story set during and after the Nigerian Civil War.

In September 2014, BookBrowse members discussed Island of a Thousand Mirrors, set during the Sri Lankan civil war.

Set in Nashville during the devastating fallout of the Civil War, the novel follows Maggie Linden, a brilliant horsewoman determined to make it in the lucrative world of horse racing, and the strong - willed Irishman who is roped into her plans.

The setting was during the time of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era where the plot revolved around romance and marriage, love and loss - with a twist of mystery.

Set in Nashville during the devastating fallout of the Civil War, the novel follows Maggie Linden, a brilliant horsewoman determined to make it in the lucrative world of horse - racing and the strong - willed Irishman who is roped into her plans.

Fallen Land is set during the end of the Civil War and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forcWar and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forcwar between Union and Confederate forces.

In Jon Walter's debut young adult novel, My Name is Not Friday, which is set in Mississippi during America's Civil War, Samuel, a freeborn black orphan, displays just how important his faith is.

Established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, the hotel also served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil Wwar of 1812, the hotel also served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil WarWar.

Set in the foothills of the lush Cuchumatanes, the area was the scene of heavy fighting during the country's civil war.

Although being overwhelmed city by pirates, destroyed during civil wars and set on fire by the American filibuster William Walker in 1856, it remains one of Nicaragua's most beautiful cities.

Ocarina of Time is set approximately 10 years after an unknown King of Hyrule unified the country during the Hyrulean Civil War.

The game's plot is set in the 1600s, in a fictionalized world during the Sengoku period when Japan was in the midst of a civil war prior to the ascension of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In the work's elaborate title, «Gone» refers to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best - selling melodramatic novel Gone with the Wind, set during the American Civil War.