Gjør deg klar for nervepirrende spenning når Mark Wahlberg fyller skjermen i sin mest overbevisende rolle så langt i filmen "Snikskytter". Den velansette tidligere skarpskytteren og US-marine-helten Bob Lee Swagger lar seg overtale til et siste oppdrag for å stanse et attentatforsøk mot presidenten. Men så skjer det utenkelige: Han blir lurt og ender selv opp som mistenkt for drapsforsøket Fast bestemt på å bevise sin uskyld må den tøffe helten flykte fra både politi og spesialenheter samt den mystiske organisasjonen som ønsker livet av ham. Antoine Fuqua, regissøren bak "Training Day", gir oss en gripende film med Danny Glover og Michael Pena i noen av birollene. Kritiker Joel Siegel i det amerikanske TV-programmet Good Morning America kaller filmen for en "thriller ... fyIt med spenning så det holder":
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.
Den tidligere soldaten Mack har flyttet til en by hvor nesten alle jobber ved vannkraftverket. Han lever et fredelig liv der, helt til en gruppe leiesoldater anført av Ron stormer kraftverket og tar alle tilstedeværende som gisler, inkludert en gruppe barn som er der på skoletur. Nå må Mack kjempe mot klokka og bruke all sin militære trening for å beseire Ron før han åpner demningen og forårsaker en stor flom.
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Nicole Ramsey is dedicated to serving military service members and their families at the Joint Military Base in Lacey, Washington, home of I Corps and the 62nd Airlift Wing. This Christmas, with the help of many dedicated heroes, Dr. Ramsey is on a mission to honor a special fallen soldier and bring much needed healing to her own family.
Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.
After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.
Loner Diane Ford er en lastebilsjåfør med en 11 år gammel sønn, Peter, som hun aldri ser, og det synes hun er greit. Men når Peters far, Len, blir syk, ber han Diane ta seg av sønnen deres en stund. Etter hvert blir Diane motvillig enig, men hun innser raskt at det å ta vare på et barn forstyrrer hennes uavhengige livsstil - og Peter er heller ikke så begeistret over avtalen.
A suicidal war veteran finds like-minded souls in a surf therapy program that helps traumatized soldiers heal while riding the waves.
After years of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, six US veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan travel to Peru on a quest for healing. With the help and guidance of three brothers who are traditional healers, they take ayahuasca and other plant medicines during a 10-day retreat in the Amazon rainforest.
In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually heal their wounds of war. Roger, a self-described 'fall-down drunk' and sniper in Vietnam, and Kouy, a Cambodian refugee who fought the Khmer Rouge, bonded in the bustling tent-city known as Mushroom Camp, which pops up each autumn in the Oregon woods. Their friendship became an adoptive family; according to a Cambodian custom, if you lose your family like Kouy, you must rebuilt it anew. Now, however, this new family could be lost. Roger's health is declining and trauma flashbacks rack his mind; Kouy gently aids his family before the snow falls and the hunting season ends, signaling his time to leave.
This documentary is the story of two Mennonite brothers from Manitoba who were forced to make a decision in 1939, as Canada joined World War II. In the face of 400 years of pacifist tradition, should they now go to war? Ted became a conscientious objector while his brother went into military service. Fifty years later, the town of Winkler dedicates its first war memorial and John begins to share his war experiences with Ted.
Iraq War veteran Herold Noel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Using Noel's story as a fulcrum, this doc examines the wider issue of homeless U.S. military veterans-from Vietnam to Iraq-who have to fight tooth-and-nail to receive the benefits promised to them by their government.
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
After a third tour of duty in Afghanistan, a Marine sergeant returns home to find herself hemorrhaging anxiety and paranoia from unseen wounds.
CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US archives it depicts the true story of Charles' involvement with the US Air Force and the development of the code talkers communication system, which was used to transmit crucial military communications, using the Cree language as a vital secret weapon in combat.
A documentary film about veterans with PTSD who find that, after other treatments fall short, a service dog helps them return to an independent feeling life.