Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart is a 2012 documentary in two parts written and presented by Rory Stewart that tells the story of foreign intervention by Britain, Russia, and the United States in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day. (wiki)
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1709 – The Outpost (2020)
timespace coordinates: 2006, PRT Kamdesh – later renamed Combat Outpost Keating – one of several U.S. Army outposts established in Northern Afghanistan. Located in a remote valley surrounded by the Hindu Kush mountains. The base was regarded as a deathtrap; the troops stationed there faced regular Taliban attacks, culminating in one of the bloodiest American engagements of Operation Enduring Freedom. The film tells the story of the 53 U.S. soldiers and two Latvian military advisors who battled some 400 enemy insurgents at the Battle of Kamdesh.
The Outpost is a 2020 American war film directed by Rod Lurie, based on the 2012 non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper, about the Battle of Kamdesh in the war in Afghanistan. It stars Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, and Taylor John Smith. (wiki)
1410 – Californium (2016 video game)
timespace coordinates: Berkeley, California in 1967
Californium is an exploration game co-developed by Darjeeling and Nova Productions with financial support from the French broadcaster Arte, and released in February 2016 for Microsoft Windows and OS X. Californium was developed as a tribute to science-fiction author Philip K. Dick on the 30th anniversary of his death. The player controls Elvin Green, a struggling writer dealing with family matters, as he discovers the means to manipulate reality, and explores several surreal landscapes. (wiki)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (MINIMUM): OS: Windows 7 or Higher / Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz / Memory: 4 GB RAM / Graphics: DX9 (shader model 2.0) / Storage: 2 GB available space
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“No, it’s not Webcam DeathStar battling it out in monetary meteorite showers of 50 Euro or more… it is not immanent junkspace collapsing in on itself in a Great Crush after Star Wars merged with Disney Universe. It is Bogdan Marcu trying to bail out your soul! We know he was manuscripting his way out of cyber corporate dungeons, while trying to rewrite the Bible in vernacular Romanian according to 3D Genesis and CGI creationist FX …and what do u know, he might have done it with COCALAR COSMOLOGY! Bless you BM!” |°¦::¦..¦¦¦::||¦÷¦||:::¦¦°.¦|::|¦|:::¦¦|.°°|¦||
1296 – Braveheart (1995)
timespace coordinates: 1280 – 1314 Scotland / Edinburgh / Yorkshire / London / Battle of Stirling Bridge / Battle of Falkirk
Braveheart is a 1995 American epic war film directed and co-produced by Mel Gibson, who portrays William Wallace, a late-13th-century Scottish warrior. The film is fictionally based on the life of Wallace leading the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The film also stars Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan and Catherine McCormack. The story is inspired by Blind Harry‘s epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace. It has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films. (wiki)
imdb / historical inaccuracy / Wallace Monument / cultural effects / Sequel
1209 – Boyhood (2014)
timespace coordinates: Texas, 2001 – 2013
Boyhood is a 2014 American epic coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke. Filmed from 2001 to 2013, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). Richard Linklater’s daughter Lorelei plays Mason’s sister, Samantha. (wiki)
1175 – Chernobyl (miniseries 2019)
timespace coordinates: 1986 – 1987 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic / Soviet Union
(DISTURBING CONTENT)
Chernobyl is a historical drama television miniseries created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck (Stakka Bo). The series a co-production of HBO and Sky UK depicting the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the unprecedented cleanup efforts that followed. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul Ritter. The miniseries is based in large part on the recollections of Pripyat locals, as told by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in her book Voices from Chernobyl. (wiki)
historical accuracy
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