Films/Movies with uplifting/inspiring themes, etc. etc.

[BMJ]

Elegant, Beautiful & Rare

These short productions by Kidston Productions show case some beautiful cars in a themed and artistic way. These guys aren't afraid to drive them hard either, so take you pick.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gbqIIwNVhsg

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mkj0oYWdXe8

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMtah48MKM

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1hv_DEwnJTQ

[onawah]

Moved trailer reviews here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1639346
...once I remembered we have a thread for trailers

[Ewan]

The Year Earth Changed

During planet lockdown nature began an amazing comeback. It is both heartwarming and thought provoking, if man disappeared from the planet tomorrow Earth and the nature upon it would do just fine. (Read as much better off!) Should we reduce international flights by 75%, should we ban safari's? Maybe those that wish to reduce the population are not so far from a valid idea. (Of course that is the way we live now, we all know there are better ways to live.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XswV_yqPq28

You could find this documentary on Amazon and AppleTV

-or-

https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?...age=0&orderby=

https://1337x.to/search/the+year+earth+changed/1/

Both above websites will likely need a VPN to access as they are geo-blocked extensively in Europe and America. (I connected straight away with a virtual IP in Greenland.)

[onawah]

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare


(What I especially liked about this film is that Churchill is portrayed in a positive light, not blacklisted, which seems to have become the trend of late, and Henry Cavill who plays a leading role, though I'll miss him as The Witcher... )

"Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming. The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis using entirely unconventional and utterly “ungentlemanly” fighting techniques. Ultimately their audacious approach changed the course of the war and laid the foundation for the British SAS and modern Black Ops warfare."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zvwDen1Wrx8

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'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' fact check: Did they really kill all those Nazis?https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...y/73329544007/
Patrick Ryan
USA TODAY
April 20, 2024

"In Guy Ritchie’s R-rated action comedy “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” British prime minister Winston Churchill (Rory Kinnear) helps orchestrate the covert Operation Postmaster, bringing together a ragtag group of special operatives to steal and destroy several ships off the coast of West Africa carrying supplies for German forces. The World War II mission formed the basis for Damien Lewis’ 2014 book “Churchill's Secret Warriors,” which has been adapted into this wild heist thriller starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Cary Elwes and Henry Golding.

USA TODAY talks to Lewis and co-screenwriter Arash Amel about the real history behind the film:

Was Ian Fleming inspired by Gus March-Phillips (Henry Cavill) to write James Bond?
Henry Cavill's wisecracking ex-criminal Gus March-Phillips was a basis for Ian Fleming's 007.
As a young man, Fleming was essentially a liaison between the Royal Navy and the Special Operations Executive (SOE). “His role on Operation Postmaster was not only to originate the idea, to a large extent, but to train and oversee the team that was sent out into the field,” Lewis says. “Gus March-Phillips, as the dashing English gentleman, was one of the inspirations for James Bond.” Because of the classified nature of his work, Fleming funneled many of these World War II operations “into his James Bond novels.

Review:Henry Cavill's mustache leads the charge in 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare'


Were they really called ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare?’
Yes. In the movie’s final scene, Churchill visits the operatives in prison and gives them their verbose title. It was one of many nicknames for the SOE, including The Racket, The Firm and the Baker Street Boys.

“All these nicknames arose because it was highly unpopular and irregular,” Lewis says. “It wasn’t a military service and it wasn’t an intelligence agency. It was something shadowy in-between, so the military and intelligence services resented it for that reason. It was deeply unpopular, and a lot of the nicknames were disparaging.”

Did Winston Churchill really serve them lobster behind bars?
The film ends with the prime minister catering a seafood dinner for the Ministry. “I don’t know if he did that or not, but that’s exactly the kind of thing Churchill would have done,” Lewis says. “This was his organization. They were his secret warriors, and he held them very dear to his heart.”

Did Anders Lassen (Alan Ritchson) really use a bow and arrow to kill Nazis?
Alan Ritchson plays burly Nazi hunter Anders Lassen in the film.
Ritchson’s hulking character is an instant scene-stealer, handily killing Nazis with everything from axes to bows and arrows. Lassen is nicknamed “The Danish Hammer” in the movie, although in real life he was called “The Viking.” He was, in his own way, “psychotic about killing Nazis,” Amel says. “He did show up with a bow and arrow from his hunting days in Denmark. He brought this very primitive way of killing to a very mechanized war.”

Did that bloody rescue from the Nazi base really happen?
One of the most brutal action sequences occurs early in the film when Gus and his cohorts sneak into a Nazi military base, where they gun down dozens of soldiers and save their comrade Geoffrey Appleyard (Alex Pettyfer) from torture by the Gestapo. The scene is an amalgamation of a few historical events.

“In the true story, not a single shot was actually fired,” Amel says. “What happened was even more comical: There was one Nazi (who) fainted. A bunch of them were in the shower. The commandant had a hairnet on. And they all gave up immediately when they saw these four or five guys.”

Was that suitcase train heist based on real events?
In one suspenseful sequence on a train, Marjorie and Heron (Babs Olusanmokun) swipe a Nazi suitcase full of classified information using a slightly larger, Russian doll-style briefcase. In real life, the heist went down almost exactly as depicted in the film, with a contraption built in a weapons facility known as Churchill’s Toyshop, Lewis says. “There, they developed all these crazy, mad ways of killing people: exploding suitcases, guns designed as pens, even rat droppings that were actually (land) mines when you walked on them.”

Did they actually throw costume parties to distract the Germans?
In the movie’s third act, Heron throws two elaborate costume parties – one for Nazi officers, another for soldiers – to distract the Germans as Gus and his men steal the Duchessa cargo ship. The parties happened: “In fact, the true story is even better than reality,” Lewis says. “The officers’ party was actually set at a café overlooking the harbor. It was the only venue available, so the British agents onshore sat the officers looking away from the harbor with a bunch of (prostitutes) so they were captivated.” They also filled the terrace with lanterns so the party was “bathed in light and the harbor was a sea of darkness. That’s how they tricked them into not seeing what was happening.”

Who was Eiza González’s character, Marjorie Stewart?
Marjorie Stewart (Eiza González) is a Jewish woman working undercover in "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare."
Stewart is an actress-turned-markswoman in the movie, who in real life went on to marry March-Phillips before he was killed in 1942. In actuality, “Marjorie didn’t go out on a mission in Operation Postmaster, but she (had) a key role in planning and putting it all together,” Amel says. “Given that she was actually training a lot of the female spies going behind enemy lines, it would’ve been criminal to not send her out on a mission in the movie to respect and honor her.”

How many Nazis did the Ministry actually kill?
Watching “Ungentlemanly Warfare,” you might get the idea that half a dozen operatives offed hundreds of Nazis. The exact number is impossible to nail down, but “it’s a lot,” Amel says. “They killed a lot! But you have to remember, the unit wasn’t just five or six people; the number grew to 55 (agents), leading multiple operations at different times. But the lead crew and the pioneers of it were essentially the people you see in the movie.” "

[Vicus]

Harmony (2018)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fia3wDo-SWQ

Just minutes ago I finish to watch this film... never knew about it...until 2 hours ago
searching for some interesting movie, the commentary told me: OK, a WOO stuff...

Something remind me some legends/myths ...the use as catalisator the element
water, we know that,from esoteric woo, it is a medium in between "worlds"...
An example is the scene in the first movie "Lord of the Rings" where that 9 demons
Black Riders following Frodo cant cross the river 2 times, and Arwen save the day...or use
water as "mirror" to "see" things...that was,that are and some things that don't came to pass,yet...

At the same time remember some damn incidents with people whom were in Woo films
and reveled too much...I got a bad feeling...sadly confirmed when

reading about this movie in internet :

It looks like this movie was intended to have a sequel based on the ending so I looked it up. The actress who played Harmony (Jessica Falkholt) was in a car crash right after she made this movie. She and her entire family tragically died.

This film isn't negative but the Demons in Hollywierd are...

[Delight]

Sometimes a little GEM of a movie appears out of nowhere.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9q0zblpH4Lc

[Ewan]

Brought to my attention by Arwen here

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0C4O_n-Was

[BMJ]

Unbroken

A great and very inspiring true story.

[RunningDeer]

The Simple Life Of Noah Dearborn Trailer 1999

• IMDb rating 7.4
• Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dianne Wiest, Mary-Louise Parker, George Newbern.

A 91-year-old carpenter has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FiKqrtFwams

[Eva2]

'TETOUZE Syntony
Syntony happen all the time,
sound, noise and movement which are on the same frequency, same note
if we can notice it, we start to understand the grid of this reality,
means everything is vibrating and can be in harmony.
nature is always looking for balance. '

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9RdjZHMAo

'Human body is just matter
it becomes alive with electricity & frequency
Earth, sun, moon are electro magnetic loaded

Everything is connected by frequencies
and sound is the most universal & original spark of life
Music connect to life, to the divine'

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y2SHo87VN3I

'A trip into shamanic world with electronic sounds
Music composition, flute, sitar, vocal, guzheng by TETOUZE

I made many pictures on Midjourney & i put them into Gen 2 Runway
#runway #midjourney #sitar #electronic #flute #beats #indiansinging

I had some sitar video shot from desert and @Sonya Nakti on dance, filmed in India

Music by TETOUZE '

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BxOY6_7Ol04

[Nasu]

https://actvid.rs/movie/watch-boss-level-full-41527

Can’t recommend this enough. Boss level. If you liked Groundhog Day but wanted more violence and action, this is the one…….x…….N

You’ll have to deal with the pop ups, you can do it….

[Nasu]

https://actvid.rs/movie/watch-seven-samurai-full-19048

Also, the OG of all action movies, seven samurai. Remember the magnificent seven, a sad and bad knock off of this. Truly a masterpiece, sad, tragic, inspiring and a call to our inner warrior, enjoy….x… N

You’ll have to deal with the pop ups, you can do it….

[onevoice]

Posted by Nasu (here)
https://actvid.rs/movie/watch-seven-samurai-full-19048

Also, the OG of all action movies, seven samurai. Remember the magnificent seven, a sad and bad knock off of this. Truly a masterpiece, sad, tragic, inspiring and a call to our inner warrior, enjoy….x… N

You’ll have to deal with the pop ups, you can do it….

You can download this movie from here until 11 April, 2025.

[Delight]

This was inspiring.

Jack London's Martin Eden (2024)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T0ssIG_tLvE

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Delight (here)
This was inspiring.

Jack London's Martin Eden (2024)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T0ssIG_tLvE

Thank you Delight, that was my favorite novel from Jack London. Can't wait to watch!

[Raskolnikov]

Interesting to note that another Martin Eden was made by Pietro Marcello in 2019, just two years before this one, and takes place in Naples:

Jack London's Novel 'Martin Eden' Gets a New Life via Filmmakers — Including Vermonter Jay Craven

Most of us know American writer Jack London for his adventure classic The Call of the Wild or his harrowing short story "To Build a Fire." His 1909 autobiographical novel Martin Eden is less likely to show up on high school reading lists. Yet, in a mysterious cultural convergence, two directors of different nationalities recently released separate adaptations of the book...

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/on-scree...raven-35490438

[seekingtruth]

This was an unexpected blast (Boss Level), I remember seeing this when it came out, went in blind and it caught me off guard how entertaining it was. Nothing highbrow, but a lot of fun.

Here's a good shout for a movie with uplifting vibes. If you haven't seen this it is an absolute gem.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=34WIbmXkewU

[Ewan]

Posted by seekingtruth (here)
I remember seeing this when it came out, went in blind and it caught me off guard how entertaining it was. Nothing highbrow, but a lot of fun.

Here's a good shout for a movie with uplifting vibes. If you haven't seen this it is an absolute gem.

Yes, top class film.

[Tintin]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a brief clip with the peerless Jack Nicholson as Randle P McMurphy: it's a barnstormer of a classic movie, and moving to boot. It also boasts an extraordinary ensemble cast. We studied the book when I was at secondary (High) school as well. Just a top quality film

[seekingtruth]

Here's a movie I cannot say is uplifting, but is beautiful in a kind of ball-your-eyes-out way. Intensely emotional, parents everywhere will resonate strongly with this one. Great soundtrack, great performances, and a very poignant story. It's a tale of a father whose son was killed in a school shooting.

If it went under your radar, check it out, wonderful film that will stay in your thoughts for a long while.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FGBVnURPuOg