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    The Uprising

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    Director Paul Greengrass dramatizes a chapter of history with clear modern-day parallels, and despite his unsubtle approach, the result is a stirring epic.

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Howards End (1992)

Merchant Ivory’s greatest achievement is this faithful, spiritual adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel. 

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