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    Les Vampires is a 1915–1916 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. Set in Paris, it stars Édouard Mathé, Musidora and...
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  • La Grande Illusion (French for "The Grand Illusion") is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles...
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    Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF...
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  • self-confessed "jobbing actor", Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts. Le Mesurier became interested...
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    Barbie's final statement, spoken in French, was: "I did not commit the raid on Izieu. I fought the Résistance and that was the war, and today the war...
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    2005 in Australia 2005 in Australian television List of 2005 box office number-one films in Australia...
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  • involved in the new film. Legendary Pictures also had no involvement with the sequel. The Great Raid, a 2005 war film about the raid at Cabanatuan in the...
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  • Australian World War II commando raid in New Guinea Stephen V of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia from 1538 to 1540 Rich LeFevre, competitive eater nicknamed...
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  • entries pushing this inflation-adjusted figure to a grand total in excess of $20 billion. The films have won six Academy Awards: for Sound Effects (now...
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  • feast. While the Grand Duke is away in Lithuania, his power-hungry younger brother forms an allegiance with a group of Tatars and raids Vladimir. The invasion...
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  • best-selling foreign language film on physical home video formats, second only to the Indonesian action film The Raid. It was later the UK's ninth best-selling...
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  • abandoned monastery in Azrou, Morocco. The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix, the festival's second most prestigious...
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    January 2015, GIGN was engaged for the very first time simultaneously with RAID, the National Police tactical unit, during the January 2015 Île-de-France...
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  • Pierre de Coubertin, etc. Despite these raids, 4,000 to 5,000 people succeeded in demonstrating peacefully on the Grands Boulevards from République to Opéra...
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  • Louis Malle (category European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners)
    (1978), the romantic crime film Atlantic City (1980), the dramedy My Dinner with Andre (1981), and the autobiographical Au revoir les enfants (1987). He also...
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    environmental crime to that date. After the FBI raid, federal authorities used the subsequent grand jury investigation to gather evidence of wrongdoing...
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    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN; née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known...
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    doctrine Informational notes Hessel 2005, p. 107 Goebbels used several terms including Terrorangriffe (terror raids) or Terrorhandlungen (terrorist activities)...
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    Abbé Pierre (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    Zinedine Zidane, moving to second place. In 2005, Abbé Pierre came third in a television poll to choose Le Plus Grand Français (The Greatest Frenchman).[citation...
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  • (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires: Milady, titled The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady in the United States) is a 2023 epic action-adventure film directed...
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    Yann Tiersen (category French film score composers)
    (vibraphone), "L'heure bleue" (violin), "Le verre pilé" (vibraphone); arrangements Gratte-poil (by Têtes Raides) (2000) "Cabaret des nues" (violin) R/O/C/K/Y...
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    Harris would ultimately get the heavy bombers needed. By the time of the big raid on Hamburg at the end of July 1943, both air forces needed a significant...
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    find room for 'The Raid 2'". Retrieved 6 November 2016. "'CAROL' LEADS 2015 FLORIDA FILM CRITICS AWARDS NOMINATIONS". Florida Film Critics Circle. 21...
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  • back into the studios at night, raided the prop room" and shot a number of hardcore sex scenes to be edited into the film. The new unsimulated sex scenes...
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    assassination campaign against the organizers of the massacre, a bombing and a raid on the PLO headquarters in Lebanon. On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian...
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  • (1984–1996). Louis Le Pensec, 87, French politician, minister of agriculture (1997–1998) and senator (1998–2008). Janusz Majewski, 92, Polish film director (Lokis...
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    destruction of the casino had only begun at the time of the Dieppe Raid. The raid proved a costly lesson for the Allies. On August 19, 1942, Allied soldiers...
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  • continued airing for a total of five seasons until 2009. It spawned a feature film Totally Spies! The Movie and a spin-off series The Amazing Spiez!. In 2013...
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    and on film. The Lee H. Katzin film Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen, used real race footage, and enjoys cult status. The 1986 arcade game WEC Le Mans was...
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