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The
New Millennium
Continued from Page 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain
The 21st Century The
Third Millennium 2000's
31 December 1999 - 1 January 2000
Sydney, Australia
The Kremlin,
Moscow
Big Ben,
London, New Year's 2000
Paris
Times Square,
Manhattan, New Year's 2000
CELEBRATING THE NEW MILLENIUM AROUND THE WORLD
CNN
1 hr. 23 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZ3WPM3xaE&t=278s
02:32 First people to ring in the Year 2000 on Earth
20:37 South Korea Millennium celebrations
29:47 Final seconds to midnight in Moscow
32:50 Footage from Bethlehem
41:47 Eiffel Tower clock stops in Paris
46:22 Footage from St. Peter's Square
52:07 The Queen lights the London Beacon
01:01:48 The Lincoln Memorial fireworks display
01:09:31 Chicago fireworks display
01:19:08 Happy New Year in every language of the world
The Greatest Movies of the 20th Century
CASABLANCA
Released in November 1942
Patriotism and clandestinity in French Morocco in WW2.
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, an American night club
owner in Casablanca.
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa, Rick's ex-fiancée
Claude Rains as the chief of police
Paul Henreid as a European resistance leader
Conrad Veidt as the German military liaison
Sydney Greenstreet as the owner of another night club
Peter Lorre as an Italian black marketeer and gambler
Dooley Wilson as the piano player in Rick's club.
1 hr. 42 min.
https://vk.com/video216667643_165547932?to=L3ZpZGVvMjE2NjY3NjQzXzE2NTU0NzkzMj8-
In two parts:
Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmVA48lpmA
Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntl2-W1Oi8I
Advertisement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkL9l7qovsE
As Time Goes By
Sung by Dooley Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22CiKMPpaY
Casablanca Suite
The John Wilson Orchestra
BBC Proms
2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvOY9H-zj8
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
1943 movie - a western
The Nevada Territory in 1885.
A large posse accuses three cattle herders of murder
and cattle rustling
Henry Fonda, a cowboy, accompanies the posse
Harry Morgan, his partner
Dana Andrews, a cattle herder accused of murder
and rustling
Anthony Quinn, a cattle herder accused of murder
1 hr. 15 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e207GpumJuY&t=6s
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOLRUEUa3g
HIGH NOON
1952 movie - a western
The New Mexico territory in 1889.
A bad man is released from prison and seeks revenge
against the marshal who arrested him years earlier.
Gary Cooper as Will Kane, marshal of a small town
Grace Kelly as Mrs. Kane
Lloyd Bridges
Katy Jurado
Lee Van Cleef
Harry Morgan
1:25:07
https://m.ok.ru/video/274783210147
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbxqvYADMxI&t=6s
High Noon
Song
Tex Ritter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzGtvnjtGtM
SHANE
1953 movie - a western
A big rancher wants all the smaller local ranchers to sell him their land. He will resort to any means to get his way.
Alan Ladd as Shane
Jean Arthur
Van Heflin
Jack Palance
1 hr. 58 min.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8yszuw
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
1957 movie - World War Two in the jungles of
Southeast Asia
The year is 1943.
The Japanese occupy Southeast Asia and are building
a railroad from Bangkok to Calcutta. The British
want to destroy it.
Based on the book of the same name by Pierre
Boule
William Holden as Commander Shears, American
P. O. W.
Jack Hawkins as Major Warden, British commando
Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson, senior
British officer in a P. O. W. camp
Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito, Japanese
commander of the P. O. W. camp
Directed by David Lean
2 hrs. 41 min.
https://m.ok.ru/video/2090020047523
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlC7XBayj0s
Colonel Bogey's March
BBC Concert Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VUSsNrT7Po&t=12s
PORK CHOP HILL
1959 movie - Korean War
American soldiers fight the Chinese and North Koreans
in a battle for a hill in Korea in April 1953.
Gregory Peck
Rip Torn
Woody Strode
https://m.ok.ru/video/827646675458
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtzvRs-u2MY
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
1962 movie - The Great War / World War 1 in the
Near East
The British join the Bedouins to overthrow
Turkish rule in the Near East in 1917 and 1918
Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence / Lawrence
of Arabia
Jack Hawkins as General Edmund Allenby
Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal
Donald Wolfit
Claude Rains
Omar Sharif
Anthony Quayle
Anthony Quinn
Arthur Kennedy
José Ferrer
3:47:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiZu5C6lCo
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1C7wwBEq6c
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9boARnzvG8
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjRMo_Xq8eE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlsnDZm0ZM
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YH4ubUrT5s&t=42s
Lawrence of Arabia theme
John Wilson Orchestra
Proms 2007
04:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1mI-P9Z3s
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AznzZAlwVA
BECKET
1964
Richard Burton as Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor (1155
to 1162) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1162 to 1170).
Peter O'Toole as King Henry II of England (1154 to 1189)
John Gielgud as King Louis VII of France
Donald Wolfit as Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London
The King appoints his best friend the senior minister and, later, senior bishop and leader of the Church of England. The
King assumes his friend will do his bidding. But that is not how things turn out.
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVTm3HxSNRU
Film
2:28:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMwgMDUjVf0
2:28:20
https://ok.ru/video/3970502167246
2:22:15
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23tcdn
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhRfODgsp3M
In French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxjfTpe-y8
FAIL SAFE
1964 movie - Nuclear war
A computer error triggers a nuclear confrontation
between the United States and the Soviet Union
Frank Overton as the American general in charge of
the Strategic Air Command war room
Henry Fonda as the U. S. president
Walter Matthau as a presidential advisor
Larry Hagman as the president's interpreter
https://ok.ru/video/7365604084280
HAMBURGER HILL
1987 movie - Vietnam War
A battle in Vietnam for a hill near the Laotian
border in May 1969
1 hr. 45 min.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9d18xm
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os4s7kYthuA
The most popular movies about Vietnam were Kung
Fu films with Chuck Norris; fantastic 'theatre',
like Apocalypse Now! with Marlon Brando; and a
John Wayne film, The Green Berets.
Hamburger Hill, like the earlier movie,
Pork Chop Hill, is a realistic account
of a battle for a hill.
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