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Il titolo del film, Il ponte delle spie, fa riferimento a un ponte realmente esistente a Berlino, che un tempo univa la zona est e quella ovest, oggi noto come Ponte di Glienicke. Il soprannome gli viene dal fatto di essere stato spesso teatro di scambi di prigionieri tra i servizi segreti americani e quelli della Germania Est. Il ponte delle spie racconta la storia di James Donovan (Tom Hanks), un famoso avvocato di Brooklyn che si ritrova al centro della Guerra Fredda

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.

During World War I, the Allies and Germans repeatedly struggled to break the hideous stalemate of trench warfare. In the winter of 1916, Allied engineers devised a massive surprise attack on the German army.. NOVA follows bomb disposal experts as they clear topsoil packed with shrapnel and unexploded shells and probe one tunnel system connected to what is probably the world's largest unexploded bomb--a mine consisting of 22 tons of explosives that was flooded by German engineers before the attack. "Secret Tunnel Warfare" opens a unique window on the frenzy of Allied mining activity that led up to the attack, and its bitter aftermath.

United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.

Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak.

On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers from two commercial expeditions start their final ascent toward the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. With little warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds.

These are the men and women who saw it all. Extraordinary, powerful first-hand accounts of the Second World War. Tales from Auschwitz, Special Operations, war correspondents, resistance fighters and the Jewish Brigade reveal personal experiences of war that shatter all illusions. A British prisoner who survived Auschwitz and describes his life there. An undercover agent captured by the Nazis, whose prison camp experiences were used to indict war criminals. A British soldier tortured by the Gestapo who lived to become a dedicated Nazi hunter. A war correspondent who inadvertently stumbled on preparations for the invasion of Poland. A fighter with the Jewish Brigade, torn between humanity and army regulations. An undercover resistance fighter who time and again braved the Germans face to face. Featuring rare archival footage and photographs, these stories and others provide an intense and valuable human document of the war, unlike any seen or heard before.

An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

Every day our planet faces cataclysmic events that threaten our very existence. Whether from natural or man-made forces, rising from the earth or menacing from space, the world seems beset by more catastrophes than ever. Some believe the signs of the coming Apocalypse are all around us–as outlined in the bible’s most compelling book of prophecies: Revelation. And even the non-religious can’t ignore what appears to be a growing rate of globe-threatening disasters. Are we approaching a biblical “End of Times”? And if so–how will it happen? Will it come from an act of God? Or a colossal misstep of man? Get an uncomfortably close front row seat to some of the most likely apocalyptic scenarios our world faces today–and the history, both scientific and biblical, behind them.