Kanopy & Hoopla Presents:

Action Movies

Black Hawk Down

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

R I Drama, History, War I 2001 I 2h 24 min

The Lost City of Z Based on author David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller, The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.

PG-13 I Biography, Drama, History I 2016 I 2h 21min

Flyboys Inspired by the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country’s first fighter pilots.

PG-13 I Action, Drama, History I 2006 I 2h 20min

Centurion

A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.

R I Action, Drama, History I 2010 I 1h 37min

Violet & Daisy Starring Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, Danny Trejo and James Gandolfini. Violet and Daisy are a pair of gum-cracking assassins who casually snuff out crime figures in New York City.

R I Action, Comedy, Crime I 2011 I 1h 28min

Eye in the Sky

Helen Mirren stars as Colonel Katherine Powell, a military office in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

R I Drama, Thriller, War I 2015 I 1h 42min

Run Boy Run Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then as a Christian orphan named Jurek on a Polish farm. Throughout his ordeal, his Jewish identity is in danger of being lost. The story is based on the bestseller by Uri Orlev.

Not Rated I Action, Biography, Drama I 2013 I 1h 52min

Anthropoid Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate the SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler.

R I Action, Biography, Drama I 2016 I 2h