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This type is for anything that a film can be said to be about or which features strongly in a film. This can be the subject of a documentary, the person (or people) whose life is the basis of a biopic, or simply a topic that is dealt with in a film.
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| Climate change |
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Book Subject | An Inconvenient Truth |
Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of...
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| Military-industrial complex |
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A military-industrial complex (MIC) is phrase commonly used to refer a nation's armed forces, its suppliers of weapons systems, supplies and services, and its civil government as one group. It is a type of iron triangle.
The term "MIC" is most...
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| Battle of Iwo Jima |
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Military Conflict | Flags of Our Fathers |
The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19-March 26, 1945) was the United States capture of the island of Iwo Jima from Japan, producing some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II.
The Japanese positions on the island were...
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| GG Allin |
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Film music contributor | Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies |
Kevin Michael "GG" Allin (29 August 1956 – 29 June 1993) was a hardcore punk singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded with many groups during his career.
Allin is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically...
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| Punk rock |
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Musical genre | Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies |
Punk rock (often referred to simply as punk) is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known...
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| Film genre | SLC Punk! | |||
| Broadcast Genre | The Decline of Western Civilization | |||
| Films About | A Clockwork Orange | |||
| Cyberspace | Book Subject | Tron |
Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures (ITI) including the Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors...
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| Location | The Matrix | |||
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| The Shining |
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Film | Making "The Shining" |
The Shining is a 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as...
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| Order of magnitude | Powers of Ten |
An order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it. The ratio most commonly used is 10.
Orders of magnitude are generally used to make very...
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| Artificial intelligence |
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Book Subject | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Artificial intelligence (AI) is both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it.
Major AI textbooks define artificial intelligence as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"where an intelligent...
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| Character Species | A.I. | |||
| Industry | The Matrix | |||
| Quotation Subject | Colossus: The Forbin Project | |||
| Profession | The Adolescence of P-1 | |||
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| Extraterrestrial life |
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Character Species | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Extraterrestrial life is life originating outside of the Earth. It is the subject of astrobiology, and its existence remains hypothetical. There is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life that has been widely accepted by the scientific...
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| Exhibition subject | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | ||||
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| Technology |
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Website Category | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tool and craft, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. In human society, it is a consequence of science and engineering, although...
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| Zodiac Killer |
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Person | Zodiac |
The Zodiac Killer is a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. His identity remains unknown. The Zodiac coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press. His letters included four cryptogram (or...
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| Religion |
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Building function | The Root of All Evil? |
A religion is a set of tenet and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or...
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| Quotation Subject | Oh, God! | |||
| Book Subject | The Ten Commandments | |||
| Type/domain equivalent topic | The Passion of the Christ | |||
| Field Of Study | The Golden Compass | |||
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| RMS Titanic |
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Exhibition subject | Titanic |
RMS Titanic was an ''Olympic''-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic struck an iceberg, and sank two hours...
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| Time travel |
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Book Subject | Back to the Future |
Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to a moment before the present, or...
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| Character Power | Back to the Future Part III | |||
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| The 4400 | ||||
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| Existentialism |
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Philosophical Movement | I ♥ Huckabees |
Existentialism is a philosophical movement which posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to it being created for them by deities or authorities or defined for them by philosophical or theological doctrines.
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| Book Subject | The Stranger | |||
| Le Samouraï | ||||
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| War |
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Book Subject | Wag the Dog |
War is a complex social phenomenon, characterised by organised and reciprocal violence between social units. In his seminal work “On War”, Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the “continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means.” War is...
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| Computer Game Genre | Shame | |||
| Quotation Subject | A Bridge Too Far | |||
| Literary Genre | Gladiator | |||
| Art Subject | Apocalypse Now | |||
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| Al Capone |
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Person | The Untouchables |
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the...
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| Fraud | Profession | The Hoax |
In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and is also a civil law violation. Many hoax are fraudulent, although those not made for personal...
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| Clifford Irving |
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Person | The Hoax |
Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American writer, best known for an "authorized autobiography" of Howard Hughes that turned out to be a hoax.
Irving grew up in New York City, the son of Dorothy and Jay Irving, a magazine cover...
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| Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor |
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Person | The 11th Day: Crete 1941 |
Sir Patrick 'Paddy' Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He is famous for his travel writing...
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| Lucid dreaming |
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Paprika |
A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress, also known as a conscious dream. When the dreamer is lucid, he or she can actively participate in the dream environment without any of...
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| Anime |
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( in Japanese, but typically , , , or in English) is an abbreviation of the English word "animation," originating in Japan through the roots of manga. Although the term is used in Japan to refer to animation in general, in English usage the term...
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| Jean-Michel Basquiat |
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Person | Basquiat |
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. He gained popularity, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful 1980s-era Neo-expressionist artist. Basquiat...
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| Figure skating |
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Sport | Blades of Glory |
Figure skating is an athletic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and...
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| Jake LaMotta |
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Person | Raging Bull |
Giacobbe La Motta (born July 10, 1921), better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former boxing middleweight champion who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull.
LaMotta, born in the New...
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| Espionage |
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TV Genre | The Bourne Ultimatum |
Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining (i.e., using human intelligence HUMINT methods) information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine,...
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| Media genre | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | |||
| Character Occupation | Three Days of the Condor | |||
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| Affair | Little Children |
For other uses, see Love Affair or ScandalAn affair may refer to a form of nonmonogamy, to infidelity or to adultery. Where an affair lacks both overt and covert sexual behaviour and yet exhibits intense or enduring emotional intimacy it is called...
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| Suburb |
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Little Children |
Suburbs are commonly defined as residential areas on the outskirts of a city or large town. Most modern suburbs are commuter town with many single-family homes. Many suburbs have some degree of political autonomy and most have lower population...
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