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In the heart-pounding thriller Man on a Ledge, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) makes a desperate and life-threatening move to prove his innocence after he is framed for the theft of a rare, prized diamond. Recently escaped from prison and with nowhere else to go, Nick climbs onto the ledge of a towering skyscraper, inviting the eyes of New York City to anxiously watch as one wrong step could mean plunging to his death. But as one police negotiator soon learns, Nick's daredevil stunt, captivating the eyes of the public and media, masks a dangerous ploy to reveal the truth about his tarnished name. With the help of his brother and with time running out, Nick's intricate plan must work perfectly, but when you're on the 25th floor ledge of a building, going down takes on an entirely more hair-raising meaning. With unpredictable twists and electrifying turns, Man on a Ledge features an amazing ensemble cast including Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Edward Burns, Genesis Rodriguez, Kyra Sedgwick, and Ed Harris. Age: 13

ONE MAN NELSON MANDELA Synopsis: One Man...One Nation...One Country Nelson Mandela is a shining example of what one man can do to change the world. Born into an oppressive regime, he fought to overcome prejudice and hate to unify a nation. Mandela was jailed for much of his life because of his beliefs, but he accepted his fate with dignity; he was prepared to die for his cause. Nelson Mandela’s dedication resulted in his inauguration as the first black President of South Africa; his award of the Nobel Peace Prize and ultimately, his role in overthrowing the Apartheid regime. Our programme will detail the life of Nelson Mandela. We will look at the events that surrounded Mandela’s arrest; the campaigns to release him; his time as President of South Africa and also the charitable work he has done. The tone of this programme will be uplifting and elegant. We will acknowledge the atrocities of human rights violation that Mandela fought to end; we will celebrate his beliefs and passion, and we will pay tribute to a man who offered his life to improve the lives of others. Nelson Mandela is a hero of our time, and the courage he showed ensures his story is forever told, and forever revered.   Starring: Nelson Mandela Together With Friends   Category: Documentary   Age Restriction: PG V

IP MAN Synopsis: Ip Man is an award winning adaptation based on the life of Ip Man (Donnie Yen), the grandmaster of Wing Chun and later teacher and mentor to widely influential and legendary martial artist, Bruce Lee.  Ip Man is set in the s in Foshan, a hub of southern Chinese martial arts just as the Second Sino-Japan war breaks out. During the war, China is nearly ripped to pieces by racial hatred, nationalistic strife and warfare. Ip Man rose like a phoenix above these ashes as he defied an empire bringing hope to China.  Ip Man is one the best martial arts movies of all time!  25th Hong Kong Film Awards: • Winner - Best Picture  • Winner - Best Action Design (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Tony Leung Siu-Hung) • Nomination - Best Director (Wilson Yip Wai-Shun) • Nomination - Best Actor (Donnie Yen Ji-Dan)  • Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Louis Fan Siu-Wong) • Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Gordon Lam Ka-Tung) • Nomination - Best Cinematography (O Sing-Pui) • Nomination - Best Editing (Cheung Ka-Fai) • Nomination - Best Art Direction (Kenneth Mak Kwok-Keung) • Nomination - Best Original Film Score (Kenji Kawai • Nomination - Best Sound Design (Kinson Tsang King-Cheung) • Nomination - Best Visual Effects (Henri Wong Chi-Hung)   Starring: Donnie Yen Simon Yam   Category: Action, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

LEGEND IS BORN IP MAN  Synopsis: "A Kick Ass Martial Arts Movie" Robert Lee @ The Movies The true story of Bruce Lee's Mentor. For the first time, witness the early years of the revolutionary grandmaster who trained martial arts superstar and cultural icon, Bruce Lee.  Packed with Kung Fu Combat and thick with drama, The Legend Is Born follows Ip Man as her grows form a promising young pupil into an unstoppable force. When political corruption threatens his temple, his friends and his honor, Man singlehandedly challenges a warm of shinobi in an ultimate showdown.  Featuring a blind-folded battle between film stars Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, and an appearance by Ip Man's real son, this high-impact masterpiece undoubtedly "deserves to be seen by all Martial arts fans." - flash-ban-movie-reviews.com    Starring: Sammo Hung Xu Jiao   Category: Action, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 13 PGV

A MAN CALLED HERO Synopsis: A big-budget follow-up to the Hong Kong smash hit "The Storm Riders", again from Golden Harvest Films. The movie attains fleeting echoes of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America"; the plot is overflowing with characters and subplots, but is far easier to follow than "Storm Riders," thanks to much more fluid lensing by returning director Andrew Lau. It contains a remarkably fine score by Chan Kwong-wing, which knits together the story's sprawling emotional fabric. Scripter Manfred Wong's extensive flashback structure, with three characters giving different perspectives on the hero's odyssey, works surprisingly well.     Starring: Ekin Cheng Shu Qi   Category: Martial Art   Age Restriction: 13 V

ZORRO GENERATION Z - A Z IN TIME Synopsis: Every Generation Needs A New Hero...It's time for Zorro for this millennium! Ride along with Zorro and his crime fighting friends, including a fellow freshman named The Scarlet Whip. Diego de la Vega is a modern day, young man entering his first year of college. A descendant of Zorro’s past, he has reason to once again pick up the mantle when his birth city grows increasingly corrupt. Being a Zorro of modern-day means, he fights crime with high-tech gadgets and a new type of horsepower – a motorcycle called the Tornado-Z. Join this historic legend and superhero as the all-new El Zorro rides again!   Starring: Animation   Category: Animation   Age Restriction: ALL AGES

ADVENTURES OF BANDOLERO Synopsis: A Legend Known To All! The story begins in a prosperous land, whose people are happy and content. But all this comes to an end when a new Governor is installed, bringing troops under the command of Don Rodrigo, a cruel tyrant. He forces the citizens to such heavy taxes that in a short time, all of them are reduced to abject poverty The time is ripe for a hero, a man who will bring justice to the land, and challenge the evil Don Rodrigo. This man will soon become a legend, and will be known to one and all as BANDOLERO...   Starring: Animation   Category: Animation   Age Restriction: ALL AGES

General Ben Viljoen My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War (1902) Published: Hood, Douglas & Howard, London, 1902 Edition: First Edition   Publisher's red cloth binding with black titles. Manilla Paper. No foxing, Browned edges from age. Cover stained and taped with cellotape Piece of the spine cover missing. binding with some age associated edge wear. Very light water stain to first 5 pages not affecting the type. Maps and Plates all good and clear. Would do great with a restored or new Cover.Inner pages clear with very minor browning. General Viljoen never returned to South Africa after the war as he refused to become a subject of the British Empire. In 1909 he was granted U.S. citizenship. He was familiar with both Theodore Roosevelt and Mexican Revolutionary Francisco Madero. He fought on the side of Madero at the battle of Ciudad Juarez. His book is described as being 'a realistic description of the war from a Boer perspective'.Some excerpts from Mendelssohn Vol.II: 'The author was instructed by General Joubert to proceed to the Natal frontier, and he subsequently joined the troops under General Kock's command. He does not appear to have had a high opinion of his leader, and remarks, possibly if we "had had less to do with arrogant and stupid old men, we should have reached Cape Town or Durban." From time to time he expresses his discontent with most of the Boer Generals of the old school, and he was extremely impatient of their super-caution, credulity, and superstition, which brought him on several occasions to the verge of insubordination, whilst at times he considered that he had been slighted by Joubert, who appears to have been dubious as to the courage of the leader and his Johannesburg men.' The so-called Handsuppers 'were regarded by the General as traitors, and there is an account of the "execution" of Meyer De Kock who came to Viljoen's camp to induce his men to surrender, and who, it is stated, was the first man who first suggested to the British authorities the establishment of concentration camps. The Boer General defends the blowing up of trains, which he considered quite as justifiable as the burning of houses, and was, he asserts, no doubt as distasteful to him as the latter was to Lord Kitchener.' 'He was sent to St. Helena on February 19th, and speaks with some dissatisfaction of his treatment on the island.'

AMAZING DOBERMAN Synopsis: The Dobermans are back after Doberman Gang and Daring Doberman. An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Department agent to stop a racketeer and his gang. This time, the pinschers are back, and they're even more fun than before. A federal agent taking on a powerful racketeer enlists the aid of the talented canines and their owner - the oddly cast Astaire - who is a quirky Bible-quoting ex-con man. This is the last film of the series.   Starring: Fred Astaire James Franciscus     Category: Action, Robbery   Age Restriction: PG

MEN OF ACTION BOXSET Synopsis: BLACK EAGLE: One of our government's finest secret agents is dispatched to the island of Malta to retrieve an American jet plane which crashed behind enemy lines. The plane was carrying a top secret laser guidance system, and our-man-in-Malta must locate it before it falls into the hands of the Russians. His task is made all the more difficult by the fact that he has his children on vacation with him on the (now quite dangerous) isle. Daddy must somehow manage to save the "free" world while at the same time keeping one anxious eye on his own vulnerable offspring. WAY OF THE DRAGON: At last - the complete uncut version. After 29 years of waiting, ‘Way of the Dragon’ is now available to audiences as director Bruce Lee intended. Now re-instated are the 10 minutes of incredible high- impact fight footage previously prohibited. In this high-kicking martial arts thriller, a young man (Bruce Lee) is called to Rome to help a family friend whose restaurant is being targeted by local gangsters. Used to getting their own way, these ruthless men make the mistake of underestimating the young man's ingenuity. When they are unable to get rid of him, they call in an international martial arts champion (Chuck Norris), creating the ultimate clash of kung fu masters in the ancient city's majestic coliseum. KING OF ROBBERS: Get ready to get even. Leverage is a slick and crafty drama following a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford (Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton) gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists. While working a con on a corrupt County judge in an outlying desert town,the team gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery... and Nate and Sophie are taken as hostages, along with their mark. Now, they must not only find a way to keep their own con going without being discovered,but must figure out how to help two very desperate – and very amateur – armed robbers.   Starring: Jean Calude Van Damme Bruce Lee   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 13 LV

IRON MONKEY PRESENTED BY QUENTIN TARANTINO Synopsis: Unmask The Legend With sensational, nonstop martial arts excitement supplied by the acclaimed choreographer of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Iron Monkey is the spirited tale of a mysterious and mythical Chinese legend! In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one man - known as the Iron Monkey - has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and the oppressed. Although no one knows his name or where he comes from, his heroism makes him a living legend to the people... and a wanted man to the powers that be. Presented by Quentin Tarantino - don't miss the exhilarating action adventure that critics everywhere have called one of the greatest martial arts films of all time!  13th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards • Nomination - Best Action Design (Yuen Woo-Ping) "Two Thumps Up" Roger & Roeper "More fun then Crouching Tiger" San Fransico Chronical   Starring: Donnie Yen Yu Rong Guang   Category: Action, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 13 V

ENTER THE TIGER Synopsis: Don Wong one of the greatest Kung Fu fighters stars in this brilliant kung fu film of them all in Enter the Tiger. He’s out to seek vengeance and in bringing the criminals to justice. Kung fu superstar Don Wong Tao stars, produces, and even outlines the story of this stylish re-working of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West". Wong portrays a man known as "Miracle" who has descended on a sleepy town and has begun eliminating the members of the "Black Dragon Society" in retribution for their crimes against him. The leader of the gang, "Hunchback" (Gam Ming, aka Tommy Lee), deploys all his best fighters to stop the "Miracle" man.     Starring: Don Wong Robert Lee     Category: Martial Art   Age Restriction: 10 V

Defence against total attack by Anthony Harrigan FIRST EDITION, POLITICAL     Anthony Harrigan argues that conflict is not a disease and that the character of man finds its manifestations in struggle. He says that the theory that non-conflict can only lead to the enslavement of mankind.  “Life without conflict would be a reduction of man’s existence tot the pre-human level, to life without quality”, he says. He looks at conflict in the Congo; conflict in the modern world; conflict and Nihilism; war and morality; psychological warfare, toxic warfare, and also has a chapter on South Africa: “strength through struggle” in which he warns against the aggressiveness and global ambitions of “emerging,” nations. He sites England and its “rising tide of immigration” and the spectre of it becoming a coloured country, as an example of what can happen to South Africa.   Nasionale Boekhandel, p. FIRST EDITION Condition: Hard cover, dust jacket, contents in good condition. Only slight age yellowing.   Packaging and Postage R28 POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON FRIDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH AS TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE FOR . Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R28, and R6 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page.    

This incredible authentic antique 1840 French Naval Cutlass sword is in amazing condition considering its age!!! This highly collectible Naval Cutlass sword measures approximately 82 cm long. As seen in the pics the sword has all the stamps and marks of the maker and the date. This sword would look amazing in a collection, on a wall in a themed living room, pub or bar or even above a fireplace etc. This is a fantastic gift for that special man in your life!! This sword is in amazing condition with normal age related wear. Please view the pics carefully to fully appreciate this superb French Naval Cutlass sword and to confirm the condition. This French cutlass has that traditional "piratey" look and feel of a true boarding cutlass seen in all of the movies and artwork of the time. ***amazing French Navy Cutlass sword***