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Rescue Dawn 153 minutes, USA (2007), 12A

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Shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War, foolhardy US flyboy Christian Bale turns into a PoW Papillion in Werner Herzog's heavily fictionalised account of a not-so-great escape

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Rescue Dawn: From Klaus Kinski's bonkers conquistador hurling monkeys into the unconquerable Amazon in Aguirre, Wrath Of God to Timothy Treadwell's fatal bear fixation in Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog's work explores what lies beyond the apex of human endeavour - or folly...

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