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“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” directed by Oliver Stone “Sequel to the popular 1987 film “Wall Street”, set 20 years later. Released from prison after serving a lengthy prison sentence, ruthless financial shark Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) finds himself disoriented in the world he lives in.
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“Nixon” directed by Oliver Stone [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2LWKpeyI8] “Richard Nixon was one of the most controversial presidents of the USA. While for some he represented all the worst of American democracy, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, for others he was a misunderstood sage who ushered in a new era by calming a world divided by the Cold War.”