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STAR WARS: EPISODE VI
– RETURN OF THE JEDI
Released: 1983
Director: Richard Marquand
Writers: George Lucas and
Lawrence Kasdan
In the epic conclusion of the saga,
the Empire prepares to crush the
Rebellion with a more powerful
Death Star while the Rebel fleet
mounts a massive attack on the space
station. Luke Skywalker confronts his
father, Darth Vader, in a final climactic
duel before the evil Emperor. In the
last second, Vader makes a momen-
tous choice: He destroys the Emperor
and saves his son. The Empire is final-
ly defeated, the Sith are destroyed
and Anakin Skywalker is thus
redeemed. At long last, freedom is
restored to the galaxy.
STAR WARS: EPISODE I –
THE PHANTOM
MENACE
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Released: 1999
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Stranded on the desert planet
Tatooine after rescuing young Queen
Amidala from the impending invasion
of Naboo, Jedi apprentice Obi-Wan
Kenobi and his Jedi Master Qui-Gon
Jinn discover 9-year-old Anakin
Skywalker, a young slave unusually
strong in the Force. Anakin wins a
thrilling Podrace and with it his free-
dom as he leaves his home to be
trained as a Jedi. The heroes return to
Naboo where Anakin and the Queen
face massive invasion forces while
the two Jedi contend with a deadly
foe named Darth Maul. Only
then do they realize the invasion is
merely the first step in a sinister
scheme by the re-emergent forces of
darkness known as the Sith.
STAR WARS: EPISODE II
– ATTACK OF THE
CLONES
Released: 2002
Director: George Lucas
Writers: George Lucas and Jonathan
Hales
Ten years after the invasion of Naboo,
the galaxy is on the brink of civil war.
Under the leadership of a renegade
Jedi named Count Dooku, thousands
of solar systems threaten to break
away from the Galactic Republic.
When an assassination attempt is
made on Senator Padmé Amidala, the
former Queen of Naboo, 20-year-old
Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is
assigned to protect her. In the course
of his mission, Anakin discovers his
love for Padmé as well as his own
darker side. Soon, Anakin, Padmé and
Obi-Wan Kenobi are drawn into the
heart of the Separatist movement and
the beginning of the Clone Wars.
STAR WARS: EPISODE III
– REVENGE OF THE SITH
Released: 2005
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Years after the onset of the Clone
Wars, the noble Jedi Knights lead a
massive clone army into a galaxy-
wide battle against the Separatists.
When the sinister Sith unveil a
thousand-year-old plot to rule the
galaxy, the Republic crumbles and
from its ashes rises the evil Galactic
Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker
is seduced by the dark side of the
Force to become the Emperor’s
new apprentice -- Darth Vader. The
Jedi are decimated, as Obi-Wan
Kenobi and Jedi Master Yoda are
forced into hiding. The only hope for
the galaxy are Anakin’s own offspring
-- the twin children born in secrecy
who will grow up to become heroes.
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Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet
Dagobah to train with Jedi Master
Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the
fall of the Republic. In an attempt to
convert Luke to the dark side, Darth
Vader lures young Skywalker into a
trap in the Cloud City of Bespin. In the
midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with
the Sith Lord, Luke faces the startling
revelation that the evil Vader is in fact
his father, Anakin Skywalker.