Lord of War Lord of War Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol, and co-produced by and starring Nicolas Cage. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2005, with the DVD following on January 17, 2006 and the Blu-ray Disc on July 27, 2006. Cage plays an illegal arms dealer, inspired by the stories of several real-life arms dealers and smugglers. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the arms trafficking by the international arms industry. In the early 1980s, Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage), the
Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov "Fundamentals of paleontology." In 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Prize posthumously. Director of the Paleontological Institute, The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1945–1966). In 1955 he signed a against notorious Stalinist Trofim Lysenko. Moscow Paleontological Museum is named after him in Moscow, Russia. Main publications in other than Russian languages: Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (Yurij, Juriy, Jurii) (; June 12, 1893 — October 2, 1966) — Russian and Soviet zoologist, paleontologist. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1960, corresponding member since 1953). His father was Alexander Fedorovich Orlov (1855–1940), member of Narodnaya Volya, official