How I Live Now (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as the third world war breaks out.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, Danny McEvoy
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stop-Loss (2008)
Drama | War
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon's will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum, Victor Rasuk
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages / Code Unknown (2000)
Drama | Romance | War
On a busy Paris boulevard, a youth scornfully tosses a crumpled paper bag into the outstretched hands of a beggar woman. This is the bond which, for an instant, links several very different characters: Anne (Binoche), an actress; her war photo- grapher boyfriend Georges; his farmer father and younger brother Jean, who, contrary to his father's wishes, has no interest in inheriting the farm; Amandou, a music teacher for deaf-mute children, and his family, who originate from Africa; and Maria a Romanian immigrant. Written and directed by Michael Haneke, one of modern cinema's most distinctive and ambitious directors, CODE UNKNOWN is a complex film of powerful emotional force and a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers between people, social class, race, and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Director: Michael Haneke
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
During World War One an English poacher, an American adventurer and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, Karl Michael Vogler, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Assembly / Ji jie hao (2007)
Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in the civil war between the communists and the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang (KMT).
Starring: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang, Fan Liao, Baoqiang Wang, Jun Hu
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Rommel (2012)
Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
Rommel is a German TV movie from 2012. He tells the last phase of life known German Generals of World War II, Erwin Rommel. The first broadcast took place on 1 November 2012 on Das Erste.
Starring: Ulrich Tukur, Tim Bergmann, Rolf Kanies, Arthur Klemt, Thomas Limpinsel
Director: Niki Stein
The New One-Armed Swordsman / Xin du bi dao (1971)
Action | Drama | History | War
Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend Chung-Chieng, when he crosses his path with a beautiful girl in need, Pao Chiao. Even against impossible odds, he will prove a great warrior.
Starring: David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Feng Ku, Sing Chen, Lei Cheng, Chung Wang
Director: Cheh Chang
Spies of Warsaw (2013)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
At the French embassy in Warsaw, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier (Tennant), is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage (Montgomery), a lawyer for the League of Nations. Risking his life, Mercier works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known to him as spies, some never to be revealed. It is a city where people drink and fight and spy and love, because no one knows what tomorrow will bring.
Starring: David Tennant, Janet Montgomery
Director: Coky Giedroyc
MacArthur (1977)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of Philippines, and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthur's days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by President Truman.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders, G.D. Spradlin
Director: Joseph Sargent
Wings of Honour / Angel of the Skies (2013)
War
War is declared and Britain must take action against Nazi Germany if Europe is going to be saved from its ruthless clutches. Determined to beat the enemy Flt. Office Earl Kirk, a young South African pilot, volunteers his services to the Royal Air Force, sacrificing his family, his future and himself in the fight against evil. Whilst in combat, surrounded by bombers and under relentless attack, Kirk must make the decision that could change his and his crew's life forever. Plummeting through the air, they are forced to leave the safety of their aircraft and parachute directly into Nazi occupied land.
Starring: Nicholas Van Der Bijl, Brad Backhouse, Adam Boys, Lillie Claire, Ryan Dittmann, Andre Frauenstein, David James, Jason Glanville
Director: Christopher-Lee dos Santos
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Drama | Romance | War
Hollywood legends Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones heat up the screen in a towering adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, the famous tale of doomed love amidst the howl and fury of the most perilous theatre of World War I – the snowy Alpine peaks and muddy plains of northern Italy. Majestically filmed in the actual Hemingway locales (the Alps, Milan, Switzerland and Rome), A Farewell to Arms tells of the love affair of Lt. Henry (Hudson), an American ambulance driver injured on the battlefront, and Catherine (Jones), the English nurse who shares his pain – and his hospital bed. When Henry is forced to desert, the devoted (and now pregnant) Catherine joins him in his flight to neutral Switzerland…where very different, even greater danger awaits. Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nominee Vittorio De Sica co-stars in this epic motion picture worthy of Hemingway's American classic.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch
Director: Charles Vidor
Play Dirty (1969)
Adventure | Drama | War
An inexperienced captain leads his men against a Nazi fuelling station in the Sahara.
Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews
Director: André De Toth
Stalingrad (2013)
Action | War
Stalingrad has become hell and paradise for those who were worthy of awards, but the only reward they managed to get was love. How they won, and how they were not defeated, who they were and who was on the other side of the street, what secret they have taken away with them – the movie will tell this story.
Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Philippe Reinhardt, Pyotr Fyodorov, Mariya Smolnikova
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
A Man Escaped / Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
Drama | Thriller | War
French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Director: Robert Bresson
Cavalcade (1933)
Drama | Romance | War
English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot.
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay
Director: Frank Lloyd
Vikings (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | History | War
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, George Blagden, Jessalyn Gilsig, Maude Hirst, Alyssa Sutherland, Jefferson Hall
Creator: Michael Hirst
Escape to Athena (1979)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | War
On a Greek island during World War II, a diverse group of POWs come up with a plan to escape from their Nazi captors-and retrieve valuable stolen art at the same time. Although an unlikely ally comes to the aid of the prisoners, there is no guarantee that they will succeed in their missions. Will the schemers pull off the impossible.
Starring: Telly Savalas, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Roger Moore, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale
Director: George P. Cosmatos
For Those We Love / Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (2007)
War
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied warships. Story follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, as remembered by an aging Kyushu restaurateur who cherishes their memory.
Starring: Satoshi Tokushige, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Michitaka Tsutsui, Keiko Kishi, Mikako Tabe, Yasuyuki Maekawa, Tomoya Nakamura, Dai Watanabe
Director: Taku Shinjo
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Drama | Romance | War
John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind – and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family's shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver), the charming daughter of a doctor who in years prior tended to the Gräber family. Ernst thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love… even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.
Starring: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore, Keenan Wynn, Dieter Borsche
Director: Douglas Sirk
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Drama | Romance | War
Three returning servicemen fight to adjust to life after World War II.
Starring: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Fredric March
Director: William Wyler
