China Gate (1957)
Action | Drama | War
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border…
Starring: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat Cole, Paul Dubov, Lee Van Cleef, George Givot
Director: Samuel Fuller
Wings (1927)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
In this silent film, romantic rivals fly against the enemy in World War I.
Starring: Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, Henry B. Walthall
Director: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Macbeth (1948)
Drama | History | War
In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king.
Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Alan Napier, Edgar Barrier
Director: Orson Welles
Catch-22 (1970)
Comedy | War
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general.
Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Jon Voight
Director: Mike Nichols
Major Dundee (1965)
Adventure | War | Western
An obsessive Union officer leads a squad of Rebel prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals into Mexico to hunt down a band of murdering Apaches.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger
Director: Sam Peckinpah
The Four Feathers (1939)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Amidst the British Empire's conquest of Africa, a young officer must fight to redeem himself after being accused of cowardice by fellow officers.
Starring: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez, Allan Jeayes
Director: Zoltan Korda
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Drama | History | War
Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all probability they will not come back. Among them are Saigo, a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi, an Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his skill and his honor; Shimizu, a young former military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by war; and Lieutenant Ito, a strict military man who would rather accept suicide than surrender. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, whose travels in America have revealed to him the hopeless nature of the war but also given him strategic insight into how to take on the vast American armada streaming in from across the Pacific. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. Almost 7,000 American soldiers were killed on Iwo Jima; more than 20,000 Japanese troops perished. The black sands of Iwo Jima are stained with their blood, but their sacrifices, their struggles, their courage and their compassion live on in the letters they sent home. From Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood comes the untold story of the Japanese soldiers and their General who defended against the invading American forces on the island of Iwo Jima.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura, Ryan Carnes
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Adventure | Romance | Thriller | War
From legendary director Fritz Lang comes an engrossing spy thriller years ahead of its time. Gary Cooper is a US scientist, parachuted into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes…especially when his involvement with mysterious Lilli Palmer catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal and murder.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Ludwig Stössel
Director: Fritz Lang
American Autumn: An Occudoc (2012)
Crime | Documentary | News | War
What would a world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed, and how do we bring that world into being? Who cares what it is called. Call it Socialism, Call it Real Democracy Now, and Call it Chunky-Monkey-Cherry Garcia. The world needs to change radically, it needs to change dramatically, and it needs to change fast. This documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive change. Frankly, because, we need you. Yes, you.
Director: Dennis Trainor Jr.
The Tin Drum / Die Blechtrommel (1979)
Drama | War
In the East Prussia of Danzig before the war, three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing–and succeeds–then finds playing his favorite toy, a tin drum, useful for tuning out things that annoy him, like his mother's dallying with their Polish boarder, the Nazi rallies his father attends, or even the advent of war itself.
Starring: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Ten years ago, as the country of Rwanda descended into madness, one man made a promise to protect the family he loved–and ended up finding the courage to save over 1200 people. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, secretly used his position and intelligence to shelter over a thousand refugees during the genocide crisis.
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte
Director: Terry George
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Comedy | Drama | War
During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans.
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger, Sergio Franchi
Director: Stanley Kramer
Beaufort (2007)
Action | Drama | War
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
Starring: Alon Aboutboul, Adi Adouan, Yaakov Ahimeir
Director: Joseph Cedar
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Comedy | Drama | War
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.
Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Retreat, Hell! (1952)
Drama | War
During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn, Nedrick Young, Lamont Johnson
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Father Goose (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Romance | War
During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Director: Ralph Nelson
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
American pilot Dieter Dengler is shot down during a top secret mission to destroy Viet Cong strongholds in Laos at the beginning of the Vietnam War. Taken hostage, he endures unimaginable conditions at the hands of cruel captors in a makeshift POW camp. Dengler's iron will to survive guides him and his fellow prisoners in a meticulously-planned, death-defying escape, only to discover the harsh realities of an unforgiving jungle beyond the camp's walls.
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Pat Healy
Director: Werner Herzog
Emperor / Shûsen no enperâ (2012)
Drama | History | War
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate!
Starring: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masayoshi Haneda, Takatarô Kataoka
Director: Peter Webber
MASH / M.A.S.H. (1970)
Comedy | Drama | War
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tom Skerritt, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Joann Pflug, Donald Sutherland
Director: Robert Altman
Tajemnica Westerplatte / 1939 Battle of Westerplatte (2013)
Drama | History | War
The film tells the story of the defense of Westerplatte Polish Embassy before the German army. Action includes seven days of September 1939.
Starring: Michal Zebrowski, Robert Zoledziewski, Jan Englert, Piotr Adamczyk, Borys Szyc, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz, Jakub Wesolowski, Andrzej Grabowski
Director: Pawel Chochlew
