Category: War
Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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The Steel Helmet (1951)
Action | Drama | War
During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers. The group stumbles upon a Buddhist temple where they decide to hold up, believing it to be empty…
Starring: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo, William Chun
Director: Samuel Fuller
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Sahara (1943)
Action | Drama | War
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are greatly in need of water.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Richard Aherne, Dan Duryea
Director: Zoltan Korda
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Watashi wa kai ni naritai / I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)
Drama | War
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible…
Starring: Masahiro Nakai, Yukie Nakama, Yuki Shibamoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Mitsuru Hirata, Magy, Tsubasa Katô
Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
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Tags: Katsuo Fukuzawa, Magy, Masahiko Nishimura, Masahiro Nakai, Mitsuru Hirata, Tsubasa Katô, Yuki Shibamoto, Yukie Nakama
Posted on June 29, 2013 |
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The Gallant Hours (1960)
Biography | Drama | War
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Starring: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Robert Montgomery
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Posted on June 29, 2013 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Action | Adventure | Romance | War
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and Vickers promises to revenge the dead.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Tags: David Niven, Donald Crisp, Errol Flynn, Henry Stephenson, Michael Curtiz, Nigel Bruce, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles
Posted on June 24, 2013 |
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Gunga Din (1939)
Adventure | War
Loosely based on the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling, with elements of Kipling's Soldiers Three, the film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native water bearer, who fight the Thuggee, a cult of murderous Indians in 19th century colonial British India.
Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine
Director: George Stevens
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Posted on June 21, 2013 |
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Comedy | War
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.
Starring: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson
Director: Preston Sturges
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Posted on June 20, 2013 |
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Into The White (2012)
Action | Drama | History | War
English and German pilots shoot each other down, and later find themselves at the same cabin. In order to survive the tough winter in the Norwegian wilderness they have to stand together. It's the start of a long and unlikely friendship.
Starring: Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint, David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Lachlan Nieboer
Director: Petter Næss
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Tags: David Kross, Florian Lukas, Lachlan Nieboer, Petter Næss, Rupert Grint, Stig Henrik Hoff
Posted on June 19, 2013 |
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The Night of the Generals (1967)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | War
The murder of a prostitute in Nazi occupied Warsaw draws Wehrmacht Major Grau into an investigation where the evidence points to one of three high ranking Generals. The trail leads Grau from Warsaw to Paris and straight into the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, of which two of the Generals are deeply involved. Grau's case goes unfinished and it is not until 1965 when the true killer is brought to justice.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray
Director: Anatole Litvak
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Posted on June 17, 2013 |
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Shpion / Iron Spy (2012)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Set in 1941, just before Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. State security officers are on the trail of a deeply-embedded German spy.
Starring: Danila Kozlovskiy, Fedor Bondarchuk, Vladimir Epifantsev, Sergey Gazarov, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Anna Chipovskaya
Director: Aleksei Andrianov
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Tags: Aleksei Andrianov, Anna Chipovskaya, Danila Kozlovskiy, Fedor Bondarchuk, Sergey Gazarov, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Vladimir Epifantsev
Posted on June 15, 2013 |
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Midway (1976)
Action | Drama | History | War
A dramatic chronicle of the Battle of Midway, considered the turning point of the war against Japan in the Pacific.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirô Mifune
Director: Jack Smight
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Posted on June 14, 2013 |
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The Beast of War (1988)
Drama | History | War
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A unique look at the Soviet 'Vietnam' experience sympathetically told for both sides.
Starring: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey
Director: Kevin Reynolds
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Posted on June 14, 2013 |
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Drama | History | War
The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory – badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible – launch 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.
Starring: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Herbert Gunn, Phyllis Thaxter, Stephen McNally, John R. Reilly, Robert Mitchum, Scott McKay
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Tags: Don DeFore, Herbert Gunn, John R. Reilly, Mervyn LeRoy, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker, Scott McKay, Stephen McNally, Tim Murdock, Van Johnson
Posted on May 30, 2013 |
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Battle Earth / The Medic (2012)
Action | Sci-Fi | War
A squad of Canadian soldiers survive a helicopter crash deep behind enemy lines during an alien invasion of Earth, now they have to survive the night.
Starring: Gin Fedotov, Adam Munro, Grayson Ogle, Jon MacBurnie, Kevin Johnson
Director: Aaron Kurmey
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Tags: Aaron Kurmey, Adam Munro, Gin Fedotov, Grayson Ogle, Jon MacBurnie, Kevin Johnson
Posted on May 30, 2013 |
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Les femmes de l'ombre / Female Agents (2008)
Drama | War
Set in Spring 1944, a five-women commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect the secret of the D-Day landings and eliminate Colonel Heindrich, Head of German counter-intelligence. Their dangerous mission to change the war becomes a desperate fight for survival.
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, Maya Sansa, Moritz Bleibtreu
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
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Tags: Déborah François, Jean-Paul Salomé, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Maya Sansa, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sophie Marceau
Posted on May 29, 2013 |
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Julius Caesar (1970)
Drama | History | War
All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' fickleness towards the events.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg
Director: Stuart Burge
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Posted on May 25, 2013 |
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Glory (1989)
Drama | History | War
The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, Glory stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is the inspirational sergeant who unites the troops; and Denzel Washington, in an Oscar-winning performance (1989, Best Supporting Actor), is the runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Cliff De Young, Andre Braugher
Director: Edward Zwick
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Posted on May 23, 2013 |
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Before the Rain (1994)
Drama | War
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian photographer just back from Bosnia, changed by the violence. He leaves abruptly for his village; he's not visited it in 16 years. There he tries to ignore bitter divisions between his Orthodox brethren and local Albanians, then tries to transcend them.
Starring: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Jay Villiers, Silvija Stojanovska
Director: Milcho Manchevski
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Tags: Grégoire Colin, Jay Villiers, Katrin Cartlidge, Labina Mitevska, Milcho Manchevski, Rade Serbedzija, Silvija Stojanovska
Posted on May 21, 2013 |
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The Ascent / Voskhozhdeniye (1977)
Drama | War
Two Soviet partisans depart their starving band on a short march to a nearby farm to get supplies. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mariya Vinogradova, Nikolai Sektimenko
Director: Larisa Shepitko
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Tags: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Boris Plotnikov, Larisa Shepitko, Lyudmila Polyakova, Mariya Vinogradova, Nikolai Sektimenko, Sergey Yakovlev, Viktoriya Goldentul, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Posted on May 21, 2013 |
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The Cranes are Flying / Letyat zhuravli (1957)
Drama | Romance | War
Veronica and Boris are walking in the streets of Moscow and they love each other. Veronica is laughing, cause they are happy together this morning. They see some cranes in the sky. When arriving to Veronica's house they talk about a rendezvous at the bank of the river. And the 2nd World War begins in Moscow. Boris works in a factory and he hasn't got time to speak with Veronica. He has to go to the war…
Starring: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
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Tags: Aleksandr Shvorin, Aleksey Batalov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Svetlana Kharitonova, Tatyana Samoylova, Valentin Zubkov, Vasiliy Merkurev
