Guy X (2005)
Comedy | War
A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.
Starring: Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Michael Ironside, Benz Antoine
Director: Saul Metzstein
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Green Zone (2010)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction,whose existence justified American involvement,according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad,Poundsgate. Veteran CIA operative Marty tells Miller that there are no weapons,it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Marty correctly anticipates that,despite Bush's gung-ho assurances, the policy is doomed to failure. Also suspicious of Poundsgate is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne,who lets slip to Miller that Poundsgate told her he had secret talks in Jordan with an important Iraqi,code-named Magellan,who told him about the weapons, though it now seems likely Magellan's true information was to the contrary. Miller deduces that Magellan is General Al Rawi, a close supporter of the deposed Saddam Hussain and, accompanied by his interpreter, Freddy, a decent Iraqi who only wants stability for his country, sets out to track down Al Rawi. However, Poundsgate's men are also on Al Rawi's trail,to stop him from talking. After an explosive showdown Miller emails Lawrie to tell her that there never were any weapons,relying on her and other journalists to inform the world of Bush's deception.
Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, Antoni Corone
Director: Paul Greengrass
Birdy (1984)
Drama | War
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby, Nancy Fish
Director: Alan Parker
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Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo detstvo (1962)
Drama | War
The debut feature from the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan's Childhood is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of one boy's war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of WWII and the serene moments of family life before the conflict began, Tarkovsky's film remains one of the most jarring and unforgettable depictions of the impact of violence on children in wartime.
Starring: Nikolay Burlyaev, Nikolay Grinko, Irma Raush, Yevgeni Zharikov
Director: Andrey Tarkovsky
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed / Saints and Soldiers 2 (2012)
Action | Drama | War
On August 15, 1944 the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Their mission was to support and protect the Allied Troops marching to Berlin. Landing in enemy territory, they fell under immediate attack. In their effort to complete the mission and rendez-vous with their unit, three isolated paratroopers come across a group of French resistants in desperate need. They decide to help liberate some of the captive Partisans. Doing so they will risk their lives.
Starring: Craig Conway, Simon Phillips, Gemma Atkinson, Alan Ford, Julian Glover, Mark Hamill
Director: Ryan Little
Shenandoah (1965)
Drama | War | Western
In Shenandoah, Virginia, the widower farmer Charlie Anderson lives a peaceful life with his six sons – Jacob, James, Nathan, John, Henry and Boy, his daughter Jennie, and his daughter-in-law and James' wife Ann Anderson in his farm. Charlie does not let his sons to join the army to fight in the American Civil War that he considers that it is not their war. Meanwhile Jennie marries to her beloved Lieutenant Sam, but they do not have honeymoon since Sam has to go to the front. When Charlie's youngest son Boy is mistakenly taken prisoner by soldiers from the North. Charlie rides with his sons to rescue Boy, while James and Ann stays in the farm. But it is time of violence and war, and tragedy reaches the Anderson family.
Starring: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford, Katharine Ross
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how turned Hitler from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes his relationship with his mistress Eva Braun, and his decisions and enemies inside Germany and inside the Nazi party.
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone
Director: Christian Duguay
Deserter / Simon: An English Legionnaire (2002)
Drama | War
Driven by romantic illusion to join the French Foreign Legion, Simon Murray undertakes a physical and spiritual journey during Algeria's battle for independence from France.
Starring: Paul Fox, Tom Hardy
Director: Martin Huberty
Merry Christmas / Happy Christmas / Joyeux Noël (2005)
Drama | History | Music | Romance | War
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Dany Boon, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl
Director: Christian Carion
Fortress (2012)
Action | War
Battles Were Fought on the Ground. The War Was Won in the Sky.
Starring: Bug Hall, Donnie Jeffcoat, Sean McGowan, Joseph Williamson, Manu Intiraymi
Director: Mike Phillips
Punishment Park (1971)
Drama | Thriller | War
Radical youths, arrested for their political activities, are given a choice between incarceration and participation in a potentially deadly game which finds them racing across a punishing desert landscape with armed law enforcement officers in pursuit. The scenario presented is intended to reflect the profound tensions and frustrations fracturing American society in the late 1960s.
Starring: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson, Katherine Quittner, Scott Turner
Director: Peter Watkins
Battle Under Orion / Manatsu no Orion (2009)
Action | War
The final days of World War II – the ocean southeast of Okinawa. The Japanese last hope is entrusted on i-77, the last of the deployed submarines to strike at the U.S. Navy's fuel-supply lines. Takayuki Kuramoto (Hiroshi Tamaki), Commander of the i-77 is up against Mike Stewart, the captain of the R.S. destroyer Percival who has the finest record in the U.S. Navy. As the i-77 and U.S. destroyer Percival begin a mutual hunt, the two captains bring all their knowledge and power to bear as, with lessening supplies of torpedoes and depth charges, they battle. Kuramoto, the lives of his young crew members in his charge, is forced by the difficulties of battle into a serious decision. With Midsummer Orion, a piece of music sheet, in his breast pocket, he sets out on a final battle that will mean life or death. August, 1945: The fuse is lit on a final battle to the limits of mind and body.
Starring: Yoshikuni Dôchin, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Mutsutoshi Furuhata, Yûta Hiraoka, Fumio Itô
Director: Tetsuo Shinohara
Patton (1970)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Patton is a three-dimensional bronze bust of World War II field general George S. Patton who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved the United States of America with a lofty and historical zeal. Tracing his personal rivalries with such generals as Rommel and Montgomery, his problematic treatment of his own men, and his nearly runaway contempt for diplomacy, the film triumphs as an enduring portrait of a complex and larger-than-life figure.
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Edward Binns, Jack Gwillim
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Attack on Leningrad / Leningrad (2009)
Drama | War
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Gabriel Byrne, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: Aleksandr Buravsky
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Drama | History | War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips
Director: Steven Spielberg
Mongol / Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan / Da mo ying xiong (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Recounts of the the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave, born as Temudgin in 1162, before going on to conquer half the world, including Russia, in 1206.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Hong-Lei, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren, Amarbold Yuvinbayar
Director: Sergei Bodrov
All Quiet on the Western Front / Hallmark Hall of Fame: All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Drama | War
This is the devastating story of a generation destroyed, following the lives of Germany schoolboys goaled by their schoolmaster to join the "glorious" war. Their disenchantment begins with brutal basic training and when they see the crippled casualties being rushed to hospital as they board a train to the frontline they have the first glimps of the grim-visaged reality of war.
Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal
Director: Delbert Mann
Flame and Citron / Flame & Citron / Flammen & Citronen (2008)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Follows two Danish resistance fighters who liquidate Nazi informers.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt, Stine Stengade, Christian Berkel, Peter Mygind
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Eichmann (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann, the World's most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must confront each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will change a nation forever.
Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity, Franka Potente, Stephen Fry
Director: Robert Young
Conspiracy (2001)
Drama | History | War
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Director: Frank Pierson
