Category: War
Posted on November 17, 2012 |
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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
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Posted on November 14, 2012 |
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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
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Posted on November 7, 2012 |
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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
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Posted on November 2, 2012 |
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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
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Posted on November 2, 2012 |
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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
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Tags: Christian Berkel, Mads Mikkelsen, Ole Christian Madsen, Peter Mygind, Stine Stengade, Thure Lindhardt
Posted on November 2, 2012 |
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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
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Posted on October 31, 2012 |
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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
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Posted on October 31, 2012 |
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Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
Action | Drama | War
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Bob Newhart, Nick Adams
Director: Don Siegel
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Posted on October 24, 2012 |
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Drama | Thriller | War
Find a bomb, defuse it. Find a bomb, defuse it. The job is simple enough, but the room for error is zero. Fail to defuse it, and die. This is the daily work of the United States Army's Bravo Company. They patrol Baghdad during one of the Iraq war's most hellish times, trying each day not to get blown up. James (Jeremy Renner) joins a tightly knit bomb-disposal unit where Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) is already the intelligence expert. James, by contrast, is a real cowboy. Even in the hulking shell of his bomb suit, his swagger is obvious. He has successfully disabled 873 devices, approaching the job with the no-nonsense grit of a Bigelow hero-and the recklessness too. But as the unit faces tougher challenges with each new bomb, the men start to fight James's bullish methods. They have only thirty-eight days left in their rotation. They want to live to see day thirty-nine.
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Posted on October 23, 2012 |
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Barbarossa / Sword of War (2009)
Drama | History | War
Italy, 12th Century AD. The northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Federico Hohenstaufen known as "Red Beard". His dream is to conquer the central and southern lands and resurrect Charlemagne's empire. In the northern lands, a young Milanès called Alberto da Giussano dreams of defeating the emperor and giving the people their freedom back…
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Renzo Martinelli
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Posted on October 23, 2012 |
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Action | Comedy | Drama | War
A Marine Corp lifer, starting his last tour of duty before retirement, sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Mario Van Peebles, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Posted on October 20, 2012 |
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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Action | Drama | History | War
Sir Richard Attenborough directs Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins and Robert Redford in this gripping and controversial tale about a daring WWII military operation.
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Posted on October 11, 2012 |
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Princess of Mars / Avatar of Mars (2009)
Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
John Carter is some kind of lone soldier in the middle east who looks at everyone through the scope on his rifle, until one day he gets shot a bunch of times and the government decides to reconstruct him on another planet for some reason. Naked and surrounded by hostile aliens, John Carter must fight for survival as aliens try to kill him and/or make him eat bugs.
Starring: Antonio Sabato Jr., Traci Lords, Matt Lasky, Chacko Vadaketh, Mitchell Gordon, Noelle Perris, Matt Lagan
Director: Mark Atkins
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Posted on October 10, 2012 |
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The Sword Identity / Wo kou de zong ji (2011)
Action | History | War
Once upon a time in the Southern Chinese city of Guancheng, there lived four families, each of them faithful keepers of martial arts. Anyone who wanted to establish a new sect, or a new form of kung fu, had to fight his way through the family's gates. But when Liang Henlu requests a competition, he is rejected and driven out of town, his strange new weapon mistaken for a Japanese sword and therefore forbidden by purist Chinese masters as a foreign fighting device. Liang is taken for a Japanese pirate and forced to hide in a boat filled with gypsy dancers. After a series of fights prove Liang's sword invincible, the Guancheng masters start to question their assumptions regarding the weapon's origins. They finally recognize that it is none other than the famous sword called 'Made in China' (modeled on a Japanese weapon), which the celebrated General Qi used in his glorious defeat of the Japanese invasion.
Starring: Cheng-Hui Yu, Yang Song, Yuanyuan Zhao, Ma Ke
Director: Haofeng Xu
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Posted on October 8, 2012 |
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Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Drama | War
1942: The Libyan war zone, North Africa. After a German invasion a British ambulance crew are forced to evacuate their base but become separated from the rest of their unit. Somehow they must make it to Alexandria, but how? Their only hope is a dilapidated ambulance named "Katy" and an irrational, alchoholic soldier known as Captain Anson. Facing landmines, Nazi troops, spies and the merciless, scorching, brutal environment of the desert, can Captain Anson face his demons and make the road to hell a journey to freedom? Starring some of British cinemas most celebrated actors, John Mills (Great Expectations, Gandhi), Sylvia Syms (Ferry To Hong Kong, Shirley Valentine) and Harry Andrews (The Hill, Battle Of Britain), Ice Cold In Alex is an action packed and suspenseful wartime classic. Directed by John Lee Thompson, creator of Guns Of Navarone and Cape Fear, it's one of the most intensely gripping films ever made.
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Diane Clare, Richard Leech
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Posted on September 29, 2012 |
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A Midnight Clear (1992)
Drama | War
Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
Starring: Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Frank Whaley, John C. McGinley
Director: Keith Gordon
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Posted on September 25, 2012 |
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Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále / I Served the King of England (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | War
I Served the King of England treads lightly through a dark time–before, during, and after World War II in Eastern Europe. This cinematic fable follows an impish Czechoslovakian man who leads a modestly charmed life as a waiter at hotels and brothels, sleeping with prostitutes and chambermaids as he dreams of wealth and plays pranks on the rich and bourgeois. But when he falls in love with a fervent Nazi woman, glimpses of a bleak reality intrude into his whimsical life. I Served the King of England doesn't delve in to the horrors of the concentration camps (though it does explore some strange, lesser-known corners of the Nazi psyche). This is the story of a man who leads a shallow life, who evades atrocity almost by accident, and who grows haunted by his lack of engagement and pursuit of meaningless goals–and yet, he survives while others do not.
Starring: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda, Milan Lasica
Director: Jirí Menzel
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Posted on September 25, 2012 |
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
The year is 1942 and the Nazis are cutting a deadly swath through Russia. Under the leadership of Khrushchev (Bob Hoskins), the citizens of Stalingrad are mounting a brave resistance, spurred by the exploits of their local hero, Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law). An expert sniper, Vassili's deeds have become legendary – thanks to propaganda produced by Vassili's best friend, a political officer named Danilov (Joseph Fiennes). To stop Vassili, the Germans dispatch their best sniper, Major Konig (Ed Harris), to Stalingrad. When Vassili and Danilov both fall in love with a beautiful soldier (Rachel Weisz), Danilov deserts his friend, leaving Vassili to face his German counterpart alone. As the city burns, Vassili and Konig begin a cunning game of cat and mouse, waging a private war for courage, honor and country.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Posted on September 20, 2012 |
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Windtalkers / Wind Talkers (2002)
Action | History | War
Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee, a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code?
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Slater
Director: John Woo
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Posted on September 17, 2012 |
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Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Comedy | Drama | War
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.
Starring: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, J.T. Walsh
Director: Barry Levinson
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