Category: War
Posted on May 14, 2012 |
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Memorial Day (2011)
Action | Drama | Family | History | War
Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey into Bud's complicated wartime past, but also into Kyle's wartime future. As the two men share parallel experiences in combat, they come to realize how that magical day on the porch shaped both of their lives.
Starring: Jonathan Bennett, James Cromwell, John Cromwell
Director: Sam Fischer
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Posted on May 14, 2012 |
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Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Action | Adventure | War
Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni
Director: Mark Robson
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Posted on May 13, 2012 |
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc / Joan of Arc / Jeanne d'Arc (1999)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
In 1429, a teenage girl from a remote village in France stood before the world and announced she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country. In began as a small voice in the heart of a simple girl, but the voice grew stronger, rulers were drawn to listen, armies were empowered to fight and her countrymen were inspired to believe.
Starring: Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, Pascal Greggory
Director: Luc Besson
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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The Green Berets (1968)
Action | Drama | War
Story centers around the operations of a Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, their colonel, and a reporter who covers the action.
Starring: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton
Director: Ray Kellogg, John Wayne
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Posted on May 5, 2012 |
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Red Tails (2012)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston, Gerald McRaney, David Oyelowo
Director: Anthony Hemingway
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Posted on May 1, 2012 |
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Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo / Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Action | Drama | War
The story of two brothers who are unwillingly drafted into the South Korean army following the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. The older brother strives to protect his younger brother on the battlefield, while struggling to find a way to have him discharged so he can return to their village and care for the family they left behind. However, as the war progresses, the horror and violence they witness begin to take its toll on each man and severe their bonds as brothers and soldiers
Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Yeong-ran Lee
Director: Je-gyu Kang
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Tags: Bin Won, Dong-gun Jang, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Je-gyu Kang, Yeong-ran Lee
Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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The Aryan Couple / The Couple (2004)
Drama | War
In 1944, in Hungary, the wealthy Jewish industrialist Joseph Krauzenberg is forced by the Reichführer Heinrich Himmler to deliver his 3,000 employee factory; his palace with his collection of antiques and arts; a large amount in gold; and his house to the Reich. In return, the Nazis would send his big family that is arrested in Gestapo safe and sound to the neutral Switzerland and then to Palestine. Himmler schedules a dinner with Krauzenberg and his wife Rachel Krauzenberg to sign the contract and orders the butcher Eichmann to not do harm to the imprisoned Jews relatives of Krauzenberg. Himmer also send the SS Edelhein to check the security of the palace and the two German house servants of Krauzenberg, Hans Vassman and his beautiful pregnant wife Ingrid Vassman.
Starring: Martin Landau, Kenny Doughty, Caroline Carver, Judy Parfitt
Director: John Daly
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Posted on April 23, 2012 |
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In Which We Serve (1942)
Drama | War
An action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Germans in the Mediterranean.
Starring: Noel Coward, John Mills, Derek Elphinstone
Director: Noel Coward, David Lean
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Posted on April 19, 2012 |
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Action | Drama | History | War
February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory. Flags of Our Fathers is based on the bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers, which chronicled the battle of Iwo Jima and the fates of the flag raisers and some of their brothers in Easy Company.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Posted on April 19, 2012 |
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Kingdom of War Part II / Naresuan Part II (2007)
Drama | History | War
An epic historical action film about King Naresuan the Great, who liberate the Siamese from the control of Burma, changing the destiny of a nation.
Starring: Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Sorapong Chatree
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
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Posted on April 19, 2012 |
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Kingdom of War Part I / Naresuan Part I (2007)
Drama | History | War
An epic historical action film about King Naresuan the Great, who liberate the Siamese from the control of Burma, changing the destiny of a nation.
Starring: Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Sorapong Chatree
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
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Posted on April 17, 2012 |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Adventure | Drama | War
A group of British POWs is forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Led by Colonel Nicholson, they not only build the bridge but organise the whole building program and are proud of the final result. However, unbeknownst to the POWs, a British commando team has been given a mission to destroy it.
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
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Posted on April 11, 2012 |
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Good Times, Wonderful Times (1966)
Documentary | Drama | War
A nuclear-age anti-war film in which scenes of people chattering at a cocktail party are intercut with historical footage of military exercises and war atrocities.
Director: Lionel Rogosin
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Posted on April 10, 2012 |
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Everyman's War (2009)
Drama | War
As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer "Ghost" division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig Germany ,a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war. Outgunned and outnumbered, S/ Sgt Don Smith struggles to find hope and courage against overwhelming odds in one of the decisive confrontations in the "Battle of the Bulge" during WWII. His squad of GI's of the 94th Infantry Division lay dug in on the ridge-line outside of town. No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no choice but to make his way through enemy fire, unarmed and wounded, into town and warn of the coming attack. Based on actual accounts "Everyman's War" explores the heroic events of this decorated veterans courage and the struggle between duty and desire. Between the prospect of the life and love, Dorine that waits at home and the harsh realities of war which marks the pivotal epoch in his life as he discovers that the loss of hope can be worse than the loss of life. One man's courage… One man's hope…Everyman's War.
Starring: Cole Carson, Lauren Bair, Michael J. Prosser, Eric Martin Reid
Director: Thad Smith
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Posted on April 9, 2012 |
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The Front Line / Go-ji-jeon (2011)
Drama | War
A veteran intelligence officer accepts the assignment and discovers mysterious and tragic occurrences surrounding a former comrade he had long thought dead. In the epic battle for survival that follows, the two men become locked in a deadly battle of wills. One will sacrifice his humanity for the sake of his 'brothers'; the other will discover compassion in the agonies of war. Ultimately, both will be forced to fight side-by-side, so their loved ones can enjoy freedom for just one more day.
Starring: Ha-kyun Shin, Soo Go, Seung-su Ryu, Chang-Seok Ko, Je-hoon Lee
Director: Hun Jang
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Casablanca (1942)
Drama | Romance | War
Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Casablanca during World War II. Ilsa, a woman Rick was once in love with when he lived in Paris and never quite got over, walks into his nightclub. She's in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a resistance leader with Nazis hot on his trail.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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La voz dormida / The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Drama | War
Benito Zambrano has adaptated Dulce Chacon’s book of the same name, set in the terrible years immediately following the end of the Spanish civil war. The film focuses on the relationship between two sisters: Hortensia is pregnant and in jail in Madrid; Pepita has come from Cordoba to be with her and look after the child she is going to have. They are both in relationships with guerrillas fighting in the underground in the mountains.
Starring: María León, Inma Cuesta, Javier Godino, Marc Clotet, Daniel Holguín, Fanny de Castro
Director: Benito Zambrano
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Posted on March 26, 2012 |
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The Devil's Rock (2011)
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller | War
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day,two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
Starring: Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela
Director: Paul Campion
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Posted on March 19, 2012 |
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Drama | Romance | War
Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp he oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain.
Starring: Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Serbedzija, Nikola Djuricko, Dzana Pinjo
Director: Angelina Jolie
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Posted on March 18, 2012 |
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War Horse / Warhorse (2011)
Drama | History | War
The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston
Director: Steven Spielberg
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