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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 162.

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Adventure, children's film, Melodrama

In 1897, during the British Raj, Sergeant Donald MacDuff escorts Joyce Williams, an impoverished young widow, and her daughter, Priscilla, to a military outpost on the northern frontier of British occupied India to live with her stern father-in-law, Colonel Williams. Along the way, they witness the capture of freedom fighter chief Khoda Khan. Soon, Priscilla, nicknamed "Wee Willie Winkie" by MacDuff, wins the hearts of all the soldiers, especially MacDuff and her grandfather.

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Sky Pirates (1986)

Action, Adventure, Science fiction

In 1945, the Second World War is about to come to an end. Meanwhile, the Australian military has come across an ancient device which can be used to travel through time. It is imperative that the Allies have it and the Axis powers do not.

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Flying Tigers (1942)

Action, Drama, war film

Jim Gordon leads the Flying Tigers, a squadron of volunteer American pilots who fly Curtiss P-40C fighters against Japanese aircraft in the skies over China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The pilots are a mixed bunch, motivated by money (they receive a bounty for each aircraft shot down) or just by the thrill of aerial combat. One day, Jim's old friend Woody Jason shows up.

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Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

Action, Adventure, silent film

thumb|thumbtime=2|Tarzan of the Apes (1918) thumb|right|Advertisement (1918) John and Alice Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke, are passengers on the Fuwalda, a ship bound for Africa. When the vessel is taken over by mutineers the sailor Binns saves them from being murdered, but they are marooned on the tropical coast. After their deaths their infant son is adopted by Kala, an ape, who raises him as her own.

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The Lion (1962)

Adventure, Drama

Successful American lawyer Robert Hayward is in Kenya because his ex-wife Christine is having problems with their eleven-year-old daughter Tina, with whom he has had no contact for many years. Tina, who has a great affinity with Africa, its customs and its wildlife, initially resents her father, feeling he had abandoned her. Christine has remarried and her new husband John Bullit, a former big-game hunter, now manages a large Kenyan animal preserve.

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Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Western

Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union Army in Virginia. After a 3-month cattle drive, he is 10 days late in delivering the herd, and Major Albert Stedman informs Kelly that he must now take the cattle by rail to a plantation in Virginia, 30 miles (48.3 km) south of Richmond at only $1 a head extra. Outside of Richmond, widow Charity Warrick coldly authorizes them to graze the herd at her plantation for one night only.

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Lost Continent (1951)

Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction

Major Joe Nolan is the head of a South Pacific expedition to retrieve an atomic-powered rocket that has vanished. He is accompanied by pilot Lieutenant Danny Wilson, aircraft mechanic Sergeant William Tatlow and the three scientists who built the rocket. Their aircraft crashes on a remote, unknown tropical island in the area where the rocket had been lost on radar.

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Men in War (1957)

war film

On 6 September 1950, an isolated and exhausted platoon of the 24th Infantry Division is cut off. In addition to losing radio contact, the platoon is harassed by unseen North Korean infiltrators who silently kill the Americans and take their weapons. Platoon leader Lieutenant Benson has only vague instructions to reach a certain hill to link up with American forces.

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Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

Comedy, Crime, Secret Agent

The glamorous assassin Irma Eckman, disguised as an air stewardess, kills the oil tycoon Henry Keller with a booby-trapped cigar aboard his private jet, parachuting away before the plane explodes. She is picked up by a speedboat driven by her partner in crime, the equally beautiful Penelope. The villainous pair then murder David Wyngarde, making it look like a spear fishing accident.

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Hannibal Brooks (1969)

Adventure, Comedy, Comedy drama, Melodrama, war film

Lance Corporal Stephen "Hannibal" Brooks is a British prisoner of war who is put to work in Munich zoo, looking after a female Asian elephant named Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by the Americans, the zoo director decides that the zoo is unsafe for the elephant. Brooks is sent along with hostile German soldier Kurt, a friendly German soldier named Willy and Vronia, a female cook to accompany the elephant to Innsbruck Zoo via a train.

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Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)

Action, Biography, Drama, war film

thumb|Law in a publicity still thumb|Don Stroud at Lynn Garrison's aviation facility in Ireland. Manfred von Richthofen is an average pilot in a German air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke. Richthofen, who believes in a gentlemanly approach to war, meets fellow pilots Werner Voss, Ernst Udet and Hermann Göring.

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Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)

Action, Adventure, Treasure hunt

Gibbie Gibson has discovered a World War II-era plane wreck in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. When his discovery becomes known Gibson, his daughter Sally and his lodger Barney Whitaker find trouble from a group of treasure hunters led by a Mister Theo Brown, who are intent on finding the cache of money they believe is on the wreck.

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Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)

Comedy, Drama, family film

Soon after being taken in by a loving new mother and father (Mr. Matt Tomley and Mrs. Laura Tomley), two young former orphans (Sal and Ray) do their best to keep their furry, four-legged friend — a lovable Great Dane named Chestnut — a secret from their adoptive parents and save him from a grim fate at the city pound, where he would certainly be euthanized.

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Air Force (1943)

Action, Drama, war film

On December 6, 1941, the crew of Mary-Ann, a U.S. Army Air Corps B-17D, is ordered to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii with eight other Flying Fortress bombers. Master Sergeant Robbie White, the crew chief, is a long-time veteran whose son Danny is an officer and fighter pilot.

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Les Chevaliers du ciel (2005)

Military Film

At the Farnborough Airshow, a rogue group hijacks a Mirage 2000-10 after killing its pilot. French Air Force pilots Captain Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Captain Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are instructed to escort it back. The rogue pilot briefly hides under an Airbus A340 and then attempts to fire a missile at Vallois, so Marchelli is forced to destroy the stolen Mirage.

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Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)

Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction

The Greek fisherman Demetrios and his father rescue Princess Antillia from a shipwreck without knowing that she is from the technologically advanced civilization of Atlantis. After rescuing the princess, Demetrios must travel beyond the Pillars of Hercules to take her home. After they are picked up at sea near Atlantis by a giant fish-like submarine boat, Demetrios, expecting to receive a reward for returning Antillia, is instead enslaved and forced to work in the crater of the volcano that dominates the center of the continent.

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The Wrong Guys (1988)

Adventure, Comedy

Thirty years ago Louie Anderson was the leader of a group of Cub Scouts, Den 7: "The Owl Patrol", consisting of himself, neurotic Richard, ladies' man Belz, smooth talking Franklin and surfer dude Tim. Although an accomplished troop, they fail in their attempt to earn the coveted "Arrow of Light" badge by camping on Mount Whitehead, getting lost and having to call their mothers for help. They also face daily harassment from Glen and Mark Grunsky, two bullies that were kicked out of the den.

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The Black Arrow (1948)

Adventure, Historie, swashbuckler film

During the War of the Roses, Sir Richard Shelton returns home to Tunstall Castle in Yorkshire, and discovers that his father, Sir Harry Shelton, has been murdered. Richard's uncle and Harry's half-brother, Sir Daniel Brackley, claims that Sir John Sedley, a Lancastrian and Harry's former friend, murdered him over tribal grudges, and that Sedley was executed in response, and his lands were seized for Brackley's expanding kingdom on behalf of the House of York. Three of Brackley's trusted associates - Nick Appleyard, Bennet Hatch, and Sir Oliver Oates - all back up Brackley's story.

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The 7th Dawn (1964)

Adventure, Drama

1945: As the Japanese occupiers in Malaya during World War II surrender, three friends who fought in the Resistance emerge from the jungle. Ferris is an American who fought alongside the Malayans. Dhana is a half-French, half-Vietnamese woman Ferris is in love with.

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