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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,833 films · Page 104.
comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy, war film
Don Phelan, the ace newsreel reporter, falls in love with Wilma Howell, the daughter of the owner of another newsreel company that is a bitter rival of the one Don works for. The rivalry, with cameramen jostling each other out of the way, …
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Drama, Justice Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, drama film
Photographer Grace is devastated after being forced to take a picture of the killing of her guide in Iraq. Back in Belgium, she withdraws the picture after it had already been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her husband Max is an oculist…
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Conspiracy theory film, documentary film, war film
documentary film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
Documentation
It depicts the lives of Hammoudi, Helen, Farah and Sara, the young children of Free Syrian Army Commander Abu Ali. They live on the frontline of the civil war in Aleppo, the only family living in a derelict war zone that was once a busy re…
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war film
A US Army truck convoy is halted by North Korean artillery fire. A Lieutenant is sent out to locate and destroy the enemy's artillery piece with a patrol of picked men including a sergeant the lieutenant feels is a coward. On the way they …
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drama film, war film
war film
The Gestapo sends Gunther Rudehoff aboard a U-boat commanded by Captain Ganz, much to their mutual displeasure. Rudehoff's mission is to retrieve a valuable Axis agent who escaped aboard a freighter. The agent drops a lifeboat at a prearra…
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spy film
In 1912, the Evidenzbureau, the directorate of military intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, identifies Marchesa Marcella Galdi, an Italian noblewoman who is visiting Vienna, as an Italian spy. To avoid diplomatic confusion, she is…
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Anti-War Film, Documentation, Drama
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi
Drama, Secret Agent, crime film, drama film, war film
The former naval lieutenant Chris Waring is awakened by the police late time and delivered to Admiral Curtiss, his former commander. The admiral asks Waring for his support in an undercover operation. The op is about the shipowner Arnold D…
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documentary film, war film
War Film, war film
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Dark Comedy, Road Movie, comedy film
drama film, romance film, war film
A police dog is trained as a war dog by the army, after its donation by a young boy.
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Documentation, documentary film
In 1979, during the height of apartheid, 17-year old Afrikaner Marius van Niekerk joined the South African Defence Force (SADF), serving with some distinction during the South African Border War. By 1985, he had emigrated to Sweden, but re…
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Documentation, Investigative Documentary, documentary film
The film attempts to expose how the American government over 50 years has tried to strum up war effort using the media as a tool. "War Made Easy gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq."
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Drama, War Film
A Union Army corporal, a "young father", bids farewell to his wife and daughters to march off to war. Nearby, three Confederate soldiers, foraging for food, are surprised and shot at by Union soldiers. They flee.
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war film
During the First World War, Russian forces attempt to take out an Austrian artillery position.
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slasher film, splatter film, war film
In 2007, William, a psychotic Iraq veteran, murders a war protester and the man's girlfriend, and poses their bodies in a manner evocative of incidents such as Abu Ghraib. Elsewhere, Adrienne, another veteran of the conflict in the Middle …
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documentary film
The United States has 250,000 soldiers stationed on more than 700 military bases in at least 40 countries across the globe. This deployment has continued to increase. The film explores historical displacement of native populations, includi…
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biographical film
The film covers the period from just before Curtin becoming prime minister in October 1941 until the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions to Australia (Operation Stepsister) at the start of the Pacific war in March 1942. The film concludes …
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adventure film, documentary film, drama film, war film
Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson are two troubled veterans of the Iraq War. Tom, haunted by his experiences in Iraq, struggles to find peace within himself. He comes from a family with a strong military background, and the scars of war have l…
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