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Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
At the close of the Easter Rising in 1916, the besieged Irish republicans surrender to the British Army at the republicans' headquarters in Dublin. Several key figures of the Rising, including Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke a…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1945, after World War II, United States Army Sgt. Paul Sutton, a former candy salesman, returns to San Francisco to reunite with his wife, Betty, whom he married following a whirlwind courtship the day before he departed for the Pacific…
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Arranged Documentary, Investigative Documentary, Political Documentary, documentary film
The documentary begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the election of 2000 by prematurely declaring Bush the winner. It then suggests that the handling of the voting controversy…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Former US Marine Corps Scout Sniper and Vietnam War veteran Jim Hanson, a widower, lives along the Arizona-Mexico border with his dog, Jackson. While tending his ranch, which he is behind in payments on, he reports illegal border crossings…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter, born and brought up in the small village of St. Radegund, is working his land when war breaks out. Married to Franziska, colloquially Fani, the couple are important members of the tight-knit rura…
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Satire On War, comedy film
Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, executive officer of the attack submarine USS Orlando, is being considered for a third time to captain a submarine. Although an excellent leader, he has been previously passed over because of his unorthod…
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Komödie, Satire On War, comedy film, war film
In a short prelude, U.S. Army General Dean Hopgood is painfully thwarted in an attempt to pass paranormally through a solid wall by simply running into it. Ann Arbor Daily Telegram reporter Bob Wilton's wife leaves him for his editor.
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
In the aftermath of a financial crisis in the European Union and the weakening of NATO, collaborative dealings have occurred between a progressively militant North Korea and an ultranationalist Russia. The American mainland has become larg…
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Historical drama, War Film, historical drama film
In London during the Second World War, nine-year-old George is the mixed-race son of a white woman, Rita, and Marcus, a Black man who was deported to Grenada. George remains in London after the Nazi bombing has begun, living in Stepney wit…
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Action, Drama, Komödie, Military Film, War Film, war film
In 1983, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Thomas "Tom" Highway finagles a transfer back to his old unit, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Second Marine Division. On route, "Stitch" Jones gets on the same bus as Highway. The following morning at …
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
I'm Not There features a nonlinear narrative, shifting between six characters in separate storylines "inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan". Each character represents a different facet of Dylan's public persona: poet (Arthur R…
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action thriller, war film
In December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II, US Captain John Castle, 324th Engineering Battalion of Charlie Company, and his men (minus one named Cash, who is compelled to resign due to combat injuries) are sent to blo…
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Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film, teen film, thriller film, war film
A group of teenagers from Angel Grove, California secretly serve as the Power Rangers, a team of super-powered humans who use their abilities to defend the Earth from otherworldly threats. After participating in a charity skydive for the l…
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Drama, Melodrama, Monumental Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1939, shortly before World War II, English noblewoman Lady Sarah Ashley travels to Australia to force her philandering husband to sell his faltering cattle station, Faraway Downs. The huge station straddles Western Australia and the Nor…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, war film
Strasbourg 1800 thumb|The last duel takes place in a ruin, with each combatant armed with two pistols. In Strasbourg in 1800, Lieutenant Gabriel Feraud of the French 7th Hussars, a fervent Bonapartist and obsessive duellist, nearly kills t…
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Historie, Military Film, Political Drama, drama film, war film
In August and September 1941, several weeks after Nazi Germany launched its invasion into the USSR, sweep behind the relentlessly advancing German forces across the occupied parts of western Soviet Union, systematically exterminating the J…
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Military Film, Political Thriller, action film, thriller film, war film
The U.S. USS Tampa Bay, disappears while shadowing the Russian RFS Konek, in the Barents Sea. Rear Admiral John Fisk orders the newly promoted and unconventional Commander Joe Glass to lead the investigation on board the .
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The story begins with Thatcher in the present experiencing dementia and seeing her deceased husband Denis with her as a ghost. In a series of flashbacks, the young Margaret Roberts works at the family grocer's shop in Grantham, listening t…
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Thriller, War Film, war film
At the close of the Iraq War, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Shane Matthews, a sniper, along with his spotter, Sergeant Allen Isaac, are sent to investigate a pipeline construction site in the Iraqi desert where contractors and their security de…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1585, Catholic Spain, ruled by King Philip II, is the most powerful country in Europe. Seeing that the Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth's life that occurred from the 1570s onwards had all failed, Pope Sixtus V approached King Phil…
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Coming Of Age, Historical drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
Several years after being expelled from Beecher Prep for his cruelty towards Auggie Pullman, 15-year-old Julian Albans has been transferred to Union Tech and Yates Academy. He is visited by his grandmother, from Paris; in response to Julia…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, war film
Billy Lynn, a 19-year-old US Army specialist from Texas, is caught on camera dragging mortally wounded, Sergeant Virgil "Shroom" Breem, to safety during an intense firefight in Iraq, on October 23, 2004. This act of courage earns Lynn the …
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film, war film
British Army Colonel Katherine Powell discovers an undercover British/Kenyan agent has been murdered by the Al-Shabaab group. From Northwood Headquarters, she takes command of a mission to capture three of the ten highest-level Al-Shabaab …
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