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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
During World War II in 1941, Alan Alexander Milne – nicknamed "Blue" by his friends and family – and his wife Daphne receive a distressing telegram at their home. The story then flashes back to 1916 during World War I with Blue fighting in…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In August 1944, famous works of modern art being held by the Wehrmacht are being shipped to Germany; the officer in charge of the operation, Colonel Franz von Waldheim, is determined to take the paintings to Germany, no matter what the cos…
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Drama, Film Noir, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, melodrama, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
thumb|right|upright|Newspaper ad in 1939 In 1920, two Irish-American youths, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly, attempt to rob a railroad car carrying fountain pens. Jerry escapes from the police, while Rocky is caught and sentenced to ref…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, war film
In May 1944, during World War II, three Royal Homing Pigeon Service (RHPS) war pigeons led by Mercury are flying across the English Channel carrying a vital message to Great Britain when they are ambushed by a German-affiliated peregrine f…
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Drama, Historie, Thriller, drama film, political drama, political thriller film, thriller film, war film
In an unknown Balkan city-state – "a place that calls itself Rome" – riots are in progress after stores of grain are withheld from citizens and civil liberties are reduced due to a war between Rome and neighbouring Volsci. The rioters are …
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Documentation, anti-war film, documentary film, historical film, war film
Drama, drama film, war film
Action, Military Film, action film, thriller film, war film
Doug Masters, son of veteran USAF pilot Colonel Ted Masters, is a hotshot civilian pilot hoping to follow in his father's role. He receives a notice of rejection from the USAFA and Colonel Masters has been shot down and captured by the fic…
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Political Satire, Satire On War, drama film, war film
A group of cultured expatriate English women – the Scorpioni – meet for tea every afternoon in Florence, Italy in 1935. Luca is the young, out-of-wedlock son of an Italian businessman whose father has little interest in his upbringing. The…
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Drama, Thriller, War Film, action film, thriller film, war film
In 1973, a squad of nine Louisiana Army National Guard soldiers convene in a local bayou for weekend maneuvers. New to the squad is Corporal Hardin, a cynical transfer from the Texas Army National Guard, who is disgusted with the arrogant …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film, war film
In the early days of World War II, George M. Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right. On the show's first night, he is summoned to the White House to meet the Preside…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a war between the mining company the New Economic Block (N.E.B.) and "The Alliance", a group of former mining and science personne…
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Historie, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
In German-occupied France, Lucile Angellier and her domineering mother-in-law Madame Angellier await news of her husband Gaston, who was serving in the French Army. While visiting tenants, Lucile and Madame Angellier escape an air raid by …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
At the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War, Private Matt Ocre, a young civil affairs soldier with the Army Reserve slams his hand in the door of a Humvee in an attempt to get sent home. Narration reveals that he enlisted in July 2001, in order …
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Action, Adventure, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, swashbuckler film, sword-and-sandal film
An aging Robin Hood has been a trusted captain fighting for King Richard the Lionheart for twenty years and is now in France, the Third Crusade over. Richard orders him to take a castle which is rumoured to hold a gold statue. Discovering …
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Action, Adventure, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, medieval film
In 12th century Scandinavian Scotland, a mysterious mute one-eyed thrall is held captive by a Norwegian chieftain from Sutherland and forced to fight to the death against others. He receives his meals from a young thrall boy, who seems to …
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Action, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
The crew of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 Flying Fortress, take a brief respite between missions to play football while the Belle is repaired for her final, twenty-fifth mission. If successful, they will be the first bomber crew in the Eighth …
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Destiny, Historie, War Film, drama film, war film
Harry Faversham, a young British officer completing his training, celebrates his engagement to Ethne Eustace in a ball with his fellow officers and father. When the Colonel announces that the regiment is being dispatched to Egyptian-ruled …
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Drama, Komödie, Sci-Fi, anti-war film, comedy film, drama film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In Ilium, New York, the middle-aged Billy Pilgrim writes a letter to the editor claiming to have become "unstuck in time"; he finds himself as a young man behind enemy lines in Belgium during World War II, where he and some other American …
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1949, former United States Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall spots a familiar Toby Jug in an English antique shop and learns it came from Archbury, where Stovall served during World War II. Convinced it's the same jug from the airf…
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Justice Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The Last Full Measure centers on the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescueman who personally saved over 60 men during the Vietnam War.
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Action, War Film, drama film, war film
The film opens with the execution of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and the outbreak of civil war. As the mineral rich State of Katanga secedes under the leadership of Moise Tshombe, United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskj…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, romance film, war film
Kay Miniver lives a comfortable life in Belham, a fictional village outside London. Her devoted husband, Clem, is an architect. They have three children: the youngsters, Toby and Judy, and an older son, Vin, a student at Oxford University.
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Biographical picture, Historie, Holocaust film, Monumental Film, War Film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
thumb|The film's trailer In 1945, after World War II, Otto Frank returns to the Amsterdam garret where his family hid for more than 2 years before being arrested by the Gestapo. He is accompanied by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, his Christian …
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