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Arranged Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi, War Film, docudrama
The film begins by describing Britain's nuclear deterrence policy of threatening would-be aggressors with devastation from the Royal Air Force's nuclear-armed V bombers. Due to the number of V bomber bases (particularly in a crisis situati…
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Political Thriller, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
In 1965 Michael Armstrong, a U.S. physicist and rocket scientist, is travelling to a conference in Copenhagen with his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman. Armstrong receives a radiogram to pick up a book in Copenhagen; it contains a mess…
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Military Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett, Force Reconnaissance Marine, an experienced sniper, and his spotter, Corporal Papich, are on a mission to assassinate a Panamanian rebel leader in the jungle. Upon successful completion of their miss…
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action film, drama film, historical film, war film
During the early days of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and on a greater scale World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Shanghai in what became known as the Battle of Shanghai. After holding back the Japanese for over 3 months, and …
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Action, action film, crime film
In 1973, U.S. Air Force Major Charles Rane returns home to San Antonio with U.S. Army Master Sergeant Johnny Vohden and two other soldiers, having spent seven years as a prisoner-of-war in North Vietnam.
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Action, Drama, War Film, war film
In December 1944, military intelligence officer and Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Kiley is on a reconnaissance flight over the Ardennes forest when he locates a German staff car and photographs its occupants. Spooked by the low-flying pla…
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Biographical picture, Dramedy, Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, comedy drama
In 2003 New York City, Kim Baker is a struggling television journalist covering low-profile stories. To help her career, she takes a short assignment as a war correspondent in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom, to the disappoin…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Political Drama, Romance Film
A series of closeups of the backs and arms of a man and woman embracing, amidst falling ash and then covered in sweat. In voice-over, the woman recounts the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that she has seen on her trip to the …
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1981 Afghanistan, a Soviet tank unit viciously attacks a Pashtun village harboring a group of mujahideen fighters. Following the assault, one of the tanks—commanded by ruthless commander Daskal (George Dzundza)—takes a wrong turn throug…
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Biographical picture, War Film, drama film, war film
In September 1942, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Leslie Groves, who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon, is assigned to head the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, to beat the Germans, who have a similar nuclear weapons program. G…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, biographical film
In 1904, Morocco is the source of conflict among the colonial powers of Germany, France, and the British Empire. Each nation is trying to establish a sphere of influence in that country. Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli is the leader of a band of Be…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film
Calvin loves Chicago, his hometown and the place where he has been running his barbershop business in addition to supporting his family. Unfortunately, the city has become plagued by gang violence and criminal activity as of late, and tens…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Corporal Rolf Steiner is a veteran soldier of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. During a raid on an enemy mortar position, his reconnaissance platoon captures a Russian boy soldier. They set off for friendly lines just as…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film
A boy eating lunch in a 1950s-style kitchen plays war with his surrounding toys. A bomb blast outside the window frightens him under the table from where he is rescued and taken to an Amphitheatre, where an invisible audience cheers. The b…
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Action, Christmas film, Military Film, action film, martial arts film, propaganda film, spy film, thriller film, war film
A group of Cuban refugees are on a boat sailing for the United States and are met by what appears to be a US Coast Guard boat with armed personnel. The captain of the vessel declares that the refugees are welcomed to the United States, but…
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Action, Adventure, Historie, action film, adventure film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
In the Roman Empire of the 5th century, Ambrosinus, a Druid and member of a secret brotherhood protecting the sword of Julius Caesar, becomes tutor to the young newly crowned Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus. As Emperor, Romulus and his …
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Komödie, War Film, parody film
About to be executed for a crime he never committed, Boris Grushenko recalls how he got into his present predicament. Initially scheduled to die at 5:00 am, Boris receives leniency—a delay in execution until 6:00 am. While his brothers Iva…
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Drama, Komödie, War Film, comedy film, drama film, war film
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant operates in areas of the Pacific Ocean far from enemy action. Lt. (j.g.) Doug Roberts, the executive officer and cargo chief, shields the dispirited crew from …
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Action, action film, drama film, war film
In 1972, a group of American soldiers in South Vietnam carry one of their wounded to a helicopter landing zone for evacuation but are left behind as another helicopter carrying "Blaster", "Sailor" and Wilkes departs under fire. A decade la…
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Anti-War Film, Dark Comedy, Historie, Justice Drama, Parodie, Satire On War, comedy drama, war film
In 1939, the well-known stars of a Warsaw theater company, including "ham" Joseph Tura and wife Maria, are rehearsing Gestapo, a play satirizing the Nazi regime. During the company's production of Hamlet that night, with Joseph in the titl…
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Biographical picture, Military Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Before America's entry into World War I, Alvin York is a poor, young farmer in rural Tennessee, living with his widowed mother Mary Elizabeth, sister Rosie, and younger brother George. He spends his time fighting and getting drunk with fri…
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Action, Komödie, Thriller
Indian journalists Suhel Khan and Jai Kapoor arrive in post-Taliban Afghanistan to document the condition of the country following the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Based in Kabul and working for Star News, they begin their journey through the c…
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Conspiracy Thriller, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943, Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu devises a scheme to deceive the Nazis about the impending invasion of Southern Europe. It entails releasing a corpse with a fictional identity off Huelva on the coast of Spain, where st…
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Drama, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=7|The full version of Fear and Desire Fear and Desire opens with an off-screen narration by actor David Allen who tells the audience: There is a war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, nor one that will be, but …
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