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Anti-War Film, comedy film, drama film, war film
During the Bosnian War, two wounded soldiers, a Bosniak named Čiki and a Bosnian Serb named Nino, are caught between their lines in no man's land. The two soldiers confront each other in a trench, where they wait for dark. Trading insults …
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Drama, Historie, drama film, war film
At Raffles Hotel in Singapore, a dance for soldiers and their families is interrupted by the Battle of Singapore and a bomb exploding outside the club. The women and children are immediately collected and carried off by a boat to a safer l…
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Adventure, War Film, action film, war film
In 1944, Allied prisoners at a POW camp on an unnamed Greek island are forced to excavate ancient artefacts. The camp Commandant, Major Otto Hecht, a former Austrian antiques dealer, is sending some of the valuable pieces to his sister liv…
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Action, Military Film, drama film, war film
During the last days of the Vietnam War, USAF Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. "Gene" Hambleton, call sign BAT-21 Bravo, is flying aboard an EB-66C electronic warfare aircraft, engaged in electronic countermeasures preparatory to a major bombin…
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Christmas film, Drama, Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
On Christmas Eve in New York City, down-on-his-luck ex-convict Nick Bianco and his three colleagues rob a jewelry store. Before they can exit the building, however, the injured proprietor sets off his alarm. While attempting to escape, Nic…
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Drama, drama film, war film
In Jennings County, Indiana, in 1862, Jess Birdwell is a farmer and patriarch of the Birdwell family whose Quaker religion conflicts with his love for the worldly enjoyments of music and horse racing. Jess's deeply religious wife, Eliza, a…
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Action, Drama, Historie, action film, docudrama, drama film, historical film, political thriller film, thriller film, war film
On 27 June 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 at Athens. With President Idi Amin's appr…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In the Pacific Theater of World War II, an Imperial Japanese Navy captain is marooned alone on an uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. One day, an American plane crash survival kit washes up on the shore, and he overhears an …
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Drama, Historie, Monumental Film, War Film, drama film, musical film, silent film
thumb|The reconstructed film After the Great Flood, Noah and his family are seen outside the Ark praising Jehovah, followed by depictions of the building of the Tower of Babel, the worshipping of the golden calf, and then the eve of World …
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In 1942, the crew of Lulubelle, a United States Army M3 Lee tank attached to the British Eighth Army and commanded by Master Sergeant Joe Gunn, become separated from their unit during a general retreat from German forces after the fall of …
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film
In the spring of 1944, German forces work to secure intelligence about the upcoming Allied invasion, after one of their spies is intercepted in London by MI5 agents, Major Cunningham and Captain Meeks. Meanwhile, Captain Mainwaring finds h…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, war film
The film opens with former secondary school teacher Aida Selmanagić translating the negotiations between the Dutchbat commander Thom Karremans and the Mayor of Srebrenica. The nervous Mayor questions Karremans about Dutchbat's plans in cas…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In mid-December 1944, Privates Jim Layton and William J. Hooper are assigned to the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As a newcomer, Layton receives a chilly welcome from his squad.
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Adventure, drama film, historical film, war film
The film is about the folly of war, and the poor state of the British Army and its leadership during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Britain had not fought in a European theatre since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and the army had become sc…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, pirate film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In a distant galaxy, water is so scarce and rationed that it is considered an immensely valuable substance, both as a commodity and as a currency in ice cubes. The Templars of Mithra control the water and they destroy worlds that have natu…
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Drama, Family Saga, Historie, drama film, historical film, romance film, war film
The mid-19th-century patriarch of the Hungarian-Jewish Sonnenschein (meaning "Sunshine" in German) family is a tavern owner who makes his own popular distilled herb-based tonic in Austria-Hungary. The tonic, called Taste of Sunshine, is la…
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drama film, war film
The film depicts the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War, which took place from September 15 to 19, 1950, and is considered the turning point of the war. The protagonist of the film is General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United State…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Six Western journalists visit a small village in Darfur in western Sudan under the escort of a squad of soldiers of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission. When they learn the brutal state sponsored militia called the Janjaweed are he…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sitcom, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
At a corporation's base on the Neptunian moon Triton, mercenaries are setting up a defense perimeter to try to hold off an unstoppable cyborg warrior. The company's CEO E.J. Saggs and chief scientist Dr.
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Anti-War Film, Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy film, drama film
Lieutenant Goodbody is an inept, idealistic, naïve, and almost relentlessly jingoistic wartime-commissioned (not regular) officer. One of the main subversive themes in the film is the platoon's repeated attempts or temptations to kill or o…
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Action, Historical drama, war film
It is set during World War I and follows Leonard as he is driven to spearhead a resistance and protect his community during the German invasion of Belgium.
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Drama, Historie, spy film
In the beginning of the Second World War, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency—the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a…
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Action, Psychodrama, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
During the Bosnian War, American troops witness atrocities and shoot Serb soldiers whom they hold accountable. In present-day Belgrade, Serbia, former Scorpions soldier Emil Kovač, who survived the shootings, meets his informant to retriev…
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Drama, Historie, historical drama
Episode 1 The first episode opens to reveal a dying Henry VII mistaking his heir Henry VIII for his late son Arthur Tudor. Concerned for the fragile chances of his family's dynasty, the dying king implores his son to marry his brother's wi…
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