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Drama, Historie, drama film, war film
In December 1943, Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower discusses the invasion of German-occupied Europe with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Eisenhower threatens to resign as Supreme Commander of SHAEF unless he is given total control of all opera…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, drama film, war film
The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II. Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film, war film
Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid), a U.S. Department of State official on embassy duty in Paris, sees his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son killed in a bombing by Islamic terrorists. Immediately after the transfer ceremony he storms into a nearby m…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
The untested infantrymen of C Company, 18th Infantry, U.S. Army, board trucks to travel to the front for the first time. Lt.
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Sergeant Michael Dunne of the 10th Battalion, CEF, has survived the Battle of Vimy Ridge but suffers from neurasthenia and is sent home to Calgary, Alberta, for recovery. While in hospital he meets nurse Sarah Mann (Caroline Dhavernas). Da…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, who were so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents. They can be activated on…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Steampunk, action film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story is set in the year 2707. The world is loosely based on that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game, in which many technologies are steam powered and mankind has exhausted Earth's natural resources. The protagonists must battl…
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Drama, War Film, war film
During World War II, Hannibal "Iowa" Lee Jr. travels by train to Tuskegee, Alabama for military flight training, along with fellow African-American flight cadets Billy "A-Train" Roberts, Leroy Cappy, Walter Peoples III, and Lewis Johns. Co…
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Melodrama, Pirate Film, Romance Film, War Film, adventure film, pirate film, romance film
During the War of 1812, American forces, under Andrew Jackson (played by Charlton Heston), defeated the British, under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham at Chalmette. Control of New Orleans was important to the American and British forces …
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Action, action film, war film
Captain Dmitri "Demi" Zubov is a veteran Soviet Navy captain finishing up a career that failed to live up to the legacy of his legendary father. He is given an assignment by Markov to lead a top secret mission and given the command of his …
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Drama, Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
thumb|left|thumbtime=20|A Farewell to Arms On the Italian front during World War I, Lieutenant Frederic Henry is an American serving as an ambulance driver with the Italian Army. While carousing with his friend, Italian captain Rinaldi, a …
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Drama, drama film
Returning to his Bronx home following World War II, Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen) discovers his middle class parents have drifted apart and quarrel at every slightest provocation. Once closer to his mother Nettie (Patricia Neal), Timmy finds…
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Thriller, War Film, war film
After attending General Eisenhower's final briefing on the upcoming Normandy landings, U.S. Army major Jeff Pike is sent to Lisbon, Portugal on June 1, 1944 to meet an informant to confirm that the Nazis still expect the invasion at the Pa…
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drama film
Lipizzaner horses, a breed since 1580, and the Spanish Riding School, founded in 1735, remain living Austrian treasures, though both are nearly lost during WWII. During the German occupation, Colonel Alois Podhajsky, who performed in dress…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Footage depicts the events of the Spanish Civil War and a line of Spanish refugees crossing the border into France after defeat by the Francoists. Republican guerrilla fighter Manuel Artiguez turns away from the border and back toward Spai…
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Drama, drama film, spy film
In 1940, German engineer Kurt Muller, his American wife Sara, and their children Joshua, Babette, and Bodo cross the Mexican border into the United States to visit Sara's brother David Farrelly and their mother Fanny in Washington, D.C. Fo…
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Adventure, Classical Western, Western film
At West Point Military Academy in 1854, Cadet Carl Rader (Van Heflin), an agent of John Brown, is dishonorably discharged for instigating a brawl among the cadets after distributing anti-slavery pamphlets which his classmates disapprove of…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, biographical film
thumb|260px|left|Leslie Howard in The First of the Few A newsreel sets the scene for summer 1940, showing Nazi advances in Europe with Britain facing invasion and aerial attacks on the island increasing. On 15 September 1940, during the Ba…
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Western, Western film
In 1922, in an unnamed country south of Mexico torn by revolution, Emmet Keogh, an Irish patriot and political assassin, is coerced into transporting a truckload of Scotch whiskey for English gunrunner, Jennings. Along the way, he helps Am…
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Drama, War Film, war film
Captain Karl Ehrlich is the master of the aging German steam freighter Ergenstrasse, home port Hamburg, docked at Sydney, Australia, on the eve of the Second World War. Ehrlich is a former German Navy officer, who lost his command after re…
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War Film, war film
At Montigny, Meurthe-et-Moselle in 1944, infantry squad leader Sergeant Larkin is resting with his men after weeks at the front. A replacement named Private John Reese has been assigned to the platoon. Reese, a former master sergeant and D…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|left|start=44|thumbtime=47|7th Heaven full film In the early 1910s, Chico works in the sewers of Paris. He expresses his desire to be a street sweeper, to work above ground, and light candles at a nearby church. After a meeting with …
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Secret Agent, spy film
American-born East German dissident Alex Holbeck, living in Paris, hosts a samizdat radio program aimed at Iron Curtain countries. Bodley, a CIA agent, recruits Alex to take on a dangerous assignment. Alex is sent to East Berlin on a missi…
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