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drama film
The miniseries presented a dramatization of the sequence of events leading to the September 11 attacks in 2001 by Al-Qaeda on the United States, starting from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and up to the minutes after its collapse in …
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
By 2038, all of Earth's natural resources have been depleted. Multinational corporations have taken control of the galaxy and rival companies battle each other for access to mining planets. A major battle is for Moon 44, a fuel mining oper…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
The Greek orator Demosthenes of Athens is advocating war to resist King Philip II of Macedon and his planned invasion and takeover of all the city-states of Greece. While Philip II is leading a campaign to take over Olynthus, he is informe…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1940, English journalist Charles Foreman strives to warn his complacent readers of the dangers posed by the build-up of German forces in western Europe. He rails against the Ministry of Information for suppressing the truth. Most of his…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, partisan film, war film
The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of World War II in Yugoslavia, depicting the dynamics between German forces, Italian units, Chetniks (supporters of the Royal Yugoslav government), and Partisans (supporters of the People's Republ…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Dark Comedy, Dramedy, Gross Out Film, Horror, Horror comedy, Komödie, Mysterie, Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Silly Movie, Splatter Film, Thriller, Zombiefilm, absurdist fiction, art film, black comedy film, body horror film, comedy drama, comedy horror, experimental film, horror film, katastrophe, post-apocalyptic film, psychedelic film, satirical film, science fiction film, surrealist film, thriller film, zombie film
Diane (Alexandra Slade) awakens in a bunker surrounded by dead bodies after a brutal massacre. After attempting to escape the structure, she eventually passes out at the bottom of an elevator shaft where she is rescued by a mysterious man …
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, film noir, romance film
American David Ross, a former tugboat captain now in the Canadian Army, is hastily commissioned in the Royal Navy and assigned to rotating command of W88, a double-screwed rescue tug then in dry dock due to battle damage. His predecessor c…
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Drama, Historie, Monumental Film, drama film
The Trojan Women was one of a trilogy of plays dealing with the suffering created by the Trojan Wars. Hecuba, Queen of the Trojans and mother of Hector, one of Troy's greatest warriors, looks upon the remains of her kingdom as she and the …
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War Film, drama film, musical film, propaganda film, romance film, war film
thumb|Title card In June 1941, Ukrainian villagers are living in peace. As the school year ends, a group of friends decide to travel to Kiev for a holiday. To their horror, they find themselves attacked by German aircraft, part of the Nazi…
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Documentation, documentary film
Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|left|thumbtime=20|The Big Parade (1925) thumb|left|thumbtime=31|The Big Parade (1925; 1929 sound re-release) In the United States in 1917, James "Jim" Apperson's idleness, in contrast to his hardworking brother, incurs the great disp…
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War Film, romance film, war film
Burma, 1943. American and British forces under the OSS join with native Kachin to hold back Japanese invaders, albeit with limited supplies and medical care. Captains Tom Reynolds and Danny De Mortimer fly to Calcutta to rectify both probl…
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Military Film, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1942, a cargo ship with a Norwegian crew, part of an Allied Arctic convoy transporting weapons to the Soviet Union, continues on its way after the disintegration of the convoy and the retreat of its military escort, making a perilous jo…
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Adventure, children's film, drama film
In 1770s Boston, Johnny Tremain is apprenticed to a silversmith, Mr. Lapham. One day, wealthy Jonathan Lyte asks Mr.
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War Film, drama film
In the days after the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War, recently commissioned Second Lieutenant Jim Perry, a pre-war Territorial private soldier, is posted to the Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry, known as the "Dogs", to train re…
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Adventure, adventure film, war film
In 1905 on the North West Frontier of British India, a Hindu Maharajah asks British Army Captain Scott (Kenneth More) to take his young son, Prince Kishan, to the safety of the Governor's residence in Haserabad due to a Muslim uprising in …
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
In June 1942, on the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, American Sergeant Joe Gunn and the crew of his M3 Lee tank Lulu Belle are the sole survivors of their unit. Boxed in by the enemy, they have no choice but to head south. They come acros…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
A British tramp steamer named the SS Glencairn is on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore, and then to England during World War II. The crew is a motley, fun-loving, hard-drinking lot. Among them is their consensus leader…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, war film
The film opens in Saigon late in the Vietnam War. John Converse, a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks, a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse from the U.S., for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin…
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Action, War Film, war film
In April 1953, during the Korean War, K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, under the command of Lieutenant Joe Clemons, is assigned to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Chinese People's Volunteer Army force. Clemo…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
German field marshal Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have driven the British Army back toward Egypt and the vital Suez Canal. Standing in Rommel's way is Tobruk, a constant threat to his supply lines. The 9th Australian Division are char…
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Drama Documentary, War Film, biographical film, war film
War Film, drama film, war film
Based on a true story, it follows a group of teenage cadets at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) who are called upon at the Battle of New Market, in May 1864, to help defend the Shenandoah Valley.
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Action, War Film
In 1974, during the final days of the Vietnam War, Mark Lee and Chow Ying-kit arrive in Saigon, Lee intends to bring his uncle and cousin Michael Cheung Chi-mun back to Hong Kong with him. After arriving at the airport, Mark is ordered by …
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