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Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, spy film, war film
A silhouetted narrator connects the film to recent events, beginning in a quiet corner of Scotland in 1937. A postman delivers letters from all over the world to a Mrs. MacLaughlin, who forwards the contents of one envelope to Dr.
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Drama, biographical film, trial film
The book and the film tell the story of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American military serviceman executed for desertion (during World War II) since the American Civil War.
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, medieval film
When the Vikings invade England, Alfred is about to take his priesthood vows. However, his brother, King Æthelred of Wessex, summons him to his aid and Alfred leaves for battle, where he appears to be a great tactician. Æthelred dies short…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In October 1918, Major Charles Whittlesey is ordered by Major General Robert Alexander to lead roughly 550 soldiers of the United States Army's 77th Infantry Division into the Argonne forest to repel a German advance. Alexander has little …
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Action, Adventure, drama film, spy film, war film
On November 17, 1941, on Governor's Island in New York City, Captain Rick Leland is court-martialed and discharged from the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Princess Patricia's Cana…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1862, the 304th New York Infantry, a regiment of the Union Army, is encamped near the Rappahannock River in Virginia. Orders direct the 304th to move upriver and engage a large Confederate force. Private Henry Fleming tells his comrades…
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War Film, drama film, war film
During the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, the Germans opened fire on their American prisoners of war, in what is known as the Malmedy massacre, killing many troops as they try to run away. Medic Steven Gould (Alexander Niver) manages to esca…
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Drama, Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller, psychological thriller
In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, an unknown aircraft approaches North America from Europe. U.S. Vindicator bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are scrambled to their f…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, mystery film
Inspector Cockrill is typing a report to his chief at Scotland Yard on the "amazing events" beginning on 17th August 1944, with postman Joseph Higgins "the first to die". We see the operating theatre and the personnel in a rural hospital. …
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Action
U.S. Marine Corps Captain Brad Paxton is living with his wife Kate, an archeologist, and a daughter in New York City. He is still haunted by the nightmare of his service in Syria.
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Action, action film, drama film, war film
Nick Gunar, an ex-soldier, is down and out in Chicago in a typically cold winter. When two men offer him a job on a tropical island, he reluctantly agrees and gathers together a group of soldier friends also down on their luck. They arrive…
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drama film, war film
In 1972 North Vietnam, short-timer Marines are dispatched by helicopter to conduct their last mission: to evacuate the survivors from a POW camp abandoned by the Viet Cong. The landing zone - which they expect to be cold - is actually hot …
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Arranged Documentary, Documentation, crime film, documentary film, war film
The documentary concerns the death of Dilawar, an Afghan peanut farmer, who gave up farming to become a taxi driver and who died after several days of beating at Bagram detention center. Dilawar left his home of Yakubi in eastern Afghanist…
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War Film, drama film, war film
During World War II, British Squadron Leader Lane-Ferris is badly wounded when a German interceptor attacks his bomber en route to a German railway junction at Schneidemühl. Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes assumes command and carries out the mi…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Confined in an Israeli jail, Howard W. Campbell, Jr. writes a memoir about his career in Nazi Germany.
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy whose head has been completely shaved, small-town police call in a psychologist who discovers that the boy is a war orphan named Peter Fry. Peter tells the story of his life to the psychologist.…
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War Film, war film
In the spring of 1942 the US Army decides to form an elite strike force similar to the heralded British Commandos. Led by Major William Darby, a former staff officer, the 1st Ranger Battalion is formed on June 19, 1942. He and Master Serge…
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War Film, drama film, war film
During World War II, the Germans transform Colditz Castle into a high-security prisoner-of-war camp called Oflag IV-C. Its purpose is to restrain those Allied prisoners who have attempted to escape from other Oflags. Colditz houses first P…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film focuses on two vigilante groups who fight drug cartels from different sides of the United States–Mexico border. In Mexico, the film focuses on José Manuel Mireles Valverde, known locally as "El Doctor". Mireles becomes fed up with…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska) is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving…
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Dokufiction, Drama, docufiction, drama fiction
The CVN news network's nightly program, starring Don Tobin (Patrick Watson), with reports from correspondents Michael Boyle (Scott Glenn) and Dorian Waldorf (Helen Shaver), discusses a terrorist bombing of the American embassy in Saudi Ara…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
In 1916, as U.S. soldiers chase after Pancho Villa, Army Major Thomas Thorn is assigned to be a battlefield observer and reward heroism. He has been suggested for this duty by Colonel Rogers, who is 63 years old and impatiently yearning to…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
At the end of the English Civil Wars (1642-1651), the forces of Parliament, led by Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) and his loyal deputy Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658, Lord Protector 1653–1658) (Tim Roth), are victorious, and the King, Charles …
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Action, War Film, drama film, war film
In the 1942 Pacific theatre of World War II, Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Lawson, USN, is a Japanese-language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat. His commanding officer, Captain John G. Nolan, unexpectedly cancels his leave and i…
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