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War Film, drama film, war film
Bill Forrester, a RCAF pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, pilots a de Havilland Mosquito, a two-seat fighter-bomber. Forrester is distraught after losing his new wife in the Blitz in London and has become self-destructive. His …
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Historie, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1969, at the time of the Apollo 11 mission, American soldier Dalton Joiner, fighting in the Vietnam War, uses his time of R&R supposed to be spent in Hong Kong, to fly back to the United States to re-capture the heart of his girlfriend …
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Action, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
The film follows the exploits of Corporal Bob Rains (Danny Dyer) as he is inducted into the newly formed 30 Commando unit in the Second World War, after being freed from a war prison for cowardice and striking an officer during operations …
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Action, Thriller, disaster film, thriller film
During a flight from Oakland to Minneapolis, passenger Elly Brewster aboard Global Airways Flight 502, a Boeing 707, discovers a bomb threat written in lipstick on the mirror of a first-class bathroom. Captain Hank O'Hara believes it may b…
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drama film, war film
Action, Drama, Historie, Western film, action film, drama film, historical film, romance film, war film
Winfield Scott, Chief Commanding Officer of the U.S. Army, orders that 16 Irish immigrant soldiers be illegally whipped for "desertion" after they are caught entering Mexico to attend Catholic religious services. Sgt.
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Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, war film
The story is set during World War II in the summer of 1943, immediately after the fall of Italy's Fascist government under Benito Mussolini, when the German army moved to occupy most of the country. The only substantial source of income fo…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) is a former Los Angeles gang member who has transitioned into law enforcement. Sancho, however, who is surrounded by corruption, finds that life as a police officer is just as morally bankrupt as life a…
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Melodrama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In the final year of World War II, units of the United States Army are in the foothills of the Alps between France and Italy, trying to dislodge a unit of German soldiers from a supply post in the middle of a small village. 1st Lt. Sam Log…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to the Moon. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stag…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
Peter Morgan, a young doctor, begins a new job at Monument Heights Veterans' Hospital in Washington, D.C. The government-funded hospital is suffering from cutbacks upheld by Executive Director Dr. Henry Dreyfoos.
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Drama, War Film, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
During the American Civil War, seven young Texans in the Confederate army, the Concho County Comanches, journey to Shiloh, Tennessee where a major battle is about to take place. Along the way they encounter many perilous adventures. J.C.
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Drama, War Film, war film
In the Second World War, the Royal Navy is desperately short of personnel. Court-martialled eight years before, Lieutenant Commander Fraser is brought out of retirement and put in command of the antiquated "four pipe" First World War-vinta…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Dr. Eugene Sands, a surgeon whose medical license was revoked ten months prior for losing a patient while under the influence of amphetamines and opiates, makes yet another mistake in an L.A. bar after buying fentanyl citrate (synthetic he…
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War Film, war film
In 1942 Britain is desperately holding onto Malta. Invasion seems imminent; the Italians and Germans are regularly bombing the airfields and towns. Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an archaeologist in civilian life, is on his way to an RAF po…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Eddie Keller is one of the last POWs to be brought home from Vietnam, after several years of torture and deprivation at the hands of the Vietcong. During his captivity, he resists signing a "confession" admitting to war crimes repeatedly, …
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, newly commissioned Lt. Michael Grayson reports for duty to train the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a unit established on the mainland and composed of Nisei. His expectation was to return to the U.S.
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Drama, War Film
In 1939, two Bergen dock workers Alfred (Freddy) and Sigbjørn embark on a several month mission on a cargo ship bound for New York. Alfred is reluctant to leave his family but is in desperate need of a job. As World War II erupts, the Norw…
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War Film, drama film, war film
The film opens with images of ancient European artworks being blown to pieces amidst the sounds of war and dissonant screams. As the narrator begins his tale of "eight American soldiers" the scene abruptly jumps back in time to a few weeks…
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War Film, biographical film
In the summer of 1950, one month after North Korea's invasion of South Korea, Dean Hess has been a small town minister in Ohio for two years. He has been suffering a crisis of conscience, however. He realizes he cannot continue as a Protes…
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Melodrama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
As a German infantry unit retreats across Russia in the spring of 1944, Ernst Graeber's conscience is revolted by the execution of captured civilians. Given his first furlough for over two years, he returns to find his family home bombed a…
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Drama, Justice Drama, Sport, War Film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Salamo Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiancée Allegra in 1943 and interned in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow p…
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Historie, Romance Film, Satire, comedy film
Richard "Dick" Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas) is apostate and outcast from his family in colonial Websterbridge, New Hampshire, who returns their hatred with scorn. After the death of his father, mistakenly hanged by the British as a rebel in near…
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War Film
The film and book are based on the story of the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment which included men from the King's estate at Sandringham House who had initially been formed in a "Sandringham Company". The battalion su…
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