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Drama, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Setting The film opens with the statement: "The German invasion of Britain took place in 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk." After months of fierce resistance and brutal reprisals, the occupying forces manage to restore order, largely su…
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Drama, drama film
In Lurgan, Northern Ireland, during 1975 and the Northern Irish Troubles, the Irish Republican Army are targeting loyalists; in turn, the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans…
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Adventure, Drama, Military Film
thumb|thumbtime=14|Beau Geste (1926) Major de Beaujolais leads a French Foreign Legion battalion across the Sahara desert to relieve Fort Zinderneuf, reportedly besieged by Arabs. When he arrives, he receives no response from the Legionnai…
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Historie, action film
On the eve of the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, as Nazi presence and anti-Semitic laws increase in Budapest, Jewish radio repair shop owner József sends home the two young men who work for him, Elek Cohen and Ferenc Jacobson. They …
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Action, Drama, War Film, drama film
During World War II, a Basque farmer is asked by the French resistance to help a fleeing scientist and his family escape across the Pyrenees Mountains to safety in neutral Spain. On his trail are a group of Germans, led by a sadistic SS of…
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Drama, drama film
In 1755, the father of 12-year-old Matt Howard (Dickie Jones) joins the Braddock Expedition against the French in the Ohio Country after being promised of land. Matt learns that his father died during the military expedition, and is consol…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In Korea, U.S. Army Sergeant Zack survives a massacre of American prisoners of war by the Korean People's Army after his M1 helmet saves him from a bullet intended for his head. Left bound and injured as the sole survivor of his surrendere…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1456, Charles VII, experiences dreams in which he is visited by Joan of Arc, the former commander of his army, burned at the stake as a heretic twenty-five years earlier. In the dream he tells Joan that her case was retried and her sent…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, spy film, war film
Eric Erickson is an American-born Swedish oil executive who is pressured by Allied intelligence agents, led by British agent Collins, to spy for the Allies. Erickson begins his job reluctantly, as it causes marital discord and forces him t…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
The inspector general of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Major General "Happy Jack" Kirby, lands unannounced at an Air Force base in California, home to an important strategic aerospace wing, and declares an unannounced operational readin…
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drama film, war film
The film, part of which is told through a series of flashbacks, follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a fictitious psychiatric asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. Adam was a comedian in Berlin prior to th…
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Action, Adventure, action film, war film
The film opens with a fictional depiction of a real-life incident, the "Hood event". On July 4, 2003, the Turkish soldiers believe they are receiving an ordinary visit from their NATO allies, but a sudden change occurs, and 11 allied Turki…
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Drama, drama film, war film
During both the First and Second World Wars, the Women's Land Army was set up in the United Kingdom to recruit women to work at farms where men had left to go to war. Women in the WLA were nicknamed "land girls". Set in 1941 in the Dorset …
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Drama Documentary, War Film, docudrama
The play focuses on the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British government's handling of the diplomatic breakdown over the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands (Spanish:), which was the United Kingdom's largest forei…
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Drama, drama film
Thomas (Ed Stoppard), a young German, fights unsuccessfully as one of Nazi Germany's Joy Division youth troops after the Soviet Union invades. In the early 1960s, he loses faith in the ideals he was brought up with, and works as a spy and …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, period drama film, war film
When England and France wage war on the republic of The Netherlands, Naval commander Michiel de Ruyter is called upon to lead the Dutch fleet in a battle for freedom and unity.
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Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, propaganda film, romantic comedy, war film
The documentary-drama follows seven women from different backgrounds who meet at an Auxiliary Territorial Service training camp. "Gentle" British girls, they are now doing their bit to help out in World War II: driving lorries and manning …
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Animated Film, Drama, War Film
The film depicts the upbringing of a German boy, Hans, under the Nazi regime. After his birth, his parents are required to prove their Aryan ancestry to a state official, who approves his name and symbolically enrolls him in service to the…
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Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, war film
In the 22nd century, after a devastating world war, veterans Deunan Knute and Briareos are living in the ruins of New York doing jobs for a cyborg despot named Two Horns, with Deunan hoping that once they've paid off their debt to him for …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
It is 1940 in Paris. Michele de la Becque is a career woman in love with industrial designer Robert Cortot. They enjoy a luxurious lifestyle unfazed by the approach of World War II.
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War Film, docudrama
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argent…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Albert is an unmarried schoolmaster living with his dominating mother and secretly in love with his neighbour and fellow teacher Louise. Widely regarded as ineffectual, he embarrasses everybody by his panic during an Allied air raid. Howev…
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Action, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In 2183, the human colony of Fehl Prime, a major producer of pharmaceuticals for the Systems Alliance, comes under attack by a group of Blood Pack mercenaries led by the krogan Archuk. In response, the Alliance dispatches several teams of …
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Crime, Forensic
In 1944, in Lincoln Bluff, a fictional, small Colorado town, the Second World War is still raging when the town's only doctor, George Hansen, is murdered at local US Army Camp Bremen, which holds German prisoners of war. Harmon Cobb, a loc…
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