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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 58.
War Film, drama film, propaganda film
In 1933 Berlin, Professor Nichols runs the American Colony School. It is next to the Horst Wessel School, where young Germans are indoctrinated into Nazism. During a brawl between the student bodies, Karl Bruner, a German youth born in the…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, High School Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1961 the freshman class of Westwood High School in Los Angeles is profiled in Look magazine. In the article they are called "the future of the country." Now it's four years later, and that class is experiencing their last day of school.…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
During a bombing squadron's prewar operations from an aircraft carrier off Hawaii, one of the fliers, Lt. "Swede" Larson, blacks out during a high-speed dive and crashes. At the Honolulu base hospital, Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred …
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Anti-War Film, Family Drama, Holocaust film, drama film, war film
thumb|Montgomery Clift in The Search trailer In Allied-occupied Germany after World War II, trains transport homeless children (Displaced Persons), under the care of Mrs. Murray and other United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administra…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1944, Major Baldwin of the United States Army Corps of Engineers is ordered to blow up an airfield. Headquarters in Kunming orders him to use his pre-war engineering expertise to delay the advancing Japanese forces as much as possible w…
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drama film, romance film
The Strategic Air Command is about to introduce the B-52 Stratofortress bomber as its primary crewed strategic weapon. Stationed at Castle Air Force Base, California, with the 329th Bomb Squadron, 20-year United States Air Force (USAF) vet…
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War Film, war film
On the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, Captain Tim Cotton leads a patrol on a raid to destroy a German fuel dump located deep behind enemy lines. Captain Williams of the Royal Engineers is posted to Cotton's patrol to deal with a minefiel…
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Adventure, War Film, war film
During World War II, Navy Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, a strict disciplinarian, is given charge of Underwater Demolition Team 4 after its former leader, Lt.
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Classical Western, drama film
In the days before the Civil War, the Kansas Territory is torn by fighting over whether Kansas should enter the Union as a free state or a slave state. Cam Bleeker, a farmer who went to prison for leading a gang of raiders himself, breaks …
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Satire On War, Stop Motion, comedy film
In 1940, Nazi Germany invades Great Britain by drilling under the English Channel and up through the cobblestones on Whitehall, London. From his bunker under Downing Street, away, Prime Minister Winston Churchill issues a call to arms for …
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Drama, War Film, drama film
Anti-War Film, Mysterie, Psychodrama, thriller
During the Second World War, young pilot RAF Flight Lieutenant Toby Jugg (Robert Pattinson) suffers a serious spinal injury during a bombing raid on the city of Dresden. This injury confines him to a wheelchair, facing a life as a paralyze…
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Found Footage, War Film, drama film, found footage film, war film
The film's point of view is from an inexperienced cameraman following a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol team from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade on a five-day patrol deep into "Indian Country" (territory controlled by the North Vi…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Soldier Kevin Deakin is presumed dead and left behind in the Falklands but is accused of desertion when he reappears seven weeks after the Falklands War ends.
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Film Noir, drama film
Joe Barrett, an ex-US Air Force Colonel and World War II veteran, returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint, Tokyo Joe's. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend It…
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drama film, war film
The film opens to LCDR Patrick Michael Williamson being interviewed by a journalist aboard an aircraft carrier, discussing the current conflict in Vietnam. As the opening credits roll, the film pivots to Williamson’s aircraft, along with h…
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War Film, adventure film, drama film, war film
The film's foreword reads:In the Navy records in Washington, there is an obscure entry reading "Saddles for Gobi." This film is based on the story behind that entry, one of the strangest stories of World War II. The Navy created a meteorol…
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War Film, biographical film, war film
In Depression-era Los Angeles, Guy Gabaldon gets into a fight at school when another boy snitches about his breaking into a grocery store. After Japanese-American Kaz Une (the brother of Guy's physical education teacher and friend George) …
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Drama, Thriller, film noir, spy film
Ireland, 1937. Young Bridie Quilty has grown up listening to her father's heroic tales of the Irish Revolution. As a result, she develops a hatred for everything and everyone British, especially "the wicked murdering blackguard" Oliver Cro…
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war film
Vunapope, a small Catholic mission station on New Britain, is captured by Japanese forces in January 1942.
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Action, War Film, action film
Lieutenant Jeffrey Knight, newly graduated from the United States Military Academy, is airlifted to an outpost in Vietnam, where he meets the hard-bitten veterans of his new platoon. Platoon Sergeant McNamara explains they don't need a lea…
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action film, drama film, spy film
During the First World War, British Army Lieutenant Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a Scotsman of German descent, is attracted to Stephanie, a German spy who suggests he escape to Germany to be reunited with his family and friends. When he repor…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Military Film, Satire On War, comedy film, drama film, war film
During World War II the British army is attempting to retrieve an Enigma machine from Germany. Having failed in previous attempts, they decide to send four men undercover to the factory that makes the devices in Berlin. Unfortunately the f…
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War Film, drama film, war film
The story of USS Belinda (APA-22), launched late 1943 with regular-Navy Captain Jebediah S. Hawks and ex-merchant mariner Lieutenant Dave MacDougall as boat commander. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to keep them busy as the…
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