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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
On July 26, 1942, the 1st Marine Division is sailing towards Guadalcanal. On August 7, the Marines land on Guadalcanal with no initial opposition. They find an abandoned village and capture an airfield, which the Americans work to complete…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The Mass-Observation project was set up in 1937 by Charles Madge, a poet and journalist and Tom Harrisson, an anthropologist to 'record the voice of ordinary people'. They recruited volunteer 'observers' to report to them and in 1939 invit…
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War Film, war film
In the days just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American people are asking "Where is our navy? Why doesn't it fight?" Gravely weakened by the disaster, the US Navy comes up with a plan to trap the Japanese by using one carrier to im…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film
Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Two years after killing Hasford, a serial killer, in the line of duty, Kline now works as a private detective, but he is still haunted by the ghosts of his past. A powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss hires Kline to find his only son …
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1945, on a Pacific island, Sergeant Sam Gifford is demoted to private after striking an officer. He is transferred to a punishment company, run by the dictatorial Captain Grimes, who insists on being called "Waco" in order to prevent hi…
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biographical film, drama film, war film
A prelude scene in the form of a Newsreel story suggests that the film is part of a package of information about the development of atomic energy and the atomic bomb being placed in a time capsule in California, to be opened in 2446. Physi…
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Biographical picture
War Film, war film
It is the autumn of 1944. Allied armies are sweeping through France towards Germany. A British Lockheed Hudson has been damaged in aerial combat with a German Messerschmitt, with both aircraft ditching in the North Sea, twenty miles off th…
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War Film, Western, war film
Lee Arnold has to land his biplane unexpectedly in Mexico due to technical difficulties, and he hears both the Mexican army and the local peasant view on Pancho Villa—one seeing him as an outlaw, the other as a hero. A local family takes h…
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War Film, drama film, war film
At the McKenzie prisoner of War (POW) camp in north Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter – a Kriegsmarine U-boat commander – challenges the authority of the camp’s by-the-book commanding officer, Major Perry. Because British officers h…
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Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Set in 1998, six years after an apocalyptic nuclear war, a group of five military deserters, including a soldier named Kate and her boyfriend, seek refuge from the toxic environment in an abandoned laboratory. They hope to find shelter and…
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Fake Documentary
Yugoslavia develops a space program, as a forgotten third player in the Space Race beside the United States and the Soviet Union, which Josip Broz Tito then sells to the John F. Kennedy administration in the U.S. in return for $2.5 billion…
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Italo-Western, Komödie, Silly Movie, Western
The plot line is derivative of The Dirty Dozen, but set during the American Civil War. In 1862, disgraced former US colonel Pembroke (James Coburn) wants to recapture Fort Holman, which he had previously surrendered to the Confederate army…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
John Bolen is the new substitute teacher at a high school in Bend, Oregon. After seeing punks ditching class, he confronts them. When the lead punk pulls a knife, John uses martial arts to dispatch the students.
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Drama, War Film, romance film, war film
A young Army nurse, Lieutenant Ruth McCara, is newly assigned to the 8666th MASH, a mobile field hospital constantly on the move during the Korean War. Ruth's personal mission is to serve suffering humanity. She initially experiences an un…
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Action, War Film, war film
Major Wright leads a group of commandos in Nazi-occupied Denmark to meet up with informant Carl Ludwig, who is being followed by a German patrol. Ludwig is shot, and before he succumbs to his wounds, utters the phrase, "vierundzwanzig, zwa…
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Western, drama film, war film
In 1864 during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York, not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for Montréal, Quebec and then plan a raid across …
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Family Drama, Psychodrama, drama film, war film
Taciturn, partially deaf Hanna (Polley) is a Yugoslavian native working in a factory in Northern Ireland. She is forced to use annual leave by her boss, who tells her that her co-workers have been offended by her work diligence. After over…
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War Film, crime film, drama film, war film
In Europe, days after V-E Day, General Patton orders that hoarded Nazi gold be transported to the Reichsbank in Frankfurt. But before the shipment arrives in the city, the gold train is robbed and 59 U.S. Army military policemen are killed…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film
The film opens on a ferry in Liverpool, as Fergus Molloy (Mark Womack) remembers the final messages sent to him by his lifelong friend Frankie (John Bishop), whose funeral he is to attend. The night before, Fergus unseals his friend's coff…
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docudrama, historical film, war film
The film follows Rome Gestapo chief Herbert Kappler, who carries out the killings of 335 mostly randomly and hurriedly selected victims in revenge for partisans killing 33 Germans: using a ratio of ten Italian victims for every German. How…
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War Film, horror film, mystery film
In late 1944, the remnants of a platoon of Panzergrenadiers are caught in an ambush by American troops. As they retreat, Private Hugo Engels is killed and the platoon finds a bunker occupied by Privates Heinrich Mirus (John Carlisle) and M…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In Vichy Paris during World War II, career criminal Jean Picard awaits execution. French Sûreté Inspector Marcel Bonet has pursued Picard for 15 years, finally apprehending him for murder. An air raid delivers a direct hit to the prison wh…
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