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Drama
According to the synopsis on the film's official website, the film is composed of three movements: The first movement, Des choses comme ça ("Such things") is set on a cruise ship, featuring multi-lingual conversations among a motley collec…
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docudrama, drama film, war film
The film opens with Ziad Jarrah about to board United Airlines Flight 93. Before getting on the plane, he makes a phone call to Aysel Senguen, his Turkish wife, and simply tells her "I love you" before hanging up. The story then goes back …
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Western, Western film, war film
With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are…
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drama film
The film tells the story of a troubled ex-Navy SEAL and Vietnam War veteran Mark Lambert who, upon returning home from the war, alienates his wife Barbara and son Jack by deserting them and moving away into the remote wilderness of Washing…
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War Film, period drama film
Komödie, war film
Documentation, documentary film
Pat Tillman was a defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals in 2002, but he decided to walk away from his multimillion-dollar contract to join the Army and fight in Afghanistan. Although he and his younger brother Kevin were first deployed…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film
Pre-World War II Paris is crowded with illegal refugees, trying to evade deportation. One of them is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally under a false name, helping other refugees.
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drama film, war film
A teenage Dutch boy, named Michiel van Beusekom, tries to assist the Dutch resistance during World War II by helping a British airman stay out of German hands during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. left|thumb|The area around the Ma…
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Drama, War Film, spy film
Roman Catholic priest Fr Elliott goes to the Natural History Museum to meet a section-head in the wartime British Special Operations Executive. On accepting his offer to train for covert operations behind enemy lines in Belgium, he meets a…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In October 1942, ComSubPac directs the American submarine Greyfish, under Commander Barney Doyle, to a Japanese convoy that includes the Shinaru, one of the Japanese aircraft carriers that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Doyle also learns …
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Dance Film, comedy film, drama film, war film
Virgie (Temple) lives with her mother (Morley) and father, Confederate Army captain Herbert Cary (Boles), on a slave plantation in the Antebellum South. During her sixth birthday party, Cary learns that the American Civil War has begun and…
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Documentation, documentary film
God Grew Tired of Us chronicles the arduous journey of three Southern Sudanese men, John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach and Panther Bior, to the United States where they strive for a brighter future. As young boys in the 1980s, they had walked a tho…
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Thriller, War Film, spy film
In March 1917, Captain Hardt, a German U-boat commander in the First World War, is ordered to spy on the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, rendezvousing at the Old Man of Hoy. He sneaks ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact, Fräulein T…
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Documentation
Explores the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), and the deception by the government to the American public.
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War Film, drama film, war film
Guns of Batasi depicts an erupting world where newly empowered forces, both black and white, embrace the realpolitik of a post-colonial world. A group of veteran British NCOs, headed by martinet Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale, become…
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War Film
Commander Casey Abbott (Ronald Reagan), commander of the submarine USS Starfish, is ordered to undertake a dangerous mission which sees him attempting to cut off the flow of supplies between China and Japan in the heavily mined waters off …
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War Film, war film
Lidice, Czechoslovakia, 1942 – The opening verses of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem The Murder of Lidice are recited over images of the bucolic Czech village. Villager Jan Hanka watches a British plane fly overhead, carrying Karel Vavra, a…
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Anti-War Film, Destiny, Family Drama, Road Movie, drama film
The film presents a view of the post-9/11 United States as seen through the eyes of Lana, an American girl who has lived in Africa and the Middle East for years with her missionary parents. She is returning from a long trip to the West Ban…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, propaganda film, spy film
John Barrington, a talented but eccentric inventor, is working at his Scottish country home on a new bombsight for the RAF. His scatter-brained wife takes in child evacuees from London to be accommodated in a nearby cottage they own. But s…
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drama film, partisan film, war film
German-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1943; under the faithful leadership of Marshal Tito, the Yugoslav Partisans have, for a number of years, put up a staunch fight against the occupying Axis powers. Despite being out-gunned, outmaneuve…
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Drama, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
Colonel Pieter Deventer is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, working to liberate his homeland from Nazi occupiers during World War II. He is discovered by a German signals operation targeting him and captured while maki…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Dr. Watson is working as resident physician at Musgrave Manor in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of servicemen suffering from shell shock. When Sally Musgrave displays her feelings for one of th…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The film begins with a group of several nurses arriving in Australia, having been some of the few evacuated before the Japanese captured their base. One of them is Lt. Janet "Davey" Davidson, who wanted to stay and fainted at the start of …
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