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War Film, drama film, war film
Lieutenant Ward Stewart, commanding a PT boat, sinks a U-boat, saving a lifeboat full of survivors. Upon his return to port, he is transferred to the submarine USS Corsair to make up a shortage of trained submarine officers. At the submari…
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Drama, War Film, war film
In Italian Libya during the North African campaign of the Second World War, a Royal Armoured Corps squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by German Afrika Korps panzers. A tank commanded by American Sgt. David Thatcher is hit and…
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Horror, War Film, Zombiefilm, horror film, zombie film
Slave traders bring back an evil voodoo entity that is accidentally freed by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses o…
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biographical film, war film
Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian schoolgirl with poetic aspirations. In the face of rising anti-Semitic tensions in Budapest, Hanna leaves her mother Katalin and family behind to work on a kibbutz in British Mandated Palestine. There she is r…
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Gangster Film, action film, drama film, gangster film, heist film
Cousins Micky Mannock (Frank Harper) and Ray Collishaw (Craig Fairbrass) run London's top firm. But their supremacy in the capital's gangster underworld is threatened when they lose a drug shipment belonging to the Russian Mafia. They plan…
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War Film, drama film, war film
The 30-minute opening sequence of the film depicts an opposed beach landing. In one scene during the landing, a Marine is shown with his arm blown off, similar to Thomas C. Lea III's 1944 painting The Price.
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film, romance film, war film
Several guests convene on the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Among them are Irene Malvern, a disillusioned Hollywood actress in town to attend a wedding and film premiere; Chip Collyer, a war correspondent; Air Force …
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Documentation, War Film
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The movie begins with contemporary film footage of World War II as narration explains the situation. Germany has produced hundreds of U-boats to control the Atlantic shipping lanes and in 1942 wolfpacks sank over a thousand Allied ships, m…
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Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film
Philadelphia steel worker Al Schmid has no intention of marriage until he meets Ruth Hartley. Al is impressed by Ruth and the couple fall in love. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Al joins the Marines.
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
In 1780 General Benedict Arnold commands the Continental Army defenses at West Point, New York. Major John Bolton (Cornel Wilde), a dragoon officer assigned to counterintelligence, intercepts and kills a British spy leaving the Storm King …
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Adventure, Drama, War Film
Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalized account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, a Khan of the Kazakh Horde, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan fr…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film, war film
The film is inspired by the Haditha killings incident that occurred three months after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War. On 19 November 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, an…
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Documentation, War Film, documentary film
Anti-War Film, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Pirate Film, biographical film, pirate film
In the first quarter of the 18th century, Blackbeard, otherwise known as Edward Teach, was seen as the most notorious and dangerous seafaring pirate of all. Plying his trade around the West Indies and the eastern coast of England’s North A…
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Drama, War Film, war film
In Libya in 1942, Captain Alex Foster, an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoner…
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Adventure, Komödie, Secret Agent, comedy film
Bob Hope plays Matt Merriwether, a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. Merriwether lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment …
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War Film, drama film, war film
In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, encounter their drill sergeants, SSG Laverne Holt and the deeply troubled SFC Thorne Ryan. After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldier…
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comedy film
Bill, a young new recruit in the Australian Special Air Service, arrives for his year-long tour of duty in Vietnam. Other members of his section include Harry, the section's Corporal and the oldest and most worldly-wise of the group, along…
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drama film, romance film, war film
Thad Walker, a spoiled, rich kid from Boston who had gotten in serious trouble with the law, fled to France to join the French Foreign Legion in World War I. In Paris, with companions, "Duke" Sinclair, Dave Putnam, Tom Hitchcock and Bill W…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
The 1087 is a British Royal Navy motor gun boat that sees its crew through the worst that World War II can throw at them. After the end of the war, first lieutenant George Hoskins convinces former skipper Bill Randall and coxswain Birdie t…
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Drama Documentary
In 2055, the world has been ravaged by catastrophic climate change; London is flooded, Sydney is burning, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by desert, the Amazon rainforest has burnt up, snow has vanished from the Alps, and nuclear war has l…
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Drama, drama film, trial film, war film
Army Colonel William Edwards is investigating the case of Major Harry Cargill, accused of collaborating with the enemy while he and his unit were held captive in a North Korean prisoner of war camp. Cargill willingly admits his guilt and b…
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