Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 65.
War Film, war film
During the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942, a seven-strong British sonic deception unit on a short jungle exercise hides from the rain in a hut at an abandoned tin mine. The men constantly bicker, often provoked by the bullying Corporal…
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Action, action film
Phillip Sauvage (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is an American soldier recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his time in Iraq and Afghanistan in a VA hospital. The release of notorious rap mogul Terrell Singletery (Viv Leacock) …
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Drama, drama television series
When her parents and younger sister Jess move to colonial Singapore, Judith Dunbar is enrolled in St. Ursula's, an English boarding school, where she makes friends with classmate Loveday Carey-Lewis. Loveday invites her to visit Nancherrow…
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War Film, drama film, war film
The film traces the progress of three Marines on shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. One of the men, Nico, is a seasoned, decorated platoon sergeant; the second, Frankie, is a perennial goof-off, who drinks too much; and the …
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Action, War Film, action film
Major Wright is informed by Major General Worden that the Germans have the capability to launch V-2 rockets filled with nerve gas against the Allies. Wright is ordered to recruit convicts and parachute them into France near the monastery a…
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Political Thriller, biographical film, propaganda film
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operation…
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drama film, family film, war film
At the outbreak of World War I, troops march through the Manitoban city of Winnipeg. Among them is Lieutenant Harry Colebourn (Fassbender), a veteran with a gift for animals. He soon meets a bear, Winnie, who provides comfort for the soldi…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Colonel Jack Knowles is a tough, professional soldier who was decorated for gallantry in Vietnam. The same gung ho mentality that made Knowles a hero in wartime makes him a dangerous loose cannon in peacetime. He is stationed at an outpost…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, trial film
During the First World War in 1917, in the British trenches at Passchendaele, Private Arthur Hamp is accused of desertion. He is to be defended at his trial by Captain Hargreaves. Hamp had been a volunteer at the outbreak of the war and wa…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
The British submarine HMS Trojan is out on a routine exercise to test its new snorkel mast. She encounters an unrecovered Second World War magnetic mine. When she dives, the mine is set off and blows off the bow of the submarine.
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War Film, war film
At the start of World War II, Frenchmen from all walks of life enlist or are drafted. Defeated by the invading Germans in 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain signs a peace agreement and the troops surrender. However, instead of being repatriated…
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Action, War Film, action film, thriller film
Gunnery Sergeant Burns (Fred Dryer) is in charge of the Marine Security Guard detachment at a United States embassy in the Middle East. When terrorists attack the compound, taking hostages, Burns becomes a one-man Marine Corps in an attemp…
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Destiny, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Brian MacLean irritates fellow bush pilots Johnny Dutton, Tiny Murphy, Blimp Lebec, and British expatriate Scrounger Harris by outcompeting them for business in rugged Northern Ontario, Canada. In 1939, as the Second World War is beginning…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
Nafas, an Afghan woman living in safety in Canada, arrives in Iran, dons a burqa, and enters Afghanistan posing as a wife in a family of refugees attempting to return to their homeland. Brigands rob them along the road to Kandahar. They de…
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Drama, War Film, action film, propaganda film, war film
A map is shown with a voiceover giving a brief history of the United States military on Wake Island to November 1941. U.S. Marine Corps Major Geoffrey Caton departs Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii aboard the Pan American Clipper to take …
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war drama
War Film
In the closing days of the First World War, a young Army captain (Bates Wilder) is tasked by the American commander, General John J. Pershing (Ron Perlman), with rescuing a regiment of African-American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. …
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Drama, drama film, romance film
United States Air Force fighter pilot Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, the son of an Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. He has been reassigned from combat duties in Korea by General Webster, the father of his fia…
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Komödie, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Three decorated Navy pilots returned from the Pacific to Honolulu. They finagle a four-day leave in San Francisco flying there and back in a friend's PBY Catalina. They land a posh suite at the Fairmont Hotel, where Commander Andy Crewson,…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film
The love story of Confederate Captain Robert Adams II and a northern girl, Eveline McCord. The story begins with Captain Adams falling in love with Eveline, a governess from Pennsylvania who moved to South Carolina to work for Robert's fir…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Joseph Krauzenberg is a wealthy Hungarian Jewish industrial tycoon whose fortune is mirrored in the great properties he owns. By 1944, his factories and banks are needed by the Nazis, as Hitler's 'Final Solution' is sweeping through Europe…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, romance film
In 1847, Paul van Riebeck, a Boer cavalry commander, travels to Ireland from South Africa to buy horses for his commandos back home. He meets Katie O'Neill, daughter of the man selling the horses. She falls in love, but Paul tells her that…
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action film, drama film, war film
The story is told from the perspective of former conscript Ivan Yermakov (Alexei Chadov), a defendant in a pre-trial detention facility who is giving an interview to a journalist. As he begins recounting his story, the film cuts to Chechny…
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Drama, War Film
Helmut and Karl Hoffman are two brothers who grow up in the Great Depression of the Weimar Republic, witness the coming to power of the Nazi Party and the establishment of the Third Reich. Karl, an unemployed mechanic, is enthusiastic abou…
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