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Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Dr. Wassell is a missionary doctor from Arkansas, who had in the past worked in China (which is shown in the first half of the film as a series of flashback (narrative)s) and after the Japanese invasion of Batavia (Dutch East Indies) finds…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, war film
In the trenches of World War I, Oliver (Ollie), Stan, and their fellow soldiers prepare for combat. However, Stan is relegated to trench duty while his comrades proceed into battle. Subsequently, the film fast-forwards two decades, reveali…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1988, Mark Walsh (Colin Farrell) is a photojournalist who has earned a reputation for working in some of the most unforgiving locations on Earth. When his editor Amy (Juliet Stevenson) asks him to cover Saddam Hussein's campaign against…
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Christmas film, Drama, War Film, drama film
A German mother, Elisabeth Vincken (Linda Hamilton), who had already lost her eldest son in the Battle of Stalingrad and whose husband is a cook serving in the German Army, and her younger son, Fritz, are seeking refuge in their family's h…
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film, war film
In 1941 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in Italian East Africa during the Second World War, British Army Major Richardson is taken prisoner by an Italian detachment on the march in the desert when Burke, the pilot of his reconnaissance airplane, mana…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
A peaceful Chinese village is invaded by the Japanese prior to World War II. The men elect to adopt a peaceful attitude towards their conquerors, and the women are understood to stoically acquiesce as well, but Jade, a headstrong young wom…
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biographical film, documentary film, drama film, war film
In 1918 a young soldier called Adolf Hitler recovers from being gassed during World War I. At the behest of the German Army, he joins German nationalistic parties, espousing theories that Germany lost the war because they were stabbed in t…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
In British-ruled Kenya in 1945, members of the Kikuyu tribe work for considerate white settler Henry McKenzie. Both in their early twenties, Henry's son Peter and black worker Kimani Wa Karanja are close friends, having been raised as brot…
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War Film, drama film, war film
The lost remnants of a British Army brigade headquarters make their way through the Burmese jungle, retreating from the Japanese. The group, numbering over thirty, is led by Captain Alan Langford because the most senior officer, a brigadie…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
During World War I, Diana "Ann" Boyce-Smith is an English girl living on her father's estate in Kent. The estate is bought by a wealthy American, Richard Bogard, who seeks to move into his new property. Right as Bogard arrives, Ann and the…
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thriller film
In 2005, Alex Michaels is deputy head of a new division of the FBI called "Netforce" which investigates computer crime and polices the Internet. When his boss and mentor, Steve Day, is assassinated, the evidence points to Web pioneer and o…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film
Barry (Frank) is a formerly successful insurance executive whose career and life are being destroyed by alcoholism. As the day ends, he is sent to a notorious New York City housing project, the Lincoln Towers, to try and complete a life in…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film features interviews with both supporters and opponents of Barbie's trial, ranging from journalists to former U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps agents, independent investigators of Nazi war crimes, and Barbie's defense attorney. Much…
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Drama, drama film, war film
In a small Transylvanian village, a local police constable frames Johann Moritz on charges of being Jewish because Moritz's wife Suzanna has refused the constable's advances. Moritz is sent to a Romanian concentration camp as a Jew, where …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In June 1940, Howard goes to France, near the border with Switzerland, to sulk after his offer to serve in the Second World War is turned down by every government department in London because he is too old. (It is later revealed that his s…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film
Leading Chief Petty Officer "Windy" Riker is a veteran aerial gunner of a Navy Helldiver dive bomber and the leading chief of Fighting Squadron One, about to go to Panama aboard the aircraft carrier. He loses his five-year title of "champi…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. It consists of a series of vignettes depicting everyday peasant life, interspersed with monologues from some of the principal characters, including Bruegel e…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War Film
In the film's opening sequence, young reporter Jim Benton asks train engineer Mr. Wilson about three menGriffin, Cook and Landiswho hopped his freight train five years earlier, in 1961. "He ran all the way to hell," the engineer remarks ab…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
Set in the English village Penny Green in 1939, the film focuses on Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon), an author and publisher who is unhappily married to Mabel (Angela Lansbury), a cold, humorless woman who usually spends her days gossiping wit…
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Documentation, documentary film, war film
Action, War Film
In Hong Kong, DEA man Fletcher (Borgnine) heads an operation to cut off the supply of opium to the west; to fund this operation Fletcher has found himself allied with wealthy American businessman Brenner. Brenner and his partner, ex-mercen…
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Anti-War Film, drama film, war film
The film begins with a flashforward of Private Shane Gulliver (Matthew McNulty) of the fictional Northdale Rifles regiment marching to a court martial. The film then cuts to Gulliver, fellow private and childhood friend Mark Tate (Gerard K…
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war film
left|thumb|The available footage of the film. The full film has not been found. Set during the Korean War on July 27, 1953, the film depicts the atrocities of battle.
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War Film, drama film
During the Pacific War, lieutenant commander Ken White orders the submarine USS Tiger Shark to crash dive to evade a Japanese aerial attack. Chief petty officer Boyer begs him to wait for commander Josh Rice, still topside, but White refus…
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