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Action, Drama, War Film, action film, spy film, war film
During World War II, Nazi Germany is aware of Operation Overlord, but is unaware of the date and landing sites. German Army Colonel Brausch, Gestapo agent Hoffman, and S.S. member Ritter repeatedly fail to learn when Operation Overlord wil…
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War Film, war film
An escape tunnel for the naval officer prisoners during the Second World War at a German prisoner-of-war camp is discovered. Lieutenant Ainsworth devises a scheme with the escape committee to use the components of a mannequin named Albert …
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Documentation, documentary film
Drama, Komödie, comedy drama
Col. Flanders commands a U.S. Army base in the South.
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Documentation, documentary film
The film vividly portrays the devastating aftermath of war: shattered homes, demolished bridges, and charred machinery. The static visuals are accompanied by audio recordings of intercepted phone calls between Russian soldiers and their fa…
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Melodrama, Pirate Film, Romance Film, War Film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
In the closing stages of the War of 1812, Dolly Madison evacuates the White House as the British Army arrives and burns Washington. Jean Lafitte asks a young woman of good family, Annette de Remy, to marry him, but she asks him to give up …
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Drama, War Film, drama film
In 1940, the Nazis invade the Netherlands. Miep Gies is a young woman, and an office assistant of Otto Frank, who is Jewish. As the Nazis begin to murder the Jews, Otto Frank becomes worried about his family.
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Action, action film
After 9/11, the United States government realized that narcotics were responsible for financing the majority of terrorist cells. That is why they created the International Drug Task Force (IDTF). The IDTF task forces are fully funded and o…
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drama film
During the German invasion of Poland, Polish airman and piano virtuoso Stefan Radetzky meets American reporter Carole Peters. He volunteers to fly a suicide mission but is not selected. Radetzky is among the last to escape Warsaw and month…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos announces that the United States Marine Corps is seeking volunteers for a hazardous mission and special unit. Among the volunteers are a hillbilly who, when asked whether he can kill someone, responds that he al…
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Documentation
Historie, Sport, War Film, drama film
In 1956, Karcsi Szabó (Iván Fenyő) was a star athlete at the University of Budapest and had been named captain of the national water polo team that would represent Hungary in the Olympics held that summer in Australia. However, many of Sza…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1942, in occupied Norway, Nicole Larsen is a member of the resistance in the town of Stavik. Nicole pretends to be in love with Major Paul Dichter, the Nazi commandant of the district. Through their intimacy she picks up military intell…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
In the 70's, Clara Planck, a well-known Canadian-Jewish cellist, arrives in her home town in Poland with her daughter to perform in a newly remodeled concert hall. While visiting the city, there are sporadic flashbacks to the events of the…
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War Film, drama film
A well-planned escape attempt, which seemed guaranteed to work, ends in disaster. Within seconds of leaving the POW camp, the would-be escapee, cleverly disguised as sadistic Capitano Benucci, is caught and killed by the real Capitano Benu…
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Satire On War, comedy film, war film
Several Brigadier Generals (American, British, and French) are unexpectedly taken prisoner by the Italian Army while arguing military tactics in a sauna; this is a public relations disaster for the Allies. The Brigadiers are held in an Ita…
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Anti-War Film, Documentation, documentary film
Drama, Road Movie, comedy film, drama film
Dark Comedy, War Film, comedy drama, war film
It is 1979, four years after the end of US involvement in the Vietnam War. US Army Corporal Rudy Spruance is mistakenly sent to Qangattarsa, a remote base in Greenland still attributed to the United States Army Air Forces (despite that ser…
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Melodrama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943, Lee Ashley, the widow of a Paramarine lieutenant killed in the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal, has joined the American Red Cross in Noumea, New Caledonia, to entertain American servicemen. Her leader at the service club, Ka…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943, at the English Ministry of Information, war correspondents Elmer "Brockie" Brockhurst and James Carwood attend the daily bombing mission briefings. The RAF representative announces light losses, but the PRO of the Eighth Air Force…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Abel Tiffauges is a French orphan educated at a strict Catholic boarding school. As a boy he is bullied by other pupils and punished by the teachers. He becomes attached to Nestor, an older boy who protects him and introduces him to storie…
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drama film, war film
A captain in the British Army's Black Watch regiment is assigned to a secret mission in India just as his company is called to France at the outbreak of war in August 1914. His covert assignment results in his being considered a coward by …
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Adventure, Historie, Knights Tale, Romance Film, swashbuckler film
In 1465, honorable but penniless Scottish knight Quentin Durward agrees to go to France to find out if the beautiful young heiress, Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, would be a suitable wife for his aged uncle. The marriage has been arranged …
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