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drama film
A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942. They are marched along with American soldiers as part of the Bataan Death March. They are put in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan, where they spend nearly three ye…
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Action, Crime, action film
In an unnamed American city, one of the men working for a dangerous Yakuza boss known as Akira Tanaka steals a statuette that Tanaka had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakuza and a rival Chinese tong. After Tanaka rec…
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Documentation, War Film, propaganda film
Action, action film, prison film, thriller film
After the New Alcatraz massacre, long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transferred to another. He claims it's to be closer to his lady, but his real motives are a bit more grandiose than that. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bil…
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Action, Drama, War Film, thriller film
In post-war Berlin, British Major Haven recruits members of what's left of a returning German bomb disposal unit—Hans Globke, Peter Tillig, Wolfgang Sulke, Franz Loeffler, Karl Wirtz and Eric Koertner—to defuse unexploded Allied bombs thro…
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War Film, war film
In 1943, a Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve officer from Canada, Commander Bolton and a few surviving crew members of his 50-man submarine Gauntlet swim ashore after unsuccessfully attacking German battleship Lindendorf. After a revie…
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war film
On board the aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War, author James A. Michener (Louis Calhern) meets Commander and flight surgeon Kent Dowling (Walter Pidgeon). Dowling relates a "Christmas story" of a near-miracle.
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, War Film, Western, Western film
Against orders and no hope of relief, Texas patriots led by William Travis (Alec Baldwin), Jim Bowie (James Arness) and Davy Crockett (Brian Keith) defend the Alamo against the overwhelming Mexican forces led by the merciless General Anton…
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Documentation, documentary film, war film
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
During World War II, German soldiers occupy a small Norwegian town. The citizens are forced to work the mines for the German war effort. The Allies attempt to aid the growing resistance movement by dropping canisters filled with explosives…
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Anti-War Film, drama film
James returns from Iraq to face a new battle readjusting to small-town life in Texas. His wife, his mother, and his friend provide support, but they cannot fully understand the pain and suffering he feels since his tour of duty ended. Lone…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In April 1942 in the Philippines, an American motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese planes. The survivors, among them ensign Chuck Palmer, reach the shore of Cebu and their commander orders them to separate. Chuck pairs with Jim Mitc…
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Knights Tale, adventure film
During the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), Sir Daniel is a powerful, unscrupulous knight, surrounded by equally treacherous retainers, Oates, Sykes, Appleyard, and Scar. Since the white rose of the House of York is in the ascendant, Sir Dan…
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Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
thumb|left|A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, April 19, 1945. The film opens with a note that the following is "a reminder that behind the curtain of Nazi pageants and parades was millions of men, women and…
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Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
The plot of the film revolves around the life of seamen on board an anonymous aircraft carrier. Because of war time restrictions, the name of the aircraft carrier was disguised as "the Fighting Lady", although she was later identified as .…
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biographical film
In 1745, Flora MacDonald plays a Jacobite song on the piano and is scolded by her stepfather for its seditious nature. In Italy, James, the Old Pretender, wants to make another attempt at regaining the throne of Great Britain (Scotland and…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
War Film, war film
War Film, drama film, war film
During the early months of U.S. involvement in World War II, well-connected, Harvard-educated Lieutenant Gregg Masterman enjoys his cushy posting as the junior aide to Rear Admiral Stephen "Old Ironpants" Thomas, playing tennis and arrangi…
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Political Thriller, biographical film
The younger Catholic Gerald Bull is fascinated with large-bore guns, inspired by Jules Verne's novel From The Earth To The Moon. The older Dr. Gerald Bull's career as a successful large-bore gun designer takes a turn as he is defunded by t…
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Adventure, War Film, drama film, spy film, war film
After a German U-boat drops off Nazi saboteurs, RCMP Corporal Wagner (Flynn) captures the leader, Colonel Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine), the only survivor after an avalanche wipes out the rest of the group. Wagner persuades his colleagu…
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Action, War Film, war film
The B-17F Lucky Lass, part of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) 99th Bombardment Group (Heavy) (the "Diamondbacks") from the 12th Air Force is stationed at Navrin, Algeria in 1943. The opening reveals air crews are expected to comp…
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Essayfilm
The film is divided into three parts inspired by the Divine Comedy of Dante. "Realm 1: Hell" is a relatively brief, non-narrative montage composed of appropriated documentary and narrative fictional footage depicting war, carnage, and viol…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
During World War II, American sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by a German sniper while fighting in North Africa. He is taken to a Pennsylvania hospital for other blinded soldiers, where he struggles to accept his disability. Though initia…
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