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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 70.
Documentation, documentary film
Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its 50-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that…
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Adventure, Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In September 1942, during World War II, Susan Cahill (Dianne Foster), art director for an ad agency on Madison Avenue run by her fiancé, is jealous of his business flirtation with a client's daughter to secure a deal. She accepts an invita…
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crime film, war film
A World War II vet, former U.S. Intelligence officer Michael Rogan, sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife and unborn child at the hands of Nazis and his own torture and botched execution. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian…
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Political Drama, drama film
The ghost of Antek Zyro, an attorney, breaks the fourth wall, explaining he suffered a heart attack while driving and was killed in a car accident. He leaves behind his wife, Urszula (nicknamed "Ula"), and his son Jacek. A month later, Ula…
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Action, drama film, mystery film, war film
Two men run across a beach at dawn with their hands tied behind their backs. After several shots of a helicopter frantically searching the landscape, it becomes apparent that the two men are escapees of some kind. It is later revealed that…
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Satanism, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, vampire film, war film
On 5 June 1944, a unit of New Zealand commandos are sent to the Channel Islands on sabotage and distraction raids, to draw the German military's attention away from Operation Overlord, planned landings in Normandy. Captain Ben Grogan and S…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, spy film
In 1939, Alex Schottland, a colonel in charge of supplies in the German Army, is a long-entrenched British agent planted toward the end of the First World War. He is growing weary of being a spy, but is urged to continue by his friend and …
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War Film, war drama
The film tells the story of two soldiers from a German American family: Kyle Vogel who serves with the 34th Infantry Division in Iraq in 2005 and his grandfather Bud Vogel (James Cromwell) who serves with the 82nd Airborne Division in West…
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War Film, propaganda film
In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives.
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War Film, historical drama film, sport film
fantasy film
Ella Muggins is a Camberwell charwoman who is the widow of a regimental sergeant major. One day during the London Blitz, she relates to her friends a story about a "magic eye" charm that her husband obtained during his Army service in Indi…
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Adventure, War Film, drama film
In German-occupied Belgium in 1943, a group of Flemish resistance fighters under the command of Stan (Koen De Bouw) fighting for the Allied cause is ordered by Kapitein Maes (Vic De Wachter) of the Belgian headquarters in London to travel …
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War Film, drama film, war film
Erik Toresen, a widower and peaceful man, is stirred to violence after the Nazis occupy his quiet Norwegian fishing village. German abuses lead Erik to form a Resistance group. He kills the head of the Nazis occupying his village, and then…
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War Film, action film, war film
At an American air base in England in 1943, conniving, womanizing Sergeant Dolan (Tom D'Andrea) manipulates everyone, while insubordinate, maverick pilot fighter ace Major Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien) gives his commanding officer and close f…
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Western, Western film, action film, drama film
A car pulls up to an historical marker in the desert that reads: ROCKY MOUNTAIN, also known as Ghost Mountain. On March 26, 1865, a detachment of Confederate cavalry crossed the state line into California under secret orders from Gen. Robe…
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Action, Drama, Historie, Military Film, War Film, drama film, war film
Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender to the Allies in a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15, 1945, marking the end of the Pacific War. Crucially, this news has not reached the Japanese at the "Blood Island" prison…
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War Film, war film
In August 1944, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far following the D-Day invasion toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To maintain the momentum, Allied headquarters establishes an elite military truck route. One racially integrated …
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Satire On War, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Set in Italy in World War II, four members of an American military patrol, led by their grizzled sergeant (Tim Thomerson), are lost behind enemy lines. They discover an alien spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods, along with its cre…
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War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Just prior to the North Korean invasion of South Korea, World War II U.S. Army veterans Colonel Steve Janowski and Sergeant Baker teach South Korean soldiers how to use a bazooka to stop an enemy tank. Linda Day of the United Nations assis…
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Drama, drama film
Rebecca is a photo journalist obsessed with reporting in dangerous war zones. Documenting a group of female suicide bombers in Afghanistan, she accompanies one of them to Kabul, where the premature detonation of the bomb severely injures h…
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Adventure, drama film, war film
In January 1942, one month after the United States entered World War II, reporter John Royer returns to the United States. He goes to see his friend, newspaper publisher John Manchester, about a scheme to smuggle desperately needed rubber …
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drama film, war film
On the eve of a battle in 1918, a new officer, Second Lieutenant Raleigh, joins Captain Stanhope's company in the British trench lines in France. The two men knew each other at school: the younger Raleigh hero-worshipping Stanhope, while S…
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Komödie, comedy film
Following World War II in 1945, at a U.S. Army hospital unit in France, Pvt. Hogan does not believe that a blue-stocking can ever be good-looking.
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War Film