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The film portrays Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl …
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Documentation, documentary film
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill travels to Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries where the United States has taken military action in the war on terror. In Afghanistan, he investigates the United States military and gove…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film, war film
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote, who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing. Their big break comes when they are stranded …
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Drama, War Film, drama film
School for Secrets tells the story of the "boffins" – research scientists – who discovered and developed radar and helped prevent the German invasion of Britain in 1940. Five scientists, led by Professor Heatherville, are brought together …
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war film
Prior to the invasion of France, Allied Intelligence launches Operation GAMBIT, the destruction of a bunker containing the controls to a device to flood the waters off the American landing at Omaha Beach with oil and ignite it to destroy t…
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Action, War Film, war film
In 1943, British Intelligence in Cairo recruits Italian criminal mastermind Roberto Rocca, demolitions expert and Irish Republican Army member Terence Scanlon, forger Simon Fell, cold-blooded assassin John Durrell, and thief and impersonat…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
On the day that France surrenders to Nazi Germany in 1940, Prudence "Pru" Cathaway, a strong-willed young woman from the upper class, joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), the women's organisation of the Royal Air Force, to her fam…
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Horror, horror film, war film
In 2002, Jeff Keller, who mysteriously survived the slaughter of his troops during a mission, is debriefed by an officer. The facts gathered indicate that he and his soldiers had been ambushed by al-Qaeda fighters who killed them all, leav…
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Komödie, War Film
Some time during World War I, Doughboy begins his service in the war among "the awkward squad" a group of American soldiers. He is bow-legged, unbalanced, and uncoordinated during bootcamp in contrast to the other soldiers who all have exc…
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Drama, drama film, war film
thumb|350x350px|"The Man I Killed" renamed "Broken Lullaby" ad in The Film Daily, 1932 Haunted by the memory of Walter Holderlin, a soldier he killed during World War I, French musician Paul Renard confesses to a priest, who grants him abs…
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Splatstick, War Film, buddy film, comedy film, war film
Against the backdrop of 1917, the narrative unfolds with Stan and Ollie's conscription into the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, where their ineptitude earns them the ire of their drill sergeant, relegating them to kitchen …
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Drama, War Film
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant D…
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Drama, War Film, comedy drama, drama film
In 1940, after the fall of France, the fictitious Channel Island of Armorel is occupied by a small garrison of German troops under the benign command of Hauptmann Weiss. The hereditary ruler, the Suzerain, is away in the British Army, leav…
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War Film, drama film
A motley crew of Australian militiamen or 'chocos' from the 39th Battalion are stationed in a New Guinea village just after the Japanese invasion. The 39th Battalion are the only troops available to hold off the Japanese advance until the …
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Treasure Hunting, adventure film
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends Jane and the Colonel on a mission to prevent the diamonds of the fabled Lost City from falling into enemy hands. Journeying to Africa where they are joined by Jungle Jack Buck, their quest is …
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Action, Adventure, Dark Comedy, Horror, Thriller, action comedy film, comedy horror, war film
After a commercial airliner crashes on an uncharted island, the surviving passengers, a multi-cultural cross-section of the US population with some of them coming from Tromaville, notice armed uniformed people of various countries apparent…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In Northern Italy in 1944, the entire population of the village of Reanoto is massacred by the SS under the command of the cruel Major Sturmbannführer Taussig for helping the Italian resistance movement. The only survivors are a group of y…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
As a 1917 graduate of the Naval Academy, Naval Aviator Jonathan L. "Scotty" Scott (Gary Cooper) spends 28 years, from 1921 to 1949, promoting U.S. naval aviation and the power of the aircraft carrier.
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Action, War Film, war film
action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Special Air Service patrol Bravo Two Zero is inserted into Iraq by helicopter to locate and destroy Iraqi Scud missile launchers. En route they find an unexpected group of Bedouin tribesmen and hide until they are noticed by a shepherd and…
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war film
During the middle years of the war, three men are called up to serve in the British Army. Englishman Philip Hamilton, American David Morgan and Irishman Smoke O'Connor are conscripted into the Guards Division and report to their barracks a…
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Action, Thriller, action film
John Steele is a Vietnam Vet who had trouble adjusting to life after the war. He hasn't been able to hold on to a job which includes being a cop. When his best friend Lee, who also served with him in Vietnam and who also became a cop, was …
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Drama, drama film
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
During the Battle of Saipan, on 7 July 1944, Captain Sakae Ōba partakes in a final banzai charge against the United States Marine Corps on the island of Saipan. It is the largest banzai charge of the Pacific War, but fails, resulting in ov…
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