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Western, Western film
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that the man is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Soon after Santee catches up to the gang, Jody's father is killed. Jody…
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Drama, Social Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
The main character is Goose (Van Bebber). Goose is leader of "The Ravens", a street gang located in Dayton, Ohio. The Ravens have an ongoing feud with "The Spiders", led by a sadistic goon called Danny (Paul Harper).
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biographical film, war film
John McCain flies his jet from a carrier on a bombing mission over Hanoi, North Vietnam. As a warning buzzer announces incoming missiles, McCain stays with the bomb drop, but is hit by a missile. He lands in the water and is pulled ashore …
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Komödie, Parodie, Silly Movie, War Film, comedy film, war film
Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell is a G.I. on an island somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II, bemoaning the loss of a ship torpedoed while ferrying to the island a desperately needed cargo of beer. Among his problems are the Nav…
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propaganda film
The Lion Has Wings is recounted in various 'chapters' with a linking story revolving around a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer, played by Ralph Richardson, his wife and his family. thumb|275px|left|A RAF Vickers Wellington bomber sets …
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Late Western, Western film, action film
Placed behind bars during the war, Diego Callahan, also known as "Macho," travels to Texas looking for the man responsible for his imprisonment. He quarrels with a one-armed Confederate Army colonel, David Mountford, over a bottle of champ…
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adventure film, war film
Four American oil company employees—boss/pilot Mike Monahan, alcoholic detection expert Syd Barlow, mechanic Jim Evans and radio man Billy Larsen—make very promising readings from the air in the Sahara Desert, but are told by company manag…
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biographical film, war film
At age 34, Army Air Force pilot Major Robert Lee Scott Jr. (Dennis Morgan) is considered too old to fly in combat, but he is recruited and volunteers to fly in a secret bombing mission from the Philippines against Tokyo, the Japanese capit…
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Documentation, documentary film, war film
Political Drama, Political Thriller, action thriller
American archaeology student David Armstrong is studying at the University of Jerusalem. His old Arab friend from Yale University Rashid Rifaat draws him into a power struggle between rival Arab terrorist groups. Both are nearly killed in …
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film
Amigo centers on Rafael Dacanay, kapitan of the fictional barrio of San Isidro in a rice-growing area of Luzon. His brother Simón, head of the local guerrilla band, has forced the surrender of the Spanish guardia civil outpost and charged …
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biographical film, drama film, family film, historical film, war film
It is 1943 and Colette Cohen, a beautiful young Belgian-Jewish woman, is imprisoned in Auschwitz -Birkenau where she meets a fellow prisoner, Vili Feld, a Slovak-Jew, and they fall in love. They both experience the daily torture and slave …
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Adventure, Thriller, romance film, spy film, war film
In the spring of 1918, the final year of World War I, a German U-boat stops a Dutch freighter on its way to Stockholm in neutral Sweden. The Germans board the ship, identify one man as a Belgian spy, and take him prisoner. One of the passe…
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Drama, drama film, war film
The protagonist, named Jerry, is a veteran from the Iraq War living somewhere on the Great Plains, presumably South Dakota. He then goes on a killing spree after discovering that his wife has been withholding money from him.
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War Film, adventure film, war film
General Yang, a warlord with control of one of China's twelve provinces, plans to overtake them all with his army to corner the markets of silk, rice, and opium. However, his opposition, in the form of Mr. Wu who is leading a rebellion aga…
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Documentation, War Film, documentary film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
war film
Quartermaster's Mate Leslie Harmon is awaiting a court martial when he is brought to Commodore Joseph Smith (E.G. Marshall) and his son Lieutenant Joseph B. Smith Jr.
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adventure film, war film
Ma Xiao is a Chinese foreign correspondent working abroad in a region experiencing political instability and armed conflict. In addition to reporting, he participates in distributing supplies to local residents. At the beginning of the fil…
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Action, Komödie, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
On the planet Arous, Captain Bantor, the Sovereign and the Inquisitor attempt to quell an uprising of the defiant resident miners of Taura's planet by capturing her and killing her fellow dwarf miners and the wandering priest Zaal. Taura i…
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drama film, war film
In October, 1943, in German-occupied Denmark, the Nazis decide to deport all Danish Jews to extermination camps. However, the Danish people decide to prevent this. Lillian Stein, a Jewish ballet teacher, learns of the Nazi plan; but her fa…
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Political Documentary, propaganda film
Anti-War Film, Political Drama, Political Thriller, war film
Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in 1979, Mexican-American Vietnam vet Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) was sent to help U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels…
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Action, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, action film, girls with guns
Air Force Two, carrying Vice President Walker and his staff, is flying over the South Pacific when it is suddenly damaged by an electrical storm. The plane is forced to ditch in the ocean off the coast of the (fictional) country of San Pie…
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drama film, war film
When the United States enters World War I, Rocky Thorne has no interest in joining the military, but just wants to pursue his career as a sculptor. He is cynical about the purpose of the war and the enthusiasm of those who have enlisted, c…
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