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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Ravic is an Austrian doctor who helped Jews escape from the Nazi regime. He was tortured in a concentration camp. In 1939 he is living in Paris, under a false name and without any documents, constantly aware of the risk of being arrested.
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War Film, war film
In Tunisia in 1943, as the North African Campaign draws to a close, and the German and Italian forces are being pushed back on Tunis, a company of British infantry are tasked with holding a small Arab farm against an expected last-ditch co…
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Documentation, documentary film
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral …
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Anti-War Film, Drama
Drama, Social Drama, drama film, war film
Dermot O'Neill is recruited into the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when a unit is formed in his Northern Ireland town during World War II. Reaction to the news is mixed; his mother is strongly against it while his father is proud. Dermot's b…
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Documentation, documentary film
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, war film
Jinx Roberts, an arrogant but talented stunt pilot, and his assistants Blackie and Heathcliff, are fired from a carnival air show after a disagreement with the owner. Jinx decides to join the Army Air Corps, and he, Blackie and Heathcliff …
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Drama, War Film
The film takes places shortly before and during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. The story of three young friends focuses on their sufferings as Hong Kong falls under oppressive occupation. Years later, a woman nar…
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drama film, film noir, romance film, war film
Pearl smuggler Matt Gordon finds romance with Linda Grahame just before the start of World War II. He proposes to her, and she accepts. However, when the Japanese attack Singapore, the church where she is waiting to marry him is bombed; Go…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Colonel Cooper is a U.S. airborne commando who comes to Vietnam in 1973, with a special mission to liberate imprisoned American soldiers. He gets caught in a North Vietnamese P.O.W.
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Action, Drama, Thriller, War Film, action film, biographical film, political thriller film
American journalist Jack Cox covers the Nicaraguan Revolution and falls in love with a Sandinista rebel.
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
When a hospital ship strikes a mine during the Second World War, the only survivors are Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe and Corporal Michael Dugan, who become marooned on an island in the South Pacific, where they slowly bond. Their relationsh…
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drama film, war film
During the late 1970s, as the Rhodesian Bush War reached its height, arms dealer David Swansey (Richard Harris) is a "sanctions-busting" specialist, one of many who keeps the Rhodesian Security Forces supplied through black-market purchase…
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War Film, war film
When a lieutenant is mortally wounded in a winter ambush that decimates his platoon, he passes command to the highest ranking survivor, Sergeant Towler, a black man. However, all of the other men left alive are white. Towler feels that Pri…
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War Film
comedy film
Sir Ernest Pease, a brilliant but acerbic scientist, is the subject of a television programme based on This Is Your Life during which he is re-united with past acquaintances. He does not remember the senior British Army officer at all. A f…
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War Film, drama film, romance film
Hotshot ensign Alan Drake, fresh from flight school at Pensacola, Florida, gets off to a bad start with the pilots of an elite Fighting 8 squadron (VF-8), nicknamed the "Hellcats", to which he has been posted in San Diego. Making a nearly …
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drama film, romance film
The film begins on December 8, 1941, with the Japanese attacking the Philippines. Dave McVey Jr., the son of a rich American businessman with extensive holdings in the Philippines, is attacked by murderous bandits. He is rescued by Careo, …
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documentary film, war film
Carl Lumbly plays Namibian freedom fighter and first president Sam Nujoma. Joel Haikali was used for Sam Nujoma's early years. Danny Glover plays the priest Elias, who becomes Sam Nujoma's friend throughout the film.
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Komödie, Romance Film, War Film, comedy drama, drama film
Archangel is set in 1919 in the northern Russian area of Archangel, during a brief historical moment of Canadian intervention in the Russian Civil War following the end of World War I. One-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles sighs on th…
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Fugitive Drama, drama film
TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering an international athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a Russian scientist wanting him to smuggle secret information out of the Soviet…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, Monumental Film, Romance Film, War Film, adventure film, war film
In 1805, the USS Essex is part of a blockade of the port of Tripoli by a small United States Navy Mediterranean squadron targeting pirates menacing American shipping. American diplomatic consul William Eaton boards to recruit a small comma…
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war film
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers—who are father and son.
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War Film, drama film, spy film, thriller film, war film
Set in Greece in 1941, before and after the Axis invasion, the film follows an American journalist who possesses a list of Greek resistance leaders. Having memorized the list he destroys it and is then pursued by various groups of people k…
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