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Drama
In 1944 Frank Stirn moves his family to Wisconsin to become a barber for the US Army and a prisoner-of-war camp it oversees at Fort McCoy. Bitter that he is unable to fight because he is 4F, Frank takes a stand when a Nazi officer threaten…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, Event Documentary
Portrayed through interviews and archival footage, the film relates the rise of Pablo Escobar in the 1980s as one of the most powerful drug kingpins of all-time, running a cartel that monopolized cocaine trade into the US and Europe. Escob…
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Action, Crime, action film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
Detective Tony Luca is sent on a homicide investigation of a Yakuza leader after a bungled undercover sting to capture notorious gangster Rocco. After finding a folded origami lotus with the black lotus insignia Tony is assigned a partner,…
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action film, comedy film, comedy horror film, exploitation film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, war film
Alan Jones is a recently unemployed grocery store worker. One night he decides to go back to find his coworker Ashley and propose to her, but when he sees her kissing his former boss, he leaves. While heading home, Alan’s kidnapped by a ch…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film
Near the end of World War II in Europe, American Sergeant David Brent loses two men and is himself wounded while hunting down and killing a sniper in an unnamed German city. He falls unconscious in front of a young German woman, Helga Schi…
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Drama, drama film, war film
While in Berlin during Kristallnacht in 1938, journalist Varian Fry witnesses the Nazis' brutal treatment of Jews. He was helpless and physically sick as the SA brown-shirts clubbed their victims to the ground. The experience left him with…
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drama film, propaganda film, war film
Frankie Davis, Allan Ross, and "Pinky" Scariano join the U.S. Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they befriend Irving Miller and Bobby Crills.
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spy film
During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spi…
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Documentation, War Film, propaganda film
The early part of the film is an idealized version of American history, which mentions the first settlements, the American Revolutionary War (omitting the American Civil War), and the ethnic diversity of America. It lists 22 immigrant nati…
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action film, war film
A group of American commandos go on a mission to save American politicians who were kidnapped and held on a forgotten Malaysian island. Tough-guy lieutenant Andrew Pierce commands the group. During the mission it's revealed there's a trait…
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Drama, drama film
Jake Neeley, a reclusive Vietnam War veteran, has lived alone in a cabin in the woods of the Pacific Northwest for 35 years, plagued by guilt over the loss of men under his command. His only interaction with other people occurs when he dri…
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drama film
A 19-year-old who has enlisted to go to Iraq falls in love with a girl, but is afraid that he might not come back alive. A young Marine named Mike (Nick Cannon) is shipping out for uncertain fortunes in Iraq, and has 4 days left to visit b…
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Drama, Romance Film
As a farmer's son in the village of Trawsfynydd, Ellis Humphrey Evans composes poetry for local eisteddfodau under the bardic name Hedd Wyn ("Blessed Peace"), dreaming of being crowned Chief Bard at the National Eisteddfod. When, in August…
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War Film, war film
Three American servicemen land in the Philippines and request the aid of a group of guerillas in the fight against the Japanese. The Japanese secret police learn about this and hold the children of the village hostage, threatening to kill …
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War Film, war film
Text in opening credits "ITALY 1944""The battle is big... but some things are even bigger... sometimes the battle inside a man makes the war seem small by comparison...""This battle began at the bivouac area with the fresh troops awaiting …
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Lew Marsh receives a message that his only son, Rusty, has been killed in the war. Lew, a pharmacist in the small town of Hartfield, Iowa, is so grief-stricken, he neglects everything and isolates himself. One day, Lew is visited by his de…
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war film
Twenty-five years since the Vietnam War ended, a group of American veterans return to Vietnam and meet up with TV journalist Kathleen Martin (played by Carre Otis), who is assigned to cover the reunion of the men from Echo Company, a Marin…
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Western, Western film, drama film
Union officers Major Drango and Captain Banning ride into Kennesaw Pass, Georgia, at the end of the Civil War; a town ravaged by the war, particularly during Sherman's March to the Sea, its citizens are still bitter about the lives and pro…
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Drama, Historie, War Film, war film
O.S.S. agent Major Cook is to extract Halden Brevik, a Norwegian scientist with knowledge about the atomic bomb, from occupied Europe. The Germans capture them and believe their cover story: Allied air force POW escapees.
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drama film
Soon after the US enters World War II, Steve Britt (Preston Foster), a former World War I flying ace, arrives at Thunderbird Field, looking for a job as a civilian primary flight instructor. The base commander is an old friend, Lt. Col.
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drama film
Before the Normandy landings, new recruits Mason, Corliss and Talbot are assigned to the 1st Platoon, "D" Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Mason gets off on the wrong foot with certain members of the platoon, mainly Sgt. Forrest…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=4|Four Sons (1928) In a quiet Bavarian village before the Great War, Mother Bernle, a warm, dignified widow, tends a modest home and devotes herself to her four beloved sons. The eldest, Joseph “Dutch” Bernle, dreams o…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
With an interval of fifty years in between, the film brings the experience of the start of the Siege of Sarajevo. “Remake” tells three tragic stories in one. The first is about the young Bosniak Tarik, who manages to get out of the besiege…
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drama film
The film was based on the true story of the German pastor Martin Niemöller who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party. In the 1930s, a small German village, Altdorf, is taken over by a platoon of stormtroopers…
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