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Romance Film, War Film
Karl Von Austreim lives in America with his German father and American mother. He admires and woos a young woman, Angela Moore. As she is celebrating her birthday on the Fourth of July of 1914, she receives flowers from the French Count Ju…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, comedy film, spy film
Rosser, a British agent, disappears in Beirut. British intelligence boss MacGillivray has difficulty finding a trained agent on short notice, so he recruits Doctor Jason Love, who did some intelligence work for him in World War II, to find…
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Western, drama film
Best friends Clay Clayburn and Will Denning graduate from West Point and visit their friend and fellow graduate Braxton Summers at his Georgia plantation in 1861. Clay is in love with Braxton's wife Kathy and has for many years. When war i…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The film takes place in "the future" after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, and centers on the trial of Wilhelm Grimm, a war criminal. Each character witness provides a flashback scene to a previous part of Grimm's life. In the…
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drama film, war film
The film takes place in Burma and India during World War II. A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his coun…
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Drama, War Film, spy film
John Martin (Ladd) attempts to steal plans for an electric circuit from a plant in Baltimore, Maryland. Caught and arrested for espionage, he is turned over to the Office of Strategic Services, which is training a group of new recruits by …
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adventure film, drama film
Decorated United States Navy submarine commander William Talbot's submarine USS Bluefin is sailing on maneuvers with the goal of simulating the sinking of the aircraft carrier . Midway is transporting a senator to view the test firing of a…
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Action, War Film, war film
In 1942 Winston Churchill arrives in Algiers. He plans to travel on to Casablanca where he will meet Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin for the Casablanca Conference.
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drama film
Three friends are droving cattle in Australia in 1939: the restless Bluey Donkin, easy-going Milo Trent and English writer Peter Linton, who is on a working holiday. Kate Carmody, a homesteader's daughter, is in love with Bluey, but she tu…
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Political Documentary, documentary film
Monumental Film, Romance Film, War Film
The story shifts between the viewpoints of Loyalists in Upstate New York and Patriots in Massachusetts and Virginia. Later in the film, in New York, a little-remembered sub-plot takes place. Captain Walter Butler, a ruthless Loyalist offic…
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war film
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) is the commander of a U.S. Navy K class blimp at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. "Old Gas Bag", who has a reputation for telling tall tales, brags about his fictional …
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War Film, war film
Major Roy Bell decides to embark on a suicide mission to blow up a bridge which is of strategic importance to the enemy. However, the only resource available to him is a group of rag-tag army failures, made up of drunks, thieves and desert…
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Action
In Knuckledust, police discover an elite fight club where they find seven underground levels, filled with the dead bodies of fighters from around the world. Only one man is found left alive. The task force has to work out if he is a mass m…
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war film
The story centers around Brian Anderson (played by actor Dennis Christopher), a U.S. Army soldier serving in South Vietnam, who is only out for his own neck, who ends up drawn into taking care of orphans in a nearby orphanage, keeping a pr…
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drama film, war film
On his death bed, old Revolutionary War general Darby bequeaths his Georgia estate, Sangaree, to a man he trusts, Dr. Carlos Morales, requesting that he seek freedom for servants and slaves. The general's son Roy has no objection, but know…
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Long Term Documentary, documentary film
One of the main themes of the documentary is the level to which a journalist should become involved in the events that they are there to document. James Nachtwey credits the intimacy of his photography to his emphasis on establishing a rap…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Aboard an aircraft carrier near the coast during the Korean War, Commander Collier is in control. When asked about how he first handled his job, he remembers World War II. In flashback form, Collier recounts the war in the Pacific, working…
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silent film, war film
thumb|left|The film. As children, Harry promises to marry Ethne, both the offspring of English Army officers, but she consents only if he will dress as a soldier. When Harry is still a child, his father tells him stories about the Crimean …
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Action, Horror, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, war film
An American orbital weapons platform crashes in an uninhabited area of the Pacific. An unnamed Asian country arrives first, but US naval forces block their escape from the area. The platform would allow any country to threaten the US from …
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documentary film, war film
The film starts with the events of March 2004 in Fallujah, where four Blackwater contractors were ambushed, set afire, their burned corpses dragged through the streets and then finally displayed hanging from a bridge. In interviews, two of…
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Andy Crocker is a soldier who is wounded in a firefight in Vietnam and awarded the Purple Heart. After leaving his best friend David, he meets a young hippie girl who invites him to a party. The men at the party do not want him present; Cr…
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Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, film noir, spy film
Kit endured two years of brutal torture after being captured in the Spanish Civil War. However, he managed to withhold the vital information sought by his captors, particularly their leader, a never-seen Nazi with a limp. His lifelong frie…
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