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War Film, war film
Washington, DC, 1944. Gene Summers, a young U.S. Army Air Force ex-bombardier who speaks French fluently, is selected for a mission in Nazi-occupied Paris, where he will assassinate a supposed double agent, Marcel Lafitte, working in the F…
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War Film, drama film, war film
On 16 January 1944, a reconnaissance pilot survives a plane crash in Delahaut in German-occupied Belgium. The boy Jean Benoit finds the wounded pilot and takes him to the house of Claire and Henri Daussois who belong to the Belgian Resista…
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film
On June 1, 1942, after fourteen years working in a bank, mild-mannered 44-year-old Wilbert G. Winkle suddenly quits his boring bank job to follow his dream, to open a repair shop. Everyone is shocked, particularly his status-conscious wife…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film, war film
In the present day, a widow mourns the death of her husband. She covers up the TV set and all the mirrors in the house. Her grown children are baffled by this behavior, asking why their mother has suddenly become Orthodox Jewish.
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war film
A group of boys looking to start a S.A.L. squadron have difficulties because a boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after the Great War, his father cannot join the American Legion and in turn the son cannot join the sq…
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war film
Captain Hale leads a company of infantrymen from the 1st Infantry Division from the D-Day landings through the Normandy campaign. They resent the presence of fresh lieutenant Joe Mallory.
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War Film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
War Film, action film, drama film, war film
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Wehrmacht officer Manfred Roland organizes a dinner with a group of friends and international acquaintances to celebrate the event. The guests include famed German actress Annelise Ackermann, American Briga…
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Thriller, drama film, war film
American Kitty de Mornay quarrels with her French husband Andre over her lack of concern over the imminent fall of Paris to the Germans. She is so ignorant of the danger she is in that she flees with her English friend Emmeline "Emmy" Quay…
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drama film, war film
The Germans use a female spy to infiltrate an American position to get information on the movement of troops at the height of the Ardennes offensive, the start of the Battle of the Bulge.
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drama film, war film
In Act I a Catholic priest, Father Joseph McIntyre (Lund) who is serving in the US Navy is stationed on an aircraft carrier. He is shown around the ship by seasoned Chief Bosun, Buck Fitzpatrick (Bendix). The crew of the ship receives the …
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Drama
On 10 May 1940, the German Army invades Belgium and France via the Ardennes. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of the small village of Lebucquière decide, on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to…
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Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
Action, Fantasy, war film
Some time before World War II, a Nazi archaeological expedition had found a dragon's egg and hatched it, setting about to breed more. These dragons are able to reproduce parthenogenically, with one dragon able to reproduce many times, as c…
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drama film, historical drama, war film
The film takes place in 1942, during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). The film is based on real events that took place during the Second World War between August and October 1942, when Russian soldier and Soviet partisan officer Nik…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir
After sustaining a head wound in combat, decorated World War II veteran Eddie Rice (John Payne) is treated at a San Francisco military hospital for a permanent form of amnesia. This leaves him with no knowledge of his life, family and frie…
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War Film
During the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, a team of German saboteurs assume the identities of dead British soldiers and are transported to England. Their first objective is to cripple British air defences by destroying radar stations. Though …
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Documentation, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
war film
Sergeant Peter King and Private Leslie Cuthbertson of the Royal Army Dental Corps passionately desire to see active service, but are held back. Armed with two revolvers and a handful of grenades, they plan an unauthorised mission to occupi…
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Melodrama, Psychodrama, drama film
War widow Janet Ames is stricken unconscious by an automobile. The police find no identification on her, only a list of masculine names, including that of Smitty Cobb, a hard-drinking newspaperman. The police contact Smitty, who is shown t…
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Action, War Film, action film, thriller film
In 1985, during the Iran–Iraq War, Colonel Doug Matthews, is a U.S. Marine hired to help train Iraqi troops to fight off the Iranians. He arrives somewhere in the northern part of Iraq only to discover that stormtroopers are killing people…
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In a forerunner of The Dirty Dozen, Marine Gunnery Sergeant McGrath takes 12 Marines from the brig and trains them to blow up a tunnel behind North Korean lines. McGrath's only friend on the patrol is his Korean guide Pak. Hating their ser…
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action film, war film
The plot involves a gang of Hells Angels-type bikers called "The Devil's Advocates" involved in the Vietnam War. They are sent to the Cambodian jungle on Yamaha bikes in order to rescue an American diplomat/CIA Agent, Chet Davis. The biker…
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documentary film
Narrated by Carl Colby, son of the late Director of Central Intelligence William E. Colby, The Man Nobody Knew traces the elder Colby's career in the U.S. intelligence community, along with and in contrast to his home life, including the s…
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