Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 84.
war film
As war breaks out in Europe, young Americans Chuck S. Brewer (Robert Stack), Johnny M. Coe (Leif Erickson) and Wadislaw Borowsky (Edgar Barrier) cross the Atlantic to join the Royal Air Force.
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science fiction film, war film
Nurse Laura Mattson and World War I military pilot Lt. Geoffrey Aiken fall in love after only knowing each other for a few days. Tragically, he is brought to her hospital and, by chance, put under her care after being fatally wounded on hi…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama
Sergiy is a retired soldier with PTSD trying to navigate life in Eastern Ukraine. The events take place in 2025, one year after the end of the war with Russia. He works at a smelter with another veteran and friend, Ivan, both ostracized by…
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drama film, war film
In 1943, Reo Seki is presented with the ashes of his dead son, Taro Seki. He blames himself for his son's death. Back in 1936, at the time of the February 26 incident, Taro Seki returns to Japan after studying in America, with plans to wor…
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documentary film
Shot in both Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. According to Pilger, his film "...tells a universal story... analy…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
In 1909 in the town of Archedale, Mary Archer, an American girl from the prominent Archer family, meets Hugo Wilbrandt, a German chemist who knows her cousin and childhood sweetheart Jeff. It had been assumed for years that Mary and Jeff w…
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Documentation, War Film, propaganda film
The narrator describes the fall of France, which leaves Britain almost defenceless. British forces are vastly outnumbered, but the British people are calm. The narrator explains that is because in a democracy, the people as a whole are inv…
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Drama, War Film, action film
The film tells the story of three British soldiers during World War I, on the Western Front in 1916. During an abortive assault on the German trenches the three become trapped in no man's land as night falls. One of the soldiers is serious…
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drama film
A Royal Navy cruiser, HMS Apollo, commanded by Captain Tom Armitage returns to base to find all leave has been cancelled and they are to start out straight away for a special mission. Supplemented with a new first officer, Lieutenant Cranf…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Lionel Evans is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls in Belgium in December 1944 in World War II. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by German troops, and …
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Documentation, documentary film
Heidi Neville Bub was born on December 10, 1968, in Da Nang as Mai Thi Hiep. Her mother, Mai Thi Kim, already had three children and was estranged from her husband Do Huu Vinh, who had left her to fight with the Viet Cong. She was working …
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historical drama film, war film
drama film, war film
In 1944, Allied forces are fighting German Nazi troops who have occupied Italy. Near an Italian village, Anna, a local woman finds her lost goat in an abandoned hillside cavern, followed by her sometimes-boyfriend Mario. American Sergeant …
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Adventure, Historie, action film, adventure film, pirate film, war film
During the 17th century, French sea captain Kit "The Hawk" Gerardo is on Basse-Terre Island with a crew but no ship. He duels the captain of the ship Sea Flower and commandeers his ship. His objective is to capture a much larger 60-gun shi…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, war film
In Paris during the World War II invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Jewish refugee S. L. Jacobowsky seeks to leave the country before it falls.
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Adventure, Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1941 Lieutenant Commander Jeffords, an American serving with the Royal Navy Reserve is assigned to Valletta, Malta, to command a flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boats for a top secret mission. Jeffords is granted permission to take his friend…
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war film
Two photojournalists, Sean (Joshua Fredric Smith) and Dana (Scott Maguire), who brave the jungles to get their story of war-torn Cambodia in 1970, are captured by Khmer Rouge guerrillas.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, action film, thriller film, war film
Special Activities Division Paramilitary operative David Wolfe (Cuba Gooding Jr.) stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defi…
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film, war film
In 1944, during the last stages of the war in Europe, American officers Paul MacDougall (Heston) and Joseph Angelico (Guardino) are sent to Rome to act as spies for the Allies, even though they have no experience in espionage. Working with…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom , tagging a…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Drama, Musical, War Film, drama film
Red Psalm centers around a small peasants' revolt in 1890. It draws inspiration from the Hungarian revolutionary movements of the 19th century, including the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, of which Sándor Petőfi, the poet whose work the fil…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, crime film, drama film
Johnny Barrows, a winner of the Silver Star is set up by his captain O'Malley when he inadvertently steps on a landmine. When O'Malley mocks him, Johnny slaps him, leading him to be dishonorably discharged from the army. Shipped back home …
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War Film, drama film
In World War I, American born pilots Lt. Jerry Young (Fredric March) and Lt. Mike "Slug" Richards (Jack Oakie) join Britain's Royal Flying Corps and are assigned to the dangerous mission of reconnaissance over enemy lines.
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