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drama film
An introductory montage establishes Australia of 1851 – a place of both wealth and poverty, transformed by the discovery of gold. This causes a massive drain in manpower which puts a strain on the country. The Governor of Victoria, La Trob…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, comedy film
The plot is based on a true story: in 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a train containing American radar equipment required in Kosovo, guarded by a small troop of American and Romanian soldiers, went through Romania and was sto…
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comedy drama, propaganda film, romantic comedy, war film
In the summer of 1943, after he is taken off combat operations for medical reasons, American Staff Sergeant John Patterson (Dean Jagger), an Army Air Force gunner, is billeted in the London home of the Duke of Exmoor (Robert Morley) in Lon…
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war film
Eric Newby is an English soldier in 1943, captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a former mansion in Italy. The mansion is beautiful, Prisoners are well fed and receive Red Cross packages regularly. While Wanda and her Italian girl frie…
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drama film, war film
It is one of the last days before the capitulation of Nazi Germany in May 1945. The setting is the Baltic coast in Pomerania. A unit of the Soviet Army, comprising seven men and led by a captain nicknamed "Gorynych" ("dragon") (Aleksei Gus…
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Action, War Film
Sayid Nassif leads a group of terrorists in the Philippines. They carry out attacks and other illegal operations to obtain TNT and radioactive caesium-137. The terrorists have the ingredients for a "dirty bomb", which they plan to use to k…
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Romance Film, War Film, war film
In 1943 at the height of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, Captain Pat Banyon of the fishing trawler Daniel Webster unloads his catch in his home port of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He reluctantly agrees to transport Margaret McLean …
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Drama, Historie
The film is set in what is today North Macedonia, then part of the Vardar Banovina, a province in Kingdom Yugoslavia, and follows the period shortly after the Tripartite Pact invasion of the region. In 1941, a young football player from Ma…
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war film
The film is based on real events, focusing on the lives of three young nurses, one of whom undertakes a treacherous journey up the Mekong River to Cambodia to save a very young Vietnamese-American girl before her life is destroyed during t…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Set in France during World War I, a love triangle develops between a French commander who cares more for strategy than human life, a free-thinking officer who is appalled by his superior's decisions, and the nurse with whom both men fall i…
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Drama, War Film, spy film, war film
In the spring of 1941, American journalist Michael Gordon and his colleague, William Chalmers, arrive in Damascus. When Chalmers is murdered, Gordon sets out to find out why. He is helped along by glamorous secret agent Yvonne, who is on t…
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Crime, Mysterie, propaganda film, science fiction film, spy film
It is prior to the American entry into World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission.
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drama film, war film
Socialite Valerie "Val" Parks is informed that she is not eligible to claim her trust fund until she can demonstrate responsibility. In response, she decides to join the Women's Army Corps (WAC) to show she is a mature young woman. En rout…
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Drama, War Film
Along the Venetian seaside, on the morning of 8 September 1943, Alberto Innocenzi, junior lieutenant in the Royal Italian Army is shocked when (in response to the separate surrender signed by the Badoglio government in Cassibile) the forme…
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drama film, spy film
In Britain in 1939, the Captain of Dartmouth Naval College is murdered. His successor, Captain Hyde, believes that he himself was in fact the intended target of the assassination. He soon begins to realise that both British and foreign int…
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Documentation, Event Documentary, War Film
Drama, Secret Agent, drama film
Mild-mannered Viennese wine merchant George Droste, an intelligence expert during the Second World War, unexpectedly encounters old friend Baron Von Staub, and spends a weekend with him on his estate in the Soviet zone. The two revive a fr…
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drama film, war film
Close friends Gil Hackett and Tom McCreery both love and leave the same girl, Mary Caldwell, after they are called up to the Oklahoma National Guard and then on to the Army for wartime duty in 1940. A tough, stoic sergeant named Logan keep…
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drama film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=12|Flight (1929) College football player Lefty Phelps causes his school to lose the big game when he gets disoriented after a tackle and runs the wrong way. After being treated decently by gruff U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant "…
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Documentation, documentary film
The documentary tells the history of the secret U.S. Army unit of 1,100 troops that was set up in 1944 and operated until 1945 in the final stages of World War II in the fight against German army units in various parts of Europe. They used…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, psychological horror fiction, science fiction film
Carla Martin (Amanda Pays) is leaving an English parochial boarding school for the summer to live with her estranged father at an inn in East Berlin. The headmistress (Ursula Howells), a nun, gives her a 1936 guide to Berlin, telling Carla…
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Locale, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia, 1893. The British South Africa Company (BSAC) is based in the encampment of Fort Victoria (now known as Masvingo). The film starts with a sepia toned trial of two AWOL volunteers and later deserters …
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Action, Adventure, Thriller, action film, thriller film, war film
A group of al-Qaeda-backed local rebels disguised as lab technicians, led by Rasheed (Dick Israel), stage a raid on the Sultan Kudarat Airbase, home of the Joint U.S. Tactical Command in the Philippines. They manage to seize control of a "…
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Adventure, Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, war film
Laurel and Hardy, janitors at a detective agency, become embroiled in a caper involving a bomb dubbed "The Big Noise." Impersonating detectives, they befriend the bomb's inventor, navigating his idiosyncrasies alongside his quirky relative…
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