Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
drama film, war film
The story follows the bombing and aftermath of the Atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima, told from several different perspectives.
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War movies
Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.
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Atlas (1961)
Adventure, Swords and Sandals, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, war film
In the ancient Greek era, King Proximates, a ruthless tyrant, besieges a city for months but struggles to secure victory. Seeking a resolution, he meets Telektos, the besieged city's king, who proposes settling the conflict through a duel …
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Blockade (1938)
Drama, drama film, war film
In 1936 Spain, Norma, an expatriate from the Russian Revolution, crashes her luxury car on her way to Castelmare. On the way there, Spanish farmer Marco and his friend Luis tow her car to their oxen. By nighttime, they reach the residence …
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Brothers at War (2009)
documentary film
Filmmaker Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the motivation, sacrifice and experience of his two younger brothers, Isaac and Joe, serving in Iraq. The film depicts the toll the life-threatening work and separation take on the parents, …
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
War Film, drama film
Franz Huber (Ludwig Donath), an Austrian actor known for his impersonations of celebrities, is captured by the Gestapo and forced to undergo plastic surgery to become a stand-in for Adolf Hitler. The conspirators are planning to poison Hit…
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Submarine Seahawk (1958)
war film
The plot tells the story of a by-the-book officer (in his first command in the Pacific war) who replaces a captain the crew likes but against his wishes is needed on shore. The new captain is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissan…
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Body of War (2007)
Political Documentary, Social Study, documentary film
In this documentary the story of an injured American veteran returning home from the war in Iraq is set against the backdrop of a critical indictment of the government's handling of the U.S-led invasion.
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Nazi Agent (1942)
drama film, spy film
The U.S. has not yet entered World War II when kindly stamp dealer Otto Becker (Conrad Veidt) is unexpectedly visited by his twin brother, Baron Hugo von Detner, the new German consul to the U.S. and one of the leaders of a spy ring engage…
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Manila, Open City (1968)
War Film, war film
In the final days of World War II, Allied forces approach Manila. The occupying Japanese army turns on the locals.
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The World Moves On (1934)
Drama, drama film, war film
In 1825, two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such ano…
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The Empty Mirror (1996)
war film
The film is a fantastical journey through the looking-glass of history into the darkest recesses of the mind of Adolf Hitler. In a dreamlike subterranean environment removed from historical time, Adolf Hitler confronts the demons of his ow…
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Sabre Jet (1953)
drama film, war film
The United States Air Force at Itazuke Air Base during the Korean War has a visitor: Jane Carter, a female journalist who wishes to do a feature story on the wives of the American pilots. Jane admits to the wing commander, General Hale, th…
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Doughboys (1930)
Komödie, comedy film
left|thumb|thumbtime=17|Doughboys (1930) Elmer, a member of the idle rich, is smitten by working girl Mary, who will have nothing to do with him. When Elmer's chauffeur gets caught up in an army recruitment drive and quits, Elmer goes to a…
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British Agent (1934)
Drama, drama film, romance film, spy film, war film
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat, watches rioting in the streets. The revolutionary Elena Moura shoots it out with a Cossack soldier. When she retreats onto the grounds of the consul…
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Untamed Women (1952)
Monster Film, Sci-Fi, War Film, science fiction film
An American bomber pilot in World War II, Steve Holloway, is rescued by a U.S. Navy flying boat after drifting at sea in a liferaft. When he awakens from a coma at a military hospital, he tells his doctors how his copilot died when he and …
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The No Mercy Man (1973)
Action, Drama, action film, thriller film
Prophet and his friends are carnies and itinerant criminals in Arizona. After robbing a liquor store Prophet and a carny, Dunn, evade the local Sheriff and stop at the ranch of Mark Hand, a decorated war veteran. Feeling suspicious, Mark t…
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Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film
The story follows the broadly true story of Edith Cavell who went to German-occupied Brussels after the onset of the First World War. Edith hides the young Frenchman Jean Rappard, but is suspected of this and her hospital is inspected by G…
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Never Forget (1991)
historical film
Mel Mermelstein and his wife Jane are a California couple thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane is a Southern Baptist fro…
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Zaytoun (2012)
Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, thriller film
During the 1982 Lebanon War, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, is shot down over Beirut and captured by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fahed, a precocious young Palestinian refugee who is angered by the death of his father in an Isra…
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
silent film, war film
thumb|left|Half-page newspaper ad for the film. Tells viewers to call police if people around them are doing things out of the ordinary. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern is a vain and arrogant tyrant eager for conquest.
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Drones (2013)
thriller film, war film
Two Airmen are tasked with deciding the fate of a terrorist with a single push of a button. As the action plays out in real time, their window to use a deadly military drone on the target slowly closes. With time running out, the Airmen be…
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The Devil Makes Three (1952)
Crime, Romance Film, Thriller, drama film
Former Eighth Air Force bomber crewman Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued and hid him from the Nazis after his plane was downed over Munich in World War II. He learns that most of the family was k…
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Two Thousand Women (1944)
Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film, war film
During the 1940 Battle of France, Rosemary Brown (Patricia Roc), an English novice nun, is apprehended by French soldiers who have mistaken her for a fifth columnist. She is sentenced to face a firing squad, but the Germans arrive and she …
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The White Angel (1936)
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale decides to become a nurse, puzzling her upper-class family (as nursing was considered a disreputable profession at the time). She travels to Germany to the only nursing school. The training is ard…
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