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Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,833 films · Page 91.

Captured! (1933)

adventure film, drama film, romance film, war film

British Captain Fred Allison bids farewell to his new wife, Monica, whom he has only known for six days, and sets out to serve in World War I. He ends up a prisoner of war (POW), tortured by the fact that his wife has not written to him si…

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In the Meantime, Darling (1944)

drama film

Due to limited wartime housing, Army lieutenant Danny Ferguson (Frank Latimore) and fiancée Maggie Preston (Jeanne Crain) must postpone their wedding until a room in the Craig Hotel, where married officers stationed at nearby Camp Fielding…

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The Safecracker (1958)

Film Noir, war film

Colley Dawson lives a quiet life at home with his mother, but he is an expert safecracker at weekends, breaking into wealthy homes and stealing valuable art. When he is eventually arrested and convicted, Colley is approached in prison by M…

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Ships with Wings (1941)

Drama, War Film, war film

During the Second World War, pilot Lieutenant Dick Stacey is expelled from the British Fleet Air Arm for imprudence, but later has the opportunity to redeem himself when he takes part in the fight against the Germans in Greece.

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Beautiful Dreamer (2006)

drama film, romance film, war film

Soon after childhood sweethearts Joe Kelly (Colin Egglesfield) and Claire (Brooke Langton) get married, Joe, a former cropduster, becomes a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in United States Army Air Force. During a mission over Ger…

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Minesweeper (1943)

War Film, drama film

Lieutenant Richard Houston is an officer in the U.S. Navy who deserted during peacetime service to escape gambling debts, and took up life as a hobo. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor spurs him to rejoin the Navy under the assumed name o…

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A Circle of Deception (1960)

drama film

A Canadian officer is sent on a secret and dangerous mission during World War II. His superior officers deceptively give him false information about the planned invasion of 1944. He is told that this secret information must not get into en…

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Stitched (2011)

war film, zombie film

In Eastern Afghanistan, three NATO operatives (one of whom, Lieutenant Pruitt, is injured) trek through the desert in search of aid, the only survivors of Black Hawk Idaho Six, which had crashed while on a mission to extract the British un…

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Heroes II: The Return (1991)

drama television series

Part One After the success of Operation Jaywick, Ivan Lyon of Z Special Force proposes a second raid on Singapore harbour named Operation Rimau again aimed at sinking enemy shipping. Lyon enlists Donald Davidson and Bob Page and nineteen Z…

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Men with Wings (1938)

drama film, war film

In 1903, the Wright brothers set the scene for aviation's advances and influence barnstormer, Pat Falconer and his friend, engineer Scott Barnes. Falconer marries childhood sweetheart Peggy Ransom although Barnes also loves her, but is unw…

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Squadron Leader X (1943)

spy film, war film

Erich Kohler, a crack Luftwaffe pilot who speaks fluent English, is ordered by his superior, Inspector Siegel, to drop a "stick" of bombs on the Belgian city of Ghent. He is further instructed to bail out of his aircraft wearing a British …

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For the Cause (2000)

Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film

For the Cause is set in the late 26th century on a distant planet that has two human colonies. These colonies were founded as a refuge from the wars of Earth, but the vision died when the colonies began fighting a hundred-year war, reducin…

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Young Widow (1946)

drama film, melodrama, war film

During World War II, journalist Joan Kenwood, whose Air Corps photographer husband was killed on an air mission, returns to New York City from England. The managing editor of the newspaper for which she worked, Peter Waring, offers Joan wo…

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Red River Valley (1997)

historical film, romantic drama film, war film

In 1900, a young Han Chinese woman named Xue'er (Ying Zhen) narrowly escapes being sacrificed to a river god during a severe drought. She flees into Tibet, where she is rescued by Gesang (Shao Bing), a Tibetan herdsman, and his elderly mot…

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So Little Time (1952)

Romance Film, romance film

In occupied Belgium during World War II, the chateau where Nicole de Malvines lives with her mother is partially requisitioned for use by German forces. Among those billeted there is Colonel Günther von Hohensee, a ruthlessly efficient Pru…

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Up from the Beach (1965)

drama film, war film

Following the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach, an American squad frees a group of French hostages but takes several casualties in an assault in Vierville-sur-Mer. They capture a German officer who has treated the French in his jurisdictio…

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