Desert Legion (1953)
Adventure, action film, war film
Ladd stars as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who stumbles across a lost city in the desert mountains of Algeria in North Africa.
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War movies
Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.
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Flame (1996)
drama film, war film
At the height of the Rhodesian Bush War, Florence, an impulsive teenage peasant girl from the Mashonaland countryside, decides to run away and join the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) after her father is detained by the R…
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Intramuros (1964)
Drama, War Film, war film
In World War II during the Battle of Manila, fanatical Japanese soldiers fighting for their lives barricade themselves inside the walls of "Intramuros", the ancient Spanish walled city of Manila. The United States artillery is bombing them…
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China Venture (1953)
war film
In 1945, during World War II, a Japanese admiral is severely injured in an airplane crash in a remote jungle. He possesses vital intelligence that may affect the course of the war. A joint American team of Marines and Navy personnel are de…
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National Bird (2016)
Documentation, documentary film
The film focuses on three whistleblowers who talk about unmanned aerial vehicles commonly called drones.
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Air Rage (2001)
Action, Thriller, action film
Colonel John Sykes orders his men to massacre a village where they were sent to rescue hostages, but decides to get payback when they find them dead. When Sykes returns to the U.S. to be court-martialed he is forced to make a plea agreemen…
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The Silver Fleet (1943)
war film
Early during the Second World War, the Nazis overrun the Netherlands and take control of a submarine shipyard where Jaap van Leyden is the chief engineer. The German Gestapo "Protector" Von Schiffer asks van Leyden to cooperate with the ne…
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Pilot #5 (1943)
romance film, war film
In May 1942, an Allied base on Java is bombed by Japanese aircraft, with another attack expected the next day. With only one working fighter and five American pilots who all volunteer to fly it, Dutch commander Major Eichel (Steven Geray) …
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Hell Below (1933)
romance film, war film
In 1918 during World War I, the United States Navy submarine AL-14 is sent with the rest of Submarine Flotilla 1 to Taranto to fight in the Adriatic Sea. The submarine's commander was wounded on its last cruise, and Lieutenant Thomas Knowl…
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Clay Pigeon (1971)
Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
A Vietnam War veteran has been using illegal drugs, but eventually decides that he wants to escape that life. But before he can leave it behind, a CIA narcotics agent recruits him to go undercover in Los Angeles to help expose other ex-sol…
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Silk (1986)
Action
The Rough Riders (1927)
silent film, war film
Ministry of Vengeance (1989)
Action, Thriller
L.A. Heat (1989)
Crime, independent film
Jon Chance, an L.A. vice cop who is a man who dreamed of being a cowboy hero. He saw himself as an exemplary hero who always felt that the use of guns was not a necessity.
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Krajobraz po bitwie (1970)
Anti-War Film, Drama, Historie, Romance Film, War Film
The Landscape After the Battle film tells a story of two young concentration camp survivors. In the opening sequence, Vivaldi's “Autumn” can be heard while the prisoners are liberated. A young Polish poet, Tadeusz, is asked by a pretty Jew…
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Fires Were Started (1943)
Documentation, Drama, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
Action, Horror, Thriller, action film, horror film, thriller film, war film
In 1944 Romania, the Wehrmacht is being steadily pushed back by the Red Army. A Wehrmacht squad led by Major Kurt Fleischer are engaged in heavy fighting while Fleischer is summoned for a new and dangerous mission. Fleischer is ordered to …
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Seven Thunders (1957)
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943, Dave, an officer, and Jim, escape from separate prison camps and are paired together by the underground. They are taken to Marseille by a fishing boat captain to wait in the Old Port Quarter for the right opportunity to try for Br…
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Brown on Resolution (1935)
war film
In 1893, Betty Brown meets debonair young naval officer Lieutenant Summerville and falls in love with him. They have a brief affair until he has to rejoin his ship but as they part, Betty tells him they should not meet again because they a…
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The Dark Angel (1925)
drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|left|Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky During the First World War, Captain Alan Trent, while on leave in England with his fiancée Kitty Vane, is suddenly recalled to the front before being able to get a marriage license. Alan and Kitty s…
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A Message to Garcia (1936)
drama film, silent film, war film
At the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898, the Maine Incident in which an American warship blew up in Havana Harbor, allegedly following sabotage by Spain, triggers the outbreak of the Spanish–American War. President McKinley, wishing to make cont…
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Report from the Aleutians (1943)
Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
In contrast to the other technicolor films made in the Pacific war, Report from the Aleutians has relatively little combat footage, and instead concentrates on the daily lives of the servicemen on Adak Island, as they live and work there w…
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Canopy (2013)
Psychological Thriller, War Film, war film
In 1942, during war between the Allies and the Japanese rages in the jungles of Singapore. Jim (Khan Chittenden), a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force, awakens to find himself hanging from a tree by his parachute, after ha…
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Night Plane from Chungking (1942)
drama film, war film
In 1942, during the Japanese invasion of China, due to the carelessness of one of the passengers, Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger), draws attention from Japanese bombers overhead, to a bus travelling to India along a muddy road. The Japanese bo…
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