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. 2,833 films · Page 97.
war film
When the police find a French woman next to the bullet-ridden body of Stephen Curtis, she refuses to give her identity. She is arrested and goes on trial as "Jane Doe", and is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Stephen's widow Eve…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, three American veterans who have never resigned themselves to defeat decided to organize a mission to return to Indochina. Their goal is to liberate the "missing in action", i.e. all those fellow…
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drama film, war film
During the Korean War, three American prisoners of war – MSgt Ed Brent (Rory Calhoun), Sgt Peter Kane (William Bendix), and Pvt Kirk Wilson (Robert Ivers) – escape from their North Korean captors and try to make it back to American lines, …
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Drama, War Film
war film
On Christmas 1969, during the Vietnam War, a group of fresh, young American soldiers arrive at an army camp in Vietnam and are sent to patrol in a nearby jungle. After they kill a few Viet Cong soldiers and lose a couple of their comrades …
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drama film, propaganda film
In 1942, Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during World War II are helping to build a road. During the construction of a military supply road like the Burma Road and Ledo Road, the project is sabotaged by an English…
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Action, Adventure, Swords and Sandals, fantasy film
{{Plot}} In a fictitious land, the evil sorcerer Munkar oppressively rules. Some warriors, King Kandor's forces, escaped into the forest, in order to continue to make a stand against the dark lord, but they're finally defeated. Now the fat…
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drama film, war film
After being discharged from the Royal Air Force for anti-British activities, an officer becomes a secret agent for Britain's Secret Service. He ostensibly denounces his country and poses as a radio personality for Nazi Germany. What appear…
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drama film, war film
Attorney Matt Walker who finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from the Vietnam War, including Gibbs and Ned Larwin. The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film
Following the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939 and the subsequent invasion of Poland, two brothers are sent to the gulag in Siberia. They manage to escape and undertake an epic attempt to make it to the border with Afghanistan.
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War Film, war film
Madeline Brenner, a German naturalized as an American, is being questioned by a federal prosecutor who is considering treason charges against her. In flashback, she describes how she worked on Cape Cod as a secretary for wealthy Mrs. Weber.
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romantic comedy film, war film
On the coast of Normandy in May 1944, the peaceable Jérôme lives in his crumbling château with his widowed mother and his beautiful young wife Marie, daughter of Dimanche, a local farmer. She is fed up with country life and dreams of a gla…
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Drama, drama film
Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
The story begins in Vienna just before the beginning of the Second World War. Dr Roder is physician to some important members of the Nazi party but prefers being at his luxurious house with his wife, Irena, and servants. Irena's brother Ot…
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comedy film
At the New York Bulletin newspaper, its owner, Robert Drexel Gow, receives a teletype story that the newspaper's thirty-nine-year-old editor, Max Wharton, is resigning to enlist in the army. Robert is livid, both at the news and the method…
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propaganda film, war film
Having been stationed in the Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines as a member of the United States Marine Corps, NCO Sgt. Maj. William Bailey (Beery) is retired after having served there for 30 years.
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documentary film, war film
The documentary follows the story of Mark Manning, the only westerner to live among the residents of Fallujah, Iraq, following the November 2004 battle that destroyed the city.
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, romance film, war film
war film
During the German invasion of Crete in 1941, a British girl is trapped on the island. Eventually she joins the resistance fighters against the Nazis.
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war film
After the Japanese army invades the Philippines, they capture the radio station owned by the American Radio Communications Company. The staff is forced to escape. and they head into the jungle, where they eventually meet up with a band of …
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drama film, war film
French underground activists are secretly printing and distributing leaflets against the Nazis. Many of them work at a factory which is producing German tanks. They are encouraging covert acts of sabotage in the factory.
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Documentation, documentary film
Historie, War Film, drama film, war film
As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer "Ghost" division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig, Germany, a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key pos…
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Essayfilm
The film is soundtracked by a live recording of Ray Charles's "What'd I Say". During the song's opening, the film begins with an extended section of black leader, followed by multiple countdown leaders. Its first images are of artist Beth …
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