Popular War Movies - Page 136
Cards on the Table: The Foster Son of the Archbishop
1982
After the Geneva Convention, Viet Minh cadres are gathered to the North. There are also many who secretly stayed. Among them is Robert Nguyen Thanh Luan. He returns to Vinh Long, part of the diocese of Bishop Peter Ngo Dinh Thuc, who has known his Catholic family for long. The bishop adopts him into the Ngo family, where he begins associating with Ngo Dinh Nhu, the Vice President and Presidential Consultant of the Republic of Vietnam.Deep Mountain Sniping
2025
In the spring of 1938, Japanese forces occupied the Jiaodong region of China. The village of Tiandao, located deep in the Kunyu Mountains, was chosen by the Japanese as a central stronghold. Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe Taro was dispatched with a unit to eliminate resistance in Tiandao Village. The village, whose inhabitants had lived as hunters for generations, faced the sudden invasion with fierce resistance, creating a heroic and fiery epic of youth amidst blood and fire.Exiled
2016
Exiled
2016
star 6.3In the final years of World War I a retired German field medic is sent to a remote sanatorium for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic mental disorders. There he encounters a strange, dreamlike state of existence that challenges his own war-torn mind.Soldiers Pay
2004
Soldiers Pay
2004
star 4From director David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) comes the controversial documentary chronicling the soldier's struggle with the current war in Iraq. Interviews with soldiers and with Iraqis who played extras in "Three Kings."The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1987
star 5Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.Emperor
2020
Emperor
2020
star 7.6An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.Maz
2018
Maz
2018
Ukrainian Rhapsody
1961
Ukrainian Rhapsody
1961
star 5.7World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again.1917: The Real October
2017
star 3.3St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown. Many artists are euphoric: Revolution! Freedom, finally? No. Starting in October, the Bolsheviks rule by themselves. What were poets, thinkers, and avant-gardists like Maxim Gorky and Kazimir Malevich doing during this drastic change of power? In the film, five of them alight from the director’s piles of books as animated cut-out figures. With their own recorded words in their mouths, they participate in salons, committees, and street riots.Heroic Sons and Daughters
1964
star 6An army officer has a chance encounter with a young soldier, the son of an old comrade in arms. The soldier tells the officer he has a sister who is also in the army. When the young soldier is killed in action, the officer visits her to pay his respects, and recognizes her as his own child, given up for adoption 18 years earlier. This presents him with a dilemma, wanting to reconnect with the only child he ever had, yet reluctant to tell her the truth about her parentage ...Wolf Hawk
2020
Wolf Hawk
2020
Villa Des Roses
2002
Villa Des Roses
2002
star 5.2In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.Tonight We Raid Calais
1943
star 5.8A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.The Battle of Gettysburg
1955
star 6.1This film was shot entirely at the Gettysburg National Military Park, where the decisive battle of the American Civil War was fought. Leslie Nielsen narrates the story while contemporary songs and the sounds of battle are heard in the background. The sites of the various engagements, the statues of the leaders of the Northern and Southern troops, and the battlefield cemetery are featured. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is read at the end.Death of a Soldier
1986
Death of a Soldier
1986
star 3.2Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
1900
star 5.6Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in the Boer War, 25 January 1900.Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972
star 6.3Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.North Korean Partisan in South Korea
1990
star 7.2Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.Snow Treasure
1968
Snow Treasure
1968
star 7.7It is 1940 in Norway, a neutral, peace-loving country that is invaded by Nazi Germany. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian children like best - ski. They are actually rescuing Norwegian gold from the nazi invaders. The Nazis search all adults but don't suspect children playing. The children carry the gold, one bar at a time, across the mountains to a fishing boat. It is a race against time, it is spring and the snow is melting. So they ski from dawn to dusk every day.Forget the Word 'Death'
1979
star 71920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.
