Popular War Movies - Page 176
Bashu, the Little Stranger
1989
star 7.4During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.Sangokushi: The Distant Land
1994
star 6.3Third movie of the Sangokushi animated film trilogy. The movie covers the longest time span of the three films, from Liu Bei's expedition to Shu in 211 CE to the death of Kongming in 234 CE.Operation Bikini
1963
Operation Bikini
1963
star 3.8The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.Saturday Island
1952
Saturday Island
1952
star 5.6When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love — on an idyllic tropical island. But when British pilot William Peck crash-lands on their cozy little atoll, Dugan suddenly discovers he has a rival in love.The Black Chapel
1959
The Black Chapel
1959
star 7.31933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
star 6.5A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.Survival
2025
Survival
2025
star 7The story of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces' rearguard regiment's breakout, reorganization and return to the Northeast battlefield from 1938 to 1945.The Big Lift
1950
The Big Lift
1950
star 6.9The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two Air Force NCOs who navigate romance in a bombed out post WW2 Germany.The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982
star 5.4An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra, rumored to have supernatural powers. An early Raiders rip-off directed Antonio Margheriti.The Legend of King Naresuan 3
2011
star 6.2In 1584, at Kraeng, King Naresuan continued the war for the independence of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The conflict escalated when King Nanda Bayin of the Toungoo dynasty secretly ordered two armies to attack Ayutthaya.French Town...
1945
Le Serment
1963
Le Serment
1963
star 10The Oath, a TV film produced by Algerian television in 1963 following the end of the war of independence, tells the story of young Algerians who joined the resistance after the bloody repressions of May 1945 in Constantinois by the French colonial army .Carriage to Vienna
1966
Carriage to Vienna
1966
star 7.2A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.Hornets' Nest
1970
Hornets' Nest
1970
star 5.7An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.The McMasters
1970
The McMasters
1970
star 4.6When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife.Sveaborg
1969
Sveaborg
1969
In May 1808, the fortress, renamed Sveaborg, surrendered to Russian troops and, together with the fleet and fortifications, went to the Russian Empire.When the Greeks
1981
When the Greeks
1981
star 6At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.Cantemir
1975
Cantemir
1975
star 8Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empire" and the jewels of the ruler's wife.Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999
star 7.2Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
