War movies

Atonement (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Saoirse Ronan | Brenda Blethyn | Julia West | James McAvoy | Harriet Walter | Keira Knightley | Juno Temple | Felix von Simson | Charlie von Simson | Alfie Allen | Patrick Kennedy | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter Wight | Peter O'Connor | Daniel Mays
Directors: Joe Wright
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant’s son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony’s misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.

Glory (1989)

Friday, February 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Shaw | Harrison Ford | Barbara Bach | Edward Fox | Franco Nero | Carl Weathers | Richard Kiel | Alan Badel | Michael Byrne | Philip Latham | Angus MacInnes | Michael Sheard | Petar Buntic | Leslie Schofield | Anthony Langdon
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler’s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he’ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team’s plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad’s hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power.

Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Trevor Roberts | Stefan Arngrim | Victor Ayala | Steve Bacic | Jamie Bamber | Graham Beckel | Matthew Bennett | Jacob Blair | Chris Bradford | Peter Bryant | James Callis | Fulvio Cecere | Nico Cortez | Ben Cotton | Aaron Douglas
Directors: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
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A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.

Born to Defend (1986)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Dean Harrington | Kurt Roland Petersson | Paulo Tocha | Erkang Zhao | Jia Song
Directors: Jet Li
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.

Legionnaire (1998)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Steven Berkoff | Nicholas Farrell | Jim Carter | Ana Sofrenovic | Daniel Caltagirone | Joseph Long | Mario Kalli | Joe Montana | Kim Romer | Anders Peter Bro | Paul Kynman | Vincent Pickering | Takis Triggelis
Directors: Peter MacDonald
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At the height of its glory, the French Foreign Legion was made up of men widely regarded as the scum of the earth. It was a mercenary army posted to colonies in Northern Africa and Southern Asia…but its soldiers swore no allegiance to France, only to the legion and to each other. The legion asked no questions about a man’s past…nor did it offer much hope for his future. It was a hard way to get a second chance in life…

The Alamo (2004)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Craig Erickson | Dennis Quaid | Billy Bob Thornton | Jason Patric | Patrick Wilson | Emilio Echevarría | Jordi Mollà | Leon Rippy | Tom Davidson | Marc Blucas | Robert Prentiss | Kevin Page | Joe Stevens | Stephen Bruton | Laura Clifton | Ricardo Chavira
Directors: John Lee Hancock
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas.

The Pianist (2002)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | War
Countries: France | Germany | Poland | UK
Actors: Adrien Brody | | Frank Finlay | Maureen Lipman | Emilia Fox | Ed Stoppard | Julia Rayner | Jessica Kate Meyer | Michal Zebrowski | Wanja Mues | Richard Ridings | Nomi Sharron | Anthony Milner | Lucy Skeaping | Roddy Skeaping
Directors: Roman Polanski
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Ewan McGregor | Jason Isaacs | Tom Sizemore | Eric Bana | Sam Shepard | Ewen Bremner | Tom Hardy | Ron Eldard | Charlie Hofheimer | Hugh Dancy | Tom Guiry | Brian Van Holt | Steven Ford
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.