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The Deer Hunter (1978)
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Michael, Nick, and Steven are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn. They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying ... more |
Michael Cimino |
Deric Washburn |
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza, John Savage, John Cazale |
Drama, War |
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Valkyrie (2008)
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In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to toppl... more |
Bryan Singer |
Christopher McQuarrie, Nathan Alexander |
Tom Cruise, Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh, Terence Stamp, Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn |
Biography, History, War |
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Das Boot (1981)
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It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better ... more |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Lothar G. Buchheim |
Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Grönemeyer |
Drama, War |
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Der Untergang aka The Downfall (2004)
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A non-political person, Traudl Junge, then twenty-four years old and the personal secretary to Adolf Hitler, recounts the two weeks in her life starting on... more |
Oliver Hirschbiegel |
Traudl Junge |
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Berkel, Juliane Köhler |
Biography, Drama, History, War |
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery ... more |
Stanley Kubrick |
Gustav Hasford |
Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin |
Action, Drama, Thriller, War |
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La Grande vadrouille (1966)
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During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern ... more |
Gérard Oury |
Danièle Thompson, Marcel Jullian |
Louis Funès, Bourvil, Claudio Brook, Mike Marshall, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset |
Comedy, War |
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
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Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.... more |
Michael Mann |
John L. Balderston, James Fenimore Cooper |
Madeleine Stowe, Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis, Wes Studi, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Steven Waddington, Terry Kinney |
Adventure, Romance, War |
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The Last Valley (1970)
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People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers... more |
James Clavell |
J.B. Pick |
Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan |
Adventure, Drama, War |
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We Were Soldiers (2002)
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In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore and 400 young fathers, husbands, b... more |
Randall Wallace |
Joseph L. Galloway, Harold G. Moore |
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Sam Elliott, Barry Pepper, Ryan Hurst, Taylor Momsen, Duong Don |
Action, History, War |
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War, Inc. (2008)
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A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize t... more |
Joshua Seftel |
Mark Leyner, Jeremy Pikser |
Dan Aykroyd, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Shirly Brener |
Action, Comedy, Thriller, War |
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Platoon (1986)
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A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.... more |
Oliver Stone |
Oliver Stone |
Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, John C. McGinley, Mark Moses, Francesco Quinn |
Action, Drama, War |
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
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During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up ... more |
Francis Ford Coppola |
John Milius |
Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando |
Action, Drama, War |
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
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In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, Engli... more |
Luc Besson |
Andrew Birkin |
Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Rab Affleck, David Bailie |
Biography, Drama, War |
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Braveheart (1995)
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William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.... more |
Mel Gibson |
Randall Wallace |
Mel Gibson, Brian Cox, Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau, James F. Robinson |
Action, Biography, Drama, History, War |
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Coriolanus (2011)
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The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views i... more |
Ralph Fiennes |
William Shakespeare, John Logan |
Brian Cox, Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain |
Action, Drama, Thriller, War |
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Act of Valor (2012)
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An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contempora... more |
Scott Waugh, Mike McCoy |
Kurt Johnstad |
Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Emilio Rivera, Timothy Gibbs |
Action, War |
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Ironclad (2011)
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In 13th century a determined group of Knights Templar defends Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.... more |
Jonathan English |
Erick Kastel |
Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara, Derek Jacobi, Charles Dance, James Purefoy, Vladimir Kulich |
Action, Adventure, War |
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Centurion (2010)
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Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, ... more |
Neil Marshall |
Neil Marshall |
Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Ulrich Thomsen, Olga Kurylenko, David Morrissey, Noel Clarke, Dave Legeno |
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War |
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The Patriot (2000)
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Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.... more |
Roland Emmerich |
Robert Rodat |
Mel Gibson, Tom Wilkinson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Camilla Belle, Donal Logue, Joely Richardson, Adam Baldwin, Leon Rippy |
Action, Drama, War |
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Casualties of War (1989)
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During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.... more |
Brian De Palma |
David Rabe, Daniel Lang |
John C. Reilly, Ving Rhames, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo, Michael J. Fox, Don Harvey |
Adventure, Drama, War |
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