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War! Vol. IV
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Another playlist of movies and tv shows dedicated to all things related to War, Warfare, Historical Battles, Docu-dramas, Documentaries and/or events that took place before, during & after. The serious drama as well as the humorous side


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Movie: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby ( 2011 )
A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions.
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Movie: Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro ( 2016 )
An HBO Documentary Film. Tony Vaccaro, a WWII infantryman, smuggled his $47.00 portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.
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Movie: A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia ( 1992 )
Lawrence and Feisal go to argue for Arab independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
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Movie: Code Name: Emerald ( 1985 )
Emerald is an agent the Germans "have" inside allied intelligence 1944/WWII. With "help" from Emerald, the Germans catch Wheeler, believed to know the when and where of D-Day. Emerald is sent to be Wheeler's cell mate. Let the game begin.
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TV Show: Occupation ( 2009 )
Occupation is a BAFTA Award–winning three part drama serial broadcast by BBC One in June 2009. The serial follows the fortunes of three British Army soldiers from the 2003 invasion of Basrato 2007. Each is inspired to return to Basra for different reasons: one returns for love, one for monetary gain, and one for his belief in the mission to rebuild the country.
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Movie: The White Countess ( 2006 )
Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
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Movie: Private Peaceful ( 2012 )
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
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Movie: The Warrior ( 2001 )
1375. Nine Koryo warriors, envoys exiled by Imperial China, battle to protect a Chinese Ming Princess from Mongolian troops.
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Movie: The Hunley ( 1999 )
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy boat in time of war. It also relates the human side of the story relating the uncommon and extaordinary temperament of the 9 men who led the Hunley into history and died valiantly accomplishing this feat.
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TV Show: The Seekers ( 1979 )
The sons and grandchildren of Philip Kent make a life for themselves in America.
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Movie: Paltan ( 2018 )
An action-war drama based on the 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes along the Sikkim border after 1962 Sino-Indian War.
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Movie: Ayla: The Daughter of War ( 2017 )
Sergeant Süleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War. He takes her and names her Ayla. Fifteen months later, Süleyman's brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her behind.
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Movie: The Viking War ( 2019 )
Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.
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Movie: Convoy 48 ( 2019 )
Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg Highway, which connects the city with the Great Land and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which at the cost of the deadly risk is to deliver to Leningrad 75% of all cargo and military equipment.
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Movie: 3rd Reich: Evil Deceptions ( 2016 )
The Nazis were the most evil party in history. To accomplish their 3rd Reich they created a messiah in Adolf Hitler but also devised a machine that would manipulate the hearts and souls of millions.
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Movie: The Lucky Ones ( 2008 )
Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from the war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.
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Movie: Paradise Road ( 1997 )
A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music as relieve their misery.
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Movie: Eye of the Needle ( 1981 )
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
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Movie: Deserter ( 2002 )
Rebuffed in love and uncertain of life, Simon is the story of a young Englishman's physical and spiritual journey during Algeria's battle for independence from France. Driven by romantic illusion to join the French Foreign Legion, Simon learns what it truly means to be a hero. A timeless, coming of age story set against the epic, sweeping landscape of North Africa.
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Movie: Haven ( 2001 )
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
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Movie: Distant Thunder ( 1988 )
A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope with, and when the vet tries to contact his son, he realizes that he has caused more damage than he had imagined.
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Movie: Rebel in the Rye ( 2017 )
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".
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Movie: Angel of the Skies ( 2013 )
War is declared and Britain must take action against Nazi Germany if Europe is going to be saved from its ruthless clutches. Determined to beat the enemy Flt. Office Earl Kirk, a young South African pilot, volunteers his services to the Royal Air Force, sacrificing his family, his future and himself in the fight against evil.
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Movie: Battalion ( 2015 )
Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
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Movie: Hanover Street ( 1979 )
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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TV Show: WWII's Most Daring Raids ( 2016 )
They were U.S. paratroopers, Norwegian operatives, and British Commandos, Allied teams leading high-risk operations throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia to fight Hitler and turn the tide of the war. WWII's Most Daring Raids puts you in the heart of the action, giving you a minute-by-minute account of the most astonishing surprise attacks against the Third Reich. We forensically examine how exactly these assaults played out, through expert analysis and testimonies from the brave men who carried them out.
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Movie: 1,000 Times Good Night ( 2013 )
Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work...
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Movie: World War III ( 1982 )
Soviet paratroopers drop into Alaska to sabotage the oil pipeline in retaliation against a United States grain embargo. A skirmish occurs at a pumping station, lightly defended by Col. Jake Caffey and a National Guard recon unit. A stalemate ensues while the possibility of World War III hangs in the balance. The danger escalates as the Soviet Secretary-General and the American President play a cat-and-mouse game.
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Movie: Sunshine ( 1999 )
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
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Movie: The Great Escape II: The Untold Story ( 1988 )
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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Movie: Alexander the Great ( 1956 )
An epic movie that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King that conquered all of the ancient Greek tribes and led the Macedonian Army against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a Greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India.
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Movie: Countdown to Looking Glass ( 1984 )
Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
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Movie: Head in the Clouds ( 2004 )
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
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Movie: South Pacific ( 1958 )
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
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Movie: A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 )
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
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Movie: 55 Days at Peking ( 1963 )
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China, U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.
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Movie: Major Dundee ( 1965 )
In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.
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Movie: Warsaw '44 ( 2014 )
A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
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Movie: Conquest 1453 ( 2012 )
After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do - conquer Constantinople.
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Movie: Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis ( 1991 )
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.
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Movie: Northern Limit Line ( 2015 )
The movies follows the incident known as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.
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Movie: Der letzte Zug ( 2006 )
The year is 1943 and the "last of the Jews" are being "evacuated" from Berlin. They are locked in cattle cars with no food and little water. During the trip several of the characters are drawn out and vignettes of their lives are highlighted to restore some humanity to their animal existence aboard the train. The suffering and agony is palpable. Some parts can be watched in double speed as they are just just filler. If you exclude the final theatrical device thrown in at the end, the movie is worth watching for it's historical relevance.
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Movie: The Cut ( 2014 )
This film is based on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. One day a young family man, Nazaret Manoogian, gets deported by the Turkish authorities together with all the other Armenian men from his native village of Mardin. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives the mass murder by chance and an act of kindness, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night the devastated Nazaret learns that his daughters may still be alive and didn't die like his wife from starvation, violence or rape on death marches. Nazaret goes on a quest to find them and travels from his small village through the Mesopotamian deserts to the sea, always looking for clues that might lead him to his children. Nazaret's epic journey will take him from Asia to America, from the end to a new beginning...
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Movie: The 300 Spartans ( 1962 )
A small Army of Greeks spearheaded by three hundred Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian Army.
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Movie: Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet ( 2011 )
The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.
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Movie: Faith of My Fathers ( 2005 )
The story of John McCain's experience as a Vietnam War POW. Based on the memoir of the same title.
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Movie: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler ( 2009 )
The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.
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Movie: Before Winter Comes ( 1969 )
After World War II, in an Austrian camp for displaced people, an interpreter mediates between the British and the Soviets regarding the fate of various refugees.
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Movie: Diên Biên Phú ( 1992 )
An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the French forces and France's eventual withdrawal from Vietnam.
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TV Show: War at Sea: Scotland's Story ( 2015 )
Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War.
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Movie: The Volunteers ( 2017 )
Part One: This 2-part series follows River Hagg as he travels to war-torn Syria, in hopes of documenting stories of the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. He finds a medical unit of foreign volunteers as they provide aid to civilians, YPG fighters and ISIS. Part two: The volunteers continue to push with the YPG to the ISIS defended city of Manbij, Syria. River hears news from home and plans his exit. The team is granted access to the front lines and they find themselves on dangerous ground, surrounded by ISIS.
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Movie: The White Rose ( 1982 )
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.
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Movie: Every Time We Say Goodbye ( 1986 )
A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.
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Movie: 36 Hours ( 1965 )
Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Movie: Eva ( 2010 )
Starring Vincent Regan (Clash of the Titans, 300), Michael Ironside (TV's Cold Case, Wolverine and the X-Men, Patrick Bergen (Patriot Games) and Amy Hayes ((TV's Doctor Who).
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Movie: Black Mercedes ( 2019 )
The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.
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Movie: Mother Night ( 1996 )
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
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Movie: Afghanistan 1979 ( 2014 )
'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and changed the world forever. This documentary gives a good insight in the Afghan-Russian war ; the alliance between the Russian and Afghan communist governments ; Islamic resistance ; the support of America for the resistance and its consequences on the war.
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Movie: Dear Elza! ( 2014 )
During WW2, Hungarian soldier Lombos Mihály is denied furlough and returns to battle on the Eastern Front where he is captured by the Soviets who use him as a 'trampler' through the German minefields and as an interpreter.
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Movie: 71: Into the Fire ( 2010 )
The story of student-soldiers trying to protect a middle school during the early days of the Korean War.
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Movie: War Flowers ( 2012 )
North Carolina 1863, the Civil War is raging. In this inspired story of tragedy and love we follow the lives of Melody, a precocious seven-year old, and her young mother Sarabeth as they struggle on their farm to survive the war.
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Movie: The Long Way Home ( 1997 )
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
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Movie: David ( 1979 )
David (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn't until his father's synagogue is burned down and his mother (Irene Vrkijan) is harassed and intimidated that he realizes just how dangerous Germany has become. For a while, he and his family manage to survive underground in Berlin. But a close encounter with a Nazi officer convinces him to break ties with everyone he loves and head out on his own.
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Movie: Brass Target ( 1979 )
In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
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Movie: Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming ( 1990 )
Ian Fleming's life (1908-64) as journalist and naval intelligence officer was a lot like the womanizing James Bond, he would later write 12 spy novels about.
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Movie: Forced March ( 1989 )
Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war. In assuming the role of Miklos Radnoti, who left a notebook of harrowing poems from his ordeal, Kline finds himself acting not as a hero, but rather a victim who speaks to us from the grave. As Ben gets ever deeper into his role, he begins to merge with his character, blurring the boundaries of truth and illusion. The realization for Ben, and for us all, is that the best homage we can pay to those who died is to understand them... to know that they had little choice in their fate. Everyone could not be a hero, but rather simply tried to survive as best they could, and that is the legacy of the six million.
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Movie: Redacted ( 2007 )
The devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl by American soldiers in Samarra in 2006.
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Movie: 84C MoPic ( 1989 )
The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman. The story follows a unit of American G.I.s in Vietnam, all with different backgrounds and motives for being there, through the lens of his camera.
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Movie: Bunker ( 2014 )
Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of the Cold War.
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Movie: Warrior Princess ( 2013 )
A monk renounces his role to become King after his brother is killed. His new Queen is forced to choose sides between her husband and her father from a rival land, which eventually leads to an all out war for sovereignty.
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Movie: The Last Warrior ( 1989 )
The biggest Japanese battleship "Yamato" is badly damaged in a battle and shall be repaired at a small island in the Pacific which is inhabited only by Gibb, an US American observation post, and a few aborigines with their priest. Gibb and young novice Katherine can flee, but are tracked by two Japanese soldiers. After Gibb kills one of them, the other seeks revenge in a sword duel.
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Movie: Stalking Hitler's Generals ( 2011 )
During World War II, Allied operatives went on secret missions to kill Adolph Hitler and his top officers, including Erwin Rommel. This film captures the real-time drama felt as the Special Forces ordered these dangerous and complicated missions to exotic locations.
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Movie: The Lost Battalion ( 2001 )
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
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Movie: Mutiny ( 1999 )
Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three weeks later, 50 survivors were court-martialed for refusing to load another shipment. The men cited the Navy's lack of care for their safety.
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Movie: Thirst ( 2018 )
Two best friends are pitted against each other when a new girl comes to town, matters are further complicated when they enlist together in the U S Army to fight in the Persian Gulf War, the men and their unit captured by Iraqi forces and must work together with other prisoners of war to escape Operation Desert Storm.
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Movie: Ghetto ( 2006 )
In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
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Movie: Horatio Hornblower 3 ( 2003 )
Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
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Movie: The Rebels ( 1979 )
Philip Kent takes part in the American Revolution and the newly formed Congress.
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Movie: La fin de la Nouvelle-France ( 2009 )
Documentary about the 1759 battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, part of the Seven Years War between Britain and France. Both leaders, Wolfe and Montcalme died in this battle, which decided control over what would become Canada.
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TV Show: World War II: When Lions Roared ( 1994 )
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin lead the Allied powers to victory in the second World War.
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Movie: William Kelly's War ( 2014 )
As the Great War begins, Billy and Jack Kelly together with cousin Paddy sign on and are shipped out to serve in Europe. Billy, a known marksman is singled out to head up a highly successful sniper team. Journalist Keith Murdoch is attached to Billy's group for press coverage of the front line. With Murdoch's glowing reports, Billy and the boys become celebrated war heroes. As the war drags on, the defeat at Gallipoli leads to more death and carnage in France. Billy's sniper abilities and courage in hand to hand fighting astounds his fellow soldiers, he is awarded the Legion of Honour. Back home, Billy's parents confronted with lawless bushrangers who threaten their lives and livelihood and fearing they will never see their sons again begin to campaign to oppose the government conscription policy. In Europe, Billy's team are sent forward to harass the enemy prior to a major assault on the infamous and impregnable Hindenburg Line. Through an amazing feat of determination and courage Billy and Jack survive but Paddy is killed in action. When Billy returns from the war he discovers the shallow grave of his father and is informed his sister has been kidnapped by bushrangers. In an explosive climax Billy finds and confronts his father's killer.
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Movie: British Intelligence ( 1940 )
Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.
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Movie: Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast ( 2015 )
A detailed look at the Doolittle Raid, and the final official public reunion of the surviving Raiders.
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Movie: The Officer's Ward ( 2001 )
French lieutenant has been mutilated in the early days of World War I, so he is forced to adapt in hospital to a new life.
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Movie: The Wipers Times ( 2013 )
Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from officious Colonel Howfield but with backing from sympathetic General Mitford they produce twenty-three issues of a satirical magazine - its articles represented on screen in black and white - which boosts morale and even gets mentioned in the Tatler. The press is destroyed by a German shell but another is found and the paper's title changed to fit in with wherever the regiment is deployed. Pearson and Roberts are both awarded gallantry medals but when Roberts is only offered the job of crossword compiler by the sub-editor he moves to Canada as a prospector while Pearson marries and opens a hotel in Argentina. Both survived into the 1960s.
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Movie: The Finest Hour ( 1992 )
Two soldiers form a lasting bond during training to be Navy Seals but soon grow apart as they are sent off to fight in Desert Storm.
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Movie: El Presidente ( 2012 )
The life story of the first Philippine President. The story of the man who led the Filipino people to victory against its Spanish conquerors.
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Movie: The Crossing ( 2014 )
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
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Movie: Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington ( 2013 )
Documentary about deceased photojournalist Tim Hetherington directed by Sebastian Junger. Together with his friend and long-term collaborator Sebastian, Tim had travelled the world documenting conflicts in Afghanistan, Liberia and Libya among other locations. Best known for their 2010 film 'Restrepo' which was nominated for an Academy Award, the two strived to capture the humanity within conflict situations and with their images they focused on the individuals involved and their experiences of the violence surrounding them. Unfortunately, in 2011 Tim was killed by a mortar blast and this film is a tribute and celebration of the legacy he has left behind and includes Sebastian conducting interviews with those who knew Tim best.
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Movie: Brother's War ( 2009 )
The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front. Brother's War is based on real events. The western Allies push into Germany and the Red Army fights its way towards Berlin. Churchill is worried about Russia's post-war plans for Europe but must not endanger the increasingly threatened alliance between the west and Russia. A British military officer attached to the Red Army discovers a Russian war crime against the Polish government in exile and is seized by Stalin's feared intelligence service. He finds unexpected help from an enemy and fellow prisoner, a German Captain. They discover a common bond in Freemasonry and are bound by honor, oath and secrets. They are joined by Anna, a beautiful Polish nurse cast adrift on the tides of war. The three are pursued by A ruthless Russian commander through Germany carrying a secret that can change the outcome of the world and the fate of millions. Brother's War was produced with strict attention to historic accuracy and military detail and portrays the horrors and heroism of desperate battles. The film also opens the door into the ancient order of Freemasons and presents unmatched insight on the real histories of these men, brothers all, who have fought in every war for hundreds of years.
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Movie: Dog Jack ( 2010 )
This is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the Union Army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the beloved mascot of the Pennsylvania 102nd, who was so prized by his regiment for his skills in battle, that he was twice exchanged for a Confederate prisoner of war.
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TV Show: Son of the Morning Star ( 1991 )
The story of General George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women. Based on Evan S Connell's best seller.
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Movie: Churchill and the Movie Mogul ( 2019 )
Winston Churchill was mad about movies, arguably more so than any other politician in history, but the true extent of his use of them as a war weapon, and his wider involvement in the film business, has not been previously explored. Before the Second World War, one of Britain's most celebrated film producers, Alexander Korda, signed Churchill up as a screenwriter and historical advisor, and a unique collaboration began. Churchill provided script notes for Korda's productions and also penned an epic screenplay. When war broke out, their collaboration became of immeasurable importance. Churchill sent Korda on a spy mission to Hollywood with the aim of bringing America into the war. Using previously undiscovered documents, that mission and the friendship which underpinned it is explored for the first time in a new documentary by writer-director John Fleet.
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Movie: Ten Days to D-Day ( 2004 )
Following the lives of ten characters through their letters and diaries in the ten days before D-Day. The mini-series contains documentary interviews with the people on which the book, and this mini-series were based.
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Movie: Max and Helen ( 1990 )
Based on the fact-based novel by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal based on his 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant. To be able to take him to justice, he must find witnesses who can help him. This leads him to Max Rosenberg, a still tormented individual who lost his wife, Helen, in the camps. Initially Max refuses to cooperate, but gradually his story unfolds beginning before the Holocaust.
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Movie: The Fighting Sullivans ( 1944 )
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression.
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TV Show: Dunkirk ( 2004 )
Docudrama following events at Dunkirk in May and June 1940.
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Movie: Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure ( 2001 )
Aging Carmelo likes telling his grandson, Jobert about his youth in the Philippines. Jobert especially likes the stories about Carmelo's time in World War II, where he helped bury the legendary Yamashita treasure. When Carmelo is kidnapped, it is left to Jobert to go to Manila, using his grandfather's diary to find the treasure and save Carmelo before a Japanese crime boss steals the fortune.
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Movie: North Korean Partisan in South Korea ( 1990 )
South Korean production exploring a North Korean perspective of the long, grueling account of the Korean War based on memoirs of Lee Tae, former news agency correspondent who fought for North Korean partisans.
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Movie: The Eve of St. Mark ( 1944 )
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for Quizz and his fellow gunners and it's either flee or hold their positions and provide cover for escapees. To make his decision, Quizz communes with his mother and Janet through the medium of dreams.