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Movie: The Great Escape ( 1963 )

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

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Movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 )

After settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

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Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 )

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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Movie: The African Queen ( 1952 )

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

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Movie: Inside Llewyn Davis ( 2013 )

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

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Movie: The Boat ( 1982 )

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

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Movie: The Right Stuff ( 1983 )

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

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Movie: The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 )

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

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