War movies

To Hell and Back (1955)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Audie Murphy | Marshall Thompson | Charles Drake | Jack Kelly | Gregg Palmer | Paul Picerni | David Janssen | Richard Castle | Bruce Cowling | Paul Langton | Art Aragon | Felix Noriego | Denver Pyle | Brett Halsey | Susan Kohner
Directors: Jesse Hibbs
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True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Nomad (2005)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: France | Kazakhstan
Actors: Kuno Becker | Jay Hernandez | Jason Scott Lee | Doskhan Zholzhaksynov | Ayana Yesmagambetova | Mark Dacascos | Ashir Chokubayev | Zhanas Iskakov | Almaikhan Kenzhebekova | Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov | Erik Zholzhaksynov | Dilnaz Akhmadieva | Termirkhan Tursingaliev | Asylbolat Ismagulov | Sabit Orazbaev
Directors: Sergei Bodrov
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An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country’s three warring tribes.

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | Jean Seberg | William Hartnell | David Kossoff | Leo McKern | MacDonald Parke | Austin Willis | Timothy Bateson | Monte Landis | Alan Gifford | Colin Gordon | Harold Kasket | Wally Brown | Jacques Cey | Charles Clay
Directors: Jack Arnold
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

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)

Thursday, February 7th, 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…