War

March 31, 2009

  • Tropic Thunder (2008)

    Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

March 26, 2009

  • The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

    About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

March 19, 2009

  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.

February 16, 2009

  • Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

    The film starts with a speech by Chögyam Trungpa about spirituality, followed by a series of musically synchronized clips of war and explosions culminating with one of the towers of World Trade Center collapsing during 9/11. (…)

February 10, 2009

  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

    Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

February 9, 2009

February 8, 2009

  • Tunnel Rats (2008)

    During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. (…)

February 5, 2009

  • Che: Part One (2008)

    The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. (…)

January 29, 2009

  • Defiance (2008)

    Four Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

January 23, 2009

  • Valkyrie (2008)

    Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

January 22, 2009

  • Valiant (2005)

    Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. (…)

November 27, 2008

  • Casualties of War (1989)

    During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. (…)

November 26, 2008

  • Tigerland (2000)

    In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. (…)

November 19, 2008

  • Platoon (1986)

    A young man, who recently dropped out of college and volunteered for the infantry, faces the many horrors of Vietnam while serving near the Cambodian border. (…)

  • Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

    Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. (…)

November 2, 2008

  • Enemy at the Gates (2001)

    During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris),are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes). (…)

November 1, 2008

  • U-571 (2000)

    In the midst of World War II, the battle below the seas rages. The Nazi's have the upper edge as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. (…)

October 30, 2008

  • The Patriot (2000)

    The movie takes place in South Carolina in 1776. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, is a patriot who wants no part in a war with Britian. (…)

October 26, 2008

  • The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

    When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. (…)

October 22, 2008

  • Three Kings (1999)

    A small group of adventurous American soldiers in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War are determined to steal a huge cache of gold reputed to be hidden somewhere near their desert base. (…)

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