War movies

Dear John (2010)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
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Actors: Allen, John | Anderson, Matthew M. | Andrews, David | Benward, Luke | Bowman, William Howard | Cashman, Jerry | Clark, Brett Lee | Cotrona, D.J. | Gardner III, Moses D. | Garner, Anthony | Gillespie, Ben | Harding, Michael | Hayes, Bryce | Hennard, Maxx
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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While John is on leave in his hometown, he finds Savannah, a college student visiting the town. Although love was unexpected, it doesn’t mean they didn’t find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives, until his re-signs on due to the 9/11 attack. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other?

Salvador (1986)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Woods, James | Belushi, James | Murphy, Michael | Savage, John | Carrillo, Elpidia | Plana, Tony | Chester, Colby | Gibb, Cynthia | MacMillan, Will | Wildman, Valerie | Ruiz, José Carlos | Luke, Jorge | Fernández, Juan | Sánchez, Salvador | Zúñiga, Rosario
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. Meanwhile he has to find a way of protecting his Salvadorean girlfriend and getting her out of the country.

Head in the Clouds (2004)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Cruz, Penélope | Townsend, Stuart | Kretschmann, Thomas | Berkoff, Steven | La Haye, David | Vanasse, Karine | Hogan, Gabriel | Cockett, Peter | Chouvalidzé, Élizabeth | Langlois, Jolyane | Desmarais, Sophie | Laflamme-Cervantes, Éloïsa | Vukov, Ivan | Bailey, Sebastian
Directors: Duigan, John
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930’s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated - seemingly forever.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Balsam, Martin | Yamamura, Sô | Cotten, Joseph | Mihashi, Tatsuya | Marshall, E.G. | Whitmore, James | Tamura, Takahiro | Tôno, Eijirô | Robards, Jason | Addy, Wesley | Shimada, Shogo | Aletter, Frank | Senda, Koreya | Ames, Leon | Usami, Junya
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Battle of the Bulge (1965)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Henry | Shaw, Robert | Ryan, Robert | Andrews, Dana | Montgomery, George | Hardin, Ty | Angeli, Pier | Werle, Barbara | Bronson, Charles | Blech, Hans Christian | Peters, Werner | MacArthur, James | Alberty, Karl-Otto | Savalas, Telly | Rowland, Steve
Directors: Annakin, Ken
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Fictionalized account of the battle of the Ardennes in December 1944. An intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Dan Riley, is convinced that the Germans are amassing tanks and troops for an attack but he can’t get anyone to believe him. When the attack is finally launched, he correctly deduces that a shortage of petrol will lead the tanks to a massive Allied fuel depot. Along the way, we encounter a number of characters including a green Lieutenant in his first battle, the grizzled American tank commander who is worried about his black market operation and a group of German soldiers posing as American MP’s.

Hamburger Hill (1987)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrile, Anthony | Boatman, Michael | Cheadle, Don | Dolan, Michael | James, Don | McDermott, Dylan | Nickles, Michael A. | O'Reilly, Harry | O'Shea, Daniel | Quill, Tim | Swerdlow, Tommy | Vance, Courtney B. | Weber, Steven | West, Tegan
Directors: Irvin, John
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A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infanty Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed “Hamburger Hill” because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shreded hamburger meat.

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Savage, John | Walken, Christopher | Streep, Meryl | Dzundza, George | Aspegren, Chuck | Stoler, Shirley | Alda, Rutanya | Segui, Pierre | Kaplan, Mady | Wright, Amy | Haenel, Mary Ann | Kuss, Richard | Grifasi, Joe
Directors: Cimino, Michael
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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 weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda, who seems to juggle both of the men. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they are enlisted in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven’s wedding and they leave to Vietnam, where they are captured by the enemy and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette. They escape and return home, but their lives are forever changed. Nick stays in Vietnam, Michael returns to Linda, and Steven is handicapped after losing a leg in the war.

In Enemy Hands (2004)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Schweiger, Til | Kretschmann, Thomas | Donne, Connor | Lindquist, Matt | Gatjen, Andy | Heger, Rene | Prusmack, Alex | Rosemann, Sascha | Thomson, Justin | Thorsen, Sven-Ole | Caan, Scott | Gregg, Clark | Buckley, A.J. | Macy, William H. | Sisto, Jeremy
Directors: Giglio, Tony
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At the height of Hitler’s infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.

Inglorious Bastards, The (1978)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | War
Countries: Italy
Actors: Svenson, Bo | Hooten, Peter | Williamson, Fred | Pergolani, Michael | Basehart, Jackie | Constantin, Michel | Berger, Debra | Harmstorf, Raimund | Bannen, Ian | Andreini, Flavio | Boom, Peter | Fornari, Vito | Freyberger, Manfred | Sinclair, Joshua | Morris, Mike
Directors: Castellari, Enzo G.
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Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they’re being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape. The group decides their best bet is to head to neutral Switzerland where they can avoid the fighting and prison. As they make their way to what they think will be freedom, they end up volunteering for a commando mission to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground. Somehow, the team must sneak into the most heavily guarded base in German territory, steal the Nazi’s most precious military hardware, and bring it back to the allies without getting arrested again by their own side.

Katyn (2007)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: Poland
Actors: Chyra, Andrzej | Ostaszewska, Maja | Zmijewski, Artur | Stenka, Danuta | Englert, Jan | Cielecka, Magdalena | Glinska, Agnieszka | Malaszynski, Pawel | Komorowska, Maja | Kowalski, Wladyslaw | Pawlicki, Antoni | Kawiorska, Agnieszka | Garmash, Sergey | Assböck, Joachim Paul | Barwinski, Waldemar
Directors: Wajda, Andrzej
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An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.