Windtalkers
Two U.S. Marines in WWII are assigned to protect Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
Movie Genre: War
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles. Their stories may be fiction, based on history, docudrama, biographical, or even alternate history fiction.
The term anti-war film is sometimes used to describe films which bring to the viewer the pain and horror of war, often from a political or ideological perspective.
John Belton identified four narrative elements of the war film within the context of Hollywood production: a) the suspension of civilian morality during times of war, b) primacy of collective goals over individual motivations, c) rivalry between men in predominantly male groups as well as marginalization and objectification of women, and d) depiction of the reintegration of veterans. Film scholar Kathryn Kane has pointed out similarities between the war film genre and the Western. Both genres use opposing concepts like war and peace, civilization and savagery. War films usually frame World War II as a conflict between good and evil as represented by the Allied forces and Nazi Germany whereas the Western portrays the conflict between “civilized” settlers and the “savage” indigenous peoples. Jeanine Basinger argues that a sub-genre, the World War II combat film, emerged in 1943. This sub-genre depicts military action whereas the war film genre need not portray armed combat.
To End All Wars
A true story about four Allied POW’s who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II.
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Cold Mountain
In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
Fernando Filipe Apr 28, 2012 | View Post |
Hart’s War
A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.
Fernando Filipe Apr 27, 2012 | View Post |
Zeppelin
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position…
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The Lost Batallion
An American battalion of over 500 men gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
Fernando Filipe Apr 06, 2012 | View Post |
Courage Under Fire
A US Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander’s worthiness for the Medal of Honor.
Fernando Filipe Mar 31, 2012 | View Post |
Red Cherry
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School…
Fernando Filipe Mar 07, 2012 | View Post |
Midway
A dramatization of the battle that turned out to be the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Fernando Filipe Mar 07, 2012 | View Post |
China
During the Japanese invasion of China, a cynical, macho profiteer meets a compassionate, beautiful schoolteacher.
Fernando Filipe Feb 21, 2012 | View Post |
The Blue Max
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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Aimee & Jaguar
Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name…
Fernando Filipe Jan 30, 2012 | View Post |
Legionnaire
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster\’s girlfriend Katrina…
Fernando Filipe Jan 27, 2012 | View Post |
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.
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Amen
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to concentration camps.
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Fernando Filipe Jan 10, 2012 | View Post |
Battle Taxi
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
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Beachhead
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong…
Fernando Filipe Dec 30, 2011 | View Post |
She Devils of the SS
In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines…
Fernando Filipe Dec 27, 2011 | View Post |
Nazi Love Camp 27
A Jewish girl and an Aryan, both German, are in love in pre-war times. WW2 breaks up, he is sent to…
Fernando Filipe Dec 24, 2011 | View Post |
A Bridge Too Far
An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
Fernando Filipe Dec 23, 2011 | View Post |
From Here To Eternity
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second in command are falling in love.
Fernando Filipe Dec 22, 2011 | View Post |
The Bridges At Toko-Ri
In the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges…
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Halls of Montezuma
A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.
Fernando Filipe Dec 22, 2011 | View Post |
The Sea Wolves
A true WW2 story: the British must attack a German ship but it’s safe in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about 60 years old.
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The Gleiwitz Case
Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could “justify” thereby his invasion of Poland.
Fernando Filipe Dec 21, 2011 | View Post |
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting…
Fernando Filipe Dec 12, 2011 | View Post |
Hamburger Hill
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
Fernando Filipe Dec 12, 2011 | View Post |
Kelly’s Heroes
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
Fernando Filipe Dec 09, 2011 | View Post |
Where Eagles Dare
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner… but that’s not all that’s really going on.
Fernando Filipe Dec 09, 2011 | View Post |
The Thin Red Line
Director Terrence Malick’s adaptation of James Jones’ autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Fernando Filipe Dec 02, 2011 | View Post |
Casualties of War
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Fernando Filipe Dec 02, 2011 | View Post |
