The Weight of Chains
Genres: History, War, Documentary
Year: 2010
Country: USA, Canada, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Boris Malagurski
Starring: Branislav Lecic, Rade Aleksic, James Bissett, John Bosnitch, Michel Chossudovsky, Bosko Cirkovic, Vlade Divac
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The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background...
Return to the Hiding Place aka War Of Resistance
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Peter C. Spencer, Josiah Spencer
Starring: Steve Christopher, John Rhys-Davies, Mark Boyd, Craig Robert Young, Walt Sloan, Gary Moore, Louie Lawless
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When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland, a group of youth fight to save the lives of the innocent.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Year: 1999
Country: France
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Rab Affleck, Edwin Apps, David Bailie, Bruce Byron, Paul Brooke, Timothy Bateson, Stéphane Algoud
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In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town. Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove he...
Valiant
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Year: 2005
Country: USA, UK
Director: Gary Chapman
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, John Hurt, Tim Curry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Ricky Gervais
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The animated comedy tells the story of a lowly wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain's Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. The RHPS advanced the Allied cause by flying vital messages about enemy movements across the English Channel, whilst evading brutal attacks by the enemy's Falcon Brigade.
Warbirds
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Gendreau
Starring: David Jensen, Jamie Elle Mann, Brian Krause, Tohoru Masamune, Lucy Faust
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In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in the Pacific after an encounter with a deadly storm. On the island, they must not only contend with a small band of Japanese soldiers but the native inhabitants of the island as well - vicious prehistoric Pterodons.In the final days of WWII, Woman's Air Corp leader Max West (Jamie Elle West) and her crew are ordered to accompany OSS officer, Col. Jack Toller (Brian Krause), his team, and cargo on a secret mission.They crash land on a remote Pacific island. Toller orders a recon of the area and so...
Beau Ideal
Genres: Adventure, Romance, War
Year: 1931
Country: USA
Director: Herbert Brenon
Starring: George Regas, Loretta Young, Don Alvarado, Paul McAllister, Myrtle Stedman, Irene Rich, Ralph Forbes
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In England, Otis Madison learns from the girl that he loves, Isobel Brandon, that the man she loves is his best friend, John Geste, and so there is nothing that Otis can do but stiffen his upper lip and set sail for Morocco and tell John that he is the man that Isobel loves. This is not easy to do as John is confined to a prison for disgraced Legionaires and the people who put him there aren't overly concerned about who Isobel loves. But the resourceful John promises his love to an Arabian beauty, Zuleika, the 'Angel of Death', which gets him out of prison, and then he has to go after the evil Emir who caused him to fall into disgrace. Isobel...
Emergency Landing aka Robot Pilot
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Year: 1941
Country: USA
Director: William Beaudine
Starring: Billy Curtis, Forrest Tucker, Emmett Vogan, I. Stanford Jolley, George Sherwood, William Halligan, Stanley Price
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Because of a back-log of war orders, the Lambert Airplane factory is unable to try-out the robot-controlled plane developed by test pilot Jerry Barton and weather bureau observer, "Doc" Williams. The pair lie in wait for factory owner George B. Lambert while he is playing golf with his spoiled débutant daughter, Betty, and send up their radio-controlled model where Lambert cannot fail to notice it. But Jerry sets the model down in a pool of water and douses Betty. Lambert authorizes Jerry and Doc to test their remote-controlled robot pilot on one of his planes for the Army. Jerry flies the plane up, bails out and Doc is to land the plane usi...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas aka The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Year: 2008
Country: USA, UK
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Sheila Hancock, Richard Johnson, László Áron, Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien
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Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Curt A. Sindelar
Starring: James Robinson, Michael Conner Humphreys, Christopher Serrone, David Poland, Ryan Findley, Dick McMahon, Philip De Lorenzo
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Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
The Lighthorsemen
Year: 1987
Country: Australia
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: John Walton, Shane Briant, Ralph Cotterill, Tim McKenzie, Bill Kerr, Gary Sweet, Grant Piro
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Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at...
The Battle Of Algiers
Year: 1966
Country: Italy
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar
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A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.
Born on the Fourth of July
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger, Frank Whaley, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans, Jamie Talisman
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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Purple Hearts
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Drew Snyder, R. Lee Ermey, Lane Smith, Annie McEnroe, Paul McCrane, David Harris, James Whitmore Jr.
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Dr. Don Jardian. Age: 29. Surgeon. Drafted. Vietnam. Nothing could have prepared him for the danger, the fear, the violence ... or the woman.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Robert Markowitz
Starring: Andre Braugher, Christopher McDonald, Laurence Fishburne, John Lithgow, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daniel Hugh Kelly, Courtney B. Vance
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During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
The Dam Busters
Genres: Action, Drama, History
Year: 1955
Country: UK
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: Charles Carson, Patrick Barr, Colin Tapley, Raymond Huntley, Michael Redgrave, Frederick Leister, Stanley Van Beers
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The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.
Battle Cry
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Raymond Massey, James Whitmore, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Aldo Ray, Perry Lopez, Nancy Olson
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In 1942, a group of young men join the Marines, leaving loved ones behind. Primed for battle, they are frustrated by many non-combat assignments, as we follow their wartime romances, especially Andy Hookens' involvement with Pat, a New Zealand widow. Andy and Pat have just decided that war requires them to 'live for the moment' when, in 1944, our team finally goes into a real battle...
Oh! What a Lovely War
Year: 1969
Country: UK
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Paul Shelley, Colin Farrell, Vincent Ball, Isabel Dean, Corin Redgrave, Kim Smith, John Rae
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A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested...
Glory
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy, Andre Braugher
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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.
Courage Under Fire
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Denzel Washington, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Astin, Zeljko Ivanek, Matt Damon, Regina Taylor, Tim Guinee
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The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden, died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. LT Colonel Serling, who is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm is assigned to investigate and award her the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting accounts from her crew and soldiers in the area, cause him to be question whether she deserves it. HD 720p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
Murphy's War
Year: 1971
Country: UK
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Hallam, Philippe Noiret, Siân Phillips, Horst Janson, Ingo Mogendorf
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Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He lands on a forgotten island and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat that has floated up by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louie, the islands Government Administrator.