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The Last Legion
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Year: 2007
Country: UK, Italy, France
Director: Doug Lefler
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Peter Mullan, Colin Firth, John Hannah, James Cosmo, Nonso Anozie, Rupert Friend
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Circa 460 A.D. Mira was born in a warrior-family in Kerala, India, was well versed in martial arts and self-defense, so much so that she was recruited by the Spanish royalty and re-located to Constantinople. From there she was instructed to assist Roman Commander Aurelius to plan the escape of 12-year old Romulus Augustus Caesar from a prison in Capri after his parents had been killed by the leader of the Alliance in turmoil-stricken Rome that has seen the deaths of five emperors in five years. Mira, Aurelius, and a Priest, Ambrosinius, along with a handful of loyal soldiers were successful in the escape plan and deliver Romulus to Roman Sena...
I Was Monty's Double aka Hell, Heaven or Hoboken
Year: 1958
Country: UK
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Michael Hordern, Sid James, Barbara Hicks, Leslie Phillips, Cecil Parker, John Mills, James Hayter
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The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
The McKenzie Break
Year: 1970
Country: Ireland, UK
Director: Lamont Johnson
Starring: Brian Keith, Constantine Gregory, Gregg Palmer, Helmut Griem, Jack Watson, Michael Sheard, Patrick O'Connell
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In the closing days of World War II, riot and siege overcome a German Prisoner of War Camp in Scotland. Fearful of a mass escape attempt, the British Army sends an unorthodox Irish Captain to the camp in hopes of discovering exactly what is going on. The Irishman at once comes into conflict with the head German prisoner, a U-Boat Commander Kreigs, a Marine Captain, and the two must match each others wits, knowing that only one will emerge victorious.
In Love and War
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin, Mindy Lee Raskin, Carlo Croccolo, Ingrid Lacey, Margot Steinberg
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Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.
Till We Meet Again
Year: 1944
Country: USA
Director: Frank Borzage
Starring: Ray Milland, Vladimir Sokoloff, Konstantin Shayne, Lucile Watson, William Edmunds, Mona Freeman, Barbara Britton
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During World War II, France. In a monastery that looks like a haven of peace, nuns are busy saving orphans while occasionally pass men on the run with their gardener Peter Cabeau (Sokoloff), a very strong asset. The outside world comes to them only through the sounds they perceive beyond the walls of the convent. Thanks to a strong mother superior (Watson) all these people living in an atmosphere other than well protected and secure despite the Germans who make regular visits but who dare enter the enclosure reserved for women. One day the convent hosts John, an American aviator carries important documents that the Germans are trying to inter...
The High Bright Sun aka McGuire, Go Home!
Year: 1964
Country: UK
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Colin Campbell, George Chakiris, Nigel Stock, Dirk Bogarde, Susan Strasberg, Paul Stassino
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Something of a romantic potboiler but strongly redeemed by two factors which stamp it as a thoroughly British rather than a Hollywood production. First, the gritty realism of its portrayal of the Cypriot independence struggle against British military rule in the 1950s. Second, its warts-and-all portrayal of everyday relationships and behaviour, instead of the typical Hollywood sanitized morality of the era.
Paths of Glory
Year: 1957
Country: USA
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Kirk Douglas, Joe Turkel, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson
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The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.
633 Squadron
Year: 1964
Country: UK, USA
Director: Walter Grauman
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Donald Houston, Harry Andrews, John Meillon, George Chakiris, Angus Lennie, Michael Goodliffe
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633 Squadron has enjoyed an unqualified string of successes. Their luck changes when they are assigned to bomb a German rocket fuel plant, in Norway which is guarded by heavy anti-aircraft defences, and the plant is considered bomb-proof. Their nearly impossible mission is further complicated by a German air raid, the difficult approach to the target and the capture and torture of the underground leader who is assisting the squadron.
The American Experience - Season Twenty three
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers
Starring: David Ogden Stiers, David McCullough
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From the Civil War, to Vietnam, to World War II, and more contemporary conflicts, soldiers have been writing home from the front lines for centuries. Has anyone ever written to you from the battlefield? Do you have any war letters or stories about wartime correspondence to share with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE?
Threads
Year: 1984
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Michael O'Hagan, Reece Dinsdale, Karen Meagher, Steve Halliwell, Rita May, David Brierly, Nicholas Lane
Available Quality: DivX
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.
The Edge of Love
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Director: John Maybury
Starring: Simon Kassianides, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Beevers, Anne Lambton, Paul Brooke, Rachel Bell, Simon Armstrong
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Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin ...
Suicide Squadron
Year: 1941
Country: USA, UK
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Cecil Parker, John Laurie, Frederick Valk, Kenneth Kent, Guy Middleton, Derrick De Marney
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Prologue: in 1940, a shellshocked man fights to recall his past. Flashback: During the Nazi invasion of Poland, American reporter Carole Peters meets Polish airman Stefan Radetzky, also a piano virtuoso. Stefan is among the last to escape Warsaw; months later, in New York, he and Carole meet again, and marry. But the thought of his going back to fight is not only personally terrifying to Carole, but seems a great waste of his musical talent...
The Alamo
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1960
Country: USA
Director: John Wayne
Starring: John Wayne, Denver Pyle, Richard Widmark, Ken Curtis, Patrick Wayne, Veda Ann Borg, Jester Hairston
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In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders Colonel William Travis to defend a small mission on the Mexicans' route at all costs. Travis' small troop is swelled by groups accompanying Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, but as the situation becomes ever more desperate Travis makes it clear there will be no shame if they leave while they can.
The Alamo
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Dennis Quaid, Marc Blucas, Billy Bob Thornton, Patrick Wilson, Jason Patric, Leon Rippy
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
Barry Lyndon
Year: 1975
Country: UK
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Patrick Magee, Godfrey Quigley, Philip Stone, Frank Middlemass, Ryan O'Neal, Steven Berkoff, Marisa Berenson
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In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love of his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, saving the life of his captain and becoming his prot
The Last Drop
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure
Year: 2005
Country: UK
Director: Colin Teague
Starring: Tommy Flanagan, Sean Pertwee, Rafe Spall, Neil Jackson, Billy Zane, Laurence Fox, Neil Newbon
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In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan - Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small unit of men, codename "Matchbox" has it's own agenda. When Matchbox are shot down short of their landing zone, the odds of their success seem hopeless. Seven very different British soldiers find themselves separated from the Allied invasion, on a collision course with three renegade German soldiers who also want to lay claim to the horde.
In Harm's Way
Year: 1965
Country: USA
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Slim Pickens, Burgess Meredith, Patricia Neal, Carroll O'Connor, Patrick O'Neal
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Captain Rockwell Torrey and Commander Paul Eddington are part of the Navy's effort to recuperate from, and retaliate for, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torrey is romantically involved with nurse Maggie Haynes, and also tries to restore his relationship with his estranged son, Jeremiah, a young Naval officer.
The Beast of War
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Steven Bauer, Jason Patric, Chaim Girafi, George Dzundza, Erick Avari, David Sherrill, Stephen Baldwin
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During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A unique look at the Soviet 'Vietnam' experience sympathetically told for both sides.
Spring 1941
Year: 2008
Country: Poland, Israel
Director: Uri Barbash
Starring: Clare Higgins, Neve McIntosh, Joseph Fiennes, Kelly Harrison, Miroslaw Baka, Stanislaw Brejdygant, Ewa Kurylo
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Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amidst the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with Artur. Such a fragile arrangement is sustained by love - or is it just the will to survive? The answer to that question may not even be made known to those who make it out alive.
Twelve O'Clock High
Year: 1949
Country: USA
Director: Henry King
Starring: Dean Jagger, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Peck, Paul Stewart, Millard Mitchell, Sam Edwards, Gary Merrill
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In this story of the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a "hard luck" bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a diciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over thier targets. Actual combat footage is used in this tense war drama.