War movies

Casualties of War (1989)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Penn, Sean | Harvey, Don | Reilly, John C. | Leguizamo, John | Le, Thuy Thu | King, Erik | Gwaltney, Jack | Rhames, Ving | Martin, Dan | Dye, Dale | Larson, Steve | Linton, John | Ruginis, Vyto | Shannon, Al
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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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. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

300 Spartans, The (1962)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Egan, Richard | Richardson, Ralph | Diane Baker | Coe, Barry | Farrar, David | Houston, Donald | Synodinou, Anna | Moore, Kieron | Crawford, John | Brown, Robert | Naismith, Laurence | Wakefield, Anne | Triesault, Ivan | Fawcett, Charles | Nikolinakos, Michalis
Directors: Maté, Rudolph
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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Sizemore, Tom | Burns, Edward | Pepper, Barry | Goldberg, Adam | Diesel, Vin | Ribisi, Giovanni | Davies, Jeremy | Damon, Matt | Danson, Ted | Giamatti, Paul | Farina, Dennis | Stadler, Joerg | Martini, Steven | Bruno, Dylan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

Lions for Lambs (2007)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Cruise, Tom | Peña, Michael | Garfield, Andrew | Berg, Peter | Dunn, Kevin | Luke, Derek | Bates, Larry | May, Christopher | Pease, David | Janson, Heidi | Carley, Christopher | Back, George | Wu, Kristy
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates.

Sharpe’s Challenge (2006)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Bean, Sean | O'Malley, Daragh | Stephens, Toby | Lakshmi, Padma | Recoing, Aurélien | Brown, Lucy | Cochrane, Michael | Khan, Aly | Daly, Peter-Hugo | Hancisse, Thierry | Panthaky, Karan | Vyas, Shruti | Symonds, Peter | McTavish, Graham | Dunnington, Gary
Directors: Clegg, Tom
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Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe’s Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general’s daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General’s daughter lie in one man’s hands…

Home of the Brave (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Morocco | USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Biel, Jessica | Presley, Brian | Ricci, Christina | 50 Cent | Murray, Chad Michael | Cameron, Joyce M. | Rowell, Victoria | Deitrick, Wes | Nordling, Jeffrey | Goodwin, Jhon | Ruginis, Vyto | Jones III, Sam | Imoru, Nike | MacDonald, James
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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The day after they get the word they’ll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who’s a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each of the four has come home changed, each feels dislocation. Group therapy, V.A. services, halting gestures from family and colleagues, and regular flashbacks keep the war front and center in their minds. They’re angry, touchy, and explosive: can a warrior find peace back home?

Great Escape, The (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Garner, James | Attenborough, Richard | Donald, James | Bronson, Charles | Pleasence, Donald | Coburn, James | Messemer, Hannes | McCallum, David | Jackson, Gordon | Leyton, John | Lennie, Angus | Stock, Nigel | Graf, Robert | Taylor, Jud
Directors: Sturges, John
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Seraphim Falls (2006)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Brosnan, Pierce | Wincott, Michael | Lauter, Ed | Robinson, John | Baker, Robert | Simpson, Jimmi | Mooney, Nate | Jordan, James | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Huston, Anjelica | Zeller, Shannon | Noonan, Tom | Harmon, Angie | Berkeley, Xander
Directors: Von Ancken, David
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In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he’s captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon’s flight and Carver’s hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls?

Too Late the Hero (1970)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Caine, Michael | Robertson, Cliff | Bannen, Ian | Andrews, Harry | Fraser, Ronald | Elliott, Denholm | Percival, Lance | Herbert, Percy | Jordan, Patrick | Kydd, Sam | Beckley, William | Horsey, Martin | Jason, Harvey | Knight, Don | Newman, Roger
Directors: Aldrich, Robert
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A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don’t go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the ‘heros’ are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

Beguiled, The (1971)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Page, Geraldine | Hartman, Elizabeth | Harris, Jo Ann | Carr, Darleen | Mercer, Mae | Ferdin, Pamelyn | Scott, Melody Thomas | Drier, Peggy | Mattick, Patricia | Briggs, Charlie | Dunn, George | Martin, Charles | Clark, Matt | Culliton, Patrick
Directors: Siegel, Don
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.