Posts Tagged ‘prisoner-of-war’

Great Raid, The (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Bratt, Benjamin | Franco, James | Mammone, Robert | Martini, Max | Carpinello, James | Consuelos, Mark | McLachlan, Craig | Farnsworth, Freddie Joe | Macintosh, Laird | Callaghan, Jeremy | McLean, Scott | Montalban, Paolo | Crawford, Clayne | Worthington, Sam | Innes, Royston
Directors: Dahl, John
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Hartnett, Josh | McGregor, Ewan | Isaacs, Jason | Sizemore, Tom | Bana, Eric | Shepard, Sam | Bremner, Ewen | Hardy, Tom | Eldard, Ron | Hofheimer, Charlie | Dancy, Hugh | Guiry, Tom | Van Holt, Brian | Ford, Steven
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.

Valiant (2005)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | War
Countries: UK
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Gervais, Ricky | Curry, Tim | Broadbent, Jim | Laurie, Hugh | Hurt, John | Torrens, Pip | Mayall, Rik | Williams, Olivia | Ross, Jonathan | Lonsdale, Brian | Roberts, Dan | Schlingmann, Michael | Horgan, Sharon
Directors: Chapman, Gary
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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.

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Malkovich, John | Richardson, Miranda | Havers, Nigel | Pantoliano, Joe | Phillips, Leslie | Ibu, Masatô | Richard, Emily | Frazer, Rupert | Gale, Peter | Kataoka, Takatoro | Stiller, Ben | Neidorf, David | Seymour, Ralph | Stephens, Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.

Pianist, The (2002)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | War
Countries: France | Germany | Poland | UK
Actors: Brody, Adrien | | Finlay, Frank | Lipman, Maureen | Fox, Emilia | Stoppard, Ed | Rayner, Julia | Meyer, Jessica Kate | Zebrowski, Michal | Mues, Wanja | Ridings, Richard | Sharron, Nomi | Milner, Anthony | Skeaping, Lucy | Skeaping, Roddy
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.