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Genre "Combat Films" Movies (showing 1 to 20 from 20 total)

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Air Force (1943) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Epic. Director: Howard Hawks. Actors: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, Charles Drake, John Garfield, George Tobias, Ward Wood, Ray Montgomery, James Brown, Willard Robertson, Moroni Olsen, Edward S. Brophy, Richard Lane, Bill Crago, Faye Emerson, Addison Richards, James Flavin, Ann Doran, Dorothy Peterson, Murray Alper, Lynne Baggett, Leah Baird, Henry Blair, Rand Brooks, James Bush, Warren Douglas, Ruth Ford, Ross Ford, William Forrest, Sol (Saul) Gorss, William Hopper, Marjorie Hoshelle, James Millican, Tom Neal, George Neise, Ted Offenbecker, George Offerman, Stanley Ridges, Walter Sande, Theodore Von Eltz. Storyline: On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the movie reveals certain things about the crew: the shadowy past of one, the mother of another, and the wife ...

Back to Bataan (1945) Genre: War, War Drama, Combat Films. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Actors: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Lawrence Tierney, Alex Havier, Leonard Strong, Paul Fix, Abner Biberman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erville Alderson, Angel Cruz, Harold Fong, Benson Fong, Edmund Glover, Kenneth MacDonald, John Miljan, Ray Teal, Bill Williams. Storyline: Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order and leave the Philippines, Madden agrees to stay behind and organize an underground resistance movement. Anthony Quinn plays Andres Bonifacio, a captain who falls in love with a local woman (Fely Franquelli) who helps the army keep their rag-tag forces as organized as possibl ...

Beaufort (2007) Genre: War, Docudrama, War Drama, Combat Films. Director: Joseph Cedar. Actors: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman, Ohad Knoller, Alon Aboutboul, Arthur Faradjev, Gal Friedman, Danny Zahavi, Itai Szor, Daniel Bruk. Storyline: The title of Joseph Cedar's war drama Beaufort refers to the name of a fortress held by Israeli troops, during that country's contentious occupation of Lebanon from 1982-2000 — an effort that Israel roundly lost. The film itself opens at the tail end of that occupation. It follows Liraz Liberti, the then-22-year-old leader of troops occupying Beaufort, as he and his subordinates come fac ...

Black Hawk Down (2001) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Ridley Scott. Actors: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Jason Isaacs, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard, Kim Coates, Hugh Dancy, Ron Eldard, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Guiry, Charlie Hofheimer, Danny Hoch, Zeljko Ivanek, Glenn Morshower, Gabriel Casseus, Jeremy Piven, Brendan Sexton, Jr., Johnny Strong, Richard Tyson, Brian Van Holt, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Steven Ford, Ian Virgo, Tom Hardy, Carmine Giovinazzo, Chris Beetem, Tac Fitzgerald, Matthew Marsden, Orlando Bloom, Kent Linville, Enrique Murciano Jr., Michael Roof, George Harris, Razaaq Adoti, Treva Etienne, Ty Burrell, Boyd Kestner, Jason Hildabrant, Kofi Amankwah, Lee Geohagen, Abdibashir Mohamed Hersi, Johann Myers, Joshua Quarcoo, Gregory Sporleder, Pavel Vokoun, Dana Woods. Storyline: A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark Bowden. On October 3rd, 1993, an elite team of more than 100 Delta Force soldiers and Army Rangers, part of a larger United Nations peacekeeping force, are dropped into civil war-tor ...

Days of Glory (2006) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Rachid Bouchareb. Actors: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet, Benoit Giros, Melanie Laurent, Antoine Chappey, Assaad Bouab, Aurélie Eltvedt, Thomas Langmann, Thibault de Montalembert, Diouc Koma, Philippe Beglia, Momo Debbouze, Abdelkrim Bouchareb, Abdelhamid Idjaini, Abdeslam Arbaoui, Francis Arnould, Roger Arnould, Omar Bekhaled, Nadji Beida, Julie de Bona, Franck Bonetto, Jean-Pierre Boudhar, Allai Boukhari, Abdelrahim Bouzine, Ken Brekke, Mylène Caverzazi, Ben Aissa El Jirai, Emmauel Georges, José Gomez, Othman Illyassa, Klaisel Kikouama, Frédéric Lanoir, Corentin Lobet, Christophe Locatelli, Naima Macherquei, Mohamed Madj, Thierry Magnier, Mourad Maimuni, Mohamed Melouk, Bernard Morin, Mohamed Nesrate, Antoine Pappalardo, Fabien Parfait, Vincent Paris, Audrey Perrin, Mathieu Schiffman, Patrice Simon, Titus Fisher Fils, Pia Vuorinen, Kevin Weiss, Anton Yakovlev. Storyline: Director Rachid Bouchareb teams with screenwriter Olivier Morelle to offer a revealing look at the brave contributions made by North African soldiers who fought for France during World War II in this emotionally-charged war drama starring Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, and Bernard Blancan. The year was 1943 and France had been bending to the will of Nazi Germany for three long years. ...

Enemy at the Gates (2001) Genre: War, War Epic, Combat Films, War Romance. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Matthais Habich, Sophie Rois, Mikhail Matveev, Gabriel Marshall-Thompson. Storyline: A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were finally defeated by Russian influence — one of the bloodiest battles in World War II history. The film stars Jude Law as Vassili, a marksman from the Urals who is transported to Stalingrad in 1942, and a master German sniper, Major Koenig (E ...

Full Metal Jacket (1987) Genre: War, Anti-War Film, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Actors: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevin Howard, Ed O'Ross, John Terry, Kirk Taylor, Ian Tyler, Papillon Soo Soo, Tan Hung Francione, Costas Dino Chimona, Peter Merrill, Keiron Jecchinis, John Stafford, Gary Landon Mills, Ngoc Le, Leanne Hong, Gil Kopel, Herbert Norville, Bruce Boa, Tim Colceri, Sal Lopez, Peter "Snowball" Edmund, Marcus D'Amico, Keith Hodlak, Nguyen Hue Phong, Tony Carey, Harry Davies, Chad Dowdell, David George, Derek Hart, Steve Hudson, Robert Nichols, Dave Perry, Tony Smith, Du Hu Ta, Bill Thompson, Michael Williams, John Wilson. Storyline: Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, a real-life ...

Hamburger Hill (1987) Genre: War, War Drama, Combat Films, Anti-War Film. Director: John Irvin. Actors: Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan, Don James, Dylan McDermott, M.A. Nickles, Harry O'Reilly, Daniel O'Shea, Tim Quill, Tommy Swerdlow, Courtney Vance, Steven Weber, Tegan West, Kieu Chinh, Doug Goodman, J.C. Palmore, J.D. VanSickle. Storyline: Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Based on a true incident, the story takes place in 1969, as the 101st Airborne Division confronts the Vietcong in a bloody battle over Hill 937 (aka "Hamburger Hill") in the Ashua Valley. During the nex ...

Heartbreak Ridge (1986) Genre: Drama, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Clint Eastwood. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart, Bo Svenson, Boyd Gaines, Mario Van Peebles, Arlen Dean Snyder, Vince Irizarry, Ramon Franco, Tom Villard, Mike Gomez, Rodney Hill, Pete Koch, John Hostetter, Peter Jason, Dutch Mann, Michael Maurer, Christopher Michael, Lloyd Nelson, Annie O'Donnell, Rebecca Perle, Begonia Plaza, J.C. Quinn, Elizabeth Ruscio, Thom Sharp, Darwyn Swalve, Richard Venture, Nicholas Worth. Storyline: Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superior officers to whom the wo ...

Hell Is for Heroes (1962) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Drama, Anti-War Film. Director: Don Siegel. Actors: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Nick Adams, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Mike Kellin, Joseph Hoover, Bill Mullikin, L.Q. Jones, Michele Montau, Don Haggerty, Bob Newhart. Storyline: Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vision, it puts the star in the familiar role of antihero. His character, Reese, is an embittered G.I. who has just been sent back to join his war-weary unit holding down a position opposite a pillbox on the Siegfried Line in Belgium. Recently demoted b ...

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Genre: War, Drama, War Drama, Combat Films, Anti-War Film. Director: Clint Eastwood. Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki, Nae, Nobumasa Sakagami, Luke Elliot, Sonny Saito, Steve Santa Sekiyoshi, Hiro Abe, Toshiya Agata, Yoshi Ishii, Toshi Toda, Ken Kensei, Ikuma Ando, Akiko Shima, Masashi Nagadoi, Mark Moses, Roxanne Hart, Yoshio Iizuka, Mitsu Kurokawa, Takuji Kuramoto, Koji Wada, Akira Kaneda, Shoji Hattori, Mark Tadashi Takahashi, Mitsuyuki Oishi, Evan Ellingson, Kazuyuki Morosawa, Masayuki Yonezawa, Hiroshi Tom Tanaka, Mathew Botuchis, Yukari Black, Daisuke Nagashima, Kirk Enochs, Ryan Kelley, Jonathan Oliver Sessler, Michael Lawson, Taishi Mizuno, Daisuke Tsuji, Yoshi Ando, Yutaka Takeuchi, Tsuguo Mizuno, Mark Ofuji, Hallock Beals, Ryan Carnes, Jeremy Glazer, Ryoya Katsuyama, Masashi Odate, London Kim, Skip Evans, Wanliss E. Armstrong. Storyline: After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in its last stages, and U.S. forces were planning to take on the Japanese on a small island known as Iwo Ji ...

Memphis Belle (1990) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Michael Caton-Jones. Actors: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Billy Zane, Sean Astin, John Lithgow, Harry Connick, Jr., Courtney Gains, Neil Giuntoli, Paul Birchard, Ben Browder, Greg Charles, Bill Cullum, Reed Edward Diamond, Keith Edwards, Steve Elm, Jane Horrocks, Bradley Lavelle, Eric Loren, Steven Mackintosh, Mac McDonald, Martin McDougal, Cathy Murphy, Jason Salkey, Morag Siller, Mitch Webb, Jodie Wilson. Storyline: Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World War II B-17 bomber "Memphis Belle," anticipating their 25th and last mission before they wil ...

Operation Pacific (1951) Genre: Romance, Action, Comedy, War, Combat Films. Director: George Waggner. Actors: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni, Kathryn Givney, Martin Milner, Cliff Clark [Clarke], Jack Pennick, Virginia Brissac, Vincent Fotre, Lewis Martin, Louis Mosconi, Sam Edwards, John Baer, William Campbell, Bob Carson, Gail Davis, Chris Drake, James Flavin, Gordon Geberl, Ray Hyke, Gayle Kellogg, Al Kikume, Brett King, Keith Larsen, Harry Lauter, Richard Loo, Bob Nash, Michael St. Angel, Carl Saxe, Bill Self, Milburn Stone, Harlan Warde, Steve Wayne, Dick Wessel, Mack Williams, Carleton Young. Storyline: If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; judging by the frequency of its showings, the film must be someone's very special favorite down at AMC. Set during WW II, the film casts Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary Stuart, Duke's former wife. Du ...

Platoon (1986) Genre: War, Combat Films, Anti-War Film, War Drama. Director: Oliver Stone. Actors: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon, Richard Edson, John C. McGinley, Reggie Johnson, Keith David, Johnny Depp, David Neidorf, Basile Achara, Ron Barracks, Steve Barredo, Chris Castillejo, Andrew B. Clark, Dale Dye, Kevin Eshelman, Corkey Ford, Adam J. Glover, Corey Glover, Peter Hicks, Ivan Kane, Li Mai Thao, Li Thi Van, Bernardo Manalili, James Terry McIlvain, Warren McLean, Mark Moses, Nick Nicholson, Clarisa Ortacio, Bob Orwig, Chris Pederson, Than Rogers, Paul Sanchez, Romy Sevilla, Oliver Stone, Tony Todd, Matthew Westfall. Storyline: Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a culturally diverse group of fellow soldiers under two men who lead the platoon: Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger), who ...

Saving Private Ryan (1998) Genre: War, War Epic, Ensemble Film, Combat Films. Director: Steven Spielberg. Actors: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Matt Damon, Dennis Farina, Ted Danson, Harve Presnell, Dale Dye, Bryan Cranston, David Wohl, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Hurst, Harrison Young, Dylan Bruno, Max Martini. Storyline: Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating German artillery fire. ...

The Thin Red Line (1998) Genre: War, War Drama, Ensemble Film, Combat Films, Anti-War Film. Director: Terrence Malick. Actors: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Jared Leto, Dash Mihok, Tim Blake Nelson, Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly, Larry Romano, John Savage, John Travolta, Arie Verveen, David Harrod, Thomas Jane, Polyn Leona, Miranda Otto, Matt Doran. Storyline: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars as Private Witt, a deserter living in peace and harmony with the natives of a Pacific island paradise. ...

The Trench (1999) Genre: War, Combat Films. Director: Tony Pierce-Roberts, William Boyd. Actors: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Danny Dyer, James D'Arcy, Ciarán McMenamin. Storyline: In 1916, the British Army suffered their bloodiest and most severe defeat ever in the Battle of the Somme; The Trench focuses on the awful prelude to the battle as seen through the eyes of a group of inexperienced soldiers. Billy Macfarlane (Paul Nicholls) is a 17-year-old boy who joined the Army to fight alongside his older brother Eddie (Tam Williams), whom he worships. As the members of their p ...

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Henry King. Actors: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Paul Stewart, Robert Arthur, John Kellogg, Joyce MacKenzie, Lee MacGregor, Sam Edwards, Roger Anderson, John Zilly, William Short, Richard Anderson, Lawrence Dobkin, Kenneth Tobey, Campbell Copelin, Peter Ortiz, Steve Clark, Patrick Whyte, Russ Conway, Don Hicks, John R. McKee, Robert Patten. Storyline: How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission in four hard days, Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) demands "maximum effort." The bombers are forced to fly lower, to fly farther, and to test themselves — overspent and fatigued — right up until death's door. When their dedicated ...

We Were Soldiers (2002) Genre: War, Combat Films, War Drama. Director: Randall Wallace. Actors: Mel Gibson, Robert Bagnell, Marc Blucas, Jsu Garcia, Josh Daugherty, Don Duong, Sam Elliott, Clark Gregg, Jon Hamm, Desmond Harrington, Blake Heron, Ryan Hurst, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Denis Leary, Erik MacArthur, Taylor Momsen, Barry Pepper, Keri Russell, Madeleine Stowe, Dylan Walsh. Storyline: Screenwriter Randall Wallace, a specialist in sweeping historical epics, steps behind the camera for this fact-based Vietnam War drama that reunites him with his Braveheart (1995) star Mel Gibson. Gibson is Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, the same regiment fatefully led by George Armstrong Custer. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned ...

Windtalkers (2002) Genre: War, War Drama, Combat Films. Director: John Woo. Actors: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Van Holt, Martin Henderson, Frances O'Connor, Roger Willie, Christian Slater, Jason Isaacs, Emily Mortimer. Storyline: Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the Solomon Islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Suffering from eardrum damage in Hawaii, Joe manages to be declared fit for duty once again thanks to a ...

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