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Genre "War Drama" Movies (showing 51 to 74 from 74 total)
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Strategic Air Command (1955)
Genre:
Drama,
War Drama,
Film a Clef.
Director:
Anthony Mann.
Actors:
James Stewart,
June Allyson,
Frank Lovejoy,
Barry Sullivan,
Alex Nicol,
Bruce Bennett,
Jay C. Flippen,
James Millican,
James Bell,
Richard Shannon,
John R. McKee,
Henry Morgan,
Don Haggerty,
Glenn Denning,
Anthony Warde,
Strother Martin,
Helen Brown,
Vernon Rich,
Harlan Warde,
House Peters, Jr.,
Richard Lupino,
William Pullen,
Rosemary de Camp,
Len Hendry,
William Hudson,
"Peanuts" Lowrey,
Memo Luna,
Stan Musial,
Max Power,
Red Schoendienst,
Enos Slaughter.
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Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as "Dutch" Holland, a star third baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. "Dutch" served with distinction as a fighter pilot during World War II, and as the ...
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Sutjeska (1973)
Genre:
Drama,
War,
War Drama,
Biography [feature].
Director:
Stipe Delic.
Actors:
Stole Arandjelovic,
Neda Arneric,
Relja Basic,
Michael Cramer,
Anton Diffring,
Milena Dravic,
Boris Dvornik,
Ilija Ivezic,
Rade Markovic,
Günter Meisner,
Irene Papas,
Ljubisa Samardzic,
Bert Sotlar,
Ljuba Tadic,
Janez Vrhovec,
Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic,
Richard Burton.
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This Yugoslavian epic depicts the World War II military exploits of Marshall Tito (played here by Richard Burton), who later became the unrivalled ruler of that troubled country. During that war, he was instrumental in resisting Nazi efforts to exterminate the Yugoslav partisans. The film details the events surrounding the climactic battle with the Germans along the Sutjeska River.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Genre:
War,
Drama,
POW Drama,
Ensemble Film,
War Drama.
Director:
David Lean.
Actors:
William Holden,
Alec Guinness,
Jack Hawkins,
Sessue Hayakawa,
Geoffrey Horne,
James Donald,
Andre Morell,
Peter Williams,
John Boxer,
Percy Herbert,
Harold Goodwin,
Ann Sears,
Henry Okawa.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport Japanese munitions. Nicholson refuses, despite all t ...
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The Counterfeiters (2007)
Genre:
Drama,
POW Drama,
War Drama.
Director:
Stefan Ruzowitzky.
Actors:
Karl Markovics,
August Diehl,
Devid Striesow,
Martin Brambach,
Dolores Chaplin,
August Zirner,
Marie Baumer,
Veit Stuebner,
Sebastian Urzendowsky,
Andreas Schmidt,
Tilo Prückner,
Lenn Kudrjawitzki,
Marian Kalus,
Norman Stoffregen,
Bernd Raucamp,
Gode Benedix,
Oliver Kanter,
Hans Peter Kortenbruck,
Dirk Prinz,
Hille Beseler,
Erik Jan Rippmann,
Tim Breyvogel.
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Writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his creativity for more nefarious means. Arrested by the police inspector Herzog (Devid Striesow) at the ons ...
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
Genre:
Drama,
Anti-War Film,
Ensemble Film,
Reunion Films,
War Drama,
POW Drama.
Director:
Michael Cimino.
Actors:
Robert De Niro,
John Cazale,
John Savage,
Meryl Streep,
Christopher Walken,
George Dzundza,
Chuck Aspergren,
Shirley Stoler,
Rutanya Alda,
Pierre Segui,
Mady Kaplan,
Christopher Colombi, Jr.,
Paul D'Amato,
Joe Grifasi,
Mary Ann Haenel,
Richard Kuss,
Joseph Strand,
Michael Wollet,
Amy Wright.
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One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use of Russian roulette in the Vietnam sequences. Structured in five sections contrasting home and war, t ...
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The Desert Fox (1951)
Genre:
War,
War Drama,
Biography [feature].
Director:
Henry Hathaway.
Actors:
James Mason,
Cedric Hardwicke,
Jessica Tandy,
Luther Adler,
Everett Sloane,
Leo G. Carroll,
George Macready,
Richard Boone,
Eduard Franz,
Desmond Young,
Charles Evans,
Walter Kingsford,
John Hoyt,
Don de Leo,
Richard Elmore,
John Vosper,
Dan O'Herlihy,
Scott Forbes,
Victor Wood,
Lester Matthews,
Mary Carroll,
Paul Cavanagh,
Jack Baston,
Carleton Young,
Freeman Lusk,
Robert Coote,
John W. Goldsworthy,
Lumsden Hare,
Sean McClory,
Michael Rennie,
William Reynolds,
Ivan Triesault,
Peter Van Eyck,
Philip Van Zandt,
Trevor Ward.
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat from North Africa and his government-decreed death. A brilliant tactician, Rommel earns the respect not only of his own men but of the enemy. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler (Luther Adler), laboring under the delusion that he too is a military genius, demands more of Rommel than ...
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The Fallen (2004)
Genre:
War,
War Drama.
Director:
Ari Taub.
Actors:
Ron Hirt,
Sergio Leone,
Frank Lucari,
John McVay,
John O'Leary,
Antonio Oliveri,
Ruben Pla,
Thomas Pohn,
Carmine Raspaolo,
Fabio Sartor,
Dirk Schmidt,
Brett Smith,
Nicola Tranquillino.
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The Good German (2006)
Genre:
Mystery,
Drama,
War Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Steven Soderbergh.
Actors:
George Clooney,
Cate Blanchett,
Tobey Maguire,
Beau Bridges,
Tony Curran,
Leland Orser,
Jack Thompson,
Robin Weigert,
Ravil Isyanov,
Christian Oliver,
Dave Power,
Don Pugsley,
Dominic Comperatore,
John Roeder,
J. Paul Boehmer,
Igor Korosec,
Boris Kievsky,
Vladimir Kulikov,
Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy,
Aleksandr Sountsov,
Dean Misch,
Justin Misch,
Justin Pugsley,
Tom Cummins,
Brandon Keener,
Gianfranco L'Amore Tordi,
David Willis.
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A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace in Berlin — but he was once lovers with a mysterious woman named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett ...
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The Great Raid (2005)
Genre:
War,
War Drama.
Director:
John Dahl.
Actors:
Benjamin Bratt,
James Franco,
Connie Nielsen,
Joseph Fiennes,
Marton Csokas,
Motoki Kobayashi,
Robert Mammone,
Natalie Mendoza,
Cesar Montano,
James Carpinello,
Clayne Clawford,
Mark Consuelos,
Kenny Doughty,
Max Martini,
Craig McLachlan,
Sam Worthington.
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John Dahl directed this war drama based on the true story of one of the most daring military actions of World War II. In the waning days of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur chose to make good on a pledge that he made in 1942 — that he would return to the Philippines after he and his troops were forced to retreat. However, MacArthur's determination was more than a matter of pride. ...
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The Hill (1965)
Genre:
War,
Prison Film,
War Drama,
POW Drama.
Director:
Sidney Lumet.
Actors:
Sean Connery,
Harry Andrews,
Ian Bannen,
Alfred Lynch,
Ossie Davis,
Roy Kinnear,
Michael Redgrave,
Jack Watson,
Ian Hendry,
Norman Bird,
Tony Caunter,
Howard Goorney,
Neil McCallum,
Neil McCarthy.
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In this Vietnam-set war drama, a cadre of soldiers embark upon a dangerous, doomed mission to a supposedly haunted mountain.
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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.
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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. ...
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A Vietnam veteran-turned-holy man returns to Saigon, only to be confronted by a former war buddy who forces him to own up to his blood-soaked past in this drama from director Sidney J. Furie.
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The War (1994)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama,
War Drama.
Director:
Jon Avnet.
Actors:
Elijah Wood,
Kevin Costner,
Mare Winningham,
Lexi Randall,
Christine Baranski,
Raynor Scheine,
Bruce A. Young,
LaToya Chisholm,
Charlotte Lewis,
Gary Basaraba,
Lucas Black,
Jay Brooks,
Bill Coates,
Dorothy Davis,
Tom Even,
J. Don Ferguson,
Afemo Omilami,
Mary Nell Santacroce,
Nick Searcy,
Judson Vaughn,
Tim Ware,
Debra Zane.
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Jon Avnet's The War is set in the rural south and brimming with lessons on social consciousness, much like his previous effort, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). During the summer of 1970 in backwoods Mississippi, Stephen Simmons (Kevin Costner) is struggling to be a breadwinner for his family while still suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in the Vietnam War. His wife Lois (Mare ...
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Jeremy Collier (Emilio Estevez) is the army veteran who returns home after his harrowing experiences in battle. His father Bob (Martin Sheen) is the emotionally detached parent who insists Jeremy put his unpleasant memories behind him and get on with his life. His mother (Kathy Bates) is the unusually cheerful woman who pretends nothing is wrong. The troubled Jeremy finds almost as much fighting a ...
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To Hell and Back (1955)
Genre:
War,
War Drama,
Biography [feature].
Director:
Jesse Hibbs.
Actors:
Audie Murphy,
Susan Kohner,
Marshall Thompson,
Charles Drake,
Jack Kelly,
Gregg Palmer,
David Janssen,
Paul Picerni,
Richard Castle,
Art Aragon,
Felix Noriego,
Brett Halsey,
Bruce Cowling,
Paul Langton,
Julian Upton,
Mary Field,
Denver Pyle,
Nan Boardman,
Rand Brooks,
John Bryant,
Alexander Campbell,
Maria Costi,
Ashley Cowan,
Gordon Geberl,
Edna Holland,
Barbara James,
Don Kennedy,
Henry Kulky,
Rankin Mansfield,
Madge Meredith,
Mort Mills,
John M. Pickard,
Howard Price,
Didi Ramati,
Ralph Sanford,
Anabel Shaw,
Howard Wright.
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The highly variable Audie Murphy delivers his best screen performance as "himself" in Universal's To Hell and Back. Based on the star's autobiography, this is the story of how Murphy became America's most-decorated soldier during WW II. After dwelling a bit on Murphy's hard-scrabble Texas upbringing, the story moves ahead to 1942, when, at 18, Audie joined the army. Within a year, he was ...
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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.
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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 ...
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In Basque country, feuds, governments, and wars come and go, while cows placidly observe the strange behaviors of the humans who care for them. In 1875, during a massacre inspired by an out-of-control family feud, a farmer and his friend find themselves in a ditch together. One of them dies, and the other survives by playing possum using his friend's blood as a disguise. As the film flashes forwar ...
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The award-winning young director of this unusual wartime drama died shortly after beginning work on her next film. Voskhozhdeniye, which won the Grand Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is Larissa Shepitko's last complete work. As the film progresses, the inner lives and states of the protagonists emerge as the compelling focus of the drama. Two partisans resisting German incursions into Byeloruss ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Genre:
Drama,
War,
War Drama.
Director:
Michael Winterbottom.
Actors:
Stephen Dillane,
Woody Harrelson,
Marisa Tomei,
Juliet Aubrey,
Igor Dzambazov,
Kerry Fox,
Gordana Gadzic,
Davor Janjic,
Emily Lloyd,
James Nesbitt,
Emira Nusevic,
Vesna Orel,
Drazen Sivak,
Goran Visnjic.
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A startling examination of the Bosnian war of the mid-1990s and the role of journalists in covering it, this film was based on real-life journalist Michael Nicholson's book Natasha's Story. Like Nicholson, cynical journalist Henderson (Stephen Dillane) is one of the rat pack of reporters looking for gore in the streets of besieged Sarajevo. He is outraged when grandstanding reporter Flynn (Woody H ...
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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.
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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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Zelary (2003)
Genre:
Drama,
Rural Drama,
War Drama.
Director:
Ondrej Trojan.
Actors:
Anna Geislerová,
György Cserhalmi,
Ivan Trojan,
Jan Hrusínský,
Miroslav Donutil,
Jaroslav Dusek,
Iva Bittova,
Jaroslav Adamova,
Jan Triska.
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Czech filmmaker Ondrej Trojan directs the period war drama Zelary, based on the novella Jozova Hanule by Kveta Legátová. During WWII, nurse Eliska (Anna Geislerová) is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard Littner (Ivan Trojan). When he is discovered, Eliska is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis. Her colleague Dr. Chladek (Jan Hrusínský) sen ...
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