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Country: France
Genre: Documentary, War
Year: 1976
Godard Miéville and Gorin aka the Dziga Vertov Group examine the parallel lives of two families - one French one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and...
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1976
53 min
Hier Und Anderswo
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
Genre: Documentary, Action, History, War
Year: 2011
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of...
2011
88 min
Hell And Back Again
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, History, War
An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic...
120 min
Gettysburg (2011)
Country: France, Switzerland
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Year: 1974
Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...
1974
90 min
Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
Country: Turkey
Year: 2005
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2005
114 min
Gelibolu
Country: United States
Year: 2007
Body of War is a documentary following Tomas Young an Iraq War veteran paralyzed from a bullet to the spine on a physical and emotional journey as he adapts to his new body and begins to question the decision to go to war in Iraq. From soldier to anti-war activist the film takes an unflinching view of the physical and emotional aftermath of war through the eyes of an American hero. The film...
2007
87 min
Body Of War
Year: 2006
Marty Callaghans Synopsis: Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empires demise in 1918 and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies a close study of this conflict provides two...
2006
112 min
Blood And Oil: The Middle East In World War I
Year: 1992
Without words cameras show us the world with an emphasis not on where but on whats there. It begins with morning natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes water falls veldts and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging blasting and strip mining. Images of...
1992
96 min
Baraka
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Year: 2008
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. Shes working as a singer whilst hes churning out scripts for government propaganda...
2008
110 min
The Edge Of Love
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Year: 1959
Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...
1959
152 min
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1951
This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel
Year: 1944
In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...
1944
137 min
The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...
Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1972
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill Simon Ward including his childhood years his time as a war correspondent in Africa and culminating with his first election to...
1972
157 min
Young Winston
Country: United States, Israel, France, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, War
One night at a bar an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that theres a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he cant remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this...
Waltz With Bashir
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Year: 1952
In 1909 Emiliano Zapata a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province Morelos comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by...
1952
104 min
Viva Zapata
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France
Year: 2002
Seduced by Jung killed by hate redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung Freud...
2002
The Soul Keeper
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, War
Year: 2010
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never...
2010
38 min
Poster Girl
Country: Japan
140 min
Isoroku Yamamoto, The Commander-in-chief Of The Combined Fleet
Year: 2009
Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...
2009
100 min
Into The Storm
Year: 1996
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...
1996
113 min
In Love And War
Year: 2012
Examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim 1918-1992 and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon. Interviews with Iceberg Slim Chris Rock Henry Rollins Ice-T Snoop Dogg and Quincy...
2012
89 min
Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1985
This is a movie about the life of Israels king...
1985
King David
Country: Germany, United States
Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...
125 min
Jarhead
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 1987
Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
1987
Empire Of The Sun
Country: Canada, United States
Year: 2003
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...
2003
130 min
Hitler: The Rise Of Evil
Country: South Korea
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 2004
2004
Fighter In The Wind
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 1989
King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of...
1989
Henry V
Country: France, United States
Year: 1993
The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...
1993
Heaven & Earth
Country: United States, Spain
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse Ines is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father Thomas comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo whom he is painting can secure the release of his...
Goya's Ghosts
Country: Italy
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1962
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...
1962
91 min
Giulio Cesare, Il Conquistatore Delle Gallie
General Idi Amin Dada
English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....
93 min
My Boy Jack
Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan
The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and dies. As...
126 min
Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Neil Jordans depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins the Lion of Ireland who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State Eire in...
133 min
Michael Collins
Year: 1977
The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...
1977
Macarthur
Country: Philippines
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
El Presidente
Year: 1970
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...
1970
139 min
Cromwell
Year: 1958
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly...
1958
119 min
Carve Her Name With Pride
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought...
145 min
Born On The Fourth Of July
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
In 1944 upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school they have friction in their relationship. However Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They...
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Country: Hong Kong, China
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...
124 min
Assembly (ji Jie Hao)
Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, News, War
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...
84 min
American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
Year: 1956
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...
1956
141 min
Alexander The Great
Year: 1930
Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...
1930
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...
108 min
A Mighty Heart
Country: Ireland, Canada
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Year: 2014
Ragnar and King Horiks forces begin their fight against Jarl Borg who is joined by Rollo; Princess Aslaug makes her way to Kattegat with a surprise that will change...
2014
E10
Vikings: Season 2
Year: 2013
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok: the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the saga of Ragnars band of Viking brothers and his family as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods: legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin the god of war and...
2013
E9
Vikings: Season 1
Genre: Action, Drama, War
After its victory over Leonidas 300 the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens first on the path of Xerxes army bases its strength on its fleet led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior...
102 min
300: Rise Of An Empire
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Short, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Ghost Recon: Alpha sees a team led by Ghost Leader infiltrate a trade at a Russian depot between a general and a mysterious other...
23 min
Ghost Recon: Alpha
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
In 1970s Iran Marjane Marji Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shahs defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up she witnesses first hand how the new Iran now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent...
Persepolis
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines and with the German army under orders to...
118 min
The Monuments Men
Country: Canada
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, War
A squad of Canadian soldiers survive a helicopter crash deep behind enemy lines during an alien invasion of Earth now they have to survive the...
85 min
Battle Earth
Genre: War
Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how in the trenches in 1916 he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from...
92 min
The Wipers Times
Genre: Drama, War
Based on the beloved bestselling book THE BOOK THIEF tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II...
131 min
The Book Thief
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Based on the failed mission Operation Red Wings which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 on June 28 2005 to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They were quickly compromised and under...
121 min
Lone Survivor
Our Girl is the story of Molly Dawes born and raised in the London Borough of Newham. Molly is the eldest of five kids with little future a difficult father and a mother who always wanted more for her. Leaving school with no qualifications Molly has a part-time job in a local nail bar. Drunk and despondent on the evening of her 18th birthday she throws up in the doorway of an Army Recruitment...
Our Girl
Genre: Drama, War, Thriller
Year: 1941
In the early years of World War II a German U-boat U-37 sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boats Fanatical Nazi captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party lead by Lieutenant...
1941
123 min
49th Parallel
