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War movies
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In the 15th century, France was entangled in the Hundred Years' War with England. When the country seemed to be threatened with its inevitable downfall, Joan of Arc (Milla Jovovich), a 17-year-old illiterate peasant girl, appeared at the court of the French Dauphin, Charles (John Malkovich). She claimed that she had been instructed by the Lord to lead troops into a holy battle and defend their land against the aggressors. Inspired by the charismatic, self-confident, strong and fearless maiden, warriors won a victory over the English at Orleans. A year later, Joan was captured by the Burgundian and sold to their allies, the English, who tried her for heresy and burnt alive at the stake. In 1456, she was pronounced innocent. In 1920, Joan of Arc was declared a national heroine and canonized a saint. |
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"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later.
Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other. |
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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. |
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An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes. |
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In this superb, action-packed movie retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) believes that his son Frank (Todd Allen), listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War, is still alive and held in prison camp in Laos. He brings together Frank's five fellow soldiers, Wilkes (Fred Ward), "Blaster" (Reb Brown), "Sailor" (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Charts (Tim Thomerson) and Johnson (Harold Sylvester), and convinces them to embark on a dangerous trip to the Laotian jungles to find his son. Young guy Kevin Scott (Patrick Swayze), whose father has been languishing in captivity for years, also decides to accompany the rescue group. |
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Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, this thrilling war drama follows fearless Maj. Keith Mallory (Robert Shaw) and SSgt. Dusty Miller (Edward Fox) who are sent to the Balkans, Yugoslavia where they must team up with local partisans and the Force 10 squad, led by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Barnsby (Harrison Ford). Their perilous mission is to raid and blow up a huge bridge vital to German strategy. However, the team's plan goes wrong as there is a traitor among them... |
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This parody is a sequel to the "Hot Shots" comedy starring Charlie Sheen. In this hilarious movie his superhero heads to the Near East to fight Saddam, to imitate Rambo and to make you laugh as loud as possible. Many films are ridiculed in this comedy flick, from Starwars to Rambo and Apocalypse Now. The hero, Topper Harley, is to leave the Buddhist temple (where he found the inner Harmony being isolated from the world and from women) to save the hostages in Iraq. |
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This romantic tale chronicles the ten-year affair between a busy American socialite and an international disaster relief worker. Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie) is a young married woman whose huband Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) comes from a wealthy British family of a powerful industrialist. In 1984 Sarah meets Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) at a charity event in London. She gets so charmed by his passionate speech on behalf of world hunger that decides to support his relief efforts. In Ethiopia Sarah comes across Nick again, and romantic sparks start to fly between them; nevertheless the relationship is cut short because of family and work commitments. Some years later, after Sarah’s marital crisis and divorce, they rekindle the passion against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous political hot spots. |
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...The campaign for Texas's independence was inspired by their last stand against the Mexican army during the famous San Antonio siege. Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) were among nearly two hundred Texans who held the Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort in the spring of 1836. Men of all races who believed in the future of Texas were under siege by Mexican forces headed by the dictator of Mexico, General de Santa Anna, for 13 days. Deeds of Alamo soldiers would pass into history as General Sam Houston's war-cry for Texas independence. |
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In the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, immune to the code breakers of the Japanese. The answer is soon discovered in the ancient language of the Navajo. Enlisted into the Marine Corps are several "Windtalkers" who are deployed to frontline areas in the Pacific, to use their language as an impossible-to-crack secret code. A drawback, however, is that the U.S. military soon puts forth a directive that the Windtalkers must never be captured alive by the enemy, so additional Marines are assigned to make certian that this directive is carried out to the letter. |
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The idyllic beauty of Greece's Mediterranean coast has been invaded by Italy, bringing legions of soldiers to the once tranquil island of Cephallonia. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer with an irrepressibly jovial personality and passion for the mandolin, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia. The daughter of the village doctor, Pelagia is an educated and strong-willed woman, and while at first offended by the Italian soldier's behavior, she slowly warms to his certain charms as they are forced to share her father's home. When Pelagia's fiancee, a local fisherman, heads off to war, the friendship between Antonio and Pelagia grows even stronger. Her beauty and intelligence have captured his heart, and his fondness for the village's vibrant community causes him to question his reasons for fighting. Antonio becomes a part of the lives of the villagers, but the moment is fleeting. As the war grows ever closer, Antonio and Pelagia are forced to choose between their allegiance to their countries and the love they feel for one another-a love which must overcome tremendous odds, and endure the inevitable sacrifice which accompanies eternal devotion. |
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This computer-animated adventure comedy focuses on Valiant (Ewan McGregor, voice), a wood pigeon who has volunteered to do his part for England during the World War II. He is a brave, but fairly undersized bird whose ambitions are enormous and endures rigorous training in preparation for a dangerous mission to deliver vital messages to troops behind enemy lines despite the brutal attacks by the Falcon Brigade of enemy. |
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It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up on the trail of a lost Japanese sub that has picked Hollywood as their own target. Will these people be able to defend their homes? Will they be able to preserve the safety in California? Will they be able to get a hold of themselves? |
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A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements. |
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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? |
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Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) are best friends who grew up like brothers in Tennessee. Now they both are pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps. When Rafe meets a beautiful and valiant nurse, Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale), the two fall in love. But before they had time to start a romance, Rafe is forced to join the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Meanwhile, Danny and Evelyn are relocated to the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. When they hear that Rafe has been killed, they become close friends and find comfort in each other; the romantic sparks eventually start to fly between them. But when Rafe comes back alive, the childhood friends become enemies. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government plans to take retaliatory measures and assigns Rafe and Danny for a top-secret mission to bomb Tokyo. Can this highly dangerous task help them to reconcile their conflict? |
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This is a comedy involving a group of the American filmmakers who decided to make a movie about Winston Churchille's life but missed with the casting. They find out that an actor to play the key role is a robust, unattractive cigar smoker they draw in an American G.I. as he seemed to be a better-looking actor to play the part of Churchill. A new interpretation the makers developed depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent. |
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people. |
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The action-adventure movie tells the heroic story of the times when Vikings tried to conquer North America by destroying local tribes before Christopher Columbus reached its shores. Wrecked during the storm, a ship became the grave of Vikings and their captives. There was only one survivor, a Viking boy whose unconscious body was washed up on the shore by the powerful waves. Fortunately, the People of the Dawn tribe used various healing remedies to fix the kid up and raised him as their own. Many years later, he grows up into a warrior named Ghost (Karl Urban) and bravely defends his abode against an invasion of ferocious Vikings who, after having plundered great cities of Europe, land on the shores of North America. Despite a mighty legion of his foes, Ghost is unwilling to sheathe the sword and attempts to defeat the usurpers.
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World War II should be ended before Christmas. In this daring attempt 35,000 British troops are dropped behind the enemy lines in occupied Holland. Meanwhile, a small top-secret group of skilled men, codename "Matchbox", is shot down on its way to the landing zone where they should carry out an order to get hold the valuable booty and bring it back to the US war effort. "Matchbox" soldiers suddenly ran into three renegade Germans who also intended to get the hidden cache of Nazi gold and, further, to lay claim to the horde. |
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