Popular War Movies - Page 322
Richard Hank Sciaroni: Shot Down
2015
Through the perils of air combat, and an emergency landing behind enemy lines in Italy, Hank Sciaroni utilized his capability to speak Italian to help get him and his men to safety as the Germans closed in.The Sacrifice
1917
The Sacrifice
1917
Stephen Stephani leaves Nordhoff with his daughter Mary to visit Zandria, an enemy country, where he tries to steal the war plans of the hostile nation. There, Mary meets Paul Ekald, a Zandrian captain, falling in love with him at first sight. While Mary remains in Zandria for the moment, Stephani returns to Nordhoff. Meanwhile, Vesta, Mary's illegitimate half-sister, has managed to get hold of important war plans stolen from Count Wenzel. But, to get them, she had to kill the count.The Polynin Case
1970
The Polynin Case
1970
star 3.7A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII.The Fighting Generation
1944
star 5A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.The Cement Ball of Earth, Heaven, And Hell
2003
Aki Ra joined Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rouge army at the age of nine. Twenty years later he roams the minefields of Cambodia in search of redemption. Armed only with a stick and a pocketknife Aki seeks out and destroys some of the six million landmines that infect his home. Shot in minefields, this film contains footage that reveals just how dangerous Aki Ra's obsession is.Food and Magic
1943
Food and Magic
1943
star 5A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.The Day of the Beast
2010
The Day of the Beast
2010
1945. Young German soldier is hiding from Soviet soldiers in abandoned house. Every day he sees a girl who moved to the house next door until finally he falls in love with her.Kochubey
1958
Guardian or a Guard: Episode 2
1983
A film showing the activities of the Mongolian Chekists in the form of an adventure. Chekists means spies.The Poor
1952
The Poor
1952
A friendship relationship develops between the child Mamdouh, the son of a wealthy family, and Fathia, who is from a poor family. Days go by and the two children, Mamdouh and Fathia, separate. Mamdouh becomes an officer in the army, while Fathia, after losing her family, works in a cabaret. Mamdouh and Fathia meet after all these years and return to the memory of the past. So he decides to marry Fathia.Four Sundays
1974
Four Sundays
1974
After the novelette of the same name of Huseyn Abbaszadeh. The film is about friends' meeting who fought together as a partisans in Belorussian detached force.Our Girls
1930
Our Girls
1930
About a brigade of young female turners who win the respect of the factory team by their labor.Raiders of the Golden Triangle
1985
The Thai government sends a man in undercover to a guerrilla compound to bring down Thailand's biggest drug lord, who supplies opium to most of the world.Haixia
1975
Haixia
1975
star 5With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as fisher women and fighters defending their homes and the motherland.Peace, Perfect Peace
1918
Peace, Perfect Peace
1918
The armistice permits British and French soldiers to return home in time to solve problems. Short film.Rebels Of The Cities
1972
Rebels Of The Cities
1972
star 4.3A Middle East allied Force commander, Themis, parachutes in occupied Greece to organize a sabotage in the Meteora region but betrays the Germans and falls into ambush. Before retiring, he calls Fotis, a student who had hidden his house, and urges him to go to Athens and meet an Aristides. Despite the mobilization of the Germans who perform all the hostages they have captured, including his father, Fotis finally arrives in Athens, meets with Aristides and accepts to cooperate with him. With the name of Kostas Alexandrou he catches a room in the Papadima family home, falls in love with their daughter Anna and becomes a "friend" with the German Major Karl Asberg. He accepts the co-operation proposed by Carl - to become his agent - to supposedly trap the guerrillas. But he actually misleads the conquerors about blowing a munitions train. His fate is the same as the fate of every patriot who is sacrificed for his homeland.Secret Weapon
2006
Secret Weapon
2006
star 5The scouts of Lieutenant Besfamilny's platoon receive a task - to check information about the Nazis' secret bunker. They successfully cross the front line, but then everything does not go as planned.Death of the Squadron
1966
Summer 1918. There is a danger of ships being captured by Germany in the Black Sea Fleet. The Soviet government decides to destroy the fleet. The film tells about the intense struggle of the Bolsheviks against the forces of counterrevolution trying to disrupt the execution of the order.Karuna
1996
Karuna
1996
In 1943, Yang Chunsoo, a descendant of a Koryo celadon maker, lives in a small village in the countryside, His younger son, Jongil, makes pottery without his father's approval in order to marry Poonim. When Chungsoo finds this out, he breaks every ceramic piece that his son has made. Poonim, without the money that was supposed to be given by Jongil leaves the village, angry and frustrated. Seven years later, when the Korean war erupts, Jongil returns to the village as an officer of the triumphant communist army. Later his elder brother, Jongsik, returns to the village as a South Korean army officer, Chunsoo stabs himself in the eye in order to stop the two brothers from fighting. The two brothers are, however, executed as scapegoats of an ideology. Twenty years later, Jinhyung, Chunsoo's grandson, takes over his grandfather's pottery business. He then learns about h is ancestor's mysterious past.
