Popular War Movies - Page 386
The Light of Dawn: The Normandy Landings
2014
star 8.4The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and Roosevelt first proposed the operation and how preparations started—finishing with the key events of D-Day and the far-reaching effects of its outcome.Battle of Long Tan
2006
Battle of Long Tan
2006
star 9In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger's situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.Unforgettable Battle
1975
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
1970
star 5Taking Tiger Mountain was the very first model film produced during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Set during the civil war in 1946, it follows a detachment of the People's Liberation Army in Mandchuria as they are fighting a group of bandits hiding in the mountains. Based on a novel from the 50s, Taking Tiger Mountain was first a revolutionary opera before being made into film by director Xie Tieli.La muerte en las calles
1952
star 10During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.Merchant Marine Paul Goercke and the Alexander Hamilton Post 448
2022
While Merchant Marine veteran Paul Goercke rests with his family in his plot at the Golden Gate National Cemetery, he is survived and remembered by his pioneering American Legion Post 448, the only predominantly LGBTQ post in the nation.Scorched by Kandahar
1989
Scorched by Kandahar
1989
An Afghan officer, discharged from service due to injury, enters into a fight against the mafia and, in the end, exposes the criminals at the cost of his own life...Snowdrops and Edelweiss
1982
Autumn 1942. A small group of Soviet soldiers, led by a mountaineering instructor, military journalist and poet Vazgen Petrosyan, will have a difficult ascent: the heroes were tasked with removing the swastika fixed on the top of Aman Dagh...The Woman the Germans Shot
1918
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.Colditz
2005
Colditz
2005
star 7While World War II allied officer Jack Rowe is held prisoner in Germany's notorious Colditz castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in the ultimate break-out only to discover that the greatest betrayal awaits him on safe ground.Front-line Cameraman
1946
Front-line Cameraman
1946
star 2A tribute to Soviet cameraman Vladimir Sushchinsky, killed in the liberation of Breslau in 1945, featuring his funeral and final footage by fallen colleagues. The film honors the 252 front-line cameramen of the Central Documentary Film Studio, one in five of whom died while recording the war, leaving behind millions of meters of film and hundreds of newsreels as a lasting record of the conflict.Les Fiancés de 1914
1914
Les Fiancés de 1914
1914
This Life
2012
This Life
2012
star 6The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.Her Name Is Spring
1969
Her Name Is Spring
1969
The film takes place in Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War. Pulat and Bahor love each other, but the happiness of the heroes is prevented by a rich friend of the parents of a girl who sees her as her future wife.Battlefield Orchid
2012
Battlefield Orchid
2012
On the Mountain of Tai Hang
2005
star 4.8During the Sino-Japanese War, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De leads the Eighth Route Army in pivotal battles against the Japanese invaders.A Time for Drunken Horses
2000
star 7.6After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
