Popular War Movies - Page 476
Sugar House
1981
Sugar House
1981
star 6In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.Pearl Harbor: The View from Japan
1994
Documentary, Historical Documentaries, Military Documentaries - In an interesting historical departure, this fascinating documentary analyzes the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese point of view and focuses on Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese military mastermind who (though bitterly opposed) planned the attack on the U.S. fleet anchored in Hawaii. If history is written by the victors, this view of the events of December 7, 1941, fills an important gap in the historical narrative of World War II.ÉTÉ 44 - La libération
2004
How, after four years of occupation, France was liberated between the spring and autumn of 1944. Patrick Rotman, writer, historian and director, offers a historical and political analysis of this significant period in history, from operations "Overlord" and "Dragoon" - the landing of Allied troops - to the celebrations organized for the liberation of Paris.The 23
2019
The Son
1989
The Son
1989
The war years. Young Batyr takes on the responsibility of caring for his mother and newborn sister. The boy's father, a renowned dutar player in the village, has been killed in action. Batyr decides to master the complex art of dutar playing. However, with the ongoing war, there is no time for music schools in the rear. Despite the challenges, the determined young boy conquers the instrument, and his mother is overjoyed to see him grow into a responsible adult.Words Whispered to the Heart
2001
The only son of the family, Deleg, went to the army four years later and disappeared without telling his family. Waiting for the missing man, the dowry will be turned away by the local men, but the man thinks of the PROMISE he made to his husband and continues to live with his mother-in-law as his wife and neighbor... The movie shows the heart of a wife who waits for her missing spouse, the heart of a mother who complains to her daughter-in-law when she is sad that she is going to die, and the broken heart of a daughter who is her father. The knot of the whole story of the film is unraveled by the hoarse whisper.Legends of War: Battle of Baideng
2019
star 8The war units of the Hun Emperor Mete Han and the Chinese Emperor Gao-Zu, the father of the turan tactic used by the Turks for centuries, come face to face in the Battle of Baideng. The war genius Mete Han was going to surround the Chinese with an unexpected war tactic and inflict a heavy defeat on them.War Crimes
2008
War Crimes
2008
After graduating college a group of friends from the UK decide to take a trip to the Balkans. Little did they know that a war was about to break out. As the fighting spreads to the city of Sarajevo they must escape for their lives through the countryside. After witnessing a massacre in Bosnia they are detected and pursued by a ruthless Yugoslav People s Army Officer and his brutal fighters. With limited supplies winter approaching and murderous special armed forces chasing them down will they ever make it home alive?My Brother's Keeper
2020
My Brother's Keeper
2020
star 7.2A Former Guantánamo detainee and best-selling author and his one-time American guard form an unlikely friendship.南海的早晨
1964
南海的早晨
1964
Letters
2021
Letters
2021
star 9LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.Granite & Chalk
2015
Granite & Chalk
2015
As rebels planned Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, they were watched by two spies code-named Granite and Chalk. This documentary delves into British intelligence to tell their story, one century on. Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, After ’16 is a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the events of Easter 1916. This collection of nine short films is a mixture of live-action, animation and documentary, telling stories from the eve of the Rising all the way to the Troubles in 1970s Northern Ireland and beyond.Ordeal by Ice
1945
Ordeal by Ice
1945
This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. The secret winter manoeuvres of the British Army's Lovat Scouts took place in the Canadian Rockies during the winters of 1944 and 1945. In combined operations with the Canadian Army, these elite mountain commandos tested themselves and their equipment in temperatures of -50°F.Freytág testvérek
1989
Freytág testvérek
1989
Few writers today tackle sweeping, multigenerational family sagas, work that demands vast life experience and insight. József Attila Prize–winner Árpád Thiery has done just that: his two published volumes of the Freytág Siblings’ story (1943 through the late 1960s) have been adapted by Hungarian Television into a five-part series slated for January 1989, and he’s already completed the trilogy’s final installment. Thiery describes it as a historical family novel, tracing postwar Hungary, from the Stalinist 1950s and the 1956 uprising’s aftermath to the upheavals of 1968, while celebrating freedom, truth, hope, boundless faith and innocent responsibility.Life and Deeds of Radovan Karadzic
2005
Biography and secret life of war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnian Serbs.Five Years, As We Saw Them
1947
Film about the efforts of Norway and Norwegians outside Norway in the years 1940-45. Crown Prince Olav's introduction. The invasion of Norway. The merchant fleet on all seas. The Norwegian brigade is set up in Scottland. The first Norwegian aircraft squadron in action, and much more.Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with meticulously researched stories, it provides a unique analysis of the Gallipoli campaign, including never-seen before interviews with the last 10 Gallipoli Anzacs, rare film footage showing the beach & trenches at Gallipoli.The Leon K. Case
2024
The Leon K. Case
2024
star 8A young Polish Jew who was arrested and interned in France in 1942 wrote twice to the French leader ot the time, Marshal Pétain, appealing for his help. After these two letters, he falls off the radar. This documentary digs into what happened to Leon K. one of many caught up in the tumult of war.Sabaton - Christmas Truce
2021
This is the touching story of the Christmas Truce that inspired the Sabaton song of the same title.
