Popular War Movies - Page 62
Casablanca Express
1989
Casablanca Express
1989
star 3It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.Laskar Pemimpi
2010
Laskar Pemimpi
2010
A mismatched group of misfits become guerrillas as Indonesia attempts to maintain its independence when colonists return in 1948.The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
star 5.9During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.Five Branded Women
1960
Five Branded Women
1960
star 6Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.The Mark of Cain
2007
The Mark of Cain
2007
star 5.2After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.The Camp on Blood Island
1958
star 6.6Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.The Warrior
1916
The Warrior
1916
star 5.9A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.Kapitán Dabač
1959
Kapitán Dabač
1959
star 5.4The drama of a young Slovak army officer who gradually realises the horrors of fascism during the fighting in Ukraine. On his return to Slovakia, he joins the SNP. However, he cannot overcome his loner attitude or his doubts about the meaning of partisan activity.Flying Fortress
1942
Mystery Submarine
1963
Gertrudis
1992
Gertrudis
1992
star 6The life and execution of Gertrudis Bocanegra, a sympathizer of the libertarian cause and a prominent figure in Mexico's independence from Spain.Judith
1966
Judith
1966
star 4.3A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.Bomber Harris
1989
Bomber Harris
1989
star 6.8Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.Operation Secret
1952
Operation Secret
1952
star 5After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.None But the Brave
1965
None But the Brave
1965
star 6.4American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.The Poet
2022
The Poet
2022
star 8A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.Urduja
2008
Urduja
2008
star 5.5Set in the 13th century, the film is a fictionalized tale of Princess Urduja, a legendary warrior princess of Pangasinan. The film is created by an all-Filipino group of animators and made using the traditional (hand-drawn) animation process.The Lost Patrol
1934
The Lost Patrol
1934
star 6.5A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.Before the Rain
1994
Before the Rain
1994
star 7.3The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.Lebanon
2009
Lebanon
2009
star 6.5During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
