Archive for the 'War movies' Category
Nomad
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| Taglines: | 1: Courage know no limit |
| Plot Summary: | 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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Glory
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| Taglines: | 1: Their innocence. Their heritage. Their lives. Nothing would be spared in the fight for their freedom. |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers. |
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor
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| Plot Summary: | A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. |
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Too Late the Hero
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| Taglines: | 1: War. It’s A Dying Business. |
| Plot Summary: | A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don’t go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the ‘heros’ are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base. |
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Home of the Brave
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| Taglines: | 1: Coming home is the real battle. 2: The Final Test of Courage is Coming Home |
| Plot Summary: | 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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Saving Private Ryan
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| Taglines: | 1: I’ll see you on the beach! 2: In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving… One. 3: The mission is a man. 4: The movie that inspired to the world to remember 5: There was only one man left in the family, and the mission was to save him. |
| Plot Summary: | Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother… |
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Great Escape, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A Glorious Saga Of The R.A.F. 2: From a barbed-wire camp to a barbed-wire country, they made… [The Great Escape] 3: Hours ago… Minutes ago…. These men were behind barbed wire. 4: the great adventure! the great entertainment! |
| Plot Summary: | Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries. |
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Mouse That Roared, The
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| Taglines: | 1: The Hilarous Story of How the Duchy of Grand Fenwick Waged War on the U.S. - and Won |
| Plot Summary: | The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom? |
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Force 10 from Navarone
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| Taglines: | 1: Explosive high adventure! A mission more daring than silencing the “Guns”. 2: The Odds Against Them Were 10,000 to 1…But What the Hell! |
| Plot Summary: | In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler’s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he’ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team’s plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad’s hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power. |
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Battle for Haditha
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| Taglines: | 1: There are many ways to see the same story |
| Plot Summary: | An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb. |
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