War movies

Taking Chance (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Aldredge | Sherman Alpert | Nicholas Art | Kevin Bacon | Gerald Blakey | Guy Boyd | Andrew S. Bradley | David Campbell | Kevin Cannon | James Castanien | Michael Ciesla | Dominic Colon | Mike Colter | Henry Coy | Chris Cullen
Directors: Ross Katz
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Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

The Lucky Ones (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Robbins | Rachel McAdams | Michael Peña | Molly Hagan | Mark L. Young | Howard Platt | John Heard | Arden Myrin | Coby Goss | Vis Brown | Spencer Garrett | Katie Korby | Katherine LaNasa | Conner Manning | William Manning
Directors: Neil Burger
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After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancé. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee, a naive private who’s pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier’s family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they’ve found might be what matters the most.

Redacted (2007)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sahar Alloul | Happy Anderson | Francois Caillaud | Patrick Carroll | Andrew Cullen | Rob Devaney | Izzy Diaz | Mike Figueroa | Qazi Freihat | Paul Hijazin | Suhail Abdel Hussein | Ty Jones | Dhiaa Kahlil | Yanal Kassay | Ohad Knoller
Directors: Brian De Palma
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A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | Omar Sharif | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin
Directors: David Lean
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Xolani Mali | Don Cheadle | Desmond Dube | Hakeem Kae-Kazim | Tony Kgoroge | Rosie Motene | Neil McCarthy | Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole | Nick Nolte | Fana Mokoena | Jeremiah Ndlovu | Sophie Okonedo | Lebo Mashile | Antonio David Lyons | Leleti Khumalo
Directors: Terry George
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda–and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Modine | Adam Baldwin | Vincent D'Onofrio | R. Lee Ermey | Dorian Harewood | Kevyn Major Howard | Arliss Howard | Ed O'Ross | John Terry | Kieron Jecchinis | Kirk Taylor | Tim Colceri | Jon Stafford | Bruce Boa | Ian Tyler
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

King Arthur (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Clive Owen | Ioan Gruffudd | Mads Mikkelsen | Joel Edgerton | Hugh Dancy | Ray Winstone | Ray Stevenson | Keira Knightley | Stephen Dillane | Stellan Skarsgård | Til Schweiger | Sean Gilder | Pat Kinevane | Ivano Marescotti | Ken Stott
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian’s weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jude Law | Nicole Kidman | Renée Zellweger | Eileen Atkins | Brendan Gleeson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Natalie Portman | Giovanni Ribisi | Donald Sutherland | Ray Winstone | Kathy Baker | James Gammon | Charlie Hunnam | Jack White | Ethan Suplee
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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Jude Law plays a leading role as Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada, played by Nicole Kidman.