A war film, also known as a battle movie - a genre, the plot of which covers military events, details of battles, and is constructed in accordance with history. Battles in such movies finish as in real life, but the end of a movie may be slightly embellished. Type of weapons and uniforms correspond to the situation, even fighting techniques must be characteristic to the historical period.
Genres: War
Starring: Nicholas Kromka, Steve Pemberton, Jeremy Renner, Ray Xifo, Art LaFleur
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
Genres: War
Starring: Debra Messing, Mark Oosterveen, Phillip James, Jeremy Drakes, Jonathan Hansler
A drama set centered around the war between Russia and Georgia, and focused on an American journalist, his cameraman, and a Georgian native who become caught in the crossfire.
Genres: War
Starring: Emmett Alston, Lynne Deragon, Johnny Cole, Michael Hanton, Michael D. Akers
Based on the real-life events of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando during World War II - the inspiration for the SAS - this is a story which takes our heroes from the edge of defeat on the beaches of Dunkirk to the mountains of Norway on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines that, if successful, could change the course of the war.
Genres: War
Starring: Sean Jara, Eileen Grubba, Sean Jara, Eileen Grubba
In the thick of WWII, the 1st Special Service Force unit is called to duty on a secret rescue mission. Challenged by Nazis at every turn, our band of heroes bunker in a bombed out city and race against time to relay a message that is crucial to the Allies invasion of Sicily. Cornered and caught between a rock and a hard place, they only have one option: fire more bullets!
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What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
Genres: War
Starring: Loa Falkman, Martin Eliasson, Siurblyte Gabija, Linas Ginaitis, Eimantas Grutas
Brandon Beckett the son of Master Gunnery Sargent Thomas Beckett while serving as a UN peace keeper and government trainer is assigned the task to rescue a European farmer located in the middle of hostile rebel territory. Upon arrival a mysterious sniper ambushes them, wounding Beckett and killing everyone else. Becket returns to his base and desires to seek revenge by killing the sniper. during his time on the base Beckett becomes involved with British Army Lieutenant Ellen Abramowitz. Beckett Also meets his father's former protégé, sniper instructor Richard Miller.
Genres: War
Starring: Thomas Drewson, Peter Farrelly, Court Young, Cassie Shea Watson, Thomas Drewson
A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
Genres: War
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Towards the end of the Korean War an uneasy ceasefire is ordered, but out on the Eastern front line of the Aerok Hills fierce fighting continues. A race to capture a strategic point to determine a new border between the two Koreas is the ultimate prize. A bullet is then found in the body of dead company commander of the South Korean army. The bullet that killed the company commander belongs to the South Korean army. Lieutenant of the Defense Security Command Kang Eun-Pyo is ordered to go out into the Eastern front line and investigate the murder. When Kang Eun-Pyo arrives in the Aerok Hills he is surprised to find his old friend Kim Soo-Hyeok commanding troops in the Aerok Hills. Kang Eun-Pyo believed Kim Soo-Hyeok was dead. In their younger years, Kim Soo-Hyeok was a meek student, but he eventually became the leader of Aerok company as a lieutenant. The situation in the Aerok company raises many flags in the eyes of Kang Eun-Pyo...
Genres: War
Starring: Richard Anderson, Bruce Headlam, David Carr, Brian Stelter, Brian Stetler
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
Genres: War
Starring: Salem Ludwig, Melika Foroutan, Sidonie Boll, James Alexander, Anna Kapaleva
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day,two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
Genres: War
Starring: Steven Zaillian, Larry Rapp, Teddy Newton, Al Adamson, Ross LaManna
An all-star cast of action-movie icons headline Sylvester Stallones explosive action thriller about a group of hard-nosed mercenaries who are double-crossed during a treacherous mission. Approached by the shadowy Church Bruce Willis to overthrow tyrannical South American dictator General Gaza David Zayas and restore order to the troubled island country of Vilena, stoic soldier of fortune Barney Ross Stallone rounds up an unstoppable team that includes former SAS soldier and blade specialist Lee Christmas Jason Statham; martial arts expert Yin Jet Li; trigger-happy Hale Caesar Terry Crews; and cerebral demolitions expert Toll Road Randy Couture. Traveling to Vilena on a reconnaissance mission with his old pal Christmas, Barney meets their local contact, a cagey guerrilla fighter named Sandra Giselle Itie, and together the trio scopes out the landscape.. It isnt long before Barney and Christmas have discovered that their actual target is not General Gaza but James Monroe Eric Roberts, a former CIA operative who has recently gone rogue. Monroe wont be easy to get to either, because his hulking bodyguard Paine Steve Austin is a force to be reckoned with. When their mission is compromised, Barney and Christmas are forced to flee, leaving Sandra behind to face almost certain death. But Barney isnt the kind of soldier to abandon a mission, or a hostage, and now in order to get the job done hell need the help of his old crew. ~
Genres: War
Starring: Michael Handelman, Yaffit Hallely, Michael Lawson, Barbara Niven, Daniel Parker
After loosing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won.
Genres: War
Starring: S. Scott Bullock, Dervla Kirwan
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year old Sarah and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia is on assignment to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law's childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.
Genres: War
Starring: Jorge DomÃnguez, Louise Brooks, Alfredo Duran, Robert Cushman, Rafael DÃaz-Balart
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Genres: War
Starring: Joey Travolta, Harriet Lenabe, Aubrey Poolo, Khomotso Manyaka, Kgomotso Ditshweni
Seven Australian teenage friends from a small town go on a camping trip to be with nature. During their trip, they see military aircraft fly overhead. What they didn't know was their country was being invaded by another country. Returning home, they discover that they are at war. With no training, they band together to fight the enemy.
Genres: War
Starring: Vic Tablian, Mitsuko Mori, Marc Forster, Khaled Hosseini, Erica Zodtner
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Genres: War
Starring: Kirby Brumfield, Bernard Eylenbosch
The film shows the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which had taken upon the first strike of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941. Story describes the events of the first days of the defense. The film tells about three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again and again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
Genres: War
Starring: Damon Santostefano, Will Lyman, Katia Winter, Scott Michael Underwood, Jackie Evans
While John is on leave in his hometown, he finds Savannah, a college student visiting the town. Although love was unexpected, it doesn't mean they didn't find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives, until his re-signs on due to the 9/11 attack. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other?
Genres: War
Starring: Devender Chaudhary, Roopesh Thapliyal, Kuldeep Sareen, Aureliano Amadei, Francesco Trento
1965 South Vietnam, two American Soldiers find themselves trapped in the Jungle with a War surrounding them. The only thing keeping them alive is the promises in their hearts they kept to their families - to return home at any cost. One Soldier, Private David M. Church awakes from being rendered unconscious to find all of his squad killed by the Vietcong. Three Days by foot, he must travel to the Landing Zone for extraction. In the distant Jungle, Church comes across an injured VC and makes him pay for the lives of his squad. Payment comes in the form of a bullet to the VC shoulder. Moving closer Church finds out the farmer dressed VC is actually an American Tunnel Rat. Mentally broken, Church carries the Tunnel Rat closer to the LZ. Along the way Church finds other American Soldiers in need of help. Death follows as Church makes a gallant effort to save lives in dire desperation to reach the LZ...
Genres: War
Starring: Brady Corbet, Robert Foreman, Michael M. Robin, Tom Alexander, Don Lusk
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sewn on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of life in an occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmartre, where they've taken shelter. At least that's what they think, until that morning on July 16th 1942, when their fragile happiness is toppled over. From the Vélodrome D'Hiver, where 13 000 Jews are crammed, to the camp of Beaune-La-Rolande, from Vichy to the terrace of the Berghof, La Rafle follows the real destinies of the victims and the executioners. Of those who orchestrated it all. Of those who trusted them. Of those who fled. Of those who opposed them. Every character in this film has existed. Every event, even the most extreme, transpired on that summer of 1942.
Genres: War
Starring: Steven Nelson, Natalie Martinez, Adam Dakin, Jack Lewis, Lewis Copson
A Taliban member who lives in Afghanistan is taken captive by the Americans after killing three American soldiers. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know.
Genres: War
Starring: Balthazar Getty, Debbie Fan, Doria Cook-Nelson
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
Genres: War
Starring: John Coffman, Alexa Havins, Lord Chaz, Jennifer Yuh, Mike Bell
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Camp Victory, Afghanistan is the true story of the American Exit Strategy. Using 300 hours of footage shot over the course of three years, the film follows a battle-tested Afghan General and the steady stream of U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to train the men of his newly formed battalion. It is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military-- but it is also a story about friendship and the unlikely bonds that form across cultural, political and social barriers.
Genres: War
Starring: Betsy Russell, Barbara Garrick, Gaetano Jones, Gene Pyrz, David Sutherland
1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside in the time before the beginning of the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story revolves around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional way of life. The eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress who is in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence, but her seemingly perfect life begins to dramatically unravel when she stumbles across secret recordings of the pro-appeasement movement. While trying to discover the origin of these recordings, dark secrets are revealed which lead to the death of a great friend. As war breaks out Anne discovers the truth and flees to London to try to confirm her suspicions, but she is caught and imprisoned and only then does she finally begin to discover how badly she has been betrayed.
Genres: War
Starring: Dustin Zahursky, Christina Rae Stewart, Redd Smith, Michael Ho, Dr. Ken Eckhert
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Themes and stories of war films may be different, as well as the arena. Some war movies tell about ancient wars, others - about battles of the Middle Ages, there are also films about military events of XVII - XX century. But a special role belongs to those war films which describe the terrible wars of the twentieth century - World War I and World War II. A special importance in a good war movie is attached to the characters and costumes to match the historical circumstances of described events. Some war movies focus the viewer's attention on the battles, others are based on the description of the personal life of the main hero, and the battle is described only as a part of the plot.