War Movie Genre
In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is resting in his hotel room, waiting for a mission to be given to him by the United States Army. A mission that no one else has ever been given before. The mission is to travel upriver to assassinate a colonel, […]
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Michael, Steven and Nicky are three best friends who enjoy going deer hunting often. These men get enlisted to head to Vietnam to fight for their country and celebrate with a farewell party, as well as Nicky marrying a pregnant woman named “Angela.” After the horrors during the war and edge-grabbing games of Russian Roulette
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Newspaper correspondent Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) is startled to get a visit from a man in miserable state, who reveals to be Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine), who, with his army veteran buddy in crime and adventure, Daniel “Danny” Dravot (Sean Connery), set out to make their fortune in Kafiristan, a backward Himalayan tribal warfare zone.
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In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma Cota travels with his men onto Omaha Beach. With much effort, and lost life, they get off the beach, travelling deep
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The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. Rewatching this movie, I realize how dead wrong I was about it. Not only did I not put it the TOP 10 movies of 2023 list, but
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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
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The movie is based on a true story of Nazi Czech businessman 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
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During World War II, Lt. Aldo Raine leads his squad of Jewish-American soldiers behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France. Their job is simple: kill the enemy. They also have a particularly violent approach to what they do scalping their victims. Soon they are known and feared throughout the German army. In Paris, Shosanna runs
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The movie begins in late May 1940. Already eight months into World War II, Germany’s formidable army sweeps into Belgium, and then, France is next. As a result, the outnumbered Allied Forces collapse under the sheer volume of the invader, and 400,000 troops find themselves with their backs to the cold North Sea, stranded on
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This movie is based on the autobiography “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,” Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish that plays the piano at a radio station, sees his hometown Warsaw slowly change as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw ghetto, but is
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