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Based on true events, this intense film is a vivid account of a renegade American journalist, his cameraman and a local woman caught behind enemy lines, and determined to not only survive, but tell the world what was happening, during the swift but devastating 5-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008.
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A city zoo in an eastern European country is abandoned when war ravages the city. Ludovic, a cynical ex-communist with a troubled past, and the vet decide to stay and take care of the animals despite the bombing and lack of supplies. Partisans soon take the Indian vet away, leaving Ludovic alone to take care of the animals. That is, until he discovers a wounded 10-year old boy hiding in the compound.
5) Swing shift
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A film about World War II that examines what happened to the men and women in the factories making weapons rather than following the troops.
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One of our aircraft is missing: The crew of an RAF bomber is shot down in the Netherlands and struggles to escape capture by the Germans. Academy Award nomination. (1941) with Hugh Williams & Peter Ustinov.
Spitfire: The story of Reginald J. Mitchell, the man who designed the ace British fighter plane, Spitfire. The Spitfire became one of the Allies' most valuable World War II assets. (1942) with David Niven & Leslie Howard.
We dive at dawn: The...
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Corregidor: Doctors on Corregidor sort out a love triangle while fighting the invading Japanese forces. (1943) with Otto Kruger & Donald Woods.
The immortal battalion: An army officer shapes a unit of British recruits into a crack battalion to face Rommel's North Africa Korps. (1944) with David Niven, Stanley Holloway & Peter Ustinov. Directed by Carol Reed.
The big lift: When the Russians blockade Berlin, British and American airmen receive supplies...
10) Darling Lili
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A German spy masquerades as a singer during World War I to obtain secrets from an American pilot and she begins to fall in love with him.
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The story of about three million soldiers who fought a war, no longer remembering the reason, and died, wishing for the end of it, while negotiations for peace remained unresolved for 25 months following June 1951. It is estimated that the Korean War left four million dead. The war continued for 37 months, and the armistice negotiations continued for two years and two months during the war. The entire military force was concentrated in a battle for...
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The crew of HMS Submarine Trojan locate a mine that they cannot avoid. The explosion plunges them to the sea bed, and the Captain assembles the survivors to create an escape plan. Some will escape but others must wait until rescuers arrive and raise the vessel. Meanwhile, a storm is brewing.
13) Look, stranger
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Set in the urban wastelands and desolate forests of an unidentified world at war, this is the story of a woman making a dangerous journey home from a refugee camp. When her guide is killed on the road in an arbitrary act of violence, the woman is forced to rely on an angry anddisillusioned carrier, who agrees to travel with her for a price. On her journey, the woman is forced to struggle with the realities of war, and amind damaged and haunted by...
15) 49th parallel
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Canadian Air Force bombers trap and sink a German U-Boat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, leaving six Nazi "supermen" stranded ashore. These men take over an Eskimo village, then set out on a violent odyssey across Canada, trying to evade capture.
16) My way
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Inspired by a true story. Jun Shik works for Tatsuo's grandfather's farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two are in rivalry. But war breaks out and they both are forced to enlist in the army. Tatsuo becomes the head of defense in Jun Shik's unit and he devises a scheme but fails. Jun Shik and Tatsuo are captured by the...
17) Amen
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An officer of the Third Reich tries to inform Pope Pius XII of Hitler's Final Solution with the help of a Jesuit priest.
18) Catch-22
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A United States airman tries to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase.
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