Plot:
In the midst of African social horror, a love between two volunteers fades out and is reborn.
Tag: War
The Sound Barrier 1952 • Movie
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Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Valley of the Dead 2022 • Movie
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Months after bloody combats leave behind thousands of dead in the trenches. Jan Lozano, Captain of the Fifth Brigade has fallen prisoner by an opponent’s platoon along with a young driver while carrying out a mission that has been entrusted to him. The possibility of dying executed will soon be overtaken when a new unknown enemy arises. Both rival sides must unite and set their mutual hate aside in order to survive.
Son of Saul 2015 • Movie
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A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki 2019 • Movie
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Japan builds its first aircraft carrier, the Ibuki, to deal with escalating world tensions.
The Man Who Would Be King 1975 • Movie
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Two former British soldiers in 1880s India decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
The Rebels of PT-218 2021 • Movie
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PT-218: THE REBELS OF WWII not only tells a true story, but gives us never seen details of what happened in 1943. At the height of WWII, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a deadly battleground as an American torpedo boat fights against the constant bombardment of German forces.
March or Die 1977 • Movie
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During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster’s (Gene Hackman’s) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster’s small garrison.
Children of War 2014 • Movie
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Would you go to war for peace? A war child’s search for acceptance and a nation inundated in blood.
How I Live Now 2013 • Movie
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An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
Once in the Desert 2022 • Movie
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The ancient Syrian city Palmyra has recently been liberated from ISIS.
American Renegades 2018 • Movie
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A team of Navy SEALs discover an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake of Nazi stolen Gold. An updated Kellys heroes.
Rio Lobo 1970 • Movie
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After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally’s unit and the loss of a close friend.
Heroes and Cowards 2021 • Movie
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Lea Anderson is a soldier in the British Special Forces, but has now come to doubt her career choice. The secrecy, bloodshed, and lack of a normal life are too much for the young woman and she finally decides to quit–but not before going on one more mission in the Middle East to make her team and her stepbrother Paul get through it safely. When their unit runs into an ambush set by the terrorist they are supposed to kill, Lea and Paul get captured and forced to make a life-and-death decision: one of them gets to leave, the other will die. In a moment of weakness, Paul bails, leaving Lea in the terrorist’s hands, sure to face her Maker. Years later she returns to the UK, not as a former hostage, but as a soldier fighting the establishment that made her who she now is: a highly-trained avenging angel.
Westfront 1918 1930 • Movie
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A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Land of Mine 2015 • Movie
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In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
The Resistance Fighter 2019 • Movie
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Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
City of Ghosts 2017 • Movie
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A documentary that follows the efforts of “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
Behind the Lines 1998 • Movie
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Based on Pat Barker’s novel of the same name, “Regeneration” tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England’s most important WW1 poets.
The Blue Max 1966 • Movie
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A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
A Tale of Two Cities 1980 • TvMovie
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An ex-aristocrat from France and an alcoholic English lawyer find themselves crossing paths and in love with the same woman during the French Revolution.
Ready for War 2019 • Movie
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Andrew Renzi’s sheds light on the lives of three of the estimated thousands of immigrants who volunteer for service in the American military, yet find themselves deported from the US once their tours of duty are over.
The Opium War 1997 • Movie
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Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of opium by the Chinese, England declares war since the burned opium was the property of the British commercial attache who had bought it from the British merchants.
The Man Who Saved the World 2015 • Movie
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Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
The Flowers of War 2011 • Movie
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An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
The Red and the White 1968 • Movie
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During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army – aided by Hungarian Communists – and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.
The Prosecutor the Defender the Father and His Son 2016 • Movie
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The Hague, The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Two ambitious lawyers face each other in the trial of Milorad Krstic, who’s accused of committing war crimes as a commander in the Bosnian war. The defender, Mikhail Finn, has managed to refute all the accusations against his client. Convinced of Krstic’s guilt, Catherine Lagrange, the prosecutor, summons a young man with incriminating evidence against Krstic. He claims to have been abandoned by his parents as a child and to have been one of Krstic’s soldiers. Defender Finn investigates in order to verify the witness’ testimony–and soon encounters the young man’s family. Inspired by a true story.