Plot:
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka’s wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka’s life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
Tag: War
Jim: The James Foley Story 2016 • Movie
Plot:
An in-depth look at the life and work of American journalist James Foley, who was killed by ISIS terrorists in 2014.
Chicogrande 2010 • Movie
Plot:
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa’s head and he’s gonna get it. The “Punitive Expedition” proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War 1999 • TvMovie
Plot:
Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Ironclads 1991 • TvMovie
Plot:
A naval battle between two large ships: the “Monitor” and the “Merrimack”.
Kampf um Rom II – Der Verrat 1969 • Movie
Plot:
Cethegus starts the war between the Ostrogoths and their queen, Amalasuntha, and the Byzantine Empire, but when the Byzantine army invades Italy to reconquer Rome, romance prevails and threatens to ruin the plans for Cethegus.
Comandante 2023 • Movie
Plot:
Salvatore Todaro is the captain of the Cappellini. He leads in his own way. The bow is reinforced with steel in the off chance an opportunity to ram a ship arises and his crew is armed with daggers should a hand-to-hand battle occur.
Jackboots on Whitehall 2011 • Movie
Plot:
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full-on invasion.
Wyszynski – zemsta czy przebaczenie 2021 • Movie
Plot:
This film tells the story lieutenant Stefan Wyszynski (Ksawery Szlenkier) – the future Primate of Poland, unknown to a wider audience. It is 1944, in the heat of war, we meet a young priest Wyszynski, who has recently been appointed chaplain of the branch in the Kampinos Forest. It is also active in the insurgent hospital. Everyone knows him there under the pseudonym “Radwan III”. The reality of the war is for Fr. Wyszynski, a forge of character, a fight for hope and love, especially against enemies. How are we to forgive in everyday warfare? The hero asks, turning to the Source of his vocation.
Diamonds of the Night 1968 • Movie
Plot:
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man’s struggle to preserve human dignity.
For Those We Love 2007 • Movie
Plot:
Young Japanese pilots are trained to sink Allied warships by flying into them.
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust 2013 • TvMovie
Plot:
The moral courage of an influential few in the Philippines saved the lives of 1,300 Jewish men, women, and children in Nazi Europe in the days leading to World War II.
Culloden 1968 • TvMovie
Plot:
The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.
Flight from Ashiya 1964 • Movie
Plot:
A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
Attack on Darfur 2010 • Movie
Plot:
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Cobra Mission 1986 • Movie
Plot:
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter’s just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who’s quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
The Chalice of Blood 2022 • Movie
Plot:
Finnish volunteers join an SS treasure hunt in 1943, orchestrated by a Vatican bishop. As the journey leads them ever deeper behind the eastern front, Myllykoski, a would-be priest, has to decide if the mission is a calling or a curse.
Five Graves to Cairo 1943 • Movie
Plot:
In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel’s headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
Twelve O’Clock High 1950 • Movie
Plot:
A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
War Arrow 1954 • Movie
Plot:
Major Howell Brady arrives in Indian Territory in hopes of recruiting peaceful, relocated Seminoles to help the army fight rampaging Kiowas.
The Wakhan Front 2015 • Movie
Plot:
While on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu’s men start vanishing one by one without explanation.
Come See the Paradise 1991 • Movie
Plot:
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
The Chessplayer 2017 • Movie
Plot:
Leaping from Spain’s civil war to German occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison in Paris.
Hellfighters 1968 • Movie
Plot:
Divorced Chance Buckman fights international oil rig fires. An injury brings his daughter and to his dismay, she weds Greg, a team member. Chance gets a desk-job, so he and Madelyn remarry, but a Venezuelan oil rig fire reunites them.
Innocent Voices 2005 • Movie
Plot:
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980’s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
General Della Rovere 1959 • Movie
Plot:
Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
World War Four 2019 • Movie
Plot:
The Nuclear thriller that predicted the Ukraine war three years before it happened. The most chillingly real nuclear war film of the last ten years.