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Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, military |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | drama, documentary, military, biography |
Country | Germany, United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:20 |
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | USA, Bulgaria |
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | Belarus, Russia |
Duration | 02:11 |
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:06 |
Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.
Mark | imdb: 3.4 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, biography, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:14 |
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, military, biography |
Country | Spain, USA, United Kingdom |
When Andrew Briggman—a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan—witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic Sergeant, he considers reporting them to higher-ups. However, the heavily-armed and increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear that he'll be the next target.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:34 |
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, military, biography, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:10 |
The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
Mark | imdb: 4.1 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | USA |
Rusty Wittenburg is a Navy SEAL struggling to balance his family life and his job. He fights daily to maintain the line between reality and the nightmares his PTSD conjures up for him. Dedicated to his team and his mission, he is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow brothers and teammates.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | Japan, USA |
Duration | 03:00 |
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, military, history |
Country | France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA |
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | action, drama, western, military, history |
Country | USA |
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy boat in time of war. It also relates the human side of the story relating the uncommon and extaordinary temperament of the 9 men who led the Hunley into history and died valiantly accomplishing this feat.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:55 |
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | action, drama, military, history |
Country | India |
Duration | 02:24 |
Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 03:44 |
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | drama, western, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:17 |
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Poland |
Duration | 02:07 |
A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | action, drama, military |
Country | USA, China, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:14 |
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama, adventure, military |
Country | USA |
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | Finland, Belgium, Iceland |
Duration | 01:36 |
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | action, drama, military |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:56 |
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, biography, history |
Country | USA, Sweden |
Duration | 02:21 |
Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | Japan, USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.