Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Flags of Our Fathers

Rating:7.2/10
Release Date:20 October 2006 (USA)
Genre: War
Plot: The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Patriot


Rating: 6.9/10
Release Date:11 August 2000 (India)
Genre: War
Plot: Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Braveheart

Rating: 8.4/10
Release Date: 24 May 1995 (USA)
Genre: Action
Plot: William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Big Red One


Rating:7.3/10
Release Date:28 May 1980 (France)
Genre:War
Plot:The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.

The Thin Red Line


Rating:7.5/10
Release Date:15 January 1999 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Full Metal Jacket


Rating:8.4/10
Release Date:26 June 1987 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam

Das Boot


Rating:8.5/10
Release Date:10 February 1982 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

platoon


Rating:8.2/10
Release Date:24 December 1986 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Letters from Iwo Jima


Rating:8.1/10
Release Date:12 January 2007 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Glory


Rating:8.0/10
Release Date:15 December 1989 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Schindler's List

Rating:8.9/10
Release Date:15 December 1993 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Pianist

IMDB Rating:8.5/10
Release Date:3 January 2003 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Tears of the Sun

Rating:6.4/10
Release Date:7 March 2003 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Bruce Willis plays a Special-Ops commander who leads his team into the jungle of Nigeria to rescue a doctor played by Monica Belluci who will only go with them if they agree to rescue 70 refugees too.

Pearl Harbor

Rating:5.4
Release Date:25 May 2001 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Enemy at the Gates

Rating:7.4/10
Release Date:16 March 2001 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Jarhead

Rating:7.2/10
Release Date:4 November 2005 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Hurt Locker

Rating: 8.0/10
Release Date: 10 October 2008 (Italy)
Genre: War
Plot:Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Inglourious Basterds

Rating:8.5/10
Release Date:2 October 2009 (India)
Genre:War
Plot:In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers

Monday, December 7, 2009

Valkyrie

Rating:7.3/10
Release Date:25 December 2008 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Behind Enemy Lines

Rating:6.1/10
Release Date:30 November 2001 (USA)
Genre:War
Plot:A Navy navigator is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him.