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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...
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The North Star: A Russian village defends itself against the Germans. (1943) with Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan and Walter Huston.
Commandos (color): Setting up the Allied invasion in North Africa. (1968) with Lee Van Cleef and Jack Kelly.
Five for hell: Suicide mission behind German lines. (1967) with Klaus Kinski.
3) King Rat
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In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
4) Jarhead
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Presents the true struggles of Marine infantry soldier Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, from his days in training to the Gulf War.
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In the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko are orphaned after their mother is killed during an air raid by American forces in Kobe, Japan. After having a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency funds and rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko must struggle to survive their hardships as well as those of their country, which is...
6) Defiance
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The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
8) Platoon
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Emotional look at the war in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a young man who discovers that the Viet Cong are not the only enemies he has to fight.
9) Red dawn
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When Communist forces invade America, a group of teenagers form a guerrilla unit behind enemy lines.
10) Blood Alley
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A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
11) Bravo two zero
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This is based on the true story of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq during the Gulf War. An eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines with the mission to take out scud missile sight systems. Finding themselves surrounded and their communications cut off, the team heads toward the Syrian border. Four of the eight soldiers are captured and tortured. Out of an eight-man crew, only five returned alive.
12) Paths of glory
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Based on a true story which occurred in the French Army in 1916. When a regiment fails in its attempt to attack a German position, three men stand trial for cowardice.
13) Atonement
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In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
17) Rambo
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Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo accepts the offer and takes the missionaries up the river. When...
18) Tigerland
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Just released from the base stockade, recruit Roland Bozz joins a platoon of young soldiers preparing to ship out to Vietnam. His independence and outright defiance draw fire from his own men as well as commanding officers, but when the platoon is sent to Tigerland, a hellish training ground, Bozz's leadership and loyalty bring his men together, triggering extraordinary consequences.
20) Fury
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April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
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