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War
see all genres ›In war films, notice the marked tension between those who give the orders and those who carry them out. Common war motifs include military training, the platoon, civilian casualties, espionage, aviation, the prisoner-of-war and daring escapes. Filmmakers have engaged in recreations of war since at least the Spanish-American War in 1898. Whether deemed propagandistic or antiwar, war films are almost always concerned with power, the nation and moral values.
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Genres / War
SUB-GENRES · Korean War · U.S. Civil War · Vietnam War · WWI · WWII
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The Good Soldier
What does it really mean to be a "good" soldier? Following the journeys of four veterans from three generations of wars, we realize that it means killing without hesitation, never asking questions and accepting innocent casualties as collateral damage.Start your free trial to watch
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Grey Knight
During the Civil War, a Union soldier is recruited to investigate a series of crucifixions by a renegade band of Confederate soldiers. He enlists the help of his old mentor and a mute runaway slave girl, the only witness to the renegade band's attacks. With the addition of some trigger happy Yankees, the brigade is complete....Start your free trial to watch
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Guardian of the Frontier
Three beautiful young college girls embark upon a leisurely boat trip down the river Kolpa, dividing Slovenia and Croatia, at the outset of the Balkan war. They are being watched and followed by a political extremist group called the "Guardians of the Frontier" and layers of social, political and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Guernica Tree
Guernica is both a town that was leveled in a night of horror during World War II and an image, captured in paint by Pablo Picasso and on film by renegade surrealist Fernando Arrabal. THE GUERNICA TREE is Arrabal's most unflinching and personal film. It is a testimony to the horrors of war, the absurd...Start your free trial to watch
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Guerrilla Girl
The story opens in German-occupied Athens during the darkest hours of the war. Civilians are not allowed on the streets after dark. Helmut Dantine plays Demetri Alexander and the first time he appears on screen he is garbed in a Nazi uniform. It is midnight and Demetri prowls the streets of the city. He comes upon a shocking...Start your free trial to watch
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Hanoi, Martes 13
Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to the Vietnamese people transcends its narrow aim as anti-imperialist agit-prop. Patient documentation of local folkways contextualizes the American military actions as brutal, unnatural incursions. Alvarez’s camera was there when the bombs fell on Hanoi and stayed on to witness...Start your free trial to watch
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Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. Millions all across occupied Europe saw his films, the most perfidious of which was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film JEW SÜSS, required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly...Start your free trial to watch
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Hell-Bent for Election
Chuck Jones took a break from directing Looney Tunes cartoons to make this labor-sponsored film for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 Presidential campaign. It was produced by Industrial Film and Poster Service which, later rechristened United Productions of America (UPA), earned animation immortality with...Start your free trial to watch
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The Hero
THE HERO is the story of Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, and now trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together. It is also the story of a city, Luanda, like so many in the Third World, trying to absorb the millions of people displaced by civil strife and global economic...Start your free trial to watch
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His Trust
HIS TRUST, subtitled "the faithful devotion and self- sacrifice of an old negro servant," is something of a race-relations precursor to D.W. Griffith's better-known BIRTH OF A NATION. The aforementioned servant is played in blackface, unfortunately, but the character's portrayal might surprise audiences who have historically...Start your free trial to watch
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His Trust Fulfilled
D. W. Griffith's loose sequel to HIS TRUST features George the "negro servant" who, after looking after the widow and daughter of his slain Confederate master in the first film, is now called upon to look after the girl when her mother dies. George's sacrifices to place the girl in a loving home and...Start your free trial to watch
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Homeland
Five peoples’ fates become entwined when a Marine (Fran Kranz) returns on furlough from Iraq. When no one greets him at the airport, he sets out to look for his father (Whip Hubley) on the wild Northwest coast. His journey becomes harder and harder as it intersects with his step-mother, a bitter Gulf War veteran and the...Start your free trial to watch
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The House with Closed Shutters
D.W. Griffith throws an exciting wrench in this otherwise conventional Civil War melodrama when a proud daughter of the confederacy takes her coward brother’s place on the battlefield. She’s killed in heroic fashion and her mother shutters the house to protect the secret of who maintained the family’s...Start your free trial to watch
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How to Fold a Flag
Five years after filming the now classic Iraq war film GUNNER PALACE, directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein turn their focus on America and follow the same soldiers home as each struggles to define their wartime experience in a country largely indifferent to their service. In North Carolina, Javorn...Start your free trial to watch
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Huns and Hyphens
Larry Semon stars in this wartime slapstick comedy. The ruckus bar where he waits tables seems patriotic enough but it turns out the owner and several of his customers are German spies. In one of his first supporting roles, Stan Laurel makes for a distinctly ineffectual villain. Semon’s careening special...Start your free trial to watch
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If They Tell You I Fell
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell "aventis", stories without beginning or end or a purpose other than providing an outlet for the pent up horror and perversity created by war and its aftermath. These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic...Start your free trial to watch
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In Smog and Thunder
This devastatingly funny satire makes serious fun of traditional war documentaries, while taking aim at America's logo-crazed pop culture. In telling the saga of a fictitious Civil War between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Smogtown vs. Fogtown), the film lampoons the worldwide clash between Elitist New...Start your free trial to watch
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In the Border States
A little girl for the Union shelters a Confederate soldier, thereby initiating a chain of events that symbolically repairs the damages wrought by the Civil War. D.W. Griffith takes advantage of pictorial landscapes to stage his battle scenes and his famous parallel editing works here not only to create...Start your free trial to watch