Combat
see all genres ›Relatively few spectators would like to actually be in the middle of its reality but the dramatic portrayal of military warfare has long been a popular form of action cinema as well as a means during actual wartime of stirring popular support for its uniformed citizens' sacrifices.
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Zulu Dawn
Burt Lancaster, Peter O’Toole, Simon Ward, Bob Hoskins and Sir John Mills lead an all-star cast in the shocking true story of The Battle of Isandlwana: In January 1879, arrogant officials of the British colony of Natal, Africa issued a list of unauthorized ultimatums to the Zulu Nation. When the...Watch Movie
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BMX Bandits
Future Academy Award®-winner Nicole Kidman made her movie debut at sixteen years old as the pouffy-haired star of this action/comedy about a cache of stolen walkie-talkies, three BMX-riding friends and the ruthless bank robbers who will pursue them through every graveyard, shopping mall,...Watch Movie
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City of Life and Death
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, a stunning depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is "a film strong enough to change your life" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Director Lu Chuan based the film on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the massacre, meticulously...Watch Movie
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The Wild Geese
Screen legends Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris star as a team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: Recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum...Watch Movie
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Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
When sexy Ceebee Beaumont, main squeeze of rockabilly superstar Lonnie Lord, is kidnapped by the Chain Gang, Lonnie and his friend Titus Twimbly leap into leotards and swing into action as Rat Pfink and Boo Boo, champions of downtrodden women and children everywhere! The...Watch Movie
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Fulltime Killer
Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau re-teams with directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai for a spectacular no holds barred cinematic extravaganza. Lau plays Tok, a flamboyant new assassin who sets out to become the Number One Killer by taking down O, a disciplined and isolated killer. Staged with one...Watch Movie
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Omar
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices...Watch Movie
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Six-String Samurai
The Six-String Samurai is Buddy, a mysterious and powerful hero of the post-apocalyptic future, who must fight his way to Lost Vegas and ditch a bothersome orphan kid if he's ever to become the next King of Rock 'n' Roll. Along the way, they encounter bounty-hunting bowlers, a...Watch Movie
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The Kill Team
Equal parts infuriating and illuminating, THE KILL TEAM looks at the devastating moral tensions that tear at soldiers' psyches through the lens of one highly personal and emotional story. Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father...Watch Movie
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I Declare War
Armed with nothing more than twigs, their imaginations and a simple set of rules, a group of twelve-year-olds engaged in a lively game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods start dangerously blurring the lines between make-believe and reality. The youthful innocence of the game gradually...Watch Movie
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The Red Baron
Europe, 1916. Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is, at the age of just 24, the crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces: a legend in his own time, a hero at home and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in...Watch Movie
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The Cult of the Evil Geezers
Christopher Coppola's THE CULT OF THE EVIL GEEZERS is no doubt the first trailer-trash comedy about demonic cult worshippers and racial intolerance. When the owner of an Afrocentric cafe (Andre Ware) and a bigoted redneck (Steve Hedden) discover they've inherited property from...Watch Movie
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The Raiders of Leyte Gulf
This rugged location-shot war actioner dramatizes events leading up to one of the key Pacific battles between Allied and Japanese forces. U.S. Army intelligence officer Major Wilson (played by Jennings Sturgeon, an expat painter, actor and former U.S. military officer who died...Watch Movie
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Bellflower
Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting...Watch Movie
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The Walls of Hell
This gritty, atmospheric war movie dramatizes a chapter of World War II history in which 10,000 Japanese soldiers, fearing execution if they surrendered, disobeyed their own superiors' orders and barricaded themselves in Manila's Intramuros section along with a thousand or so...Watch Movie
