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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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
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Light Up the Sky
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy-drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogelby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey...Watch Movie
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The Ravagers
It's WWII in the Philippines and the last of the Filipino guerrillas take a stand against the Japanese forces on their island. Soldiers sent by the Japanese Imperial High Command to retrieve a great treasure of gold from its hiding place, take over the island and torture the residents, including...Watch Movie
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The Unbeliever
This was perhaps the last Thomas Edison film ever to be released and features Erich von Stroheim as a German army officer who enjoys killing old women and children. He would reprise and modify this role in Jean Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. Besides the wartime propagandistic clichés, the film offers a...Watch Movie
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Lost in the Stratosphere
James Cagney was such a big star by 1934 that producers were eager to find less pricey equivalents, notably Jimmy's younger brother William, a lookalike who made his brief bid for stardom in two "B" productions that year. He plays Tom "Soapy" Cooper, a U.S. Army Air Corps...Watch Movie
