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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SUB-GENRES · Korean War · U.S. Civil War · Vietnam War · WWI · WWII
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Senso
This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars Alida Valli as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, during the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant,...Watch Movie
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In the Fog
It is 1942 and the western edge of the USSR is under German occupation where local partisans are waging a brutal war against their foreign enemies. Sushenya, an innocent rail worker, is arrested with a band of saboteurs when a train is derailed not far from his village. The German officer decides...Watch Movie
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Verdun
In order to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I, Léon Poirier recreated the battle of Verdun and inscribed in history the lives of symbolic characters from both sides of the front. VERDUN was edited in three distinct parts (Might, Hell and Fate) and is an epic film of great...Watch Movie
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Robot Wars
Toward the end of the 21st Century two great powers dominated the world, a division that resulted from a thirty-year war known as the War of the hemispheres. The war came to an end with the creation of giant, indestructible mega-robots designed for military missions and balance of power. With the...Watch Movie
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Battle for Haditha
Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation. Their violent house-searches lead to the massacre of twenty-four people, many of whom are women...Watch Movie
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From Two Worlds as a Keepsake
1988, in a multi-ethnic town in Soviet Azerbaijan, eight-year old Ashen's divorced Armenian parents are in an emotional tug-of-war over which of them will raise their child. Ashen's custody becomes a complex matter when family tragedy and political danger impact decisions made...Watch Movie
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In the Battlefields
Daughter of self-destructive parents, twelve-year-old Lina doesn't show much interest in the war taking place around her in 1980's Beirut. Instead, Siham, her aunt's beautiful adolescent maid is the focal point of her rebellious and neglected childhood. As the basis for the...Watch Movie
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100 Days Before the Command
Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and...Watch Movie
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Free Men
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities,...Watch Movie
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Katyń
Among the ample savageries of World War II is the less well-known roundup and murder of an estimated 20,000 Poles in 1940. Military officers, teachers, artists and scholars (essentially the country’s entire intellectual elite) were deported, executed and dumped in mass graves in the silent frozen...Watch Movie
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The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, the acclaimed master of Soviet cinema, takes a moving and personal turn with this striking meditation on life in Russia during the bleak days of WWII. THE MIRROR is not just the display of a film director at the peak of his unique powers. As an homage to the innocence of...Watch Movie
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A Walk in the Sun
American soldiers hit the beach at Salerno and begin their trek across the countryside toward the Nazi-occupied farmhouse they've been ordered to destroy. These are infantrymen who aren't thinking about fighting bravely enough to become officers, just living long enough to...Watch Movie
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Dieter Dengler knew he needed to fly from the moment when, as a little boy in war-torn Germany, he witnessed a fighter jet nearly clip his apartment building like some "almighty being." Within twenty years he was flying missions in Vietnam for the United States military. He...Watch Movie
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Lore
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. Led by...Watch Movie
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The Man Who Lies
On the run from pursuing soldiers, Bois finds refuge in a small European town which, years before, was home to Jean, a resistance fighter hunted by Nazis. Boris ingratiates himself in the community, weaving elaborate tales of his encounters with the martyred rebel, and thereby...Watch Movie
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Thunderbolt
Made in 1944 but not publicly shown until 1946, well after the war's end, this is one of the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic of the many movies produced by the U.S. military during WWII. After a brief introduction read by James Stewart, we're plunged into the day-to-day reality of U.S. Air Force...Watch Movie
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Go West
Set during the brutal ethnic wars of the 1990s, GO WEST follows the story of two young lovers, Kenan a Muslim cellist and Milan a Serbian student, as they try to flee the fighting around them and daily discrimination they face. As Serb aggression persists in Sarajevo, Kenan’s faith makes him a...Watch Movie
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The Rape of Europa
THE RAPE OF EUROPA is an epic journey through seven countries, into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in...Watch Movie
