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 · U.S. Civil War · Vietnam War · WWI · WWII
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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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Marwencol
Outside a small bar in Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp was beaten nearly to death, his memories wiped away. Seeking recovery, he builds Marwencol, a miniature World War II-era town filled with doll versions of his friends, fantasies and even his attackers. As he documents the town’s dramas...Watch Movie
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The Eye of Vichy
THE EYE OF VICHY is a brilliantly chosen compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War II. From the small town of Vichy in central France, Field Marshall Petain's puppet government worked with their...Watch Movie
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Double-Headed Eagle
THE DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933, the classic documentary by Lutz Becker. A fascinating experiment in documentary filmmaking, THE DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE charts the stealthy rise of the Nazi party in the wake of World War I, as witnessed from the...Watch Movie
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The Great Man
An intimate drama starring newcomer Surho Sugaipov and Dardenne brothers' regular Jérémie Rénier, THE GREAT MAN is a powerful story of war, immigration, friendship and solidarity. Hamilton and Markov are about to finish five years of service in the Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting...Watch Movie
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Strange Deception
A top-prize winner at the Cannes and Berlin festivals, this striking drama (originally known as THE FORBIDDEN CHRIST) is largely forgotten today. But it survives, fortunately, as a unique bridge between Italy's postwar neorealist cinema and the more stylized, philosophical and...Watch Movie
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Hannah Arendt
In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker...Watch Movie
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The Stranger
Having directed two undisputed masterpieces, CITIZEN KANE and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics THE LADY FROM...Watch Movie
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Black Sun
An uncompromising portrayal of the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army upon the Chinese military and civilian population of Nanking during the occupation of the city. Hailed by critics as one of the most disturbing films ever released, BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE is...Watch Movie
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The Architecture of Doom
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside...Watch Movie
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Lore
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interned 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 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
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The Last Sentence
Academy Award®-nominated director Jan Troell, one of Sweden's most acclaimed filmmakers, directs the biopic THE LAST SENTENCE. Set against the backdrop of WWII, THE LAST SENTENCE is based on the life of crusading journalist Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief of one of Sweden's...Watch Movie
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Sunflower
An Academy Award® nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), SUNFLOWER is a grandly emotional melodrama featuring a stunning performance by Sophia Loren. In another of the actress's great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (THE BICYCLE THIEF), Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian...Watch Movie
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish...Watch Movie
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I am Cuba
Started only a week after the Cuban missile crisis and designed to be Cuba's answer to both Sergei Eisenstein's propaganda masterpiece, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, and Jean-Luc Godard's freewheeling romance, BREATHLESS, I AM CUBA turned out to be something quite unique (a wildly schizophrenic...Watch Movie
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Saviors in the Night
SAVIORS IN THE NIGHT is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from...Watch Movie
