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Saving Private Ryan

IMDB Rating: 8.40
172681 votes

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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Actors
Captain John H. MillerTom Hanks
Sergeant Mike HorvathTom Sizemore
Pvt. Richard ReibenEdward Burns
Also posted in 1998, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

Too Late the Hero

IMDB Rating: 6.60
739 votes

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A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heros' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
Actors
Pvt. Tosh HearneMichael Caine
Lt. (j.g.) Sam LawsonCliff Robertson
Pvt. Jock ThorntonIan Bannen
Also posted in 1970, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

28 Days Later…

IMDB Rating: 7.30
44477 votes

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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.
Actors
ActivistBindu De Stoppani
ActivistAlex Palmer
ActivistJukka Hiltunen
Also posted in 2002, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (22)

Windtalkers

IMDB Rating: 5.80
10912 votes

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In the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, immune to the code breakers of the Japanese. The answer is soon discovered in the ancient language of the Navajo. Enlisted into the Marine Corps are several "Windtalkers" who are deployed to frontline areas in the Pacific, to use their language as an impossible-to-crack secret code. A drawback, however, is that the U.S. military soon puts forth a directive that the Windtalkers must never be captured alive by the enemy, so additional Marines are assigned to make certian that this directive is carried out to the letter.
Actors
Sergeant Joe EndersNicolas Cage
Private Ben YahzeeAdam Beach
Gunnery Sergeant HjelmstadPeter Stormare
Also posted in 2002, Action, Drama, War | Comments (11)

City of Ghosts

IMDB Rating: 5.70
1628 votes

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A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he's been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground.
Actors
JimmyMatt Dillon
MarvinJames Caan
SophieNatascha McElhone
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

No Man’s Land

IMDB Rating: 8.00
12132 votes

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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along.
Actors
CikiBranko Djuric
NinoRene Bitorajac
CeraFilip Sovagovic
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

The English Patient

IMDB Rating: 7.10
27970 votes

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Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
Actors
Count Laszlo de AlmásyRalph Fiennes
HanaJuliette Binoche
David CaravaggioWillem Dafoe
Also posted in 1996, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

The Killing Fields

IMDB Rating: 7.90
10758 votes

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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
Actors
Sydney SchanbergSam Waterston
Dith PranHaing S. Ngor
Alan 'Al' Rockoff, PhotographerJohn Malkovich
Also posted in 1984, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (0)