Tag Archives: prisoner of war

Casualties of War

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8658 votes

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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
Actors
PFC. ErikssonMichael J. Fox
Sgt. Tony MeserveSean Penn
Cpl. Thomas E. ClarkDon Harvey
Also posted in 1989, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

The Great Escape

IMDB Rating: 8.40
37514 votes

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Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.
Actors
Capt. Hilts "The Cooler King"Steve McQueen
Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger"James Garner
Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X"Richard Attenborough
Also posted in 1963, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, War | Comments (1)

Rambo: First Blood Part II

IMDB Rating: 5.40
19158 votes

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John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with Co Bao, and when Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh, Rambo wants revenge, so he starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.
Actors
John J. RamboSylvester Stallone
Col. Samuel TrautmanRichard Crenna
Marshall MurdockCharles Napier
Also posted in 1985, Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

First Blood

IMDB Rating: 7.10
27027 votes

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John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman Rambo's old commander appears to shed light on the situation.
Actors
John J. RamboSylvester Stallone
Col. Samuel TrautmanRichard Crenna
Hope Sheriff Will TeasleBrian Dennehy
Also posted in 1982, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Seven Years in Tibet

IMDB Rating: 6.60
17243 votes

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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.
Actors
Heinrich HarrerBrad Pitt
Peter AufschnaiterDavid Thewlis
Ngawang JigmeB. D. Wong
Also posted in 1997, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Mouse That Roared

IMDB Rating: 7.00
2421 votes

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The best laid plans of mice and men ... A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower's use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR's influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?
Actors
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII/Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy/Tully BascombePeter Sellers
Helen KokintzJean Seberg
Will BuckleyWilliam Hartnell
Also posted in 1959, Comedy, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

The Bridge on the River Kwai

IMDB Rating: 8.40
33567 votes

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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.
Actors
Cmdr. ShearsWilliam Holden
Maj. WardenJack Hawkins
Col. NicholsonAlec Guinness
Also posted in 1957, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

Uncommon Valor

IMDB Rating: 6.00
1741 votes

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A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. Supported his father (a retired military man himself) and a rich businessman whose son was also a POW, the group engages in a dangerous and violent adventure trying to rescue the POWs and at the same time re-direct their lives.
Actors
Col. Cal RhodesGene Hackman
MacGregorRobert Stack
WilkesFred Ward
Also posted in 1983, Action, War | Comments (0)

The Road to Guantanamo

IMDB Rating: 7.70
3095 votes

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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.
Actors
ShafiqRiz Ahmed
RuhelFarhad Harun
MonirWaqar Siddiqui
Also posted in 2006, Documentary, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Great Raid

IMDB Rating: 6.90
4732 votes

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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
Actors
Lt. Colonel MucciBenjamin Bratt
Captain PrinceJames Franco
Captain FisherRobert Mammone
Also posted in 2005, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)
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