Tag Archives: War

Missing in America

IMDB Rating: 6.40
699 votes

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The veteran Vietnam lieutenant Jake Neeley lives alone in a cabin in the woods and his only contact with the civilization is through the owner of a small store, Kate, who periodically supplies his provisions. The solitary Jake helps other lonely veterans that live in the forest giving them part of his supplies and receiving wood in return. When Jake is visited by the former private of his platoon Henry R. Hocknell, who has lung cancer, Henry asks him to raise his Vietnamese daughter Lenny Hocknell. The widow Henry has no family and he will be subjected to a severe treatment of cancer. The reluctant Jake says no, but Henry leaves his daughter and vanishes. Along his contact with the young girl, Jake improves his behavior until a tragedy happens.
Actors
Jake NeeleyDanny Glover
RedRon Perlman
KateLinda Hamilton
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Lawrence of Arabia

IMDB Rating: 8.60
36024 votes

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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
Actors
T.E. LawrencePeter O'Toole
Prince FeisalAlec Guinness
Auda abu TayiAnthony Quinn
Also posted in 1962, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

King Arthur

IMDB Rating: 6.10
19092 votes

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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian's weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans.
Actors
ArthurClive Owen
LancelotIoan Gruffudd
TristanMads Mikkelsen
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

IMDB Rating: 3.50
6070 votes

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After a violent combat against the bugs in their planet, with many casualties of humans under the command of a coward officer, a group of troopers looks for shelter in an abandoned military post. The psychic Pvt. Lei Sahara (Colleen Porch) finds and releases Capt. V.J. Dax (Richard Burgi), who was left behind locked in a cell by his troop, after killing a general. Dax and two privates, in a daring mission, save Gen. J. G. Shepherd (Ed Lauter) and some soldiers from an attack of the bugs, and Shepherd gives him a command position. While waiting for rescue, some troopers are invaded through their mouths by small bugs that took control of their brains. When Gen. Shepherd is possessed by one creature, Dax and Sahara try to prevent him getting back to the Federation.
Actors
Pvt. Ottis BrickBilly Brown
Capt. V.J. DaxRichard Burgi
Pvt. Billie OtterCy Carter
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Sands of Iwo Jima

IMDB Rating: 7.10
3100 votes

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John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker's CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker's increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker's relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima.
Actors
Sgt. John M. StrykerJohn Wayne
Pfc. Peter ConwayJohn Agar
Pfc. Al ThomasForrest Tucker
Also posted in 1949, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Wing Commander

IMDB Rating: 3.60
7352 votes

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In the mid-27th century, the Terran Confederation is at war with the felinoid Kilrathi Empire. After destroying a Terran base, the Kilrathi have seized a NAVCOM unit with the hyperspace jump coordinates to Earth. With Terran reinforcements scheduled to arrive two hours after the Kilrathi hit Earth, it falls upon the starfighter carrier TCS Tiger Claw to keep the Kilrathi busy.
Actors
Matthew Lillard
Tchéky Karyo
David Warner
Also posted in 1999, Action, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

1941

IMDB Rating: 5.50
9282 votes

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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.
Actors
Samuel Fuller
John Candy
Warren Oates
Also posted in 1979, Comedy | Comments (0)

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 | Comments (0)

The 300 Spartans

IMDB Rating: 6.60
2162 votes

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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
Actors
King LeonidasRichard Egan
Themistocles of AthensRalph Richardson
EllasDiane Baker
Also posted in 1962, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Testament

IMDB Rating: 7.40
1618 votes

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Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.
Actors
Carol WetherlyJane Alexander
Tom WetherlyWilliam Devane
Brad WetherlyRossie Harris
Also posted in 1983, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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