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41) Fear and desire
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
42) A Midnight clear
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A small army intelligence platoon on a dangerous mission to the German front discovers a small band of frightened soldiers in a Nazi camp.
43) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Craig stars as Tuvia Bielski, an ordinary citizen turned hero, in this action-packed epic of family, honor, vengeance and salvation. DEFIANCE is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers -outnumbered and outgunned- who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. Tuvia, along with his unyielding brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber), motivate hundreds of civilians to join...
44) Cease Fire
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
For Tim Murphy, the Vietnam War is not over. Suddenly facing long-dormant memories, he descends into a spiral of emotional chaos. With his family about to leave him for good, Tim must face the past or be left alone with only his darkest remembrances.
45) Wings
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1927.
Language
English
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman (Hollywood's first "It-girl," Clara Bow), become fighter pilots in World War I. Stunningly realistic flying sequences, all filmed without faking or processing shots, highlight this story of two airmen pals and an ambulance nurse they both love, first winner of an **Academy Award** for Best Picture. Winner of Best Picture and Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the **Academy...
46) Girls of the Sun
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bahar, commander of the “Girls of the Sun” battalion, is preparing to liberate her hometown from extremists. A French journalist comes to cover the attack and bear witness to these exceptional warriors.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed novel, comes a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. A forbidden friendship forms between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through. From training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Nominated for four **Academy Awards**, including Best Writing and Best Actor. "*There are internal wars and interpersonal battles waged between many of his characters across many of [Dwan’s] films....
51) 1911
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored...
52) Manhattan: S2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows the tangled lives of the residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, as they race to create the first nuclear bomb in history. Locked away in the world's most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another--the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon--all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy...
53) Tommy Guns
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição’s audacious and enigmatic TOMMY GUNS invokes the ghosts of Angola’s colonial past while embracing the symbolic power of genre filmmaking. The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country’s independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path...
54) Unknown Soldier
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Finnish
Description
UNKNOWN SOLDIER by award-winning Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms, showing how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and from the battlefield. The war changes each of the soldiers, as well as the lives of those...
56) Manhattan: S1
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science--the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb In Los Alamos, New Mexico-- Manhattan follows the project's brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In the remote desert of New Mexico, “The Manhattan Project” is materializing – the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. **Oscar**-winner Paul Newman (*Hud*, *Nobody’s Fool*) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.” Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A singular, powerful experience."...
58) Klondike
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress. 4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's 35mm restoration.
60) Blood on the Sun
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
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