By Amy Renner Jun. 12, 2020
1 – 5 of 5 movies
Saving Private Ryan
A small band of U.S. Soldiers are sent on a mission during the tumultuous battle at Normandy to find the lone survivor of four brothers in the brutally honest World Ward II epic.
Greyhound
In a thrilling WWII story inspired by actual events, Captain Ernest Krause (Tom Hanks) leads an international convoy of 37 ships on a treacherous mission across the Atlantic to deliver thousands of soldiers and much-needed supplies to Allied forces.
Agent Zigzag
During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.
They Marched Into Sunlight
Two days in October 1967 two events were taking place, one was at the University of Wisconsin where students were protesting Dow Chemical for its production of napalm when their peaceful demonstration turned into a riot. The other event was in Vietnam, where a platoon of U.S. soldiers were ambushed by Viet Cong and 61 Americans were killed. These two separate events solidified opposition to the war on college campuses.
Charlie Wilson's War
Based on the true story of how Charlie Wilson, an alcoholic womanizer and Texas congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union. With the help of rogue CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, the two men supplied money, training and a team of military experts that turned the ill-equipped Afghan freedom-fighters into a force that brought the Red Army to a stalemate. However, the result also empowered the Taliban and terrorists including Osama bin Laden.