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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Two Muslim women, married to the same man, foster a friendship that lasts more than 10 years against the backdrop of war in Afghanistan.

A Fine Brother

A biopic about Flora Sandes, the only British woman to enlist as a soldier and fight on the frontline in the First World War.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky

Pino Lella is a normal Italian teenager living an idyllic life in Italy, until bombs begin falling on Milan and word of Nazi atrocities begin to circulate. Lello joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, guiding hundreds of Jews to safety in a year. On his 18th birthday, Lella is forced to enlist with the German Army, and is immediately assigned as a personal driver to Adolf Hitler's left hand, General Hans Leyers. This fly on the wall in the upper echelons of the Third Reich positions him to be recruited by the Allies as a spy.

On the Other Side

Covering the Vietnam War for UPI, Kate Webb survives fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia after she is taken hostage by Communist Forces/Viet Cong in 1971. She is believed to be dead — her obituary even runs in the New York Times — before she is released.

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A civil war re-enacter, someone who is obsessive about historical precision, and three other guys (two fellow re-enacters and an African-American professor of history who is protesting the event) are accidentally transported back in time and awaken in the actual civil war. Once there, they have to find there way home without altering history or permanently breaking America in half.

Shoot Like A Girl

Mary Jennings serves three tours in Afghanistan as a rescue helicopter pilot where she Medevac'd hundreds of men and women off of the battlefield. At one point, her helicopter is shot down during a rescue mission and she is shot by the Taliban. She fights through her injuries to save the three Americans that are the target of the rescue mission, and her own team. Their ordeal culminates in a daring escape hanging onto the skids of a Kiowa helicopter. Hegar also sues the secretary of defense asserting that the Combat Exclusion Policy (which prevents women from entering direct combat) is unconstitutional, and she wins. In 2013, the secretary of defense repeals the policy.

The Conscientious Objector

During WWII, Desmond Doss, an Army medic, is ostracized by his fellow soldiers because of his refusal to kill or even carry a gun. He proves his courage, saving 75 men at the Battle of Okinawa. He later becomes the first conscientious objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Lost Airman

Set during WW II, Arthur Meyerowitz's, an American turret-gunner, B-24 bomber is shot down over Vichy France in 1943. While hiding in the French countryside, Meyerowitz befriends Marcel Talliander, the founder of the legendary French resistance group Morhange, who helps shelter Meyerowitz from the Gestapo through his secret network. After six months of barely evading capture, Meyerowitz escapes through a carefully orchestrated plan that also involves R.F.W. Cleaver, one of the most accomplished British fighter pilots of the war.

Code Name: Johnny Walker

The account of a Navy SEAL translator in Iraq. The translator took part in more than 1,000 missions over a six-year period.

The Devil's Brigade

During WWII, Davie Berman, the only Jewish member of the Luciano mob, is requested by the U.S. military to help turn the tide of events against the Germans in Italy. He almost single-handedly drives the Germans out of the southern region of Italy.

World War 3

In the mid-21st century, around the year 2050, a Third World War take places between the United States, the "Polish Bloc," Britain, India, and China on one side, and Turkey and Japan on the other, with Germany and France entering the war in its late stages on the side of Turkey and Japan.

The Red Star

Set in an alternate USSR where futuristic technology co-mingles with magical elements, a Red Fleet soldier goes up against an ex-leader who rules with an iron fist.

Home Front

In addition to being a wife and mother, a woman is a Blackhawk pilot in the National Guard who is called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq.

Potsdamer Platz

Two foot soldiers in a New Jersey crime syndicate, bent on expanding its horizons in the construction business, are sent to Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, Europe’s most massive post-WWII construction site. While scouting the area for their syndicate, they encounter other criminal factions with the same idea, including the Russian mafia.

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During the Civil War, Union Army surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker struggles to be accepted and compensated in the same manner as her male counterparts in the medical field and ultimately becomes the first and only female recipient to receive the Congressional Medal Of Honor. Even after receiving her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College, Walker is considered unfit for the Union Army Examining Board and initially is only allowed to serve voluntarily as a surgeon. While serving in the war, Dr. Walker is captured by Confederate soldiers after boldly crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and is arrested as a spy – eventually being released in a prisoner exchange.

442nd

The true story of an American-Japanese military unit that became the most decorated unit in American history for their efforts against the Nazis in World War II.

Black Lion

Carlos Mavroleon, the Harvard-educated heir to an English/Greek shipping empire, decides to leave Wall Street behind and take on the most dangerous assignments in journalism (Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.).

Call of Duty

Based on the a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. The game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II.