War Movies (Page #14)

The documentary takes viewers into the warzone of ISIS-occupied Syria, where a band of anonymous activists known as Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently wage a counteroffensive against the terrorist group’s campaign of propaganda and misinformation. Armed with video cameras, these intrepid citizen journalists risk their lives to spread the truth about life under ISIS.

Focuses on a US Army division trained for combat in extreme mountain conditions and deployed to the mountains of the Italian border during WWII. The

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

Western Front, 1917. In the chaos of a trench war battle, a small company of men get lost, surrounded by a thick mysterious fog. As they emerge from it, they come across a deserted German trench. Convinced they have broken through the enemy lines, they decide to secure the trench and begin to explore it. Only to find mutilated German corpses everywhere. Something very strange and evil has happened here. When one of them is found horribly murdered, wrapped in barbed wire, they know they are not alone!

Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill, and his combat-happy buddy, Everett, for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless guys are mistaken for Army Reservists by the hard-nosed Sergeant Kilgrove, they're loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujah, Iraq--and mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they're actually in the Middle East, the clueless wannabe soldiers save a rural village from a siege of bandits and become local heroes. But when Carlos Santana, a ruthless, karaoke-loving warlord, strikes back, Larry, Bill and Everett have to lay down their beers and take up their arms--and prove they just might be real soldiers after all.

"Devil's Crew" centers on the story of Lt. Robert Maynard, a Royal Navy officer who volunteered for a suicide mission to track and kill the notorious pirate Edward Teach -- aka "Blackbeard" -- in the waters off the Carolinas in 1718.

Following the accidental downing of a civilian airliner in the Atlantic Ocean at the hands of a state-of-the-art Navy ship, a skipper involved in the exercise attempts to save those in the downed aircraft. The Navy, hoping to cover up the fiasco, sends a new ship to impede the skipper's older craft.

The Iraq war story focuses on the drama of a female helicopter pilot who is shot down in Iraq. She must race to not only save her own life, but also to find a way back to her 18-year-old daughter.

After British forces defeat Italian forces in North Africa, Germany taps German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to drive eastward along the North African coast to seize the Suez Canal. British forces are routed, and it comes down to a stand at El-Alamein. There, Britain's Eighth Army in North Africa, led by Bernard Montgomery, keeps the Germans bottled up and unable to overrun Egypt. After several long, bloody battles, and with assistance from Australian and New Zealand forces, the Allies win the day. Rommel signals Hitler that the cause is lost. He is not granted permission to retreat but begins withdrawing troops, leaving the Italians alone to be trounced by allied forces.

Adam Brown battles personal demons, including drug addiction and jail time, to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.

The story of Robert Jordan, the young American teacher who joins an antifascist guerrilla unit in the mountains of Spain.

A squadron of recruits from art schools, ad agencies and other creative businesses are tasked by the U.S. Army with fooling the Nazis into thinking the U.S. has larger troop numbers than it actually does.

The Netflix movie will showcase important battles of the Second Punic War, which was fought between Rome and Carthage.

The inmates of a German World War II prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders.

The film centers on three soldiers who are returning home after a lenghty tour in Iraq and find that re-entering "normal" life after the continued trauma of battle is not an easy task. Jackson plays a doctor who has been stationed in Iraq for several months. After months of holding it together on the homefront, his wife is thrilled when he returns to his home and his regular practice. However, the man she sent away to war is not the same man that has returned. To her shock and dismay, her husband is rapidly unraveling before her eyes.

Set in 1975 in Saigon during the last 60 days of the Vietnam War, a renegade group of American diplomats, soldiers and officials rebel against their own government and ensure the evacuation of nearly 125,000 South Vietnamese will otherwise be casualties of war.

In 1942, Rudolph Vrba is deported to Auschwitz at the age of 18 from his hometown in Slovakia. He becomes connected to the underground resistance within the camp where he and his friend Fred Wetzler devise an ingenious escape plan. In the Spring of 1944, they break out of the prison, just as the Nazi's Final Solution is heading into its deadliest months. Once free, Vrba and Wetzler set off through nearly 100 miles of treacherous Nazi territory and are tracked by SS search parties desperate to hunt them down. After multiple close calls, they make it back home to Slovakia where they write the first eyewitness accounts of the death camps. The Vrba-Wetzler Report finds its way to FDR, Churchill, the Pope, and finally, to the front page of the New York Times, where it exposes the truth of the Final Solution to the world. In the end, Rudi's escape and thorough account of the horrors of Auschwitz helps to save hundreds of thousands of lives.

The story the USS Indianapolis in 1945 when it was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine.