War Movies (Page #15)

Depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling). Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte (Miriam Stein), a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross. Greta (Katherina Schüttler) is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich, while her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) fights for his life while hiding among members of the Polish Resistance.

A unit of the U.S. Army Special Forces essentially operates as the President’s private army, using the latest technology to infiltrate and take down threats around the world without leaving any traces behind that they exist.

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

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.

Tommy Lee Jones will play a career soldier whose son mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq. Charlize Theron will play a local police detective who helps him get to the bottom of the soldier's disappearance.

During World War II, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese sub following a secret mission to deliver materials for the atomic bomb that will be dropped on Hiroshima. The men float for five days in the Philippine Sea and only 317 of an estimated 900 who abandoned ship are pulled from the shark-infested waters.

In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as “the basterds,” Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own....

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

In Khe Sanh, five thousand young Marines are surrounded and attacked by 20,000 battle-hardened North Vietnamese Army veterans for 77 nonstop days of rocket and mortar fire, as the world watches on TV.

The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war.

In a small French town, a mayor and a schoolteacher try to help a tribe of Gypsies who are persecuted by both the Nazis and the French.

Set in 2003, just before the United States launches its full-scale war, a covert US military unit is hunting for an AWOL American soldier in Iraq. The soldier is looking for his brother, who went missing when fighting in the first Gulf War.

Two thousand years ago, a legion of Romans was captured by the Chinese and forced to fight for them in an incredible battle between China and Mongolia.

An English-language epic about the 900-day Nazi attack on the Russian city during WWII.

Sixty-one years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them, Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe). With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.

In an effort to explore an event that continues to resonate with both cultures, Clint Eastwood was haunted by the sense that making only one film, "Flags of Our Fathers", would be telling only half the story. With this unprecedented dual film project, shot back-to-back to be released in sequence, Eastwood seeks to reveal the battle of Iwo Jima--and, by implication, the war in the Pacific--as a clash not only of arms but of cultures.

The story, which takes place after an electromagnetic pulse disables the infrastructure of the country, revolves around a ragtag group of Americans who must use technology from the 1940s and '50s to defend against a foreign invasion.

The true story of Lance Corporal Leslie Martz, a U.S. Marine who was stationed in Haditha, Iraq.

A special forces soldier for hire is forced to return to the field of battle with his military team to track down a reporter entangled in a political scandal while being hunted his former comrades.