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Flanders (Flandres) (2006)
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Winner of The Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2006. Andre Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom, he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another
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The Kid & The General (1921)
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Charlie Chaplin's first starring role in a feature film was also written and directed by the star himself and took a whole year to make. The Tramp (Chaplin) discovers an abandoned baby and eventually adopts it as his own. Years later, the mother has
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Blessed By Fire (Iluminados por el fuego) (2005)
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After learning of a former infantry mate's attempted suicide, journalist Esteban (Gaston Pauls) returns to the Falkland Islands (or as they are known in Argentina, the Malvinas) to confront the horrors he experienced as an eighteen year-old soldier.
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The Blood of My Brother (2006)
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Director Andrew Berends's documentary THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER takes an up-close and personal look at the tragic consequences of the Iraq war through the story of an Iraqi family mourning the death of their eldest son, who was killed by American forces.
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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2003)
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Based on the true story and a bestselling novel, this powerful epic captures the incredible journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes,
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Ambush (1998)
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Starring Finnish Oscar Winners PETER FRANZEN and IRINA BJORKLUND, this beautiful film takes place in the first days of World War II in Russian Karelia close to the Finnish border. A young lieutenant accepts a dangerous reconnaissance mission behind enemy
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Dona Perfecta (1951)
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Pepe, a young upstart in the year of reforms, arrives in the township of Santa Fe, immediately creating hostility when he tries to force the townspeople to change their ways. He seeks refuge in the home of his Aunt Dona Perfecta, only to learn she opposes
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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
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The original screenplay of the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Set during World War I, it is a tragic story about an ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) in the Italian army that falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes).
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We Dive At Dawn (1943)
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After many months at sea, the war-weary British submarine Sea Tiger is ordered to pursue the German battleship Brandenburg. There is lots of excitement and action when the sub experiences a number of close calls.
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About War MoviesWar movies deal primarily with actual warfare, usually featuring sea, air, or land battles and their combatants, or on daily military or civilian life in during battle or the threat of battle. Their stories may be fictional, historical re-enactment, docudrama or documentary in nature. World War II pushed the war movie genre into the mainstream. Many of the dramatic war films in the early 1940s in the United States were designed to create consensus at the expense of "the enemy". In fact, one of the conventions of the genre that developed during the period was that of a cross-section of the United States which comes together as a crack unit for the good of the country. British movies of the time tended to follow a similar pattern, depicting ordinary people joining forces for the good of the war effort. Hollywood movies in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice. The late 1950s and 1960s some more thoughtful and large-scale war films were made, such as David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), as well as all-star epics based on real battles, and often were quasi-documentary in style. War movies produced during and just after the Vietnam War era tended to reflect the disillusionment of the American public towards the war. Most films made after the Vietnam War delved more deeply into the horrors of war than the movies made before that era. - The preceding paragraph was derived from a full article available from Wikipedia and its use is governed by the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. |
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