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82) The Men
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set during the Thirty Years’ War, in the first half of the 17th century: Anna Fierling, also called Mother Courage, is a merchant with a wagonload of food and goods. She stays out of politics, following the armies as they move back and forth across Central Europe, and does not bemoan war’s injustices. She is passionately committed to her three children and tries to protect them. But one after the other, she loses them to the war from which she...
86) Cease Fire
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
For Tim Murphy, the Vietnam War is not over. Suddenly facing long-dormant memories, he descends into a spiral of emotional chaos. With his family about to leave him for good, Tim must face the past or be left alone with only his darkest remembrances.
87) Wings
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1927.
Language
English
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman (Hollywood's first "It-girl," Clara Bow), become fighter pilots in World War I. Stunningly realistic flying sequences, all filmed without faking or processing shots, highlight this story of two airmen pals and an ambulance nurse they both love, first winner of an **Academy Award** for Best Picture. Winner of Best Picture and Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the **Academy...
88) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Craig stars as Tuvia Bielski, an ordinary citizen turned hero, in this action-packed epic of family, honor, vengeance and salvation. DEFIANCE is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers -outnumbered and outgunned- who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. Tuvia, along with his unyielding brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber), motivate hundreds of civilians to join...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through. From training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Nominated for four **Academy Awards**, including Best Writing and Best Actor. "*There are internal wars and interpersonal battles waged between many of his characters across many of [Dwan’s] films....
90) 1911
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored...
91) Tommy Guns
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição’s audacious and enigmatic TOMMY GUNS invokes the ghosts of Angola’s colonial past while embracing the symbolic power of genre filmmaking. The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country’s independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path...
92) Kedma
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Yiddish
Description
A powerful drama about a group of European Jewish refugees who arrive at Palestine in the critical year of 1948. Carried on the deck of the freighter KEDMA, they come ashore to find not the Promised Land of milk and honey, but a war-torn desert in the bloody throes of transformation into the state of Israel. Rescued from a British army ambush at beachside by Palmach Jewish guerillas, the Kedma's ragged refugees are remade into soldiers expected to...
93) Blood on the Sun
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Danish
Description
Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Karl Skov (Christensen), a successful owner of an electronics factory, tries to make the best of the Nazis Occupation to keep his workers employed. However this collaboration with the Germans, causes friction with in his son, who reacts against the increasing oppression and persecution of jews and communists by joining the rising resistance movement.
95) Benediction
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The story of decorated WW1 hero and renowned British poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), who became one of the “Bright Young Things” of London society in the 1920s. Haunted by war and put off by the decadent behavior of his contemporaries including renowned composer Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), he remained determined that the legacy of the young men with whom he served would not be forgotten.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In the remote desert of New Mexico, “The Manhattan Project” is materializing – the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. **Oscar**-winner Paul Newman (*Hud*, *Nobody’s Fool*) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.” Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A singular, powerful experience."...
98) The Trench
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of 1917, this epic drama is set against the ill-fated WWI backdrop where a restless platoon receives word that they will soon join the first wave of an attack. Led by a war-hardened Sargent, these young men, confined to a trench on the front lines and the dark abyss, face their destiny on the day the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day in history.
99) Klondike
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
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