7.1 /10
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Run Time: 2hr 15` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Oct 2006
Director: Peter Dress , Mable Lawson-McCrary , Clint Eastwood
Producer: Phyliss Huffman , Steven Spielberg , Phyllis Huffman
Stars: Ryan Phillippe , Jesse Bradford , Adam Beach , John Benjamin Hickey , John Slattery , Barry Pepper
7 /10
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
Run Time: 1hr 32` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 09 Jul 2020
Director: Luca Kouimelis , Aaron Schneider , Steven Quale
Producer: Jason Cloth , Kristy Choo , Han Sanping
Stars: Tom Hanks , Stephen Graham , Rob Morgan , Josh Wiggins , Tom Brittney , Elisabeth Shue
7 /10
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
Run Time: 1hr 32` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Jan 2008
Director: Rebecca Poulos , Navarutt Roongaroon , Sylvester Stallone
Producer: Trevor Short , Randall Emmett , Phasiri Panya
Stars: Sylvester Stallone , Julie Benz , Matthew Marsden , Graham McTavish , Reynaldo Gallegos , Tim Kang
7 /10
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
Run Time: 1hr 43` . MMPA: NR . Release: 12 Mar 2015
Director: Tom Ackerley , Bryn Lawrence , Irene Chawko
Producer: Harvey Weinstein , John Miles , Abigail Barbier
Stars: Michelle Williams , Kristin Scott Thomas , Matthias Schoenaerts , Sam Riley , Ruth Wilson , Heino Ferch
7 /10
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Run Time: 2hr 6` . MMPA: . Release: 12 Jun 1943
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Producer: Jerry Wald , Jack L. Warner
Stars: Humphrey Bogart , Raymond Massey , Alan Hale , Julie Bishop , Ruth Gordon , Sam Levene
7 /10
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Run Time: 2hr 3` . MMPA: R . Release: 04 Nov 2005
Director: Jeff Habberstad , Jody Spilkoman , Luke Longin
Producer: Bobby Cohen , Jennifer Gillespie , Tannis Vallely
Stars: Jamie Foxx , Jake Gyllenhaal , Peter Sarsgaard , Scott MacDonald , Chris Cooper , Laz Alonso
7 /10
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Run Time: 2hr 6` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 24 Mar 2017
Director: Niki Caro
Producer: Jamie Patricof , Diane Miller Levin , Mickey Liddell
Stars: Jessica Chastain , Daniel Brühl , Johan Heldenbergh , Michael McElhatton , Timothy Radford , Efrat Dor
7 /10
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: . Release: 13 Sep 2001
Director: Peter Mechkoff , Franklin A. Vallette , Milos Milicevic
Producer: Tim Blake Nelson , Trevor Short , David Vaccari
Stars: David Arquette , Velizar Binev , Michael Stuhlbarg , Daniel Benzali , Allan Corduner , Steve Buscemi
7 /10
The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: . Release: 09 Feb 2004
Director: Peter Greenaway
Producer:
Stars: JJ Feild , Raymond J. Barry , Valentina Cervi , Marcel Iureș , Steven Mackintosh , Ornella Muti
7 /10
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Run Time: 2hr 6` . MMPA: NR . Release: 25 May 1966
Director: Kurt Neumann , Norman Jewison
Producer: Norman Jewison , Jim Henderling , Lynn Stalmaster
Stars: Carl Reiner , Eva Marie Saint , Alan Arkin , Brian Keith , Paul Ford , Theodore Bikel
7 /10
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
Run Time: 2hr 8` . MMPA: PG . Release: 28 Jan 1971
Director: Wolfgang Glattes , Stefan Zürcher , Cheryl Leigh
Producer: James Clavell , Marguerite Green , Terence Churcher
Stars: Michael Caine , Omar Sharif , Florinda Bolkan , Nigel Davenport , Per Oscarsson , Madeleine Hinde
7 /10
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Run Time: 1hr 41` . MMPA: R . Release: 22 Nov 2002
Director: Phillip Noyce
Producer: Moritz Borman , Guy East , Anthony Minghella
Stars: Michael Caine , Brendan Fraser , Do Thi Hai Yen , Tzi Ma , Rade Šerbedžija , Robert Stanton
7 /10
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: R . Release: 15 Apr 2010
Director: Kira Bohn , Jamie Crooks , Jeremy Sims
Producer: Ross Thomas , Sandy Stevens , John Lee
Stars: Brendan Cowell , Harrison Gilbertson , Steve Le Marquand , Gyton Grantley , Alan Dukes , Alex Thompson
7 /10
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: R . Release: 02 Sep 2001
Director: David L. Cunningham
Producer: Celestia Fox , Greg Newman , Penelope L. Foster
Stars: Ciarán McMenamin , Robert Carlyle , Kiefer Sutherland , Mark Strong , Yugo Saso , Sakae Kimura
7 /10
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Run Time: 1hr 52` . MMPA: R . Release: 25 Dec 2014
Director: Jo Weeks , Umut Ozdemirci , Greg Tynan
Producer: Brett Ratner , Micharne Cloughley , Lorelle Adamson
Stars: Russell Crowe , Olga Kurylenko , Yılmaz Erdoğan , Cem Yılmaz , Jai Courtney , Ryan Corr
6.9 /10
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: NR . Release: 24 Dec 1943
Director: Horace Hough , Dolph Zimmer , Victor Fleming
Producer: Everett Riskin , Gilbert Kurland , Jay Marchant
Stars: Spencer Tracy , Irene Dunne , Van Johnson , Ward Bond , James Gleason , Lionel Barrymore
6.9 /10
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
Run Time: 1hr 59` . MMPA: R . Release: 29 Sep 1995
Director: Allen Hughes , Heidi McGowen , Dale M. Nielsen
Producer: Risa Bramon Garcia , Dale Watkins , Brent Owens
Stars: Larenz Tate , Keith David , Chris Tucker , Freddy Rodríguez , Rose Jackson , N'Bushe Wright
6.9 /10
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Run Time: 2hr 20` . MMPA: G . Release: 16 Jul 1970
Director: Ted Sturgis , Ken Hughes
Producer: Vicki Deason , Irving Allen , Andrew Donally
Stars: Richard Harris , Alec Guinness , Robert Morley , Dorothy Tutin , Frank Finlay , Timothy Dalton
6.9 /10
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
Run Time: 2hr 20` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Jun 2016
Director: Eric Heffron , Sam Sullivan , Garrett Warren
Producer: Jon Kilik , Jerry Ye , Stuart Ford
Stars: Matthew McConaughey , Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Mahershala Ali , Keri Russell , Jacob Lofland , Sean Bridgers
6.9 /10
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Run Time: 1hr 22` . MMPA: NR . Release: 03 Aug 1939
Director: Patrick Jennings , Michael Powell
Producer: Irving Asher , Alexander Korda
Stars: Conrad Veidt , Sebastian Shaw , Valerie Hobson , Marius Goring , June Duprez , Athole Stewart
