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Days of Glory
Days of Glory (French: Indigènes; Arabic: بلديون) is a 2006 French film directed by French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb. The cast includes Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem and Bernard Blancan.
Apart from being a successful war...
Initial release date:
- 2006
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 war film directed by Michael Bay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King...
Initial release date:
- May 23, 2001
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Tagline:
- It was the end of innocence, and the dawn of a nation's greatest glory. ,
- more…
Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers is a 2001 ten-part television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks after their collaboration on...
Initial release date:
- 2001
Valkyrie
Valkyrie is a 2008 historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of...
Initial release date:
- Oct 3, 2008
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Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the...
Initial release date:
- 2006
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Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 25 minutes, which depict the...
Initial release date:
- 1998
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Tagline:
- The mission is a man. ,
- more…
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
The film's title is taken from William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at...
Initial release date:
- 2001
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Hart's War
Hart's War is a 2002 film about a World War II prisoner of war (POW) based on the novel by John Katzenbach starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell and Terrence Howard. The film, directed by Gregory Hoblit, was shot at Barrandov Studios in Prague, and...
Initial release date:
- 2002
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The Great Raid
The Great Raid is a 2005 war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan, adapted from William B. Breuer's book of the same name. It tells the story of the January 1945 liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp on the Philippine island of Luzon during World...
Initial release date:
- 2005
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U-571
U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in...
Initial release date:
- 2000
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Tagline:
- Heroes are ordinary men who do extraordinary things in extraordinary times.
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II with the focus on the men in C Company, most notably Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) and his conflicted feelings...
Initial release date:
- 1998
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Tagline:
- Every man fights his own war
Valiant
Valiant is a 2005 computer-animated film. Set in May of the year 1944, it tells the story of a group of war pigeons during World War II. The film was produced by John H. Williams and co-produced by Vanguard Animation and Odyssey Entertainment....
Initial release date:
- Mar 25, 2005
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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson and Nigel Havers. Empire of...
Initial release date:
- 1987
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1941
1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by friends Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and premiered in December 1979. The film is a comedy about a panic in the Los Angeles area...
Initial release date:
- 1979
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Tagline:
- A Comedy Spectacular!
The Pianist
The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Polish, French, German, and...
Initial release date:
- 2002
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Tagline:
- Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
Downfall
Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 German-Austrian drama film, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945. The film was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by Bernd Eichinger, and...
Initial release date:
- 2004
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The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Ondaatje...
Initial release date:
- 1996
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Tagline:
- In love, there are no boundaries. ,
- more…
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production.
The commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, though scapegoated...
Initial release date:
- 1970
Tagline:
- The most spectacular film ever made. ,
- more…
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven...
Initial release date:
- 1993
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Tagline:
- Whoever saves one Life, Saves the World entire. ,
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Stalingrad
Stalingrad is a 1993 film by Joseph Vilsmaier, which depicts the horrors of combat on the Eastern Front of World War II in a realistic and unromanticized fashion.
The movie follows a platoon of German Army soldiers as they are transferred from Italy...
Initial release date:
- 1993
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Black Book
Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, and Halina Reijn. The story is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for...
Initial release date:
- 2006
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Tagline:
- To fight the enemy, she must become one of them
Das Boot
Das Boot ("The Boat"; German pronunciation: [das boːt]) is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on U-219, served as a consultant,...
Initial release date:
- 1981
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Tagline:
- When the hunters become the hunted. ,
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Patton
Patton (UK: Patton: Lust for Glory) is a 1970 biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from...
Initial release date:
- 1970
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Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain is a 1969 film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz. The film broadly relates the events of the Battle of Britain. The script by James Kennaway and Wilfred Greatorex was based on the book...
Initial release date:
- 1969
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The Longest Day
The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II.
Producer Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author of the book, Cornelius Ryan, ...
Initial release date:
- 1962
Tagline:
- 42 International Stars! ,
- more…
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? is a 1966 comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards.
In 1943, during Operation Husky when asked by General Bolt (Carroll O'Connor) about the little Italian village called Valerno, his hitherto adjutant...
Initial release date:
- Aug 31, 1966
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Tagline:
- At last the screen dares to reveal the best kept secrets of World War II!
A Midnight Clear
A Midnight Clear is a 1992 war film directed by Keith Gordon. Set towards the end of World War II, the film tells the story of an American intelligence unit which finds a German platoon that wishes to surrender.
Set in 1944 France, an American...
Initial release date:
- 1992
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Arch of Triumph
Arch of Triumph is a 1948 US war romance film made by Enterprise Productions. The film was directed by Lewis Milestone and adapted from the 1945 Erich Maria Remarque novel Arch of Triumph.
The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Charles...
Initial release date:
- Feb 17, 1948
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The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a 1963 film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. It is based on the book The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, which is a novelization of the true story of a mass escape from Stalag...
Initial release date:
- 1963
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Tagline:
- The great adventure! The great entertainment! ,
- more…
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942...
Initial release date:
- 1957
Tagline:
- It spans a whole new world of entertainment!
Soldier of Orange
Soldier of Orange (Dutch: Soldaat van Oranje) is a 1977 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The film is set during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II,...
Initial release date:
- 1977
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The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an American drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II.
Samuel Goldwyn was motivated to produce the film after his wife Frances read an August...
Initial release date:
- 1946
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Tagline:
- Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year! ,
- more…
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 spy thriller and the first blatantly anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, and a large cast of German actors...
Initial release date:
- 1939
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Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...
Initial release date:
- 1942
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Tagline:
- They had a date with fate in Casablanca! ,
- more…
A Walk in the Sun
A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 (reissued by Realart Pictures in 1951 as Salerno Beachhead), based on the novel by Harry Brown who was a writer for Yank magazine based in England. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and starred Dana...
Initial release date:
- Dec 3, 1945
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Saints and Soldiers
Saints and Soldiers is a war film released by Excel Entertainment Group in August 2004. The film is about a small group of soldiers who are trapped deep behind enemy lines following the infamous Malmedy massacre that took place during World War II's...
Initial release date:
- 2003
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Tagline:
- There is a time for heroes.
Buck Privates
Buck Privates is the 1941 comedy/World War II film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bonafide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the...
Initial release date:
- Jan 31, 1941
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is a film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the...
Initial release date:
- 1943
Tagline:
- An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
Forty-Ninth Parallel
49th Parallel (1941) is the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders. Despite the title, no scene in the movie is set at the 49th parallel,...
Initial release date:
- 1941
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One of Our Aircraft is Missing
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) is a British war film, the fourth collaboration between the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of The Archers. Although...
Initial release date:
- 1942
Tagline:
- This time WE are the invaders! ,
- more…
Contraband
Contraband (1940) is a wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which brought stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson together again after their success in The Spy in Black the previous year. The...
Initial release date:
- May 11, 1940
