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Games on the Battlefield

2015

Games on the Battlefield

2015
4
Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War -- popular participation in sports, once the realm of the elite. For four years, sport represented a welcome respite from the killing fields of Europe.
Against the Sun

2014

Against the Sun

2014
7
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
Track 143

2014

Track 143

2014
6.1
Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
William Kelly's War

2014

William Kelly's War

2014
5.8
When WW1 breaks out, farm boys, Billy (Josh Davis) and Jack Kelly (Mathew John Davis), along with their cousin, Paddy (Lachie Hume), sign up, and are shipped out to serve in Europe. With Billy a dead-eye shot with a rifle, the boys are soon set up as a sniper team, mowing down Germans and Turks like nobody’s business. They become heroes, but back home, the family farm is being circled by a gang of cattle thieves, meaning that even when the war ends, the blood is set to keep flowing.
Under the Blood-Red Sun

2014

Under the Blood-Red Sun

2014
6.2
December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when Japan launches a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. As Tomi looks up at the sky and recognizes the Blood-Red Sun emblem on the fighter planes, he knows that his life has changed forever. Based on actual events, Under the Blood-Red Sun is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage and survival.
Saints and Soldiers: The Void

2014

Saints and Soldiers: The Void

2014
5.1
Germany, May 1945, deep in the Harz Mountains a U.S. tank crew discovers a platoon of Germans preparing to ambush U.S. supply trucks.
The Man Who Saved the World

2014

The Man Who Saved the World

2014
6.8
The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
Secrets of War

2014

Secrets of War

2014
6.6
Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. Then a new girls from the city shows up, befriending the boys but telling her secret to only one of them. A choice that separates the boys and ultimately gets her in trouble.
Bordering on Bad Behavior

2014

Bordering on Bad Behavior

2014
5.5
Baz, a Lebanese Australian soldier, accidentally enters a top secret Israeli communications base. Knowing he is in the wrong place at the wrong time, Baz surprises Bob, an American soldier, with a punch in the face and Ari, an Israeli soldier, with a chokehold. Once the two enemies are tied up, Baz tries to leave, but the door to the base, which has closed behind him, has a time mechanism that will keep it locked for the next six hours. Trapped and convinced that once the door is reopened they could all be executed, the three are forced to confront each other. This will allow them to overcome personal prejudices and give life to a friendship with dramatic but also hilarious consequences.
The Bunker

2014

The Bunker

2014
4.5
A fictional war-torn valor story of heroism, set in the uncharted lands of "The Ho Bo Woods" in southern Vietnam in 1965. Following a bogus ghost hunt for a missing Special Forces unit led by a man they call Ranger, Private Johannes Schenke (Han) attempts to save an alleged nVa (North Vietnamese Army) operative, along with his comrades who have been captured by Ranger and his renegade Special Forces squad while operating out of an abandoned nVa bunker.
D-Day: Normandy 1944

2014

D-Day: Normandy 1944

2014
6.9
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, including animation, CGI and stunning live-action images, “D-Day: Normandy 1944” brings this monumental event to the world’s largest screens for the first time ever. Audiences of all ages, including new generations, will discover from a new perspective how this landing changed the world. Exploring history, military strategy, science, technology and human values, the film will educate and appeal to all. Narrated by Tom Brokaw, “D-Day: Normandy 1944” pays tribute to those who gave their lives for our freedom… A duty of memory, a duty of gratitude.
The Patrol

2013

The Patrol

2013
4.3
Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle against this unseen enemy.
Copperhead

2013

Copperhead

2013
5
A family is torn apart during the American Civil War. Abner Beech (Billy Campbell), a righteous farmer from upstate New York, exercises his right to free speech in a time when families are divided by the Civil War.
Battle Earth

2013

Battle Earth

2013
3.8
Confirmation of extraterrestrial life appears on television screens across the world as a massive spacecraft breaks through the atmosphere on a crash course into the Atlantic Ocean. A young paramedic, Greg Baker, signs up to fight for his planet against the invaders. Baker joins Special Forces members as the squad medic as they escort a classified package by chopper over enemy territory. When their chopper is shot down they find themselves surrounded and outnumbered. Desperate to return to his wife's side and haunted by nightmares, Baker find that his role in the war has quickly become much larger than he could have ever imagined. The mysterious package may be the key to turning the tide of the war, and possibly to saving all of humanity, but Baker must decide whether to protect it or sacrifice it to ensure his own survival.
101st: A-Company

2013

101st: A-Company

2013
Poland, 1944. Assembled for a top-secret rescue mission, a daring team of Special Forces soldiers quickly find themselves trapped deep behind enemy lines.
Sunset at Chaophraya

2013

Sunset at Chaophraya

2013
6.3
Set in 1939, the early days of World War II in Siam, to Angsumalin meeting one last time with her childhood friend, a young Thai man named Vanus. He is leaving for England for his studies and hopes that Angsumalin will wait for him and marry him when he returns.
I Die Alone

2013

I Die Alone

2013
6
American pacifist Private Finch (Carl Schreiber) finds himself pressured by his superiors to kill a P.O.W. captured from battle. As a direct result of his apprehensions, a fatal confrontation explodes amongst his platoon, and Finch becomes stranded behind enemy lines armed with nothing but limited ammunition and an uncertain sense of direction. Making his way through foreign soil, he encounters a mysterious mailman (Marc Litman) anxious to throw himself into battle. But on their exhausting quest to find a radio and signal for help, it becomes clear that Finch's new friend harbors a few dark secrets that could prove more threatening than the next ambush.
Virtually Heroes

2013

Virtually Heroes

2013
6
Two self-aware characters in a "Call of Duty" style video game struggle with their screwy, frustrating existence.
The Rotterdam Bombing

2012

The Rotterdam Bombing

2012
4.9
A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.
The Mountain

2012

The Mountain

2012
6.9
The heroic story of two soldiers trapped in an ambush, fighting for their lives.