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Desert Legion

1953

Desert Legion

1953
6
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
Auction of Souls

1919

Auction of Souls

1919
5.2
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
Prisoner of War

1954

Prisoner of War

1954
3.9
American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Oh! Man

2004

Oh! Man

2004
6.6
After Prisoners of the war and On the Heights all is Peace, this film concludes Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's trilogy on the first world war. From the emblem of totalitarianism to individual physical suffering, the directors use this representation of man's rampaging violence to draw up an anatomical inventory of the damaged body and examine the consequences of the conflict on children, from 1919 to 1921. From the deconstruction to the artificial reconstruction of the human body, they try to understand how humanity can forget itself and perpetuate these horrors.
High Barbaree

1947

High Barbaree

1947
5.5
After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.
Undercover

1943

Undercover

1943
5.8
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
Children, Mother, and the General

1955

Children, Mother, and the General

1955
5.8
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children left for the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.
A Soldier's Tale

1988

A Soldier's Tale

1988
4
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.
A Ship Is Born

1942

A Ship Is Born

1942
4.3
This Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two, of the USA supply line to Victory against the Axis powers, the United States Merchant Marine service.
Ridge War Z

2013

Ridge War Z

2013
2.8
The last surviving veterans of the worst battle of a zombie war recount their horrific memories to an author who is writing a book about their experiences.
Coming Out Under Fire

1994

Coming Out Under Fire

1994
4.3
A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII veterans.
La défense du drapeau

1897

La défense du drapeau

1897
4.5
As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
Twilight

2005

Twilight

2005
2.7
In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.
The Assisi Underground

1985

The Assisi Underground

1985
5.2
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Десантура

2009

Десантура

2009
4.4
Hitler in Colour

2005

Hitler in Colour

2005
8
Documentary using only original colour footage charts the 12 years from Adolf Hitler's rise to power to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Complemented by eyewitness material, tracks the dramatic transformation of Germany into a Nazi state, looks into Hitler's relationship with his lover Eva Braun and replicates pivotal events, including Nazi rallies, the invasion of Poland, Hitler's meeting with Lloyd George, the horrors of Buchenwald concentration camp, Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto, the Battle of Britain and the fall of Berlin.
The Better 'Ole

1926

The Better 'Ole

1926
5
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Chico

2001

Chico

2001
5.8
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
Lady General Hua Mulan

1964

Lady General Hua Mulan

1964
5.6
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
You, John Jones!

1943

You, John Jones!

1943
6
John Jones contemplates how fortunate he and his family are in America, where no wartime bombing occurs.