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Genre "Combat Films" Movies
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| 1. Air Force (year: 1943) |
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio ...
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| 2. Back to Bataan (year: 1945) |
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order and leave the Philippines, ...
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| 3. Beaufort (year: 2007) |
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The title of Joseph Cedar's war drama Beaufort refers to the name of a fortress held by Israeli troops, during that country's contentious occupation o ...
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| 4. Black Hawk Down (year: 2001) |
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A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of ...
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| 5. Days of Glory (year: 2006) |
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Director Rachid Bouchareb teams with screenwriter Olivier Morelle to offer a revealing look at the brave contributions made by North African soldiers ...
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| 6. Enemy at the Gates (year: 2001) |
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A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were f ...
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| 7. Full Metal Jacket (year: 1987) |
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Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group ...
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| 8. Hamburger Hill (year: 1987) |
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Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Amer ...
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| 9. Heartbreak Ridge (year: 1986) |
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Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Hear ...
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| 10. Hell Is for Heroes (year: 1962) |
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Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vis ...
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| 11. Letters from Iwo Jima (year: 2006) |
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After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood ...
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| 12. Memphis Belle (year: 1990) |
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Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclai ...
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| 13. Operation Pacific (year: 1951) |
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If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; jud ...
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| 14. Platoon (year: 1986) |
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Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sh ...
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| 15. Saving Private Ryan (year: 1998) |
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Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue i ...
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| 16. The Thin Red Line (year: 1998) |
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The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's ...
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| 17. The Trench (year: 1999) |
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In 1916, the British Army suffered their bloodiest and most severe defeat ever in the Battle of the Somme; The Trench focuses on the awful prelude to ...
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| 18. Twelve O'Clock High (year: 1949) |
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How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission in four hard days, Brig ...
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| 19. We Were Soldiers (year: 2002) |
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Screenwriter Randall Wallace, a specialist in sweeping historical epics, steps behind the camera for this fact-based Vietnam War drama that reunites h ...
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| 20. Windtalkers (year: 2002) |
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Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine tr ...
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