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American cinema: War

7th Heaven (1927)
Frank Borzage

Paris, 1914. Chico, an atheistic loner, has grown tired of toiling in the sewers and hopes that one day he will become a street washer like his neighbour Gobin...   [More...]

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Richard Attenborough

September, 1944. D-Day has come and gone but the allied advance has slowed to a crawl owing to over-extended supply lines...   [More...]

A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Frank Borzage

During World War I, a young American, Frederick Henry, enlists as an ambulance driver in the Italian army. He meets and falls in love with a young English nurse, Catherine Barkley...   [More...]

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
D.W. Griffith

In 1809, a child was born in a humble log cabin who would grow up to become one of the greatest political leaders in history...   [More...]

The African Queen (1951)
John Huston

In 1914, Rose Sayer assists her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, in leading a missionary village in German East Africa...   [More...]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Lewis Milestone

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, a German schoolmaster is urging his class of idealistic youths to enlist and do their bit to save the Fatherland...   [More...]

And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
Alexander Ramati

Poland, 1942. Dymitr Mirga is a Romani gypsy whose skills as a violin player are very much appreciated by German officers...   [More...]

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola

Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard, an American special operations agent, is in Saigon recuperating after a successful mission when intelligence officers approach him with a new assignment...   [More...]

Arch of Triumph (1948)
Lewis Milestone

Paris, 1938. As Europe rushes towards war, the French capital is flooded with illegal immigrants hoping to escape persecution and imprisonment in their own countries...   [More...]

Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright

England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia...   [More...]

The Birth of a Nation (1915)
D.W. Griffith

In the early 1860s, the Stonemans, an affluent family from the Northern States, visit their friends, the Camerons, in the South...   [More...]

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Frank Capra

When Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry her fiancé, a missionary worker named Robert Strike, the country is in the midst of a bloody civil war...   [More...]

Bitter Victory (1957)
Nicholas Ray

During WWII, two British army officers stationed in Cairo are selected to lead a commando raid on German headquarters in Benghazi and steal some vital documents...   [More...]

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
John Guillermin

March 1945. The war in Europe has entered its final phase, with German troops retreating eastwards, driven back by a relentless Allied assault...   [More...]

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean

During WWII, a contingent of British prisoners march into a Japanese camp run by the ruthless Colonel Saito, who intends using them to construct a railway bridge across the River Kwai...   [More...]

The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Edward Dmytryk

In 1943, naval college graduate Willie Keith is eager to begin his service in the U.S. Navy, even if it means leaving behind his anxious mother and his girlfriend...   [More...]

Casablanca (1942)
Michael Curtiz

In December 1941, the Moroccan town of Casablanca is under French control and serves as a vital transit point for fugitives of Nazi aggression desperate to get to America...   [More...]

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Michael Curtiz

In the early 1850s, Geoffrey Vickers and his brother Perry are British officers in the 27th Lancers, a regiment stationed in the Indian city of Chukoti...   [More...]

El Cid (1961)
Anthony Mann

In the 11th century, Spain is a divided country. The wars between the Christians and the Moors have raged for many years but now Spain faces a greater threat, from the Muslim general Ibn Yusuf, who has amassed an army in readiness to invade the country...   [More...]

Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Fritz Lang

One day, in the latter years of WWII, Alvah Jesper, a physics professor at an American university, receives an unexpected visit from a secret services official...   [More...]

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Anatole Litvak

1938, a decisive year in the history of man. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis have committed themselves to a fascist dream that will make Germany the centre of a new world empire...   [More...]

Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Anatole Litvak

December 1944. As World War II enters its final phase, the allied forces are concentrating their attention on Nazi Germany...   [More...]

The Deer Hunter (1978)
Michael Cimino

A small working class town in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Michael, Nick and Steven are three close friends, in their late twenties, early thirties, who work at a steel mill...   [More...]

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
George Stevens

In July 1945, Otto Frank, a man in his mid-fifties, arrives at a disused spice factory in Amsterdam and climbs a staircase to a concealed annex on the top floor of the building...   [More...]

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich

England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment...   [More...]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick

Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR...   [More...]

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Alfred Hitchcock

At the request of his editor, New York crime reporter Johnny Jones travels to London to cover the deteriorating political situation in Europe...   [More...]

From Here to Eternity (1953)
Fred Zinnemann

December, 1941. Whilst a fierce war is being waged in Europe, North Africa and the Far East, the United States waits on the sidelines...   [More...]

The General (1927)
Clyde Bruckman

America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee...   [More...]

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Victor Fleming

In 1861, Scarlett O'Hara is celebrating her sixteenth birthday at her family home, a plantation in the southern US state of Georgia...   [More...]



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