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Plot Summary:
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy boat in time of war. It also relates the human side of the story relating the uncommon and extaordinary temperament of the 9 men who led the Hunley into history and died valiantly accomplishing this feat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla (2013)
Plot Summary:
On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, captivating, factual, rough, touching, epic, serious, emotional
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Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic
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Crazy Horse (1996)
Plot Summary:
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)
Plot Summary:
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, cult film
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The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amid the bitter divisiveness of the Civil War, Confederate Capt. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) feels the rift within his soul. Steadfastly loyal to the South, Adams also holds an unshakable love for his Northerner wife, Eveline McCord (Gwendolyn Edwards). Based on the true story of Robert Adams and produced by his descendents, this stirring historical drama -- a film festival favorite -- delves into the themes of honor, patriotism and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, saga
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Wicked Spring (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet creek. The men meet and spend the night around a campfire, not realizing they are enemies until the next morning when the sun rises and a new day of battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, epic, emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, contemplative
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Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, touching
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The Colt (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, exciting
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The Battle of Canudos (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author, Mario Vargas Llosa's epic, The War At The End Of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: political, sincere, epic, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Founding of a Republic (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Founding of a Republic is a Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group (CFG) to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The film retells the tale of the Communist ascendancy and triumph.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, rough, realistic, disturbing, bleak, banned
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USS Seaviper (2012)
Plot Summary:
Direct to DVD movie: The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to conduct reconnaissance on an island near Sumatra, but the ship is left in the hands of Mister Cutter, after the Executive Officer is injured in battle. A conflict between Cutter and the Chief of the Boat puts the submarine in jeopardy. Seaviper is trapped below the surface, with decreasing oxygen, and a Japanese destroyer hunting them from above. Damage to the boat also leave her survival in question. They must fight the Japanese destroyer and get the information about U-235 back to Pearl Harbor.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Yamato (2005)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, exciting, serious, touching
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The Gustloff (2008)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, realistic
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Andersonville (1996)
Plot Summary:
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: political, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, light, period drama
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Submarine X-1 (1968)
Plot Summary:
After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Midway (1976)
Plot Summary:
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, factual, suspense, intense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, historical drama, spectacular
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: epic, factual, talky, intense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, political, patriotic
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In Enemy Hands (2004)
Plot Summary:
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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Phantom (2013)
Plot Summary:
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, political thriller, realistic, psychotronic
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U-571 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, War
Country: France, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, factual, intense, rough, serious, dramatic, action packed
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Admiral (2015)
Plot Summary:
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, slasher, epic, baroque
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Revolution (1985)
Plot Summary:
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, dramatic, cult classic, historical drama, independent film, epic, period drama, cult film
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55 Days at Peking (1963)
Plot Summary:
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: serious, epic, exciting, realistic, tense, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, vintage
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Rough Riders (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1898 the US government decided to intervene on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt decides to experience the war first hand by promoting and joining a volunteer cavalry regiment. The regiment, later known as the Rough Riders, brings together volunteers from all corners of the nation and all walks of life. When Roosevelt and his men finally land on Cuba, they face ambush, intense enemy fire, and a desperate, outnumbered charge up a defended hill.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political
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Free State of Jones (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA, China
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, factual, intense, period piece, costume drama, epic, captivating, political, historical drama, exciting
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Greyhound (2020)
Plot Summary:
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, psychological thriller, motivational, inspirational, cult classic, powerful, independent film
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, rough, harsh, intense, exciting, factual, serious
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Gettysburg (1993)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min
Plot tags: epic, factual, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, breathtaking, intense, period piece, patriotic
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Beyond the Front Line (2004)
Plot Summary:
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense
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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)
Plot Summary:
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating, disaster movie