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Plot Summary:
During World War I, a group of determined soldiers fights to defend Ottoman territory against English invasion.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, islamic
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Snapphanar (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the year of our Lord 1678, Sweden is plagued by countless wars and a dysfunctional royal rule. One night, the young and devout Nils losing everything he holds dear and tragedy drives him on a quest for vengeance. It will be a raid, which makes him snap cock and participate in one of Scandinavia's bloodiest wars ever free!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Sweden, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: depressing, serious, suspense, realistic, baroque
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Wolf (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
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Ancient Black Ops (2014)
Plot Summary:
From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops – men trained to perfection, skilled with a devastating array of weaponry – men who will track down their leader’s enemies and kill them. All assassination teams faced one big problem: getting close enough to kill. No one in the ancient world had sniper rifles. As a result even the most formidable Japanese Ninjas got captured and tortured. This series brings some of the most dramatic tales of antiquity to life with a mixture of dramatic reconstruction, documentary filming and expert testimony. Each episode details the intricate complexity of the elite troops who performed the assassination missions and how they worked. It shows what they had to do to achieve elite status, how they could dress, and the weapons they got to use when they completed their first mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, rough
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Mendirman Jaloliddin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah, the ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire, initiated a tragic but united struggle against the Mongol invasion. After unsuccessful attempts by the Khwarazm shahs to stop the Mongol invasion that began in the Central Asian steppes, Jalal al-Din, the last ruler of the empire, put dynastic fights between Seljuks and Khwarazmians aside, and tried to establish a united front to stop the Mongols.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: Uzbekistan, Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, costume drama
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Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, historical drama, period drama
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Either Freedom or Death (2020)
Plot Summary:
On March 16, 1920, after the Allied Powers invaded Istanbul and disbanded Meclis-i Mebûsan, the Kuvayi Milliye movement, led by Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and the opening adventure of the fully independent assembly to be established in Ankara are described.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Malazgirt 1071 (2022)
Plot Summary:
Malazgirt 1071 tells the story of the Battle of Manzikert, which opened the doors of Anatolia to Turks.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, islamic
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Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean (2021)
Plot Summary:
Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean will take viewers on a historic journey across the Ottoman Empire based on the life of 16th-century Ottoman admiral "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and the adventures of four brothers who become seafarers. The drama series retells this adventure through the stories of four brothers; Ishak, Oruc, Hizir, and Ilyas, fighting high tides and the secrets of the seas. It focuses on their pursuit of a holy secret with the help of Master Suleyman, and during the course of their journey, they make enemies in, Pietro; the Pope's hand reaching out to the Mediterranean who is also pursuing the secret and organizes an attack against their ship. But this doesn't stop the brothers and they continue their original quest to find the holy secret all the while fighting their enemies at high tides.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, nautical
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Mehmed: The Conqueror (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1451, Young Sultan Mehmed headed to Edirne with a dream after he got the news regarding his father, the Sultan who had passed away.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, bloody, suspenseful, factual, islamic
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The Great Seljuks (2020)
Plot Summary:
The growth of the great Seljuk Empire. An epic journey with love, secrets and struggle for the pursuit of order in the world and justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Alparslan: The Great Seljuks (2021)
Plot Summary:
This series about a Sultan of the Great Seltuks. His name is Alparslan. He is the second sultan of the Seltuk dynasty. The serious will mainly explain the key moments of the life of Alparslan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Documentary, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: epic, costume drama, historical drama
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In Flanders Fields (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Boesman family's attempt to survive in the city of Ghent during the first world war focusing on each of the five family member's different experiences.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, touching, costume drama
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Forbidden Ground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, captivating, rough, suspenseful, independent film
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Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team led by Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) travels to West Bank in Palestine, where they launch a campaign against Israeli military personnel in an attempt to track down and eliminate an Israeli general, leader Moşe Ben Eliyezer (Erdal Beşikçioğlu), who is the responsible for the flotilla raid.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Free Man (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story is real story that tells about a man's life who has a very influential philosopher that had lived in between 1877-1960. His name is 'Said Nursi' and he is originally Kurdish. But, he speaks perfectly Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian. He wrote and compiled too many books that had aimed to develop personal beliefs, the belief of faith, brotherhood, philanthropy, the loyalty of state, moreover, discovering the problems in Turkey; the reasons of weakness, poorness, ignorance, untutored, divisions in society, divergence, estrangement of ethics, religion. And to find the solutions of those problems.. And his struggle for doing this toward a secret committee.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, controversial, bleak, realistic, contemplative
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120 (2008)
Plot Summary:
During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all men are fighting at four corners of the empire and therefore can not respond to to the appeal. The young children of Van want to do something.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, educational, serious
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The Rat Patrol (1966)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, vintage
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Payitaht Abdulhamid (2017)
Plot Summary:
The fight of Abdulhamid II to keep Ottoman Empire and caliphate alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, islamic, historical drama
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Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
Plot Summary:
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the peaceful mountains suddenly become a place where men die. But every story told in this film is a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, historical drama, contemplative, stylized, gloomy
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Gallipoli: End of the Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
April, 1915. First World War in Canakkale, Ottoman Empire. Two brothers leave their mountain village to fight on the front line. One is an experienced sniper fighting for Ottomans against the invasion, while his brother finds it much tougher to cope with life in the trenches. Meanwhile, landing of the occupation forces in the shores of Gallipoli has begun.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, epic, captivating, realistic, stylized, surprise ending
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The Passing Bells (2014)
Plot Summary:
At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
Duration:
Plot tags: historical drama, epic, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, costume drama, emotional, gloomy
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Establishment: Osman (2019)
Plot Summary:
The life of Osman Bey, the son of Ertugrul Gazi and the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, suspense, islamic
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Anzacs (1985)
Plot Summary:
Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war. It follows in the wake of Australian New Wave war films such as Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, and precedes The Lighthorsemen. Recurring themes of these films include the Australian identity, such as mateship and larrikinism, the loss of innocence in war, and also the continued coming of age of the Australian nation and its soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, vintage, period drama
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The Star (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, epic, rough
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Generation War (2013)
Plot Summary:
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, serious, thought provoking, anime, mind blowing, realistic, controversial, epic, period drama
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The Lost Battalion (2001)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I. Based on a true story, The Lost Battalion is set in 1918 during the final months of WWI. Assigned to capture an enemy stronghold in Charlvaux at the height of the Argonne campaign, the men of the AEF 308th Battalion, 77th Division, are led by young American major Charles Whittlesey, an inexperienced but dedicated "citizen soldier." Totally cut off from the other allied troops, unaware of their vulnerability, and barraged by "friendly fire," the 500-plus men of the 308th bravely hold their position, suffering incredible losses and unspeakable deprivations in the process -- while the battalion's superior officers, far from the firing line, callously prepare to write off the men as expendable casualties.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical, political, historical drama, gloomy
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Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Conquest 1453 (2012)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do: Conquer Constantinople.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, epic, islamic, stylized, computer animated, weird
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Dirilis: Ertugrul (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, brutal, stylized, atmospheric, factual, islamic, historical drama, period drama