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Plot Summary:
Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic
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3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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Turkish Ice Cream (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1915, two Turks in Australia make a living by selling ice cream. When they hear war has broken out, they decide to go to Çanakkale. Authorities don't let them leave the island, so the two decide to put up a fight in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The War Below (2021)
Plot Summary:
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, powerful
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The Long Way Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean soldier named Yeong-gwang who happens to acquire the secret document on his way to the North.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Spitfire Over Berlin (2022)
Plot Summary:
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1200 men.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Convoy PQ-17 (2004)
Plot Summary:
"PQ-17 was the code name for an Allied Second World War convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ-17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight attacks which lasted a week.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 416 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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1971: Beyond Borders (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of 1971 Indo-Pak war, the movie is inspired by real incidents and the protagonists are inspired by Param Vir Chakra recipients. The movie shows what consequences of war are on the lives of soldiers on either side of the border.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, War
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Sacrifice (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1953, the Korean War is entering the final stage. The People's Volunteer Army of China has launched the last major battle in Kumsong. In order to arrive at the battleground on time and deliver enough force to the Kumsong front line, the soldiers have to defend themselves against the never ending bombing of enemy bombers and race with time to repair bridges, all under the circumstance of supply shortages and inferior equipment. The rarely told history slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, philosophical, political
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The Bomber (2011)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved radio operator Katya miraculously survive. Another survivor is flight navigator Linko, who ejected from the plane. Each of them has to find his way and perform military tasks, return to his own forces and simply to stay alive. The situation becomes more complicated because of an act of sabotage, which has been committed before their take-off at the aerodrome. Honest Grivtsov gets on the bad side of the colonel of SMERSH by defending his friends. Instead of being granted a medal "Star" for his 100th flight, he is pronounced a traitor and is to be executed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sad
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War Pigs (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, perverse
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Panfilov's 28 (2016)
Plot Summary:
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Pilot: A Battle for Survival (2021)
Plot Summary:
December of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is shot down. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane in a remote forest clearing. He's alive, but far from friendly territory. Ahead of him is a relentless trial of severe physical and mental endurance. After battling hunger and extreme cold, evading packs of wolves and detachments of Nazi soldiers, the wounded Komlev finally makes it back to safety. But there he faces another challenge, the most life-changing of them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspense, suspenseful, patriotic, complex
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For Those We Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied warships. Yarn follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, as remembered by an aging Kyushu restaurateur who cherishes their memory. Honoring the dead and multiple military anthems may stir the soul of some Japanese, but elsewhere auds will make a one-way trip for exits. Battle scenes are well-executed and script delivers some memorable scenes, but overall competent helming and thesping are powerless over writer-cum-Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishiara's repetitive storytelling. A post-war postscript adds considerable length to an already over-extended narrative. Tech credits are good quality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountains. Even after hearing reports of the Japanese military's surrender, Oba dismisses the reports as propaganda and continues to launch guerilla attacks against the American soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Fox". Soon, even the American commander who's charged with the task of capturing Oba comes to admire his persistent enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Death and Glory in Changde (2010)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Shen Dong and starring Ray Lui, An Yixuan and Yuan Wenkang, Death and Glory in Changde recalls one of the most cruel and controversial battles during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), Changde Battle, in November 1943.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, epic, serious, independent film
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Blizzard of Souls (2019)
Plot Summary:
The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Latvia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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April 9th (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against all odds, hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. In the fatal hours, we follow second lieutenant Sand and his bicycle company - they will as the first Danish soldiers meet the enemy in combat on April 9th 1940.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of many young women in training.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, patriotic, serious, realistic, scenic
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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Plot Summary:
The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background... Soon, however, another misfortune befalls Lyudmila leaving the man she loves on the brink of death and herself seriously wounded. The girl is pulled out of combat and later goes to the United States with a publicity visit. Eleanor Roosevelt welcomes Lyudmila in the White House and the two women soon become close. It won't be long before Pavlichenko stands before an audience in Chicago pressing for a second front. Will her words have the capacity to change the course of war?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dramatic, rough, realistic, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical, political
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9th Company (2005)
Plot Summary:
The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior to being sent off to the front lines. After several one-by-one dalliances with the local whore, Snow White, and a cautionary lecture on the history, geography and culture of Afghanistan (which most of the men sleep through), the trainees head off to battle - first to the Bagram air base, then to the Afghani province of Khost to secure supply lines. But nothing can begin to prepare them for the brutal devastation into which they are plunged, or the relentless tide of slaughter that scatters thousands of Soviet victims in its wake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: dramatic, realistic, rough, exciting, clever, touching, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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The Red Baron (2008)
Plot Summary:
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, exciting, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, romantic drama, colorful, realistic, costume drama
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Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of Manfred von Richtofen, the german air ace during the World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous german officers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the height of WWII, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a deadly battleground as an American torpedo boat fights against the constant bombardment of German forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
Plot Summary:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: touching
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Into the White (2012)
Plot Summary:
Into the White is an anti-war movie. High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made them enemies, antagonism is hard to maintain as days go by. Through mutual need, unlikely friendships bloom. Somehow, they become comrades. War, after all, is absurd.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, touching, breathtaking, social, poignant
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Fortress of War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, touching, epic
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Red Tails (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action packed, historical drama, retro, disgusting, uplifting
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MacArthur (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: melancholic, epic, intense, realistic, serious, political, exciting, tense, sincere, rough