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The Trench
The horrors of the Somme
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The Trench
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer
Director: William Boyd
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THE TRENCH tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and ..read more »
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from 1,509 member
Regeneration
Everyones had to do War Poetry at school. This film gives you a perspective on those hours reading Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
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Regeneration
(1997)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Jonathan Pryce stars as Dr. William Rivers, an army psychologist who treats mentally disturbed patients so that they can return to the front, in this adaptation of Pat Barker's moving World War I novel. Dr. Rivers begins to doubt the morality of his occupation when he begins treating a bizarre trio ..read more »
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from 1,051 member
Joyeux Noel
The Christmas Truce
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Joyeux Noel
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet
Director: Christian Carion
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On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football...
70%
from 3,485 members
Battle Of The River Plate
A great performance by Anthony Quayle who's so British its untrue. What Price Snowballs Now !!!
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Battle Of The River Plate
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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In 'The Battle Of The River Plate' an account of the trapping, in 1939, of the German battleship 'Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic by three British cruisers is documented. 'In Which We Serve' tells the dramatic story of a British Navy destroyer, dive-bombed in the Battle of Crete, but always ..read more »
68%
from 1,357 member
Ice Cold In Alex
My favorite Black and White film - its so British it makes u have a stiff upper lip
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Ice Cold In Alex
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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This classic World War II drama stars John Mills as an ambulance driver who escapes the siege of Tobruk in the company of a sergeant major, a nurse and a South African officer who has become separated from his unit. Suspicions arise about whether one of the group is a German spy who is undermining ..read more »
74%
from 4,266 members
Tobruk
Interesting Perspective on the desert war
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Tobruk
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jan Meduna, Petr Vanek, Robert Nebrenský
Director: Václav Marhoul
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A naive eighteen-year-old signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army wanting to serve his country but finds himself at the frontline of a very brutal offensive in Libya during world war II.
53%
from 127 members
The Guns Of Navarone
ahh a sunday favorite
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The Guns Of Navarone
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot--based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek Island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a ..read more »
70%
from 4,785 members
Conspiracy
Based on the minutes off the actual Meeting at Wansee. This is a chilling film showing just how the final solution was decided.
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Conspiracy
(2001)
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth
Director: Frank R. Pierson
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A recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference when German leaders met in a Berlin suburb and made the decision to exterminate the European Jews.
Not currently released
74%
from 1,248 member
The Pianist
Polanski really out does himself in this film. Traumatic and emotional this is Schindler's Lists only true rival to the horros of the holocaust
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The Pianist
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
76%
from 41,115 members
Schindler's List
Definitive for its time and a template for the Holocaust films that followed
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Schindler's List
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
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