War Movies

Comanche Territory

Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.

Digging The Great Escape

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join the team to assist with the tunnel locations and to describe what it was really like to live that situation. In an effort to understand the technical details of how this feet of ingenuity was achieved, the team recreate some of the equipment used by the prisoners.

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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...

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The Other Side of Victory

This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.

The Big Blockade

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Blackboards

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

Little Soldier

Once in a war movie, Avalbek "recognized" his father in a soldier walking with a grenade at a fascist tank. And no one dared to disabuse the boy of this.

Death Is My Trade

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

Between Three Frames of the Lumière Brothers

Reflections on the Lumière brothers' first film and modern warfare. The first film is like a dream of returning to a slow and unhurried life. Without explosions and combat operations. Without troop movements and deaths. It is a dream of not seeing someone else's blood on your military uniform. Of not seeing blood at all and removing the dirty pixel from yourself.

Just One Life

For modern teenagers, the Great Patriotic War is a very long‑ago history that they know only from computer games. That’s how Yegor and Ilya felt too. By a twist of fate, the boys come across the story of the heroic feat of Lieutenant Moroz’s tank crew in the huge tank battle of 1941, which took place in Belarus, near the town of Senno. This encounter reveals the real war to them, makes them look at their computer game hobby in a different way — more maturely and meaningfully — and makes them rethink their family, with which this story turns out to be personally connected...

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

The Third Shadow Warrior

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....

Gladiator: The Real Story

Uncovers the truth behind the iconic figures and epic battles of ancient Rome's gladiatorial games. Through meticulous historical research, it transports you back to the brutal arenas where warriors fought for glory, survival, and the entertainment of the masses.

Latino

The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels in the jungles of Nicaragua, American soldier Eddie Guerrero begins to question the morality of the task at hand and consider how his actions may influence the fate of a nation.

Vindicta

In just one moment 19-year-old Hannah's world shatters when her parents are murdered in front of her. After fleeing, she seeks refuge with family friends before becoming the embodiment of rage and revenge towards those responsible for destroying her life. An unexpected connection with a handsome young Nazi Officer generates a moment of respite, but she is consumed by vengeance at any cost, no matter what or when. The story is inspired by the true events of women who helped defeat the Nazis during WWII.

Souls Aflame

Souls Aflame is a silent war drama released in 1928 directed by Raymond Wells

Lena Kostenetskaya

The civil war separated families on opposite sides of the barricades. How to understand this situation for a young girl who is being raised by a rich aunt, while her father leads a partisan detachment.

The Crash of the Emirate

1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.

Frank Comes Home

Famous Hollywood director Frank Capra comes home from World War II to a family in disarray and a studio pressuring him to make his next big picture.