Archive for the 'War' Category
Pathfinder
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Pathfinder DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.90 out of 10 (1944 votes)
Director: Marcus Nispel
Actors: Karl Urban, Russell Means, Moon Bloodgood, Jay Tavare, Clancy Brown, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Kevin Loring, Wayne Charles Baker, Burkely Duffield, Ray G. Thunderchild, Duane Howard, Brandon Oakes, Alain Hudon, Cyler Point,
Tags: War, Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Action, 9th-century, archer, avalanche, based-on-comic, bear, bloodlust, booby-trap, bow-and-arrow, captive, character-name-in-title, death, decapitation, fall-from-height, frozen-lake, hand-to-hand-combat, helmet, heroism, impalement, little-boy, man-against-nature, marauder, mass-murder, massacre, native, native-american, north-america, pathfinder, rural-life, savagery, self-sacrifice, severed-hand, snow, sword-fight, title-spoken-by-character, torture, underwater-scenes, viking, viking-ship, violence, winter
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Flags of Our Fathers
In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.
Flags of Our Fathers DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.20 out of 10 (14583 votes)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas McCarthy, Chris Bauer, Judith Ivey, Myra Turley,
Tags: History, War, Drama, Action, 1940s, alcoholism, based-on-book, blood, blood-splatter, corpse, death, decapitation, exploding-body, fame, gore, head-blown-off, heroism, idolatry, imperial-japan, iwo-jima, japan, japanese-army, loss-of-friend, military, narration, native-american, pacific-ocean, racism, severed-arm, severed-head, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, soldier, suicide, tokyo-japan, torture, vomit, wwii
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Shadow Man
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
Shadow Man DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.20 out of 10 (767 votes)
Director: Michael Keusch
Actors: Steven Seagal, Eva Pope, Imelda Staunton, Vincent Riotta, Michael Elwyn, Skye Bennett, Garrick Hagon, Alex Ferns, Michael Fitzpatrick, Elias Ferkin, Levan Uchaneishvili, Zoltan Butuc, Emanuel Parvu, Vince Leigh, Werner Daehn,
Tags: War, Action, drugs, espionage, explosion, father-daughter-relationship, helicopter, loss-of-wife, martial-arts, shot-in-the-head, strip-club, stripper, topless
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300
In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn’t stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them.
300 DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.90 out of 10 (105513 votes)
Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Pleavin, Andrew Tiernan, Rodrigo Santoro, Giovani Cimmino, Stephen McHattie, Greg Kramer, Alex Ivanovici, Craig Kelly,
Tags: History, War, Drama, Action, 5th-century-b.c., ambassador, ancient-greece, animal-attack, archery, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, battle, battle-axe, beach, beaten-to-death, betrayal, blockbuster, blood-splatter, canyon, child-in-peril, cliff, corpse, death-of-hero, death-of-protagonist, decapitation, deformity, disembowelment, dismemberment, elephant, epic, evisceration, eye-patch, face-slap, fall-from-height, fall-off-cliff, father-son-relationship, gash-in-the-face, giant, gore, grenade, hand-to-hand-combat, harem, helmet, honor, hunchback, impalement, king, lesbian-kiss, loss-of-husband, loss-of-son, love-slave, loyalty, male-nudity, marriage, mask, massacre, no-opening-credits, number-in-title, ogre, oracle, persian, pit, political, prologue, queen, rape, rhinoceros, rite-of-passage, severed-arm, severed-head, severed-leg, sex, shield, siege, slow-motion, soldier, spartan, spear, speech, spit-in-the-face, stabbed-in-the-arm, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-in-the-eye, stabbed-in-the-head, stabbed-in-the-mouth, stabbed-in-the-shoulder, stylization, sword, sword-and-sandal, title-spoken-by-character, told-in-flashback, topless, trampled-to-death, treason, warrior, wolf
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Kingdom of Heaven
It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds. Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. Revealing himself as Balian’s father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. In Jerusalem at that moment–between the Second and Third Crusades–a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military restraint of the legendary Muslim leader Saladin. But Baldwin’s days are numbered, and strains of fanaticism, greed, and jealousy among the Crusaders threaten to shatter the truce. King Baldwin’s vision of peace–a kingdom of heaven–is shared by a handful of knights, including Godfrey of Ibelin, who swear to uphold it with their lives and honor. As Godfrey passes his sword to his son, he also passes on that sacred oath: to protect the helpless, safeguard the peace, and work toward harmony between religions and cultures, so that a kingdom of heaven can flourish on earth. Balian takes the sword and steps into history.
Kingdom of Heaven DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.90 out of 10 (23180 votes)
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Martin Hancock, Eva Green, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Sheen, Nathalie Cox, Jeremy Irons, Eriq Ebouaney, Edward Norton, Jouko Ahola, David Thewlis, Liam Neeson, Philip Glenister, Orlando Bloom, Bronson Webb, Kevin McKidd, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Steven Robertson, Marton Csokas, Alexander Siddig,
Tags: History, War, Drama, Action, 1180s, 12th-century, adultery, archery, army, battle, blacksmith, blood, blood-splatter, bravery, brother-sister-relationship, catapult, christianity, corpse, corruption, cross, crucifix, crusades, death, decapitation, deformed-man, deformity, disfigured-face, epic, face-slap, fall-from-height, father-son-relationship, fire, flaming-arrow, fortress, gore, grave-digging, hand-to-hand-combat, hatred, head-on-stake, heroism, holy-war, honor, impalement, islam, italy, jerusalem, king, knight, leper, leprosy, loss-of-brother, loss-of-child, loss-of-father, loss-of-son, loss-of-wife, love, marriage, massacre, middle-east, military, person-on-fire, priest, public-execution, queen, religion, self-sacrifice, severed-head, ship-wreck, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-throat, shot-to-death, siege, slit-throat, social-commentary, stabbed-in-stomach, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-in-the-head, stabbed-in-the-leg, stabbed-in-the-throat, suicide, sword-fight, throat-slitting, title-spoken-by-character, tolerance, treason, unhappy-marriage, warrior, wilhelm-scream
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Valiant
The animated comedy tells the story of a lowly wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain’s Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. The RHPS advanced the Allied cause by flying vital messages about enemy movements across the English Channel, whilst evading brutal attacks by the enemy’s Falcon Brigade.
Valiant DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.60 out of 10 (3746 votes)
Director: Gary Chapman
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, John Hurt, Pip Torrens, Rik Mayall, Olivia Williams, Jonathan Ross, Brian Lonsdale, Dan Roberts, Michael Schlingmann, Sharon Horgan,
Tags: Animation, War, Family, Comedy, Adventure, 1940s, airplane, animal, big-ben, bird, bunker, carrier-pigeon, character-name-in-title, chase, computer-animation, courier, england, espionage, falcon, film-in-film, flatulence, fly, france, french-resistance, friendship, hypodermic-needle, james-bond-spoof-scene, kids-and-family, london-england, military-enlistment, military-training, mill, mother-son-relationship, mouse, movie-theater, nurse, parachuting, pigeon, presumed-dead, prisoner-of-war, rescue, romance, seagull, shell-game, shower, stonehenge, truth-serum, war-hero, wwii
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Last Drop, The
In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan - Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small unit of men, codename “Matchbox” has it’s own agenda. When Matchbox are shot down short of their landing zone, the odds of their success seem hopeless. Seven very different British soldiers find themselves separated from the Allied invasion, on a collision course with three renegade German soldiers who also want to lay claim to the horde.
Last Drop, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.60 out of 10 (716 votes)
Director: Colin Teague
Actors: Billy Zane, Karel Roden, Michael Madsen, Alexander Skarsgård, Tommy Flanagan, Sean Pertwee, Laurence Fox, Rafe Spall, Neil Newbon, Coral Beed, Lucy Gaskell, Nick Moran, Andrew Howard, Neil Jackson, Jack Dee,
Tags: War, Adventure, Action, title-spoken-by-character
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Jarhead
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
Jarhead DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (29913 votes)
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Lo Ming, Kevin Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Damion Poitier, Riad Galayini, Craig Coyne, Katherine Randolph, Rini Bell, Dendrie Taylor, James Morrison, Arman Zajic, Brianne Davis, Jamie Foxx,
Tags: Biography, War, Drama, Action, 1980s, 1990s, accidental-killing, anti-war, based-on-novel, black-comedy, breasts, burn-victim, burnt-body, cheating-wife, christmas-party, corpse, dark-humor, dead-animal, death, desert-storm, drunkeness, exploding-building, exploding-car, female-nudity, fire, friendly-fire, gulf-war, helicopter, homophobic, horse, infidelity, loss-of-friend, machine-gun, male-bonding, male-nudity, marine, marine-creed, masturbation-scene, oil-field, pep-talk, person-on-fire, pistol, platoon, prank, pride, reveille, rifle, sergeant, severed-foot, severed-leg, sex-talk, shot-in-the-head, shower-scene, sniper, title-spoken-by-character, u.s.-marine-corps, urination-scene, violence, vomit-scene, wagner-ride-of-the-valkyries, wetting-pants
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