In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.Read More »
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Herbert L. Strock – Battle Taxi (1955)
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Nhat Minh Dang – Co gai tren song aka The Girl on the River (1987)
Nhat Minh Dang1981-1990DramaVietnamWar

After the liberation of the South, Nguyet, a prostitute on the Huong river tries to find a revolutionary she had rescued from the enemy. She hopes to find him again.
Source adapted from: Viet Nam Film Institute, (2008). Catalogue of Vietnamese Awarded Films (1949-2005). Ha Noi: Viet Nam.Read More »
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Masaki Kobayashi – Nihon no seishun AKA Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
Masaki Kobayashi1961-1970DramaJapanWar

Kobayashi Masaki’s 1968 Toho film about a man beaten to the point of deafness by his superior officer during WWII. He meets him again through his work as an inventor, and struggles through the challenge of his son’s romantic interest in the Officer’s daughter.Read More »
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Alfred Machin – Maudite soit la guerre (1914)
Alfred Machin1911-1920BelgiumSilentWar

An army pilot is on a visit at the home of another army pilot in the neighboured country. He falls in love with his sister. After the outbreak of a war between the two countries, her brother is killed by her friend in a battle, he is killed by some friends of her brother. She engages her with her brother’s friend who was there, but then she finds out about that battle.Read More »
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Un long dimanche de fiançailles AKA A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet2001-2010DramaFranceWarWorld War OneTells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.Read More »
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Stanislaw Rózewicz – Wolne miasto AKA Free City (1958)
Stanislaw Rózewicz1951-1960DramaPolandWarQuote:
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdansk on the first day of World War II.Wikipedia wrote:
It was the first Polish film about September 1939. The director presented the drama of a group of civilians – employees of the Polish Post Office in the Free City of Gdańsk – caught up in the gears of great history. Fragments of archival film footage of the attack on the post office add authenticity to the film.Read More » -
Joris Ivens – The Spanish Earth (1937)
1931-1940DocumentaryJoris IvensUSAWarPlot/Description: from IMDB
This documentary tells of the struggles during the Spanish Civil War. It deals with the war at different levels: from the political level, at the ground military level focusing on battles in Madrid and the road from Madrid to Valencia, and at the support level. With the latter, a key project was building an irrigation system for an agricultural field near Fuentedueña so that food could be grown to feed the soldiers.Read More » -
Fred Zinnemann – Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Fred Zinnemann1961-1970DramaUSAWarManuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.Read More »
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Ye Lou – Zi hu die AKA Purple Butterfly (2003)
Ye Lou2001-2010ChinaThrillerWarDing Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover… and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.Read More »





