The Big Red One
May 28, 1980 | IMDB 6.7
113 min Watch NowDrama, War
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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Harry Brown
Men Behind the Sun
Escape from Sobibor
Tobruk
The Silent Enemy
The Chart of Love
Come and See
Article 99
Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
The Hill
A Far Off Place
All the Invisible Children
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Young Warriors
The Naked Brigade
Death Wish 3
At Eternity's Gate
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
IMDB 7.5 | Jul , 1943
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.Peat-Bog Soldiers
IMDB 2.7 | Nov , 1938
This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.Harry Brown
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2009
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.Men Behind the Sun
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1988
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.Escape from Sobibor
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1987
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.Tobruk
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1967
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.The Silent Enemy
IMDB 5.7 | Mar , 1958
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.The Chart of Love
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2014
Dr. Ichito works at Honjo Hospital. His longtime friend Dr. Tatsuya Shindo, who comes from Tokyo, begins working at Honjo Hospital. In their university days, Tatsuya was referred to as "the conscience of the medical school". Ichito notices a difference in Tatsuya now, as he leaves work on time. Then, Ichito's senior colleague Dr. Nukita collapses.Come and See
IMDB 8.2 | Oct , 1985
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.Article 99
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 1992
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
IMDB 7.2 | May , 2015
This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.The Hill
IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 1965
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.A Far Off Place
IMDB 6.1 | Mar , 1993
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.All the Invisible Children
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2006
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.Slaughterhouse-Five
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1972
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.The Young Warriors
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1967
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.The Naked Brigade
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1965
A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.Death Wish 3
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1985
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.At Eternity's Gate
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2018
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
IMDB 7.9 | Feb , 2019
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.