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War movies
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. Sometimes they focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles. Their stories may be fiction, based on history, docudrama or occasionally biographical. Most war films often include a romance somewhere in the plot.
The term anti-war film is sometimes used to describe films which bring to the viewer the pain and horror of war, often from a political or ideological perspective.
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Comedy movies 
War movies
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Dan Aykroyd
Ned Beatty
John Belushi
Treat Williams
Nancy Allen
Robert Stack
Toshiro Mifune
Christopher Lee
Warren Oates
John Candy
Samuel Fuller
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.
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Action movies
Drama movies
History movies
War movies
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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
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Zack Snyder
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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Adventure movies
Drama movies
History movies
War movies
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Richard Egan
Ralph Richardson
Diane Baker
Barry Coe
David Farrar
Donald Houston
Anna Synodinou
Kieron Moore
John Crawford
Robert Brown
Laurence Naismith
Anne Wakefield
Ivan Triesault
Charles Fawcett
Michalis Nikolinakos
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Rudolph Maté
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Plot Summary:
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers' sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.
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Drama movies
History movies
War movies
Western movies
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Craig Erickson
Dennis Quaid
Billy Bob Thornton
Jason Patric
Patrick Wilson
Emilio Echevarría
Jordi Mollà
Leon Rippy
Tom Davidson
Marc Blucas
Robert Prentiss
Kevin Page
Joe Stevens
Stephen Bruton
Laura Clifton
Ricardo Chavira
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John Lee Hancock
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Action movies
Adventure movies
Biography movies
Drama movies
War movies
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Anthony Hopkins
Jared Leto
Colin Farrell
David Bedella
Jessie Kamm
Angelina Jolie
Val Kilmer
Fiona O'Shaughnessy
Connor Paolo
Patrick Carroll
Brian Blessed
Peter Williamson
Morgan Christopher Ferris
Robert Earley
Aleczander Gordon
Christopher Plummer
Gary Stretch
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Oliver Stone
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
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Action movies
Adventure movies
Drama movies
War movies
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Robert Duvall
Marlon Brando
Martin Sheen
Frederic Forrest
Sam Bottoms
Laurence Fishburne
Dennis Hopper
Albert Hall
Harrison Ford
G.D. Spradlin
Jerry Ziesmer
Scott Glenn
Bo Byers
James Keane
Kerry Rossall
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Plot Summary:
Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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