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A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Year: 1987
Runtime: 153 min
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
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Pearl Harbor
Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, William Lee Scott
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Actors: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini
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To End All Wars
Actors: Ciarán McMenamin, Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Strong
A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately ...
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Saints and Soldiers
Actors: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby
Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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City of War: The Story of John Rabe
Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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City of Life and Death
Actors: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Wei Fan, Lan Qin
In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
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Rescue Dawn
Actors: Christian Bale, Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Toby Huss
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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The Water Diviner
Actors: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Yilmaz Erdogan, Cem Yilmaz
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
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Grave of the Fireflies
Actors: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
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Australia
Actors: Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Blood Diamond
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers
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Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey
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Actors: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
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Fateless
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The Flowers of War
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An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
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The Last Drop
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Downfall
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
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Devils on the Doorstep
Actors: Wen Jiang, Hongbo Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ding Yuan
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Letters from Iwo Jima
Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
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Lawrence of Arabia
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
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Flying Tigers
Actors: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly
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Stop-Loss
Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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The Big Red One
Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco
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