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Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Year: 1963
Runtime: 172 min
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald
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Victory
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Pelé, Bobby Moore
As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
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Where Eagles Dare
Actors: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.
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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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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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Max Manus: Man of War
Actors: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
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Band of Brothers
Actors: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor
The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day.
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Pursuit of the Graf Spee
Actors: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter
A true WW2 story: the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
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The Dirty Dozen
Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
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Escape to Athena
Actors: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers
A World War II adventure, involving a group of Allied POWs, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.
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The Great Raid
Actors: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini
Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.
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Army of Shadows
Actors: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
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The Bridge at Remagen
Actors: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman
As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
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Battle of the Bulge
Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews
A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.
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Operation Crossbow
Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.
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A Man Escaped
Actors: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from prison.
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A Bridge Too Far
Actors: Siem Vroom, Marlies van Alcmaer, Erik van 't Wout, Wolfgang Preiss
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.
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Escape from Sobibor
Actors: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were ...
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Fate of a Man
Actors: Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko, Pavel Volkov
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a ...
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The Pacific
Actors: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Ashton Holmes
The Pacific Theatre of World War II, as seen through the eyes of several young Marines.
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The Train
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
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The Monuments Men
Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.
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Fury
Actors: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
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The Longest Day
Actors: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
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Stalingrad
Actors: Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Thomas Kretschmann
A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.
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The Scarlet and the Black
Actors: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone
Vatican efforts, lead by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied POWs and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
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Seventeen Moments of Spring
Actors: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
A 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov. The series portrays the exploits of Maxim Isaev, a ...
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Das Boot
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.
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Come and See
Actors: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
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Empire of the Sun
Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Actors: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
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Von Ryan's Express
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter
An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Larry Wilcox
During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Reisman to pick 12 soldiers from the military prison for the dangerous mission of killing a Nazi General.
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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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Red Tails
Actors: Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Nate Parker, David Oyelowo
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
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The Green Berets
Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Actors: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte
The story of a large U.S. Marines invasion task force bound for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942.
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49th Parallel
Actors: Richard George, Eric Portman, Raymond Lovell, Niall MacGinnis
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral USA.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Actors: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith
The World War II story of the British Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
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Seven Years in Tibet
Actors: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako
True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.
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The Dam Busters
Actors: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney
The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.
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Katyn
Actors: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Actors: Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, Domonkos Németh, Henry Kingsmill
Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
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Dark Blue World
Actors: Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance
The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
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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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Pearl Harbor
Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, William Lee Scott
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
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La Grande Illusion
Actors: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Actors: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore
On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Actors: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
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Naked Among Wolves
Actors: Florian Stetter, Peter Schneider, Sylvester Groth, Sabin Tambrea
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the ...
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Uncommon Valor
Actors: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Reb Brown
Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, U.S.Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in POW camps in Laos.
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