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War and Peace

Rated: 0 | 208 Views Released Year: 1956

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: A decade of preparation and two years of filming went into the making of this all-time classic version of Leo Tolstoy's 20th-century masterpiece. Personal stories, love affairs and philosophies are woven throughout this massive, intricate tapestry of Russia during Napoleon's invasion at the turn of the 19th century. With great attention to detail and historical accuracy, this epic film is an unforgettable document as well as an engaging drama.
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D-Day: The Sixth of June

Rated: 0 | 200 Views Released Year: 1956

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: In this atypical story about D-Day, American captain Brad Parker (Robert Taylor) and British colonel John Wynter (Richard Todd) prepare for the Normandy invasion aboard the same ship. En route, the two men recall, in flashbacks, their love for the same woman (Dana Wynter). Will the D-Day battle determine which one comes home to her? The hellish war scenes and the compelling story will grab you.
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Captain Newman, M.D.

Rated: 0 | 197 Views Released Year: 1963

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: Although he's charged with clearing shell-shocked soldiers to return to active duty, Capt. Josiah J. Newman (Gregory Peck) is keenly aware that some of them simply aren't ready. But the neuropsychiatrist's caution doesn't sit well with his superiors. Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin round out the all-star ensemble cast in this World War II-era drama that was filmed in the 1960s.
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Junior G-Men of the Air

Rated: 0 | 165 Views Released Year: 1942

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: The notorious Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys star in this 1940s-era serial as a group of delinquent airplane mechanics turned fighter pilots who band together to defeat a team of Japanese spies that has infiltrated the United States. Lionel Atwill gives a magnetic performance in this World War II epic as the Baron, the leader of the terrorist organization known as the Order of the Black Dragonfly.
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Sundays and Cybele

Rated: 0 | 146 Views Released Year: 1962

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, director Serge Bourguignon's compassionate drama stars Hardy Krüger as Pierre, a former military pilot psychologically devastated by a wartime experience. Living a detached existence in a Parisian suburb, Pierre begins to perk up when he meets and befriends a 12-year-old urchin (Patricia Gozzi) abandoned by her father. But problems arise when their relationship is misconstrued.
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World War I Films of the Silent Era

Rated: 0 | 149 Views Released Year: 1916

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: This rare collection of silent films from World War I provides a fascinating view of the American psyche during the tumultuous period. Highlights include a hard-to-find propaganda film in which Charlie Chaplin beats up the German kaiser; "The Log of the U-35," which used an actual submarine log to re-create a deadly cruise through the Mediterranean; and "The Secret Game," about Japanese spies teaming with U.S. agents against the Germans.
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Twelve O'Clock High

Rated: 0 | 140 Views Released Year: 1949

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: Hard-as-nails World War II Gen. Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) must turn a discouraged group of American bomber pilots into heroes. Along the way, the once-alienated general comes to view the men as family. No longer a heartless commander, Savage -- with the aid of his loyal adjutant Maj. Harvey Stovall (Dean Jagger) -- learns how difficult true leadership really is. Director Henry King's Oscar-winning war drama boasts actual air combat footage.
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Dogs O' War Collection

Rated: 0 | 108 Views Released Year: 1967

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: Experience major action on the European front with this collection of 10 classic World War II films. The adventures include Nazis and Allied prisoners fighting over a fortune, an American stranded behind enemy lines and British officers pursuing Nazi saboteurs. In other films, a young Resistance worker is faced with seducing a Nazi officer to obtain secret plans, and the horrors of war are observed through the eyes of a small child.
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Seven Were Saved

Rated: 0 | 162 Views Released Year: 1947

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: When a botched hijacking forces a military plane to crash-land in the shark-infested waters of the South China Sea, the passengers take refuge in a tiny lifeboat and battle dehydration, heavy rains -- and the man responsible for their predicament. William H. Pine's World War II drama features Richard Loo as the would-be hijacker, a Japanese colonel facing war crimes charges in the Philippines. Richard Denning and Catherine Craig also star.
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The Private Navy of Sgt. O' Farrell

Rated: 0 | 146 Views Released Year: 1968

Genre: Classic War Stories
About: Bob Hope stars as Sgt. O'Farrell in this seaworthy comedy about a wayward Japanese torpedo that's hit a cargo ship full of beer. O'Farrell takes it upon himself to "rescue" the lager while delivering some nurses to his officers. To the boys' surprise, however, all but one of the nurses -- Nurse Nellie Krause (Phyllis Diller) -- turn out to be men. Hope and Diller repeat their successful pairing from Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number.
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