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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan (1998) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel

Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to ...

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Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket (1987) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood

Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill ...

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Platoon

Platoon (1986) more movies like this

directed by Oliver Stone
featuring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn

Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a culturally diverse group of fellow soldiers under two men ...

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Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) more movies like this

directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura

After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in its last stages, and U.S. forces were planning to ...

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Midway

Midway (1976) more movies like this

directed by Jack Smight
featuring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook

An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed, and America's string of humiliating defeats was ...

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Hell's Angels

Hell's Angels (1930) more movies like this

directed by Howard R. Hughes, Luther Reed, Marshall Neilan
featuring Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival

No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like Hell's Angels. Given Hughes' comparative inexperience as a moviemaker, however, everyone was taken slightly aback that the finished film was as good as it was. The very American Ben Lyon and James Hall play (respectively) Monte ...

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Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down (2001) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Jason Isaacs, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard

A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark Bowden. On October 3rd, 1993, an elite team of more than 100 Delta Force soldiers and Army Rangers, part of a larger United Nations ...

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We Were Soldiers

We Were Soldiers (2002) more movies like this

directed by Randall Wallace
featuring Mel Gibson

Screenwriter Randall Wallace, a specialist in sweeping historical epics, steps behind the camera for this fact-based Vietnam War drama that reunites him with his Braveheart (1995) star Mel Gibson. Gibson is Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, the same regiment fatefully led by George Armstrong Custer. As part of ...

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Operation Pacific

Operation Pacific (1951) more movies like this

directed by George Waggner
featuring John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey

If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; judging by the frequency of its showings, the film must be someone's very special favorite down at AMC. Set during WW II, the film casts Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia ...

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Twelve O'Clock High

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) more movies like this

directed by Henry King
featuring Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Robert Arthur

How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission in four hard days, Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) demands "maximum effort." The bombers are forced to fly lower, to fly farther, and to test themselves -- overspent and fatigued -- right up until death's ...

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A Bridge Too Far (1977) more movies like this

directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Germany. Paratroops led by British major general ...

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The Thin Red Line (1998) more movies like this

directed by Terrence Malick
featuring Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney

The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars as Private Witt, a deserter living in peace and ...

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The Green Berets (1968) more movies like this

directed by John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
featuring John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques

The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne's role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963), but it was evident to the worldwide public that the same bravado that flew well in World War II crash-landed in 1968 in the wake of a very different war and ...

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U-571 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Mostow
featuring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber

In this World War II action thriller, American reconnaissance agents learn that a German submarine is sinking. The doomed ship carries an Enigma Machine, a special coding device that allows high-level Axis forces to send messages that can't be read without a similar encryption mechanism. Obtaining a working Enigma device would be invaluable for ...

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Memphis Belle (1990) more movies like this

directed by Michael Caton-Jones
featuring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, David Strathairn

Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World War II B-17 bomber "Memphis Belle," anticipating ...

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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Wally Cassell

From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has become exceedingly bitter and tough, leading his ...

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Windtalkers (2002) more movies like this

directed by John Woo
featuring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Slater

Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the Solomon Islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Suffering from eardrum damage in Hawaii, Joe manages ...

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Enemy at the Gates (2001) more movies like this

directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
featuring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris

A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were finally defeated by Russian influence -- one of the bloodiest battles in World War II history. The film stars Jude Law as Vassili, a marksman from the Urals who is transported to Stalingrad in 1942, ...

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Heartbreak Ridge (1986) more movies like this

directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart

Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs ...

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Hamburger Hill (1987) more movies like this

directed by John Irvin
featuring Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan, Don James

Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Based on a true incident, the story takes place in 1969, as the 101st Airborne Division confronts the Vietcong in a bloody battle over Hill 937 (aka "Hamburger ...

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They Were Expendable (1945) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Cameron Mitchell, Ward Bond

John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines, that makes him a radical thinker. "Your boats maneuver beautifully," an admiral (Charles Trowbridge) tells him, "but if I'm going into combat, I prefer something a little more substantial." The gently delivered but stinging ...

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The Enemy Below (1957) more movies like this

directed by Dick Powell
featuring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, Russell Collins

The Enemy Below is a study of submarine warfare from the vantage point of both sides. Robert Mitchum plays the captain of an American destroyer, who despite having lost his family in the war endeavors to let his head rule his heart in combat. Curt Jurgens co-stars as a German U-boat commander, depicted as being as honorable and compassionate as ...

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Sink the Bismarck! (1960) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Gilbert
featuring Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Karel Stepanek

The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. This film traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. Since one couldn't expect a ship to carry a 97-minute movie, the story ...

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Air Force (1943) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, Charles Drake

On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the movie reveals certain things about the crew: the ...

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Cross of Iron (1976) more movies like this

directed by Sam Peckinpah
featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch

A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the book by Willi Heinrich), is a World War II tale told ...

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