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1	Schindler's List (1993) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.68!
2	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
3	Band of Brothers (2001) more movies like this Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose. The series dramatically re-creates the path of Easy Company, an elite paratrooper unit, from their basic ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $54.00!
4	South Pacific (1958) more movies like this directed by Joshua Logan featuring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic that everyone hoped it would be, principally because of some curious creative choices made by the production personnel. Adapted from James A. Michener's best-selling novel Tales of the South Pacific ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $21.94!
5	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 ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $4.29!
6	Empire of the Sun (1987) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich, Bale learns to survive without a retinue of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.85!
7	Pan's Labyrinth (2006) more movies like this directed by Guillermo del Toro featuring Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom. Her ... see all copies from $10.37! new only from $10.37!
8	Sergeant York (1941) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, Margaret Wycherly, Stanley Ridges When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three conditions: (1) That the film contains no phony heroics, (2) that Mrs.York not be played by a Hollywood "glamour girl" and (3) That Gary Cooper portray York on screen. All three conditions were met, and the result is one of the ... see all copies from $9.93! new only from $21.99!
9	Brideshead Revisited (1981) more movies like this directed by Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The story is told from the point-of-view of Charles ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.34!
10	Flags of Our Fathers (2006) more movies like this directed by Clint Eastwood featuring Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Phillipe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach -- who survived ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99!
11 view cover	Friendly Persuasion (1956) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main, Robert Middleton, Richard Eyer Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which does not believe in warfare. Birdwell's son Josh (Anthony Perkins) wishes to adhere to his family's pacifism, but is afraid that if he doesn't ... see all copies from $6.03! new only from $16.32!
12 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
13 view cover	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) more movies like this directed by David Lean featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James Donald The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $4.95!
14 view cover	Das Boot (1981) more movies like this directed by Wolfgang Petersen featuring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.85!
15 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.77!
16 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $7.99!
17 view cover	Life Is Beautiful (1997) more movies like this directed by Roberto Benigni featuring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Marisa Paredes In this WW II tragicomedy, famed Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni (The Monster) portrays Guido, who moves during the '30s from the country to a Tuscan town, where he is entranced by schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). Dora likes Guido, but she remains faithful to her pompous fiancé, so Guido has an uphill struggle. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.69!
18 view cover	The Pianist (2002) more movies like this directed by Roman Polanski featuring Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
19 view cover	Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) more movies like this directed by Barry Levinson featuring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby The film begins in 1965, when disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is assigned to take over the AFR's Saigon radio broadcasts. In contrast to the dull, by-rote announcers that have preceded him, Cronauer is a bundle of dynamite, heralding each broadcast with a loud "Goooooood morning, Vietnaaaaam," playing whatever records tickle his fancy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
20 view cover	Cold Mountain (2003) more movies like this directed by Anthony Minghella featuring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman) awaits. In Inman's absence, Ada ... see all copies from $2.71! new only from $5.00!
21 view cover	Mrs. Miniver (1942) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of the upper-class British home front during World War II sometimes seems over-calculated and contrived when seen today. In particular, Greer Garson's Oscar-winning performance in the title role often comes off as artificial, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93!
22 view cover	A Farewell to Arms (1932) more movies like this directed by Frank Borzage featuring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack LaRue This first film version of Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms stars Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Cooper plays Lt. Frederick Henry, a World War I officer who falls in love with English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes)-after first mistaking her for a woman of ill repute. Henry's friend, Major Rinaldi, is envious of the romance, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
23 view cover	Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000) more movies like this directed by Stefan Scaini featuring Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, Cameron Daddo, Schuyler Grant, Patricia Hamilton Megan Follows, who literally grew up before the viewers' eyes as star of the Canadian TV series Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, returns to the role of Lucy Maud Montgomery's plucky Canadian lass Anne Shirley in this four-hour TV miniseries. In the second decade of the 20th century, all grown up and a professional schoolteacher, Anne ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $17.70!
24 view cover	The Scarlet and the Black (1983) more movies like this directed by Jerry London featuring Gregory Peck Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring assignment in a made-for-TV movie. Peck plays Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real-life cleric who, during World War II, rescued thousands of escaped POWs from the Gestapo. Christopher Plummer co-stars as the Rome-based SS ... see all copies from $5.14! new only from $9.58!
25 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.35!

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