Genre: War
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 154
Language: English
Director: David Ayer
Plot: April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Genre: War
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 149
Language: English
Director: Ryan Little
Plot: Germany, May 1945, the twilight of WWII. A U.S. tank crew discovers a platoon of Germans, including three infamous Panzer tanks, preparing to ambush allied supply trucks. Among the predominantly white U.S. tank crew is Sgt Jesse Owens, an African American. Though Owen’s has more experience in the tank destroyers, several in Owens’ crew are reluctant to put their faith in a black tank driver when circumstances become dire. With tension and fear beginning to manifest, Owens knows they must put aside their differences to stop the enemy from their deadly plan. Knowing that a victory over the Nazis means a victory for racial justice, Owens and his men find a way to work together to save hundreds of lives in a desperate battle against the greatest odds they have ever faced.
Genre: War
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 161
Language: English
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Plot: STALINGRAD is an epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined 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. Presented in IMAX 3D, the scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.
Genre: War
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 158
Language:
Director: Philipp Kadelbach
Plot: Billed as a German BAND OF BROTHERS, the blockbuster miniseries Generation War vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling). Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte (Miriam Stein), a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross. Greta (Katherina Schüttler) is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich, while her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) fights for his life while hiding among members of the Polish Resistance.
Genre: War
Release Year: 2012
Runtime: 74
Language: English
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Plot: The story of the Navy SEAL team that tracked down Osama bin Laden.
Genre: War
Release Year: 2012
Runtime: 124
Language: French
Director: Jean Renoir
Plot: For its 75th Anniversary, Rialto Pictures presents a stunning 4K restoration of GRAND ILLUSION, Jean Renoir’s powerful and eloquent anti-war film set during World War I. Aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and his mechanic, Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin) are shot down by Captain von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), who treats them with customary officers’ hospitality. The two downed pilots are then sent to a German POW camp, where they quickly join a group of prisoners who have concocted an elaborate escape plan. Their plot is foiled, however, as they are transferred to a new camp, the formidable Wintersborn fortress, run by Rauffenstein, who is now grounded due to battle wounds. Rauffenstein, lamenting the end of an aristocratic era, tries to befriend de Boeldieu, but the French captain is already hatching a new escape plan – one in which he puts himself in danger to allow the others to escape. GRAND ILLUSION was the first foreign film to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
All Genres:
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2010
Country: France | USA | Spain | UK
Runtime: 115 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is done following orders
Cast: Matt Damon … Roy Miller
Jason Isaacs … Maj. Briggs
Brendan Gleeson
Greg Kinnear … Clark Poundstone
Amy Ryan … Lawrie Dayne
Said Faraj … Seyyed
Khalid Abdalla … Freddy
Michael O'Neill … Colonel Bethel
Antoni Corone … Col. Lyons
Yigal Naor … Al Rawi
Raad Rawi … Zubaidi
Paul Karsko … Paul Sims
Sean Huze … Conway
Nicoye Banks … Perry
Jerry Della Salla … SFC Jerry Wilkins
Lewis Alsamari … Righteous Ali
Martin McDougall … Mr. Sheen
Bijan Daneshmand … Mazin Aide Zubaidi
Amar Adatia … Zain
William Meredith … Stan Dreygill / CPA Presser
Paul Rieckhoff … Major Gonzalez
Tommy Campbell … Comms Chopper Commander
Allen Vaught … Jonathan Vaught
Edouard H.R. Gluck … Ed Johnson
Adam Wendling … Adam Michaels
Brian VanRiper … Brian Bronner
Soumaya Akaaboune … Sanaa
Aymen Hamdouchi … Ayad
Alex Moore … CIA Technician 1
Plot: Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region. add synopsis
All Genres:
Drama, Romance, War
Release Year: 2010
Country: USA
Runtime: 105 min
Languages:
Director:
Tagline: Is Duty enough reason to live a lie ?
Cast: Channing Tatum … John Tyree
Amanda Seyfried … Savannah Curtis
Richard Jenkins … Mr. Tyree
Henry Thomas … Tim
D.J. Cotrona … Noodles
Cullen Moss … Rooster (Dan Rooney)
Gavin McCulley … Starks
Jose Lucena Jr. … Berry
Keith Robinson … Captain Stone
Scott Porter … Randy
Leslea Fisher … Susan
William Howard Bowman … Daniels (as William Howard)
David Andrews … Mr. Curtis
Mary Rachel Dudley … Mrs. Curtis
Bryce Hayes … Yellow Shirt
Plot: A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he’s home on leave.
All Genres:
Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 104 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: There are two sides to every family
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal … Tommy Cahill
Natalie Portman … Grace Cahill
Tobey Maguire … Capt. Sam Cahill
Clifton Collins Jr. … Major Cavazos
Bailee Madison … Isabelle Cahill
Sam Shepard … Hank Cahill
Mare Winningham … Elsie Cahill
Taylor Geare … Maggie Cahill
Patrick Flueger … Private Joe Willis
Jenny Wade … Tina
Carey Mulligan … Cassie Willis
Omid Abtahi … Yusuf
Navid Negahban … Murad
Ethan Suplee … Sweeney
Arron Shiver … A.J.
Plot: A young man comforts his older brother’s wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. add synopsis
Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 nominations
All Genres:
Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA | Germany
Runtime: 153 min
Languages: English | German | French | Italian
Director:
Tagline: Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France…
Cast: Brad Pitt … LT. Aldo Raine
Mélanie Laurent … Shosanna
Christoph Waltz … COL. Hans Landa
Eli Roth … SGT. Donny Donowitz
Michael Fassbender … LT. Archie Hicox
Diane Kruger … Bridget von Hammersmark
Daniel Brühl … Fredrick Zoller
Til Schweiger … SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
Gedeon Burkhard … CPL. Wilhelm Wicki
Jacky Ido … Marcel
B.J. Novak … PFC. Smithson Utivich
Omar Doom … PFC. Omar Ulmer
August Diehl … Major Hellstrom
Denis Menochet … Perrier LaPadite
Sylvester Groth … Joseph Goebbels
Plot: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
Awards: Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 41 wins & 41 nominations
All Genres:
Documentary, War
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: USA:110 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline:
Cast: Mahmoud Hamid Ali … Himself
Edward Allier … Himself
Ryan Baker … Himself
Zack Corke … Himself
Danelle Fields … Herself
Ben Fisher … Himself
Jason Grundy … Himself
Patrick Irvine … Himself
Kevin Keniston … Himself
Frank McCann … Himself
Brandon 'Mongo' Phillips … Himself
Claus Rademacher … Himself
Isaac Rademacher … Himself
Jake Rademacher … Himself
Jenny Rademacher … Herself
Joe Rademacher … Himself
Robert Smallwood … Himself
Plot: BROTHERS AT WAR is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience…
All Genres:
Drama, Romance, War
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: Germany:105 min (Berlin International Film Festival) | USA:112 min
Languages: English | Spanish
Director:
Tagline:
Cast: Ben Foster … Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery
Jena Malone … Kelly
Eamonn Walker … Colonel Stuart Dorsett
Woody Harrelson … Captain Tony Stone
Yaya DaCosta … Monica Washington
Portia … Mrs. Burrell
Lisa Joyce … Emily
Steve Buscemi … Dale Martin
Peter Francis James … Dr. Grosso
Samantha Morton … Olivia Pitterson
Paul Diomede … Motorcycle Cop
Jahmir Duran-Abreau … Matt Pitterson
Gaius Charles … Recruiter Brown
Brendan Sexton III … Recruiter Olson
Brian Adam DeJesus … Teenager #1 (as Brian DeJesus)
Plot: An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer. add synopsis
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations
All Genres:
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 137 min
Languages: English | German | Russian
Director:
Tagline: Freedom begins with an act of defiance!
Cast: Daniel Craig … Tuvia Bielski
Liev Schreiber … Zus Bielski
Jamie Bell … Asael Bielski
Alexa Davalos … Lilka Ticktin
Allan Corduner … Shamon Haretz
Mark Feuerstein … Isaac Malbin
Tomas Arana … Ben Zion Gulkowitz
Jodhi May … Tamara Skidelsky
Kate Fahy … Riva Reich
Iddo Goldberg … Yitzchak Shulman
Iben Hjejle … Bella
Martin Hancock … Peretz Shorshaty
Ravil Isyanov … Viktor Panchenko
Jacek Koman … Konstanty 'Koscik' Kozlowski
George MacKay … Aron Bielski
Plot: Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations
All Genres:
Drama, History, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA | Germany
Runtime: 115 min
Languages: English | German
Director:
Tagline: Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.
Cast: Tom Cruise … Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Kenneth Branagh … Major-General Henning von Tresckow
Bill Nighy … General Friedrich Olbricht
Tom Wilkinson … General Friedrich Fromm
Carice van Houten … Nina von Stauffenberg
Thomas Kretschmann … Major Otto Ernst Remer
Terence Stamp … Ludwig Beck
Eddie Izzard … General Erich Fellgiebel
Kevin McNally … Dr. Carl Goerdeler (as Kevin R. McNally)
Christian Berkel … Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim
Jamie Parker … Lieutenant Werner von Haeften
David Bamber … Adolf Hitler
Tom Hollander … Colonel Heinz Brandt
David Schofield … Erwin von Witzleben
Kenneth Cranham … Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Plot: Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.
Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations
All Genres:
Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Release Year: 2008
Country: Australia | USA
Runtime: 165 min
Languages: English | Aboriginal
Director:
Tagline:
Writers: Stuart Beattie (screenplay) and Baz Luhrmann (screenplay) …
Cast: Shea Adams … Carney Boy #3
Eddie Baroo … Bull
Ray Barrett … Ramsden
Tony Barry … Sergeant Callahan
Jamal Bednarz-Metallah … Mission Boy
Damian Bradford … Constable #1
Bryan Brown … King Carney
Nathin Butler … Carney Boy #1
Tara Carpenter … Essential Services Woman
Rebecca Chatfield … Magarri's Niece
Lillian Crombie … Bandy Legs
Max Cullen … Old Drunk
Essie Davis … Cath Carney
Arthur Dignam … Father Benedict
Michelle Dyzla … Hairdresser
Plot: 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.
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 19 nominations
All Genres:
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA | Italy
Runtime: 160 min
Languages: English | German | Italian
Director:
Tagline: World War II has its heroes and its miracles.
Cast: Derek Luke … 2nd Staff Sergeant Aubrey Stamps
Michael Ealy … Sergeant Bishop Cummings
Laz Alonso … Corporal Hector Negron (Young / Old)
Omar Benson Miller … Private First Class Sam Train
Pierfrancesco Favino … Peppi 'The Great Butterfly' Grotta
Valentina Cervi … Renata
Matteo Sciabordi … Angelo Torancelli (The Boy)
John Turturro … Detective Antonio 'Tony' Ricci
Joseph Gordon-Levitt … Tim Boyle
John Leguizamo … Enrico
Kerry Washington … Zana Wilder
D.B. Sweeney … Colonel Driscoll
Robert John Burke … General Ned Almond
Omari Hardwick … Platoon Commander Huggs
Omero Antonutti … Ludovico
Plot: Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII. add synopsis
Awards: 9 nominations
All Genres:
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 131 min
Languages: English | Arabic
Director:
Tagline: You'll know when you're in it.
Cast: Jeremy Renner … SFC William James
Anthony Mackie … Sgt. JT Sanborn
Brian Geraghty … Spc. Owen Eldridge
Guy Pearce … SSG Matt Thompson
Ralph Fiennes … Contractor Team Leader
David Morse … Colonel Reed
Evangeline Lilly … Connie James
Christian Camargo … Lt. Col. John Cambridge
Suhail Aldabbach … Black Suit Man (as Suhail Al-Dabbach)
Christopher Sayegh … Beckham
Nabil Koni … Professor Nabil
Sam Spruell … Contractor Charlie
Sam Redford … Contractor Jimmy
Feisal Sadoun … Contractor Feisal
Barrie Rice … Contractor Chris
Plot: Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Awards: Nominated for 9 Oscars. Another 53 wins & 50 nominations
All Genres:
Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK | USA
Runtime: 94 min | Israel:93 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: A timeless story of innocence lost and humanity found.
Writers: John Boyne (novel) Mark Herman (screenplay)
Cast: Asa Butterfield … Bruno
Zac Mattoon O'Brien … Leon (as Zac Mattoon-O'Brien)
Domonkos Németh … Martin
Henry Kingsmill … Karl
Vera Farmiga … Elsa – Mother
Cara Horgan … Maria
Zsuzsa Holl … Berlin Cook
Amber Beattie … Gretel
László Áron … Lars
David Thewlis … Father
Richard Johnson … Grandpa
Sheila Hancock … Grandma
Charlie Baker … Palm Court Singer
Iván Verebély … Meinberg
Béla Fesztbaum … Schultz
Plot: Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Awards: 2 wins & 5 nominations
All Genres:
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: China
Runtime: Singapore:150 min (PG version) | China:146 min | South Korea:134 min | UK:148 min
Languages: Mandarin
Director:
Tagline: The future will be decided.
Writers: John Woo (screenplay) & Khan Chan (screenplay) …
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu Wai … Zhou Yu (as Tony Leung)
Takeshi Kaneshiro … Zhuge Liang
Fengyi Zhang … Cao Cao
Chen Chang … Sun Quan
Wei Zhao … Sun Shangxiang
Jun Hu … Zhao Yun
Shido Nakamura … Gan Xing (as Shidou Nakamura)
Chiling Lin … Xiao Qiao (as Chi-Ling Lin)
Yong You … Liu Bei
Yong Hou … Lu Su
Dawei Tong … Sun Shucai
Jia Song … Li Ji
Ba Sen Zha Bu … Guan Yu
Jinsheng Zang … Zhang Fei
Shan Zhang … Huang Gai
Plot: The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China’s Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
Awards: 11 wins & 17 nominations
All Genres:
Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK
Runtime: 110 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: The only thing dangerous than war… is love.
Cast: Simon Armstrong … Wilfred Hosgood
Ben Batt … Sergeant
Geoffrey Beevers … Registrar
Rachel Bell … Midwife
Paul Brooke … Mr. Justice Singleton
Huw Ceredig … John Patrick
Richard Clifford … Alistair Graham
Richard Dillane … Lt Col David Talbot Rice
Joel Dommett … Train Soldier
Rachel Essex … Mel
Craig Gallivan … Sailor Beating Dylan
Callum Godfrey … Boy on Train
Simon Kassianides … Partisan
Keira Knightley … Vera Phillips
Anne Lambton … Anita Shenkin
Plot: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination