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The Counterfeiters
๐ฒ๐จ Monaco ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
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The Last Legion
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy The Middle Ages The 5th CenturyThe end of an empire...the beginning of a legend. โ As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
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Redacted
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sTruth is the first casualty of war โ A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
๐ฒ๐ณ Mongolia The 13th Century The 12th CenturyGreatness comes to those who take it. โ The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
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Intimate Enemies
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950sThe scars of war last forever โ A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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Katyn
๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the crime Stalin could not hide โ On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
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Battle for Haditha
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThere are many ways to see the same story โ An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.
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War Dance
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 2000sThe war stole everything, except their music. โ Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
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In Tranzit
๐ท๐บ RussiaFrom her greatest enemy came her greatest love. โ Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.
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Under the Bombs
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 2000sIn the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
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The Border
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland The 1910sThe young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
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1944 The Final Defence
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland The 1940sThe Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
๐ฆ๐ด Angola ๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1960sNamibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
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The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali
๐น๐ท TurkeyAfter the First World War, the Allies occupy Istanbul. The protagonist, Yandim Ali is a rogue, discharged from the navy, who doesn't believe that the country can be saved, until he meets Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who plans to start a resistance in Anatolia against the occupying Allies, as well as the collaborators of an Ottoman government, that exists only on paper.
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Sinking of the Lusitania
Atlantic Ocean The 1910sThe story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff
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The Living and the Dead
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990s50 years apart, two armies will fight to the same death... โ In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
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Defenders of Riga
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 1910sThe film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
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1971
The 1970sBased on true facts, the film revolves around 6 brave soldiers who escape from the clutches of the Pakistan Army and risk death with honour and courage with sacrifice towards their journey home.
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Deportees
The 1980sThe movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.
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In the Name of the Son
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sAfter escaping execution, Tarik, a Bosnian prisoner of war, immigrates to the United States looking to leave his past behind.
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The Sacha Guitry Affair
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sOn the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French capital was being liberated. Accused of collaboration with the enemy, the author of successful plays ("My Father was Right," "Let's Make a Dream," "Quadrille") and director of the theatre of the Madeleine was to remain captive for sixty days. His detention took from from the depot, to the Vel' d'hiv', then Drancy, and finally Fresnes Prison.
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sWar has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood. โ In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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Letters from Iwo Jima
Okinawa Prefecture The 2000s The 1940sThe battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers. โ The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Pan's Labyrinth
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1940s The 1930sWhat happens when make-believe believes it's real? โ Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
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Days of Glory
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1940sThe true story of World War II's forgotten heroes. โ During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
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The Last Drop
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940sWhat better time for a heist than in the fog of war. โ Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Wisconsin Massachusetts Illinois Arizona Texas The 1990s The 1950s The 1940sThey fight for their country but they die for their friends. โ There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Black Book
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950s The 1940sTo fight the enemy, she must become one of them. โ In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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Flyboys
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sInspired by a true story โ The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Franz + Polina
๐ง๐พ Belarus The 1940sA sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
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Rescue Dawn
The 1960sA true story of survival... declassified. โ A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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The Veteran
๐ป๐ณ VietnamThirty years on from Vietnam, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile, a war veteran is forced to relive painful memories of how he was left for dead by his own platoon, and the heinous crimes he once committed while in the line of duty.
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Dresden
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sAt a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her engagement to Dr. Alexander Wenninger (Benjamin Sadler). The gripping historical romance won a 2006 German Television Award.
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq
๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sWar Without Rules โ The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.
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Home of the Brave
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThe day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
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Battle of the Warriors
๐จ๐ณ China The 4th Century BCIn 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes, one of these being the city state of Liang. The nation of Zhao is led by the terrifying Xiang Yangzhong who orders his troops to conquer the small city. Leaping to the defense of the people of Liang is 'Ge Li' from the Mo-Tsu tribe, their last hope from the terrors of Yangzhong's troops.
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Only The Brave
The 1940s21 Medals of Honor, 9,486 Purple Hearts, 588 Silver Stars, 5,200 Bronze Stars. This is their story โ A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd.
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The Last Train
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sA group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
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Andrรฉ Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the seasons go by, Barbe, alone and wasting away, waits for the soldiers to return. Will Demesterโs boundless love for Barbe save him?
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Bastards
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sA "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.
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The Roses of the Desert
The 1940sA sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
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The Rage of the Whole World
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1950s The 1960sIn Raging of the whole world are the turbulent early years of Alexander Goudveyl central. The story of Alexander's childhood is also the history of an era, the fifties and sixties, and a never solved murder case. Murder goes back to an authentic incident: in 1956, right before Christmas, a policeman was shot in broad daylight in Maassluis during a large-scale evangelistic campaign. The film also plays a failed escape attempt with a herring trawler involved in the turbulent days of May 1940.
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Sharpe's Challenge
The 1800sSean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...
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The Colonel
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1950s The 1990sA "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
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Aanivaer
๐ฑ๐ฐ Sri LankaAanivaer is a Tamil independent film directed by Indian Tamil film director John Mahendran. The film was shot in Sri Lanka with a story and screenplay revolving around a love story amid the ongoing Civil War in Sri Lanka.
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The Ode to Joy
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1910sBaruto no Gakuen is a Japanese film released in 2006 and based on the true story of the Bandล prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in Japan.
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Jarhead
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait The 1980s The 1990sWelcome to the suck. โ Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swoffordโs experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
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Kingdom of Heaven
๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 12th CenturyBe without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong โ After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Stealth
Washington Nevada District of Columbia Alaska ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐น๐ฏ Tajikistan ๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar ๐น๐ญ Thailand Pacific OceanFear The Sky โ Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
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