 | 300 (2006)
King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. tt0416449
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 | The Alamo (1960)
In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders...tt0053580
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 | Alexander (2004)
Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.tt0346491+
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 | Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.tt0029850
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 | Australia (2008)
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.tt0455824
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 | Band of Brothers (2001)
The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day. tt0185906
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 | The Battle of Algiers (1966)
A surprisingly unbiased account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history. tt0058946
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 | The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war. tt0004972
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 | Black Hawk Down (2001)
123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. tt0265086
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 | Black Rain (1989)
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.tt0097694
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 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
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. tt0914798
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 | Braveheart (1995)
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. tt0112573
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 | Breaker Morant (1980)
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.tt0080310
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 | A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.tt0075784
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 | The Cardinal (1963)
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.tt0056907
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 | Che: Part 1 (2008)
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.tt0892255+
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 | Che: Part 2 (2008)
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia.tt0374569
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 | Come and See (1985)
During WWII, a Belorussian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces...tt0091251
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 | Conspiracy (2001)
A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised.tt0266425
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 | Culloden (1964)
A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV cameras were present.tt0057982
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 | Das Boot (1981)
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. tt0082096
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 | Defiance (2008)
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. tt1034303
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 | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.tt0052738+
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 | Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. tt0059113+
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 | Downfall (2004)
Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. tt0363163+
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 | El Cid (1961)
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (''El Cid'' to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour...tt0054847
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 | Emperor (2012)
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. tt2103264
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 | Empire of the Sun (1987)
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. tt0092965+
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 | Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.tt0215750
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 | Europa Europa (1990)
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.tt0099776
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 | Flags of our Fathers (2006)
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.tt0418689
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.tt0035896
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 | Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.tt0082432
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 | Genocide (1982)
A chilling, heartbreaking testament to the strength and suffering of the Jewish people and the courage and heroism of those who came to their aid...tt0082443
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 | Glory (1989)
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates. tt0097441+
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 | The Great Escape (1963)
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp. tt0057115
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 | The Grey Zone (2001)
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.tt0252480
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 | Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War. tt1985443
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 | Henry V (1989)
The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France. tt0097499
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 | Henry V (1944)
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V...tt0036910
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 | Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. tt0395169
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 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp...tt0053114
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 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Second part of a trilogy. Conscientious objector Kaji, now forced to serve in the Japanese army during the Second World War...tt0053115
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 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanist protagonist...tt0055233+
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 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
The story of the child refugees who were transported to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.tt0248912
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 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. tt0055031
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 | K19: The Widowmaker (2002)
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. tt0267626
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 | Kagemusha (1980)
When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty...tt0080979+
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 | The Killing Fields (1984)
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody ''Year Zero'' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million ''undesirable'' civilians.tt0087553
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 | King Arthur (2004)
A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.tt0349683
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 | Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.tt0320661+
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 | Kundun (1997)
From childhood until adulthood, Tibet's 14th dalai lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.tt0119485
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 | The Last Command (1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.tt0019071
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 | The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.tt0104691
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 | The Last Samurai (2003)
An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. tt0325710+
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 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. tt0056172
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 | Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
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. tt0498380+
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 | Lincoln (2012)
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. tt0443272
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 | Lion of the Desert (1981)
In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Dulce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...tt0081059
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 | The Long Way Home (1997)
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.tt0119561
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 | The Longest Day (1962)
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.tt0056197
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 | A Mighty Heart (2007)
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan. tt0829459
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 | Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.tt0416044
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 | Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family. tt0067483
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 | Night and Fog (1955)
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.tt0048434
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 | The Official Story (1985)
Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires...tt0089276
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 | Overlord (1975)
During the war a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.tt0073502
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 | The Pacific (2010)
A 10-part mini-series from the creators of ''Band of Brothers'' telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.tt0374463
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 | The Panama Deception (1992)
A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.tt0105089
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 | Patton (1970)
The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted. tt0066206
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 | The Pianist (2002)
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. tt0253474+
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 | Red Tails (2012)
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.tt0485985
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 | Richard III (1955)
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed king and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.tt0049674+
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 | Roots (1977)
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.tt0075572
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 | Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems...tt0055399+
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 | Schindler's List (1993)
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them. tt0108052+
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 | Senso (1954)
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.tt0047469+
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 | Sergeant York (1941)
True story of a hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero.tt0034167+
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 | Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.tt0120102
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 | Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.tt0426578+
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 | Talk to Me (2007)
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph ''Petey'' Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.tt0796368
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 | That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma...tt0034272
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 | Valkyrie (2008)
Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.tt0985699
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 | Walker (1987)
An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.tt0096409
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 | War and Peace (1967)
Eight-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy.tt0063794+
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 | Why We Fight (2005)
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.tt0436971
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 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.tt0460989
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 | The World at War (1973)
A series of accurate documentaries about World War II. tt0071075
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