Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn War. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn War. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Thứ Năm, 13 tháng 1, 2011

Von Ryan

Von Ryan

Actors: Trevor Howard , Frank Sinatra , James Brolin , Richard Bakalyan , Brad Dexter , Vito Scotti , Michael Goodliffe , Adolfo Celi , Wolfgang Preiss , John Van Dreelen , Edward Mulhare , Sergio Fantoni , Michael St. Clair , John Leyton , Raffaella Carrà
Director: Mark Robson
IMDB Rate: 7.1 out of 10 (3683 votes)
Plot Summary:Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.

Battle Of The Brave aka New-France

Battle Of The Brave aka New-France

Actors: Colm Meaney , Tim Roth , Jason Isaacs , Gérard Depardieu , Vincent Perez , Irene Jacob , David La Haye , Juliette Gosselin , Billy Merasty , Isabel Richer , Johanne-Marie Tremblay , Pierre Lebeau , Sébastien Huberdeau , Bianca Gervais , Noémie Godin-Vigneau
Director: Jean Beaudin
IMDB Rate: 5.5 out of 10 (617 votes)
Plot Summary:Prejudice, perfidy, love, and bravery in Qubec. In 1779, a priest on his deathbed receives a young woman. Flash back 20 years Marie-Loup, an herb-dispensing peasant, falls for Franois, a man of property. The priests perfidy and the treachery of a soldier separate the lovers and set in motion a chain of events leading to a death, a trial, and an execution. The action unfolds against a backdrop of Englands take-over of French-Canada, the Churchs manipulations to maintain spiritual hegemony, and the limited rights of woman and indigenous peoples. Watching it all is Marie-Loups daughter, named France, who, when grown, is the dying priests visitor in prelude and coda

Thứ Ba, 11 tháng 1, 2011

The Final Countdown

The Final Countdown

Actors: Charles Durning , Martin Sheen , Kirk Douglas , Soon-Tek Oh , James Farentino , Lloyd Kaufman , Ron O'Neal , Katharine Ross , Harold Bergman , Victor Mohica , Dan Fitzgerald , Alvin Ing , James C. Lawrence , Mark Thomas , Joe Lowry
Director: Don Taylor
IMDB Rate: 6.6 out of 10 (6405 votes)
Plot Summary:An American nuclear aircraft carrier and its crew are caught in a classic dilemma when a supernatural storm sends them back in time just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour.

Flight of the Intruder

Flight of the Intruder

Actors: Ving Rhames , Willem Dafoe , Danny Glover , Tom Sizemore , Rosanna Arquette , John Corbett , Brad Johnson , Christopher Rich , J. Kenneth Campbell , Dann Florek , Madison Mason , Justin Williams , Scott N. Stevens , Douglas Roberts , Jared Chandler
Director: John Milius
IMDB Rate: 5.3 out of 10 (2460 votes)
Plot Summary:After his bombardier is killed, Jake Grafton, a carrier-based Intruder pilot, questions the purpose of Navy bombing missions. He finds an ally for his cynicism in Virgil Cole, a bombardier on his third tour of duty, and together they ponder the notion of one unsanctioned mission downtown, to Sam City in North Vietnam.

Everyman

Everyman

Actors: Cole Carson , Brian Julian , Michael J. Prosser , Sean McGrath , Eric Martin Reid , Lauren Bair
Director: Thad Smith
IMDB Rate: 7.4 out of 10 (25 votes)
Plot Summary:As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer Ghost division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig Germany ,a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war. Outgunned and outnumbered, S Sgt Don Smith struggles to find hope and courage against overwhelming odds in one of the decisive confrontations in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. His squad of GIs of the 94th Infantry Division lay dug in on the ridge-line outside of town. No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no choice but to make his way through enemy fire, unarmed and wounded, into town and warn of the coming attack. Based on actual accounts Everymans War explores the heroic events of this decorated veterans courage and the struggle between duty and desire. Between the prospect of the life and love, Dorine that waits at home and the harsh realities of war which marks the pivotal epoch in his life as he discovers that the loss of hope can be worse than the loss of life. One mans courage... One mans hope...Everymans War.

Chủ Nhật, 9 tháng 1, 2011

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

Actors: James Nesbitt , Tim Pigott-Smith , Christopher Villiers , Nicholas Farrell , Carmel McCallion , Joanne Lindsay , Gerard Crossan , Gerry Hammond , Edel Frazer , James Hewitt , Mary Moulds , Jason Stammers , Allan Gildea , Mike Edwards , Declan Duddy
Director: Paul Greengrass
IMDB Rate: 7.8 out of 10 (8162 votes)
Plot Summary:Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.

Legionnaire

Legionnaire

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Steven Berkoff , Jim Carter , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , Nicholas Farrell , Daniel Caltagirone , Paul Kynman , Joe Montana , Joseph Long , Ana Sofrenovic , Kim Rømer , Vincent Pickering , Takis Triggelis , Anders Peter Bro , Mario Kalli
Director: Peter MacDonald
IMDB Rate: 4.8 out of 10 (6535 votes)
Plot Summary:Alain Lefevre is a French boxer in 1920s Marseilles, France. Alain is forced by local crime boss Lucien Galgani to take a dive in a fight. It turns out that Galganis girlfriend Katrina is also Alains ex-fianc

Warbirds

Warbirds

Actors: David Jensen , Brian Krause , Tohoru Masamune , Jamie Elle Mann , Lucy Faust
Director: Kevin Gendreau
IMDB Rate: 3.4 out of 10 (308 votes)
Plot Summary:In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in the Pacific after an encounter with a deadly storm. On the island, they must not only contend with a small band of Japanese soldiers but the native inhabitants of the island as well - vicious prehistoric Pterodons. In the final days of WWII, Womans Air Corp leader Max West (Jamie Elle West) and her crew are ordered to accompany OSS officer, Col. Jack Toller (Brian Krause), his team, and cargo on a secret mission. They crash land on a remote Pacific island. Toller orders a recon of the area and soon discovers a small base that is badly damaged but not by the ravages of war. Soon they capture a squadron of Japanese pilots lead by Capt. Ozu (Tohoru Masamune) and learn that the island is home to prehistoric Pteranodons. After a failed attempt to fly a zero out to get help, the Americans move ahead with their plan to repair their damaged bomber with the help from the Japanese. A struggle between what is morally right and what is necessary to win the war (as viewed by each side) is explored as the plane is prepared to take off.

Schindler

Schindler

Actors: Liam Neeson , Ben Kingsley , Ralph Fiennes , Caroline Goodall , Embeth Davidtz , Norbert Weisser , Mark Ivanir , Béatrice Macola , Jonathan Sagall , Friedrich von Thun , Malgoscha Gebel , Krzysztof Luft , Andrzej Seweryn , Shmuel Levy , Harry Nehring
Director: Steven Spielberg
IMDB Rate: 8.9 out of 10 (256812 votes)
Plot Summary:The true story of Oscar Schindler, a German businessman who owns a factory. He witnesses the horrifying visions of the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Eventually, he creates a list of over 1100 Jews whom he saves from death.

Thứ Sáu, 7 tháng 1, 2011

Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected

Actors: Willem Dafoe , Jeff Goldblum , Derek Jacobi , Ayelet Zurer , Mickey Leon , Juliane Köhler , Joachim Król , Veronica Ferres , Yoram Toledano , Shmuel Edelman , Dror Keren , Tudor Rapiteanu , Hana Laszlo , Jenya Dodina , Idan Alterman
Director: Paul Schrader
IMDB Rate: 6.4 out of 10 (1010 votes)
Plot Summary:Adam Resurrected follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer--cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician--loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandants dog, entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. Who brought a dog in here? he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog but Adam finds him--a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs--and their journey begins. Adam Resurrected is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.

300

300

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Actors: Gerard Butler , Stephen McHattie , Lena Headey , Dominic West , Rodrigo Santoro , David Wenham , Michael Fassbender , Vincent Regan , Andrew Tiernan , Tom Wisdom , Andrew Pleavin , Kelly Craig , Greg Kramer , Alex Ivanovici , Giovani Cimmino
Director: Zack Snyder
IMDB Rate: 7.8 out of 10 (223618 votes)
Plot Summary:In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesnt stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them.