War, a list by Gary - mdblist.com

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75

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70

/21/

3.3

/19029/

57

/34/

2.0

age 15+

In 1940, Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming form a clandestine combat organization for Britain's military that changes the course of World War II and prefigures the modern black ops unit through its unconventional and entirely ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against the Nazis.

78

7.6

/39744/

73

/1060/

74

/376/

3.7

/244328/

82

/277/

Audience

76

/618/

75

/63/

4.0

age 16+

In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

82

7.5

/80539/

70

/2747/

72

/1161/

3.9

/517303/

93

/333/

Audience

78

/358/

92

/58/

4.0

age 13+

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

79

7.6

/15757/

79

/1011/

77

/313/

3.6

/43566/

90

/130/

Audience

95

/839/

69

/30/

3.0

age 11+

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

77

7.8

/245414/

77

/7414/

77

/3556/

4.0

/569295/

90

/175/

Audience

90

/971/

76

/37/

2.0

age 16+

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

78

7.1

/39658/

69

/1323/

69

/707/

3.8

/148100/

92

/282/

Audience

75

/379/

87

/49/

3.5

age 15+

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

68

7.1

/12749/

72

/368/

72

/138/

3.4

/14084/

57

/49/

Audience

83

/94/

49

/11/

3.0

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.

81

7.3

/16638/

74

/529/

78

/463/

3.6

/12185/

100

/10/

Audience

91

/118/

age 14+

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

74

7.0

/7168/

71

/342/

71

/138/

3.5

/7602/

95

/44/

Audience

85

/100/

71

/9/

2.5

Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.

76

7.1

/37038/

72

/1282/

70

/632/

3.3

/19616/

100

/9/

Audience

82

/462/

age 16+

November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others.

86

8.0

/38195/

79

/594/

76

/356/

4.2

/31909/

100

/79/

Audience

89

/48/

97

/16/

3.5

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

74

64

8.1

/81851/

77

/111/

76

/75/

3.4

/1979/

52

/23/

Audience

90

/483/

age 15+

During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".

70

7.0

/9270/

74

/451/

76

/191/

3.8

/21876/

78

/130/

Audience

73

/2/

56

/22/

2.5

age 10+

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

68

7.0

/114768/

73

/8372/

74

/2751/

3.1

/62882/

78

/237/

Audience

76

/640/

64

/37/

2.0

age 13+

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

80

8.2

/674906/

81

/24321/

79

/11863/

4.1

/1137232/

89

/471/

Audience

88

/30570/

78

/57/

2.5

age 16+

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

78

7.4

/28140/

72

/922/

71

/618/

4.0

/51744/

82

/234/

Audience

72

/253/

80

/44/

4.0

age 13+

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

9

76

7.9

/441091/

79

/18481/

80

/9113/

4.0

/1329603/

80

/428/

Audience

94

/6548/

58

/57/

2.5

age 13+

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

73

7.3

/152662/

73

/5001/

72

/3070/

3.4

/269024/

71

/147/

Audience

84

/2816/

62

/38/

3.5

age 15+

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

71

7.3

/7611/

74

/252/

70

/142/

3.6

/9422/

81

/110/

Audience

68

/85/

72

/25/

2.5

age 18+

A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.

80

7.2

/12248/

70

/337/

70

/305/

3.8

/24368/

93

/109/

Audience

76

/201/

85

/26/

4.0

Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.

73

71

7.2

/6418/

75

/299/

75

/194/

3.4

/3397/

87

/30/

Audience

88

/74/

52

/6/

age 14+

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

74

73

7.0

/6075/

73

/390/

68

/154/

3.3

/2889/

86

/7/

Audience

84

/109/

Kingdom of Goguryeo, ancient Korea, 645. The ruthless Emperor Taizong of Tang invades the country and leads his armies towards the capital, achieving one victory after another, but on his way is the stronghold of Ansi, protected by General Yang Man-chu, who will do everything possible to stop the invasion, even if his troops are outnumbered by thousands of enemies.

72

7.3

/52631/

76

/1924/

74

/1277/

3.4

/51796/

81

/74/

Audience

81

/1587/

65

/10/

2.5

age 12+

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

72

7.3

/21563/

73

/881/

71

/411/

3.8

/14644/

83

/53/

Audience

84

/709/

67

/17/

2.0

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

73

7.3

/29193/

74

/1227/

71

/510/

3.6

/8033/

86

/22/

Audience

82

/712/

70

/10/

2.5

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

73

47

7.5

/7747/

75

/86/

73

/51/

3.5

/543/

‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.

79

7.4

/220638/

76

/9885/

73

/4909/

3.5

/173990/

84

/317/

Audience

82

/14503/

75

/50/

4.0

age 13+

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

83

7.4

/54371/

76

/2055/

73

/1184/

3.7

/46875/

97

/204/

Audience

85

/6140/

85

/44/

4.0

age 15+

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

75

71

7.7

/12905/

74

/291/

75

/178/

3.7

/4331/

The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).

80

7.4

/10978/

77

/672/

78

/1225/

3.8

/14422/

94

/17/

Audience

83

/182/

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

71

7.1

/8484/

74

/412/

71

/239/

3.6

/5616/

67

/15/

Audience

80

/415/

60

/4/

3.0

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.

82

7.8

/739667/

75

/29985/

74

/15942/

3.8

/1149437/

92

/473/

Audience

81

/70767/

94

/53/

3.5

age 14+

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

80

7.4

/282556/

74

/22592/

71

/8364/

3.7

/312485/

94

/363/

Audience

84

/57895/

82

/50/

3.5

age 13+

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

76

7.1

/27000/

79

/3314/

72

/741/

3.3

/7702/

86

/105/

Audience

82

/10501/

66

/25/

3.5

age 13+

The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to the test.

66

7.0

/46558/

76

/3373/

73

/1457/

3.4

/25487/

64

/183/

Audience

76

/12864/

57

/36/

2.0

age 14+

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

79

7.2

/20421/

75

/808/

74

/640/

3.6

/15290/

88

/73/

Audience

81

/2431/

72

/22/

4.0

age 16+

A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

76

7.3

/6388/

77

/435/

78

/814/

3.6

/5966/

83

/24/

Audience

84

/231/

55

/7/

3.5

age 13+

At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

78

66

7.6

/6792/

74

/270/

73

/121/

3.6

/1849/

Audience

96

/23/

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

9

78

8.1

/593689/

83

/30271/

81

/13202/

3.9

/488934/

84

/280/

Audience

91

/56856/

71

/47/

2.5

age 16+

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

73

7.1

/10073/

73

/360/

68

/150/

3.5

/3714/

83

/24/

Audience

84

/533/

64

/8/

3.0

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.

70

69

7.1

/8710/

72

/387/

65

/162/

3.3

/2173/

Audience

78

/56/

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

70

7.2

/44331/

76

/2418/

71

/831/

3.3

/17557/

64

/11/

Audience

75

/1125/

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

9

66

7.2

/54204/

75

/3710/

71

/956/

3.5

/21166/

66

/107/

Audience

71

/6661/

59

/29/

2.0

age 17+

In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

80

7.8

/45754/

78

/1672/

78

/1339/

4.0

/23952/

92

/107/

Audience

88

/5039/

75

/26/

3.0

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

78

7.7

/86808/

76

/3174/

75

/1668/

3.9

/69417/

91

/150/

Audience

92

/8253/

79

/30/

2.5

age 18+

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

8

76

7.3

/91457/

74

/7317/

70

/1489/

3.5

/28033/

95

/222/

Audience

82

/33089/

73

/39/

3.0

age 15+

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

81

7.4

/51929/

72

/1433/

71

/1015/

4.1

/46027/

96

/233/

Audience

79

/13058/

91

/49/

3.5

age 18+

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

56

7.3

/24247/

74

/1064/

72

/504/

3.2

/5290/

26

/54/

Audience

78

/8582/

30

/24/