War Movies, a list by Riz

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3.5

age 16+

Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, ‘the man who refuses to die’ dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues.

77

7.2

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72

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70

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3.5

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92

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78

/43/

3.0

age 16+

A platoon of Navy SEALs embarks on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.

93

9.0

/1567942/

88

/25430/

86

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4.5

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98

/135/

97

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95

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4.0

age 15+

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

85

8.4

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83

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82

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4.4

/3114647/

89

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88

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69

/36/

4.0

age 17+

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. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

77

6.9

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72

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74

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3.2

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70

/25/

3.5

age 16+

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

79

8.3

/1151107/

82

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79

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3.9

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76

/131/

85

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68

/20/

3.5

age 17+

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

67

6.8

/152287/

73

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70

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3.2

/246463/

68

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91

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55

/38/

2.0

age 15+

During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret British WWII organization — the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against the Germans helped to change the course of the war, and gave birth to modern black operations.

75

7.0

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68

/15873/

68

/4030/

3.5

/1078198/

81

/408/

69

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75

/64/

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.

89

8.6

/1616530/

85

/31989/

82

/16772/

4.2

/1300325/

94

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95

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91

/38/

4.0

age 16+

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

73

7.5

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76

/9775/

77

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3.5

/221859/

82

/119/

98

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63

/28/

2.0

age 16+

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.

87

8.5

/999318/

84

/15728/

83

/9830/

4.4

/1109428/

95

/186/

96

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85

/40/

3.5

age 15+

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

68

7.3

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73

/8565/

70

/4734/

3.7

/253485/

39

/190/

72

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63

/40/

3.5

age 17+

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

64

7.3

/608576/

73

/15738/

72

/10776/

3.4

/449649/

53

/227/

74

/35704/

56

/43/

2.0

age 16+

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

79

8.1

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82

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81

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4.0

/962938/

84

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92

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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.

80

8.2

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81

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79

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4.1

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88

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88

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78

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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.

73

7.3

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72

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71

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3.4

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71

/146/

84

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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.

81

8.0

/869900/

80

/35211/

79

/17734/

3.8

/1036335/

90

/285/

91

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71

/49/

3.5

age 13+

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

80

7.7

/450111/

78

/13597/

74

/6160/

3.7

/247933/

77

/172/

88

/18043/

74

/33/

4.0

age 17+

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

82

7.8

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75

/34921/

75

/17198/

3.8

/1698375/

92

/469/

81

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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.

72

7.6

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76

/21855/

75

/12641/

3.8

/673383/

75

/261/

84

/4528/

64

/47/

2.0

age 17+

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy 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.

81

8.2

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82

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81

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4.2

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94

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78

/20/

2.5

age 17+

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

68

6.6

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69

/2822/

65

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3.1

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83

/115/

65

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3.0

age 12+

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

70

7.2

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74

/8374/

71

/4171/

3.4

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61

/137/

81

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63

/35/

3.0

age 16+

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

74

7.1

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71

/16220/

67

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3.6

/645100/

82

/249/

71

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71

/39/

3.5

age 16+

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

86

8.1

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79

/8887/

77

/4903/

4.0

/316664/

89

/122/

93

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92

/16/

4.0

age 17+

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

68

7.0

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73

/9847/

74

/3185/

3.2

/94594/

78

/238/

76

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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.

81

7.3

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69

/6210/

70

/2416/

3.9

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93

/357/

79

/114/

92

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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.

70

6.9

/32457/

71

/1891/

70

/558/

3.4

/85864/

68

/154/

94

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62

/30/

2.5

age 16+

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

59

6.3

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63

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63

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2.9

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58

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58

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64

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2.0

age 16+

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

67

7.6

/905395/

76

/29098/

72

/14401/

3.4

/548999/

61

/236/

89

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52

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2.0

age 17+

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

76

7.9

/481280/

79

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79

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4.0

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81

/431/

94

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58

/57/

2.5

age 13+

Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

76

7.7

/297397/

77

/10814/

74

/6684/

3.8

/290739/

86

/49/

86

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61

/15/

3.0

age 16+

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

66

7.2

/196909/

73

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74

/4286/

3.6

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53

/230/

70

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59

/48/

2.5

age 14+

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

84

7.5

/492807/

75

/12004/

72

/5966/

3.8

/300354/

96

/288/

84

/13782/

95

/37/

4.0

age 17+

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

62

7.3

/176994/

77

/13925/

72

/3820/

3.4

/123244/

51

/224/

83

/2222/

48

/36/

1.0

age 16+

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

74

7.8

/499901/

77

/13978/

75

/7306/

3.8

/283460/

65

/216/

83

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55

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3.5

age 14+

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

75

7.3

/563340/

74

/21797/

74

/13405/

3.4

/525077/

71

/299/

84

/7196/

73

/48/

3.5

age 17+

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

69

7.1

/168769/

71

/4254/

73

/3824/

3.5

/279155/

63

/156/

62

/5822/

58

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3.5

age 17+

When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.

78

7.6

/203865/

76

/5476/

74

/3310/

3.7

/169082/

88

/126/

88

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76

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3.0

age 17+

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

66

7.1

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71

/6898/

69

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3.3

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62

/199/

65

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56

/36/

3.0

age 16+

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

80

7.5

/252803/

75

/6496/

71

/3395/

4.0

/173321/

85

/227/

80

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81

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4.0

age 13+

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

70

7.5

/321133/

75

/10628/

74

/4596/

3.5

/133579/

75

/224/

87

/4916/

60

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2.0

age 17+

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

77

7.6

/210995/

73

/4922/

74

/3195/

4.1

/190325/

80

/106/

80

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78

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3.0

age 15+

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.

64

6.9

/87132/

71

/4601/

68

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3.3

/76367/

63

/155/

69

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59

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2.0

age 17+

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

70

7.5

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74

/4026/

73

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3.5

/132670/

61

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87

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45

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3.0

age 15+

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

64

6.7

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76

/3252/

75

/615/

3.3

/89804/

56

/57/

72

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51

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2.0

age 13+

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

53

6.3

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67

/10345/

69

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2.9

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24

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66

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44

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1.5

age 13+

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

80

7.4

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71

/3310/

71

/2323/

3.6

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86

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83

/4499/

86

/31/