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- Battalion (2015) During the events of the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution meant to protest Tsar Nicholas II’s rule in Russia, the majority of male soldiers became demoralized, forcing the government to look elsewhere.
- Charlotte Gray (2001) The majority of Cate Blanchett’s drama films are set in the past and Charlotte Gray is no different. In it, she plays Charlotte, a member of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) who is tasked with helping to end the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.
- The Stopover (2016) The Stopover also falls in the “post-deployment” category of war movies as it follows a group of French soldiers as they are returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
- Battle for Sevastopol (2015) Focusing on the World War II battles — the Siege of Sevastopol and the Siege of Odessa — Battle for Sevastopol follows the Red Army sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko as she defends the USSR from German invasion.
- The Card Counter
- Escape from Mogadishu
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Hell Hath No Fury
- The Last Duel
- Nobody
- One Shot
- Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
- Outside The Wire
- A Journal For Jordan
Screenwriter and director Paul Schrader (writer of "Taxi Driver" and "Rolling Thunder") recruited Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron in the most recent "Star Wars" trilogy) to play William Tell, a former military interrogator who taught himself to count cards during a 10-year prison sentence. Tell carries a heavy burden of guilt for his military crimes and h...
This movie follows North and South Korean diplomats as they try to escape from Somalia during Mohamed Farrah Aidid's 1991 assault on Mogadishu, two years before the attack chronicled in "Black HawkDown." The movie isn't on the scale of the Ridley Scott classic, but there's some creative filmmaking on display and plenty of suspense. The car-armoring...
Filmmaker Joel Coen, working for the first time ever without his brother Ethan, recruited his wife, Frances McDormand ("Nomadland"), and Denzel Washington ("Training Day") for an exciting take on William Shakespeare's tale of Scottish military warfare and throne-gaming. The movie cuts about an hour's worth of dialogue from the play and focuses on t...
Director Jesse V. Johnson ("Avengement," "Triple Threat") found the screenplay for "Hell Hath No Fury" when he was looking for a script he could shoot while following strict safety protocols. He came up with a story about the waning days of World War II, when American G.I.s, Nazi troops and Resistance fighters are trying to locate a cache of hidden...
Ridley Scott's epic medieval military movie was delayed a year by the pandemic. Like a lot of movies aimed at an adult audience in 2021, it struggled to sell tickets this past fall when it was in theaters. Even star Ben Affleck understands why you didn't want to go to the theater to see it. Matt Damon and Marine Corpsveteran Adam Driver play best f...
Comedian and "Better Call Saul" star Bob Odenkirk is hardly the actor you'd have expected to redefine himself as Hutch Mansell, a special-ops veteran who kicks ass while coming to terms with a shadowy past. "Nobody" was a surprise theatrical hit early in the year and there are already plans announced for a sequel. Let's hope that Hutch's dad (Chris...
Action movie legend Scott Adkins shines as a Navy SEALin yet another movie designed to deliver the thrills while still observing pandemic safety protocols on set. Director James Nunn designed the movie to look like it's one continuous take as a CIA analyst attempts to remove a terrorist suspect from a Gitmo-style island prison. There are terrorists...
Michael B. Jordan ("Creed," "Black Panther") stars in an updated take on Tom Clancy's spec-ops badass, John Clark. This movie goes back to his origins as Navy SEAL John Kelly and explains the tragedy and mission that led him to become a fearsome ghost warrior. Working from a screenplay co-written by Taylor Sheridan ("Yellowstone") and Will Staples ...
Anthony Mackie (Falcon in the Marvel universe) and Damson Idris star in this sci-fi movie that wonders how a drone operator would respond when he finds himself dodging real bullets on the battlefield. After Thomas Harp, the young drone flyer played by Idris, disobeys an order and fires a rocket that kills two U.S. Marines, his superior officers sen...
Denzel Washington directs the real-life story of Army1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King and journalist Dana Canedy. The two met in the late 20th century, fell in love and had a son together before King was killed by an IED in Iraq. Michael B. Jordan plays King and newcomer Chanté Adams plays Canedy. When King was deployed just before their son Jordan's b...
Jan 19, 2023 · Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Women At War’ On Netflix, About Four Women Whose Lives Intersect As World War I Rages
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- Outside the Wire. Jan. 18, Netflix. Anthony Mackie (Falcon from the Marvel movies) plays a robot soldier programmed to remove the enemy's advanced weapons from outside the wire.
- The Mauritanian. Feb. 19, Theaters. Based on the real-life story of Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, "The Mauritanian" revisits the post-9/11 policies that saw the United States arrest those with suspected terrorism ties and hold them without charges.
- Cherry. Feb. 26, Theaters; March 12, Apple TV+ Nico Walker is a real person who served as an Army medic in Iraq and came home with an undiagnosed case of PTSD.
- The King's Man. March 12, Theaters. In this prequel to the popular "Kingsman" spy movie series, writer/director Matthew Vaughan reveals the origins of the secret organization during World War I. The trailer suggests that the private intelligence service was born in an attempt to stop a plot to use that war to plunge the world into chaos.
- The War Below. "The War Below" tells the amazing true story of a group of working class miners who were recruited for a special job during World War I. The Brits are desperate to break the stalemate, and Colonel "Hellfire Jack" Norton-Griffiths believes the best way to deal with the Germans is to tunnel under no man's land and blow them up from below.
- The Mauritanian. Set during the War on Terror, Kevin Macdonald's "The Mauritanian" is based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was arrested in Mauritania two months after the September 11 attacks and was accused of being one of the organizers.
- The Forgotten Battle. "Harry Potter" star Tom Felton supports a stellar young cast in the gripping World War II drama "The Forgotten Battle," which landed on Netflix in October 2021.
- The Auschwitz Report. Slovakia's entry for Best International Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, "The Auschwitz Report" is the harrowing true story of two prisoners who escape from the notorious death camp with the sole purpose of exposing the horrors taking place there to the world.
Operation Mincemeat is a 2021 British war drama film directed by John Madden. It is based upon Ben Macintyre's book on the British Operation Mincemeat during the Second World War. The film stars Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs.
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