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Movies: Contemporary Period: The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) (2001 – ongoing)

  GWOT: Afghanistan (2001-2014) Kajaki (2014) (Jon Casey) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3622120/?ref_=vp_back Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out riverbed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg – or your life.   Bluestone 42 (TV Series) (Jim Wallman) […]

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Movies: Contemporary Period: 1992 AD – 2021AD

  Also see Movies: Contemporary Period: Global War on Terror (GWOT) 2001 – ongoing Bosnia and Herzegovina War (1992-83) No Man’s Land (2001) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283509/?ref_=ttls_li_tt Bosnia and Herzegovina during at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no […]

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Movies: Contemporary Period 1954-1967

  Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) L’ennemi intime (Intimate enemies) 2007) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825248/ A drama following a French platoon during Algeria’s war of independence.   The Congo Crisis (1961) The Siege of Jadotville (2016) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3922798/?ref_=ttls_li_tt Congo. Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a standoff with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries.   Six-Day […]

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Movies: Contemporary Period: Vietnam War 1955-75 and First Indochina War 1946-54

  First Indochina War 1946-54 The Quiet American (2002) (Deborah Southwell) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258068/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman   Vietnam War 1955-75   Go tell the Spartans (1978) (Philip Middleton) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the […]

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Movies: Contemporary Period: Korean War (1950-1953)

  Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4939066/?ref_=ttls_li_tt A team of spies is sent into Incheon to gain intelligence on North Korean positions ahead of the invasion by UN forces.   A Hill in Korea (1956) (Jon Casey) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049302/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 1951 During the Korean War retreat in 1951, a small British recon group is surrounded by […]

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Movies: Contemporary Period: Cold War 1947-1991

  Strategic Air Command (1955) (Mukel Patel) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048667/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 An ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.   Fail Safe (1964) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted? […]

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Movies: World War II 1939AD -1945AD (Part II)

  The Resistance   The Resistance Banker (2018) (Deborah Southwell) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4610378/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.   Zwartboek (The Black Book; 2006) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer […]

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Movies: World War II 1939AD -1945AD (Part I)

  1939 Battle of the River Plate (2006) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875504/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl On December 13th 1939, the first great naval battle of World War II took place off the coast of Uruguay. Known as the ‘Battle of the River Plate’, it set as rivals two great naval officers in a deadly psychological duel.   1940 The […]

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Movies: Interwar Period 1918 AD – 1939 AD

  Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 Defenders of Riga (2007) (Terry Martin) TV series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471359/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 The First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian […]

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Movies: World War I 1914 AD-1918 AD

1914 Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064754/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.   All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 A German youth eagerly enters World War I, […]

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