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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Crimean War 1853-56 Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027438/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2 A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children. American Civil War 1861-1865 Glory (1989) (Deborah Southwell) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 Col. Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices […]