DeathByFilms
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Main Cast:
Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Ben Reed, Cole Konis
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.
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Main Cast:
Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, François Chau, Marshall Bell
A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Directed by: Tony Scott
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take on the war. While Dickerson attempts to censor Cronauer’s broadcasts, Cronauer pursues a relationship with a Vietnamese girl named Trinh, who shows him the horrors of war first-hand.
Directed by: John Boorman
Director John Boorman drew from his own childhood experiences for this coming-of-age tale about a boy growing up in and around London during World War II. For young Billy Rowan, the nightly bombings provide a frightening show, but they include opportunities to rummage through the rubble with friends in the mornings. As Billy plays, his family struggles to remain intact as they suffer through the anguish and losses of wartime.
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Late in 1944, the Allies seem to have the upper hand in the European land war. A combined British and American paratrooper force, led by American general Gavin and British general Urquhart (Sean Connery), plans to take a highway leading from the Netherlands into Germany, so that British ground troops led by Lieutenant General Horrocks (Edward Fox) and Lieutenant Colonel Vandeleur (Michael Caine) can enter enemy territory. But the Allies soon learn that they may be overconfident.
Directed by: Rauni Mollberg
Main Cast:
Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Liski, Mika Mäkelä,
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna’s experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called “Continuation War” (1941-1944).
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Main Cast:
August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts,
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
Directed by: Joe Wright
Main Cast:
Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
Directed by: Harald Zwart
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.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Main Cast:
Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin, Max Pirkis, Billy Boyd
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.
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Main Cast:
Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Marko Dyrlich, David Scheller
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.
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Main Cast:
Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle, Chris Pratt
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Main Cast:
James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Tony Plana
A second-rate journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Main Cast:
Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Heath Harris, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
Original Title: Brestskaya krepost (Russia)
Directed by: Alexandr Kott
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.
Directed by: Peter Berg
Main Cast:
Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Eric Bana
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.
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Main Cast:
James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner,
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Directed by: Joseph Vilsmaier
“Stalingrad” follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the platoon leads his men to desert. The men of the platoon attempt to escape from the city which is now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Directed by: László Nemes
Main Cast:
Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak II
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.
