The Highest Honour
5.5
1982
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The true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British troops during WWII.
Inside the Third Reich
7
1982
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A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitlers (Sir Derek Jacobis) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speers autobiography of the same name.
Some Kind of Hero
5.7
1982
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A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Lynx
5.5
1982
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During the Nazi occupation a young priest tries hard to prevent the execution of a local farmer, accused of treason, by a resistance fighter.
The Wall
7
1982
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A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
Angkor: Cambodia Express
5.1
1982
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In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.
Divided We Fall
7.6
1982
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The story depicts two brothers who fight on opposites sides in the U.S. Civil War and end up meeting in battle.
Das Boot
9.1
1981
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The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
Gallipoli
7.7
1981
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Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Eye of the Needle
7.1
1981
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A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Stripes
7.8
1981
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Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
Escape to Victory
6.6
1981
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As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the teams escape.
Lion of the Desert
8.5
1980
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In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
The Bunker
7
1981
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Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitlers (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945
6.9
1981
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This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows the plight of Europes Jews during the terrifying period from 1933 until the final defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. Never before had the world seen such contempt for human life on such a grand scale, the murder of an estimated 6 million Jews, with countless others persecuted. During the 1930s a wave of national fervor swept through a tumultuous Germany; people looked for answers, and the politicians were all too willing to point the finger of blame towards the Jewish population. Few, if any, could have foreseen how the views of one man would unfold…that man was Adolf Hitler.
The Boy Soldier
7.4
1981
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This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. Hes a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence its coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines. An original score by French composer Phillipe Sarde with photography directed by Yves Boisset sets the atmosphere of 1932 in France.
The Boat Is Full
7.1
1981
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During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: Our boat is full. A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judiths teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constables exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?
Pippin
7.6
1981
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At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples lifes pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life.
A Tale of Two Cities
6.5
1980
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Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Cartons undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
Friendly Fire
7.3
1979
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In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by \friendly fire.\ Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their sons death are the subject of this true account film.
Private Benjamin
6.1
1980
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A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.
The Last Metro
7.4
1980
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In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
War of the Shaolin Temple
6.3
1980
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Set during the Sung Dynasty, patriotic monks of the Shaolin Temple fight against foreign invasion
Port Arthur
6.6
1980
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The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.