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Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 Vietnam war film that is notable for the performance of R. Lee Ermey as the Drill Sgt. Hartman, who whips a group of army boot camp recruits into shape before they are deployed to Vietnam to see combat. The film was one of the final of famed director Stanley […] More
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Dunkirk
The 2017 war film Dunkirk depicts the Allied evacuation from the port town from the perspectives of land, sea, and air. The film is unique because the stories are told out of chronological order. The land sequences cover the course of one week, the sea sequences one day, and the air sequences one hour. The […] More
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Downfall
Downfall is a 2004 film that follows the last days of Adolf Hitler and the Battle for Berlin in 1945. Soviet forces were swarming into eastern Germany and overwhelmed the greatly outnumbered German defenders, who nonetheless fought tooth and nail in a desperate attempt to hold their capital city. MoreReport Item navigation Previous submission Next […] More
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Defiance
Defiance is a 2008 film that tells the real life story of the Jewish Bielski brothers, who fought as partisans against German forces in the eastern European forests during World War II. The brothers ended up gathering over twelve hundred fellow Jews to their cause, and they lived throughout the war in the woods, where […] More
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Das Boot
Das Boot is a 1981 film that tells the story of a crew of a German U-boat in World War II. The film is widely regarded as being one of the very best foreign language films ever made and also for being a very realistic depiction of the cramped and miserable conditions of operating a […] More
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far is notable for being one of the few war films that showcases an Allied defeat. The 1976 film depicts Operation Market Garden, in which British and American forces launched a paratrooper operation to invade Holland, with the aim being to gain strategic bridges and then launch an invasion of northern Germany […] More
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The Blue Max
The Blue Max is a 1966 film that tells the story of a German fighter pilot in World War I who becomes obsessed with making 25 kills so he obtain the coveted Blue Max medal, and ends up using rather dubious and immoral methods in his pursuit to do so at all costs. MoreReport Item […] More
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Black Hawk Down
Black Hawk Down is a visceral war film released in 2001 that follows the real life stories of U.S. soldiers who fought at the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, 1993. When an hour long operation in the city quickly went wrong when two black hawk helicopters were shot down, a major gunfight took place that […] More
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is considered by many to be the definitive Vietnam War movie. The 1979 film tells the story of a squads of soldiers lead by a captain who travel deep into the jungle of Southeast Asia to locate and assassinate a mad U.S. Colonel who has gone rogue. MoreReport Item navigation Previous submission Next […] More
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front, based off of the novel, was one of the very first war movies ever released. Originally released in 1930, it tells the story of a German soldier serving on the western front in World War I. MoreReport Item navigation Previous submission Next submission View full list More
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Winchester Model 70
Source The Winchester Model 70 is known as the ‘Rifleman’s Rifle’ and with good reason. The M70 rifles manufactured before 1964, often referred to as the Pre-64 Model 70s, are regarded as being some of the very finest bolt action rifles ever built. They were very expensive due to being handmade rather than utilizing modern […] More