Blu-ray - War
Dear John
While John is on leave in his hometown, he finds Savannah, a college student visiting the town. Although love was unexpected, it doesn't mean they didn't find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives, until his re-signs on due to the 9/11 attack. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other?
Actors: Channing Tatum » Amanda Seyfried » Richard Jenkins » Henry Thomas » Scott Porter » David Andrews » Keith Robinson » D.J. Cotrona » Cullen Moss » Maxx Hennard »
Director: Lasse Hallström »
Movie category: Drama » War » Lovestory »
Passchendaele
In 1917, in World War I, the veteran Sergeant, Michael Dunne, is wounded at the front and nursed by Sarah Mann. He is diagnosed as neurasthenic and returns to his hometown, Calgary, to work in the recruitment section. When Sarah's asthmatic brother, David, is enlisted and demands that this be recognized by the father of his girlfriend, Cassie Walker. Sarah believes that Michael is responsible, and blames him for the engagement of her brother in the army. Michael re-enlists, using his mother last name, in order to protect David and they are sent to the no man's land at the front line of the Bat...
Actors: Paul Gross » Caroline Dhavernas » Joe Dinicol » Meredith Bailey » Jim Mezon » Michael Greyeyes » Gil Bellows » James Kot »
Director: Paul Gross »
Kokoda
It's 1942, and the Australian 39th Home Guard of just 500 men face a Japanese force of 6000 on the treacherous Kokoda track in New Guinea. In the village of Isurava, it looks like an attack is imminent. A patrol from the 39th, led by an AIF lieutenant (Ben Barrack) from North Africa, are about to go out for the night. The patrol consists of Jack and Max Scholt (Jack Finsterer and Simon Stone), Darko (Travis McMahon), Burke (Luke Ford), Johnno (Tom Budge), Sam (Steve Le Marquand), Dan (Angus Sampson), Blue (Christopher Baker) and Wilstead (Ewen Leslie). Johnno is suffering from dysentery.
Actors: Jack Finsterer » Travis McMahon » Simon Stone » Luke Ford » Tom Budge » Steve Le Marquand » Ewan Leslie » Christopher Baker » Angus Sampson »
Director: Alister Grierson »
Only the Brave
A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd. In 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, overnight Japanese Americans were put into internment camps for the duration of the war. Determined to prove their loyalty, 1400 Japanese Americans successfully petitioned the government to serve becoming the 100th Infantry Battalion. They were sent to North Africa, Italy and finally France were they performed an impossibly-dangerous rescue of the Texas 36th Division. D...
Actors: Jason Scott Lee » Mark Dacascos » George Takei » Tamlyn Tomita » Greg Watanabe » Lane Nishikawa »
Director: Lane Nishikawa »
Edge of Love
he Jacket director John Maybury adapts playwright Sharman MacDonald's account of the true-life relationships shared between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; his wife, Caitlin; his lifelong friend Vera Phillips; and her husband, William Killick, in this biographical drama centering on the curious incident in which Thomas found his home turned into a war zone when Phillips and Killick attacked the abode with a machine gun and a grenade. Sienna Miller assumes the role of Dylan's wife, Caitlin, and Keira Knightley joins the cast as the trigger-happy Phillips in a film that not only reunites Knightley with...
Actors: Keira Knightley » Sienna Miller » Cillian Murphy » Matthew Rhys » Simon Armstrong » Ben Batt » Geoffrey Beevers » Rachel Bell » Paul Brooke » Huw Ceredig »
Director: John Maybury »
Movie category: Drama » War » Lovestory »
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's...
Actors: Brad Pitt » Mélanie Laurent » Christoph Waltz » Eli Roth » Michael Fassbender » Diane Kruger » Daniel Brühl » Til Schweiger » Gedeon Burkhard » Jacky Ido »
Director: Quentin Tarantino »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » War »
The Hurt Locker
Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War-set action thriller The Hurt Locker presents the conflict in the Middle East from the perspective of those who witnessed the fighting firsthand -- the soldiers. As an elite Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team tactfully navigates the streets of present-day Iraq, they face the constant threat of death from incoming bombs and sharp-shooting snipers. In Baghdad, roadside bombs are a common danger. The Army is...
Actors: Jeremy Renner » Anthony Mackie » Guy Pearce » Ralph Fiennes » Brian Geraghty » David Morse » Evangeline Lilly »
Director: Kathryn Bigelow »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » War »
Braveheart
Based on actual historical events, this epic tells the story of legendary Scotsman William Wallace, a courageous and noble young man who fights for his country's freedom in the midst of British oppression during the 13th century. Newly wedded to the village beauty, all Wallace wants is peace in his homeland. Like others in his country, he is weary of the British ravaging villages and abducting wives. After one particular devastating pillage, Wallace rallies his countrymen and starts the battle cry for freedom. Knowing full well what they're up against, Wallace leads his people in one of his...
Actors: Mel Gibson » Sophie Marceau » Patrick McGoohan » Catherine McCormack »
Director: Mel Gibson »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » War »
Defiance
Inspired by a true story, director Edward Zwick's epic World War II drama Defiance tells the tale of three Jewish Eastern European brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell) who narrowly escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis, subsequently vowing to avenge the deaths of their loves ones by launching a desperate battle against the forces that seek to exterminate their entire race. The year is 1941, and the setting is Nazi-occupied Poland. The Final Solution is in full effect, and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being slaughtered wholesale. Tuvia (Craig), Zus (Schreiber), and...
Actors: Daniel Craig » Jamie Bell » Liev Schreiber » George MacKay » Alexa Davalos » Mark Margolis » Jodhi May » Mark Feuerstein » Tomas Arana » Iddo Goldberg » Mia Wasikowska » Jacek Koman » Allan Corduner »
Director: Edward Zwick »
John Rabe
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Actors: Ulrich Tukur » Daniel Brühl » Anne Consigny » Steve Buscemi Li Ming » Zhang Jingchu » Akira Emoto » Hans-Joachnim Heist » Fang Yu » Christian Rodska » Togo Igawa » Mathias Herrmann » Zhu Yi » Yuan Wen Kang »
Director: Florian Gallenberger »
Gladiator
Upon the sudden death of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, his trusted and successful general Maximus is unlawfully imprisoned and condemned to the gladiator games by Marcus's twisted son Commodus. As the new emperor, Commodus fears Maximus could use his heroic stature to depose him and become leader himself. But Maximus gains fame as a gladiator and uses his celebrity to cause further damage to Commodus' tenuous hold on the susceptible Roman people, hoping to inspire them to rediscover their lost values and overcome the corruption that is eating away at them. These actions prompt Commodus to squ...
Actors: Russell Crowe » Richard Harris » Oliver Reed » Derek Jacobi » Djimon Hounsou » Joaquin Phoenix » Connie Nielsen » David Hemmings »
Director: Ridley Scott »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » War »
Jarhead
A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War in 1991. After experiencing the rigors of boot camp, Swofford and his pal Troy (Peter Sarsgaard) are trained to be snipers, and under the leadership of Sgt. Sykes (Jamie Foxx) and Lt. Col. Kazinski (Chris Cooper), the two land in the middle of a desert where they're up against an enemy they can't always ...
Actors: Jamie Foxx » Jake Gyllenhaal » Brian Geraghty » Lucas Black » Jacob Vargas » Laz Alonso » Evan Jones » Iván Fenyö » Peter Gail » Kareem Grimes » Jamie Martz » Jocko Sims » Sam Rockwel »
Director: Sam Mendes »
Way of war
A highly trained assassin uncovers evidence of a vast U.S. conspiracy that reaches to the upper ranks of government in this action thriller starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. Paramilitary operative David Wolfe (Gooding, Jr.) is on a mission to kill one of the most notorious terrorists in the Middle East when he discovers that the top members of the administration are deeply corrupt. A target of his own country due to the volatile knowledge he now possesses, Wolfe attempts to stay out of the crosshairs long enough to expose the truth and ensure that justice is served.
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr. » Vernel Bagneris » J.K. Simmons » Edrick Browne » J. Omar Castro » Yalonda Lisa Reeves » Jayson Warner Smith » Mark Joy » Sarah Ann Schultz »
Director: John Carter »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » War » Thriller »
Valkyrie
At the absolute height of World War II, German generals hatch a daring plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and effectively render the German war machine impotent. Directed by Bryan Singer, Valkyrie stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the real-life mastermind behind the elaborate plot known as Project Valkyrie: a plan to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government from the inside. Stauffenberg has been a loyal soldier and an asset to the Reich for his entire military career, but after losing an eye, a hand, and three fingers in an Allied bombing, he reaches a breaking point. Th...
Actors: Tom Cruise » Kenneth Branagh » Bill Nighy » Tom Wilkinson » Carice van Houten » Thomas Kretschmann » Terence Stamp » Eddie Izzard » Jamie Parker » Christian Berkel » Philipp von Schulthess »
Director: Bryan Singer »
Movie category: Drama » War » Thriller »
Gran Torino
A racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden Detroit neighborhood is forced to confront his own lingering prejudice when a troubled Hmong teen from his neighborhood attempts to steal his prized Gran Torino. Decades after the Korean War has ended, ageing veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is still haunted by the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. The two objects that matter most to Kowalski in life are the classic Gran Torino that represents his happier days working in a Ford assembly plant, and the M-1 rifle that saved his life countless times during combat. When Kowalski's t...
Actors: Clint Eastwood » Cory Hardrict » Geraldine Hughes » Brian Haley » Michael E. Kurowski » Chee Thao »
Director: Clint Eastwood »
Tunnel Rats
In this no-holds-barred, action-packed portrayal of the Vietnam War, a special US combat unit is on a mission to hunt down Viet Cong soldiers in the endless tunnels beneath the jungles of Vietnam.
Actors: Michael Paré » Nate Parker » Brandon Fobbs » Wilson Bethel » Adrian Collins » Scott Cooper » Mitch Eakins » Erik Eidem » Jane Le »
Director: Uwe Boll »
The Warlords
It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers.
Actors: Jet Li » Takeshi Kaneshiro » Andy Lau » Jinglei Xu » Yachao Wang » Guo Xiao Dong » Jacky Heung » Wei Zong Wan »
Director: Peter Chan »
American Soldiers
A routine sortie turns into a struggle for survival for a U.S. patrol on assignment in Iraq in director Sidney J. Furie's action packed war film. They've gone through training, and now these young soldiers will be forced to put everything they learned in boot camp to the ultimate test when Fedayeen fighters with superior knowledge of the local landscape engage them in close quarters combat of the deadliest kind. With their ammunition dwindling and hope for back-up fading fast, the only thing keeping these desperate soldiers going is pure survival instinct.
Actors: Curtis Morgan » Zan Calabretta » Jordan Brown » Eddie Della Siepe » Michael Belisario » Philippe Buckland »
Director: Sidney J. Furie »
Jacknife
This little-known Robert DeNiro film is set several years after the war in Vietnam. DeNiro plays an unpredictably explosive war veteran, while Ed Harris co-stars as his army buddy, who's trying his best to forget his Vietnamese experiences by crawling into a bottle. While visiting Harris and Harris' sister Kathy Baker, DeNiro frightens both with his neurotic ramblings. Still, Baker is grateful that DeNiro's presence seems to be lifting Harris out of his deep funk. She encourages DeNiro to stay on for a while, thereby setting the stage for a blossoming romance. Baker has no way of knowing that ...
Actors: Robert de Niro » Ed Harris » Kathy Baker » Charles S. Dutton » Michael Arkin » Gabrielle Carteris » Madison Arnold » George Gerdes »
Director: David Hugh Jones »
Redacted
Director Brian De Palma turns his lens on the Iraq War with this "fictional documentary" about the experience of U.S. soldiers involved in the conflict. Based on a news item about the rape of an Iraqi schoolgirl by wayward grunts assigned to patrol a checkpoint, the film depicts a scenario not unlike the one De Palma covered in Casualties of War. Shot on high-definition video, Redacted also addresses the ever-evolving manner in which war is covered by the media by focusing on such journalistic innovations as blog coverage and web reporting.
Actors: Kel O'Neill » Ty Jones » Daniel Sherman » Patrick Carroll » Rob Devaney » Izzy Diaz » Mike Figueroa »
Director: Brian De Palma »
Rescue Dawn
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) escaped death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were only beginning. Subsequently taken captive by the enemy and forced to endure a harrowing ...
Actors: Christian Bale » Steve Zahn » Jeremy Davies » Zach Grenier » Yuttana Muenwaja » Kriangsak Ming-Olo » Teerawat Mulvilai »
Director: Werner Herzog »
Alatriste
A fierce soldier fighting for the Spanish cause in Flanders returns to a drastically-different Spain to fulfill the dying wish of a fallen friend, only to find that life isn't what it once was in his decaying homeland in director Agustin Diaz Yanes' adaptation of Arturo Pérez-Revete's popular series of bestselling books. Compelled to fulfill the final wish of his dying friend, noble warrior Alatriste (Viggo Mortensen) makes his way back to Spain to care for the man's young son Iñigo (Nacho Perez and Unax Ugalde). Things have taken a sharp turn for the worst back home, however, and as Alatris...
Actors: Viggo Mortensen » Eduardo Noriega » Ariadna Gil » Elena Anaya » Alex O'Dogherty » Nacho Perez » Juan Echanove »
Director: Agustin Diaz Yanes »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » War »
The Poet
In German occupied Poland at the dawn of World War II, Oskar, a young German officer, and Rachel, the daughter of a Rabbi, fall in love. Forced apart by violent village massacres, they embark on a perilous journey to find one another. Pregnant, and resigned to the fact she will never be re-united with Oskar, Rachel marries Bernard, an honorable Jewish man who is willing to be the father in hopes of earning her love. At the dangerous Russian front line, where violent skirmishes herald a great battle ahead, a chance reunion between Rachel and Oskar leads to tragedy, hope and one man's ultimate s...
Actors: Kim Coates » Nina Dobrev » Roy Scheider » Daryl Hannah » Colm Feore » Jonathan Scarfe » Zachary Bennett » Lara Daans »
Director: Damian Lee »
Movie category: Drama » War » Lovestory »
Rambo
The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by missionaries to protect them during a humanitarian aid effort on behalf of the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After the missionaries are taken prisoner by Burmese soldiers Rambo gets a second impossible job: rescue the missionaries in the midst of a civil war.
Actors: Sylvester Stallone » Julie Benz » Matthew Marsden » Graham McTavish » Reynaldo Gallegos »
Director: Sylvester Stallone »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » War »
Rambo - First Blood
When for no apparent reason, a small town police chief arrests a vagrant hitchhiker, little does he realize that he has set in motion a catastrophic series of events. The vagrant in question is in fact John Rambo, congressional medal of honour winner and Vietnam War hero. Responding to the harassment of his captors with sudden ferociousness, Rambo makes a daring escape from the small town jail, steals a motorcycle and roars off to the shelter of the nearby mountains. As the manhunt begins Rambo is in his element preparing himself for a ONE MAN WAR.
Actors: Sylvester Stallone » Chris Mulkey » Alf Humphreys » Don MacKay » Stephen E. Miller » John McLiam » Stephen Dimopoulos » David Caruso » Earl Klein » Bill McKinney » David Petersen » Brian Dennehey »
Director: Ted Kotcheff »
Movie category: Action & Adventure » War »
