Movie Releases by Genre
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No Man's Land
December 7, 2001
Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in No Man's Land -- a trench between enemy lines during the Bosnian war. They have no one to trust, no way to escape without getting shot, and a fellow soldier is lying on the trench floor with a spring-loaded bomb set to explode beneath him if he moves. The absurdity of their situation would be comical if it didn't have such dire consequences. (United Artists / MGM)
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Behind Enemy Lines
November 30, 2001
A Navy pilot (Wilson) is shot down over enemy territory, and struggles to survive the relentless pursuit of a ruthless secret police enforcer, a deadly tracker, and countless hostile troops. With time running out, the injured pilot's commanding officer (Hackman) goes against orders to carry out a desperate rescue mission. (20th Century Fox)
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Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
November 23, 2001
Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists, the Afghan people in the midst of civil war.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
August 17, 2001
A World War II drama about a beautiful Greek villager (Cruz) and the Italian soldier (Cage), part of Mussolini's occupying army, who wins her heart.
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Apocalypse Now Redux
August 3, 2001
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
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Lumumba
June 27, 2001
At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent. The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of the new independent state. He would last two months in office. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Divided We Fall
June 8, 2001
Based on a true story, this film is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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The Man Who Cried
May 25, 2001
A girl whose name and language are taken away, who loses everything and everyone she loves and is driven into silence, nevertheless finds a singing voice and finally manages to find her long lost father. [Universal Focus]
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Pearl Harbor
May 25, 2001
Against the backdrop of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, two friends (Affleck, Hartnett) find themselves drawn into the war and in love with the same woman (Beckinsale).
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Pavilion of Women
May 4, 2001
Based upon the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck, this film, set in 1930's China, deals with the themes of spiritual freedom and finding true love. (Universal Focus)
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Enemy at the Gates
March 16, 2001
While the Nazi and Russian armies hurl rank after rank of soldiers at each other and the world fearfully awaits the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad, the celebrated Russian sniper, Vassili Zaitsev (Law) quietly stalks his enemies one man at a time. His fame, however, soon thrusts him into a duel with the Nazi's best sharpshooter, Major Konig (Harris), and the two find themselves waging an intense personal war while the most momentous battle of the age rages around them. (Paramount Pictures)
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Malèna
December 25, 2000
Malena (Bellacci), a beautiful young war widow, inspires the sensual awakenings of a group of adolescent boys in 1941 Sicily.
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The Trench
November 22, 2000
Focusing on an idealistic group of young World War One soldiers, this film dramatizes the forty-eight hours preceding the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
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Kippur
November 3, 2000
A look at the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Israel was attacked by Syria and Egypt on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Movie focuses on the fictionalized exploits of a small military unit assigned to remove the wounded from the Golan Heights combat areas.
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A Time for Drunken Horses
October 27, 2000
When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. (Shooting Gallery)
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Tigerland
September 22, 2000
At Fort Polk, Louisiana, thousands of young men prepare for Vietnam. The specter of combat hangs over the men of A-Company, Second Platoon, as they enter the final stage of infantry training. They will be sent to the war. But each man deals with this prospect in his own way. One man's defiance, however, galvanizes every member of the platoon. (20th Century Fox)
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
September 15, 2000
In an effort to remove Jewish children from Nazi territory in pre-World War II Europe, the "Kindertransport" sent children far away from their families to live with stangers, often never to see their parents again. In this documentary, the aging survivors and their rescuers tell their moving stories.
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Goya in Bordeaux
September 15, 2000
Explores the experiences and artistic evolution of Francisco Goya, the man considered to be the most important artist of the modern era. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Paragraph 175
September 13, 2000
During World War II 100,000 German homosexual men were sent to concentration camps. This documentary tells their story and includes personal accounts of six of the survivors.
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Aimee & Jaguar
August 11, 2000
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. (Zeitgeist Films)
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The Patriot
June 28, 2000
In this story of the American Revolution, Gibson plays a pacifist turned warrior. Gibson joins his son (Ledger) in a bitter and personal battle for independence after experiencing the iron fist of a cold-blooded British officer.
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Butterfly Tongues
June 16, 2000
Explores the extraordinary relationship between a shy young boy, Moncho (Lozano), and his incredibly compassionate teacher, Don Gregorio (Gomez), who teaches Moncho to find his way in a world that is increasingly frightening. (Miramax Films)
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Marcel Proust's Time Regained
June 16, 2000
Based on the last book of Proust's saga "a la recherche du temps perdu."
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Sunshine
June 9, 2000
The story of three generations of scions during the tragic and turbulent history of Hungary in the 20th century. Fiennes plays all three leads.
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Running Free
June 2, 2000
The film reveals the story of how herds of wild horses came to Namibia's vast desert -- and what it says about humans in their relationship to animals.
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U-571
April 21, 2000
A team of American seamen, disguised as soldiers on a German rescue submarine, sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat in an attempt to capture the Enigma machine, a master encryption device which has enabled Axis forces to execute maritime attacks without fear of interference or interception by the Allies.
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Rules of Engagement
April 7, 2000
Retired Marine Colonel and attorney Hays Hodges (Jones) defends his old friend and comrade-in-arms Col. Terry Childers (Jackson), a highly decorated 30-year Marine veteran, who has been court-martialed for ordering his troops to fire on a hostile crowd storming the U.S. embassy in Yemen which results in the deaths of many civilians.
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Titus
December 25, 1999
Julie Taymor directs this screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," a bold combination of high tragedy and black comedy.
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Ride with the Devil
November 24, 1999
A bloody chapter of Civil War history in 1861, with friends fighting friends in vicious guerrilla warfare along the Kansas/Missouri border. This is the story of a 16-year-old boy, Jake (Maguire) who joins the First Kansas Irregulars.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
November 12, 1999
As young girl in the 15th century, Joan (Jovovich) receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
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Train of Life
November 5, 1999
This haunting and powerful comedy is both the story of a village's dream and a suspenseful tale of great escape. (Paramount Classics)
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Three Kings
October 1, 1999
A small group of adventurous American soldiers (Clooney, Whalberg, Ice Cube, Jonze) in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War is determined to steal a huge cache of gold reputed to be hidden somewhere near their desert base. Finding a map they believe will take them to the gold, the soldiers embark on a journey that leads to unexpected discoveries, enabling them to rise to a heroic challenge that drastically changes their lives. (Warner Brothers)
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One Man's Hero
September 24, 1999
The film tells the story of the Saint Patrrick's Battalion, known in Mexico as "Los San Patricios," which was one of the strongest military forces in Mexico and became renowned for their bravery and effective strategy. Many of these men gave their lives for Mexico while fighting against the U.S. in the Mexican-American War. (MGM)
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Jakob the Liar
September 24, 1999
A story about the astonishing things that happen when despair turns to hope among the residents of this small village in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Columbia Tristar)
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Earth
September 10, 1999
A group of diverse Indian friends and two men after one woman is torn apart by the 1947 partitioning of India. The woman in question (Das) is a nanny who is, with her eight-year-old charge (Sethna), insulated by her Parsi family's wealth and neutrality from the violence erupting around her.
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The General's Daughter
June 18, 1999
When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, the undercover military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a shocking labyrinth of murderous sexual obsession and deceit.
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Tea with Mussolini
May 14, 1999
A coming-of-age tale about an illegitimate child who struggles to assert his independence and find his way into a life of art, taken from the autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli. (MGM)
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Ravenous
March 19, 1999
Set during the Mexican-American War, this is the story of a group of American soldiers that are trapped in the Sierras in the midst of a terrible blizzard when one of the soldiers (Carlyle) snaps and becomes a cannibalistic maniac.
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The Thin Red Line
January 8, 1999
The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. (Fox)
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Life Is Beautiful
October 23, 1998
From one of the world's most acclaimed comic filmmakers comes an unexpected and unforgettable fable about the power of laughter to move the human heart and the power of the imagination to bolster the human spirit. (Miramax Films)
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The Last Days
October 23, 1998
In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. Though these survivors recount the horrors they witnessed and endured as a result of the Nazis' "Final Solution," their individual triumphs are a testament to hope and humanity.
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Saving Private Ryan
July 24, 1998
During the WWII D-Day invasion, a squad of soldiers led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) is sent into Normandy to find Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), and return him to his mother in America. She has already lost three other sons in this war.
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Mulan
June 19, 1998
Mulan chronicles the daring adventures of a young Chinese woman whose irrepressible spirit clashes with her tradition-bound society. [Disney]
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Kundun
December 25, 1997
Martin Scorsese directs the incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders -- Tibet's Dali Lama and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history. (BV Entertainment)
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Welcome to Sarajevo
November 26, 1997
Living on the edge amid the constant threat of attack, an offbeat band of TV journalists, lead by hotshot Jimmy Flynn (Harrelson), report from a devastated war-torn country. The action intensifies when one of the journalists crosses the line and risks his life in a bold attempt to smuggle an orphaned girl to safety. (BV Entertainment)
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Seven Years in Tibet
October 8, 1997
Brad Pitt stars in the soaring adventure and incredible true story of an Austrian prisoner of war who is transformed by his friendship with the young Dalai Lama. (Sony)
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Underground
June 20, 1997
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
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Paradise Road
April 11, 1997
Set in World War II Singapore, this is the story of several European women who are imprisoned by the Japanese and seek solace from the horror of their imprisonment by forming a vocal orchestra. (Fox Searchlight)
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The English Patient
November 15, 1996
An epic film of adventure, intrigue, betrayal and love about four strangers whose diverse lives become inextricably connected. (Miramax Films)
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Michael Collins
October 11, 1996
In Ireland, where national pride is a passion akin to religion and romantic love, one man became a legend for his fierce devotion to his land and its independence. Liam Neeson stars as Michael Collins in a story about the real-life patriot whose bravery and unswerving dedication to the Irish people changed history as it made him into a legend. Collins' quest would bring a man raised on war into an even more dangerous battle for peace. It would cost him his life but would make him a hero for the ages. (Warner Bros.)
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Courage Under Fire
April 12, 1996
Lt. Colonel Serling (Washington) is sent home from the Gulf War and soon becomes embroiled in intrigue when he investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of medal-of-honor candidate Capt. Karen Walden (Ryan). (Twentieth Century Fox)
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Richard III
December 29, 1995
The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.
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Operation Dumbo Drop
July 28, 1995
To keep the loyalty of a village during the Vietnam war, a U.S. Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.
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Braveheart
May 24, 1995
Scottish national hero Sir William Wallace (Gibson), leads a 13th-century rebellion against landowning English nobles.
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Rob Roy
April 7, 1995
Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange battle evil landowners among the breathtaking landscapes of the majestic Scottish Highlands in this riveting adventure of courage, love and uncompromising honor. (MGM)
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Legends of the Fall
January 13, 1995
Based on the novella by Jim Harrison about the Ludlow brothers - two men (Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn) in love with the same woman (Julia Ormond).
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Schindler's List
December 15, 1993
Steven Spielberg's epic drama tells the compelling true story of German businessman Oskar Schindler (Neeson) who comes to Nazi-occupied Poland looking for economic prosperity and leaves as a savior. (History in Film)
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Map of the Human Heart
May 14, 1993
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.
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Sniper
January 29, 1993
A US Marine sniper is partnered with a SWAT member to take out rebel leaders in the jungles of Panama.
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The Last of the Mohicans
September 25, 1992
Hawkeye and his adoptive Mohican father and brother protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.
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Archangel
July 19, 1991
An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
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Europa Europa
May 9, 1991
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
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Memphis Belle
October 12, 1990
In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in UK prepares for its 25th and last bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.
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Glory
February 16, 1990
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
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Born on the Fourth of July
December 20, 1989
Based on a true story, the film follows the young Ron Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted. (Universal Studios)
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Henry V
November 8, 1989
The English king invades France and wins the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V.
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Fat Man and Little Boy
October 20, 1989
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
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Casualties of War
August 18, 1989
During the Vietnam War, a soldier (Michael J. Fox) finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
July 26, 1989
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
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Bat*21
October 21, 1988
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's (Gene Hackman) aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.
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Au Revoir les Enfants
February 12, 1988
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
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Good Morning, Vietnam
January 15, 1988
In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
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Empire of the Sun
December 9, 1987
Empire of the Sun—based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel—tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. [Warner Bros. Pictures]
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Hamburger Hill
August 28, 1987
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
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Full Metal Jacket
June 26, 1987
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. [Warner Bros.]
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Gardens of Stone
May 8, 1987
A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old Army buddy.
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The Hanoi Hilton
March 27, 1987
A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. The film focuses on the resistance the prisoners gave to their captors and the strong bonds formed by the Americans during their captivity.
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Platoon
December 19, 1986
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Heartbreak Ridge
December 5, 1986
A old-school, hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) clashes with his superior officers and his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) as he takes command of a motley crew recon platoon with a bad attitude. He teaches them to improvise, adapt and overcome like Stoney Jackson used to say.
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
November 14, 1986
A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.
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Salvador
April 23, 1986
An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.
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The Delta Force
February 14, 1986
After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is deployed to resolve the crisis.
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Iron Eagle
January 17, 1986
A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.
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Revolution
December 25, 1985
A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.
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Ran
December 20, 1985
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
May 22, 1985
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
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The Killing Fields
February 1, 1985
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.
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Birdy
December 21, 1984
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
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Missing in Action
November 16, 1984
Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.
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A Soldier's Story
November 2, 1984
An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
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The Razor's Edge
October 19, 1984
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
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Threads
September 23, 1984
Documentary-style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England, and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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Best Defense
July 20, 1984
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
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Swing Shift
April 13, 1984
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
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The Keep
December 16, 1983
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
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Uncommon Valor
December 16, 1983
With money from an oil tycoon (Stack), Col. Rhodes (Hackman) recruits marines to go back into the jungles to find his son, who he believes is being held as a POW in Laos.
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Under Fire
October 21, 1983
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
September 2, 1983
During W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed.
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High Road to China
March 18, 1983
During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot (Tom Selleck) is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist (Bess Armstrong) to find her father who disappeared in Asia.
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The Year of Living Dangerously
January 21, 1983
Guy Hamilton (Gibson) a journalist on his first job in Indonesia during the last years of President Sukarno reign. He is helped by his photographer, a half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan (Hunt) and diplomat Jill Bryant (Weaver) who he is having an affair with.
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