The Burmese Harp (1956), The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005), 1917 (2019), They Shall Not Grow Old (2018), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Ryan's Daughter (1970), The Whales of August (1987), Michael Collins (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best British Soldier movies.
Storyline: Kon Ichikawa's anti-war parable about a Japanese soldier burying his fallen comrades at the end of World War II.
Plot Keywords: japanese soldier, british soldier, monk, brutal, gripping, gutsy, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is the year 1857. The British are plundering the resources of their Indian subjects, who have reached their breaking point. Soldier Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) leads an uprising against India's imperialist occupiers -- events the British call a mutiny and the Indians call a war for independence. Throughout the violent events, Mangal maintains a friendship with Capt. William Gordon (Toby Stephens), who sympathizes with India's subjugated citizens and obeys his conscience.
Plot Keywords: indian, captain, british government official, british soldier, freedom fighter, officer, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: April 1917, the Western Front. Two British soldiers are sent to deliver an urgent message to an isolated regiment. If the message is not received in time the regiment will walk into a trap and be massacred. To get to the regiment they will need to cross through enemy territory. Time is of the essence and the journey will be fraught with danger.—grantss
Plot Keywords: british soldier, young man, corporal, brother, confident, emotional, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Through ground breaking computer restoration technology, filmmaker Peter Jackson's team creates a moving real-to-life depiction of the WWI, as never seen before in restored, vivid colorizing & retiming of the film frames, in order to honor those who fought and more accurately depict this historical moment in world history.—Curtis Medina
Plot Keywords: soldier, army recruit, british officer, british soldier, british soldiers, german soldier, german troops ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son between World War I and World War II.
Plot Keywords: pretty woman, father, british soldier, son, colonel, girlfriend, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy (Sarah Miles) goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan's pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice? Is the pivotal role that of the village idiot who is mute?—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: teacher, wife, british soldier, bar owner, villager, melodramatic, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. The cottage, which now belongs to Sarah, has been in their family most of their lives, was the family's summer getaway from Philadelphia when they were younger. There are a few people who have been friends or acquaintances on the island, including the outspoken Tisha Dought, and Joshua Brackett. Someone new at least to Sarah's social circle is Mr. Maranov, a former Russian aristocrat. His stay on the island is threatened when his landlady, Hilda Partridge, passes away. Sarah and Libby have come to the realization they are in the respective twilight of their lives, Sarah, who still keeps busy and wants to savor life's pleasures, acts as now sightless, cantankerous and bitter Libby's caregiver. Sarah knows she can no longer take care of Libby. As such, Sarah has to make alternate living arrangements instead of the Philadelphia house.Those arrangements will not involve Libby's estranged daughter Anna, who has the means to take care of her mother, although not the want. It is their interactions with Tisha and Mr. Maranov which may decide their sisterly fate for the immediate future.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: sister, widow, elderly person, neighbor, fisherman, blind person, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.
Plot Keywords: revolutionary, irishman, fiancé, british soldier, detective, rousing, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
Plot Keywords: british soldier, recruit, alien, daughter, wife, british officer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) is a by-the-book, strict disciplinarian, who seems like an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British commonwealth. Ridiculed behind his back by his subordinate N.C.O.s, he must play host to a liberal women M.P. making a tour of the base. However, when an ambitious African officer, who happens to be a protegè of the M.P., initiates a coup d'etat against Captain Abraham (Earl Cameron), the lawful African commandant, the resourceful Sergeant Major uses all of his military training to save his men from a certain firing squad.—Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
Plot Keywords: rebel, soldier, sergeant, british soldier, african, tense, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Plot Keywords: soldier, nazi, italian, prisoner, british soldier, gripping, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Norman and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Norman takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: road worker, colonel, sergeant, private, british soldier, resistance leader, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. One British officer has the idea of starting a daily gynmastics routine using a vaulting horse: they can place it near the boundary and start a tunnel from under it. He and two others do escape the camp by this means and plan to make for neutral Sweden. To do that, they'll not only have to move around without arousing any suspicions, but also find a stranger from a neutral or occupied country who'll be willing and able to help them.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: prisoner of war, captain, british soldier, british officer, nazi commandant, lieutenant, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Sergeant Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well. First, the journey proves to be more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: emperor, peasant, widow, british soldier, merchant, amusing, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: nurse, soldier, spy, german soldier, british soldier, british officer, confident ...
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