Regret to Inform (1999), Wings (1927), The Red and the White (1967), Schindler's List (1993), Shoah (1985), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Paths of Glory (1957), Apocalypse Now (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Horrors Of War movies.
Storyline: At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.
Plot Keywords: widow, soldier, filmmaker, vietnam vet, vietnamese woman, moving, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two brothers run a one-plane commuter service from a small Nantucket airport.
Plot Keywords: pilot, cadet, friend, love interest, volunteer, military officer, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this minimalist anti-war film, a faction of Hungarian soldiers on the side of the Russian Red army, led by a determined commander (Jozsef Madaras), fight against the pro-Czar white army in a remote Russian field near a dense wood along the Volga River. As the tide of battle ebbs and flows, a small group of compassionate nurses, including Olga (Krystyna Mikolajevska), do not differentiate between the sides, transporting all wounded soldiers to the nearby wood and treating their injuries.
Plot Keywords: commander, soldier, nurse, hungarian, russian, bleak, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, it is a testament to the good in all of us.
Plot Keywords: worker, nazi, businessperson, brooding, emotional, auschwitz, factory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by asking for the most minute details is effective at adding up these details to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people who still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.—Gene Volovich <volovich@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: victim, survivor, nazi, bystander, guard, brooding, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Plot Keywords: captain, soldier, brother, enemy, parachutist, mother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.
Plot Keywords: military officer, soldier, bleak, gutsy, passionate, france, battlefield ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will...
Plot Keywords: soldier, lunatic, bleak, brooding, intense, disturbing, vietnam ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.
Plot Keywords: marine, journalist, drill instructor, sergeant, photographer, prostitute, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Stephen Crane's novel of a young Union soldier panicked upon exposure to his first Civil War battle.
Plot Keywords: soldier, friend, military officer, enemy, general, intense, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.
Plot Keywords: young boy, orphan, brother, tribal leader, sister, bleak, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.
Plot Keywords: soldier, military officer, villager, sergeant, dark, gritty, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again.
Plot Keywords: soldier, friend, girlfriend, wife, enemy, blue-collar worker, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A U.S. pilot (Danny Glover) races an air-strike deadline to find an air-strike expert (Gene Hackman) downed in Vietnam.
Plot Keywords: pilot, enemy, viet cong, gritty, intense, vietnam, jungle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).
Plot Keywords: pilot, wife, military officer, dark, tense, aircraft carrier, military base ...
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