Ashes and Diamonds (1958), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), The Specialist (1999), The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1985), Hearts and Bones (2019), Sealed Verdict (1948), The Pedestrian (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best War Crime movies.
Storyline: A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
Plot Keywords: assassin, soldier, commanding officer, barmaid, son, hotel desk clerk, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary, directed by a survivor of the genocide, chronicles the systematized murder perpetuated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, specifically the torture and killing of the educated classes in the notorious S-21 prison, which is now a museum. But this film is not about statistics and generalized history. Instead, it focuses on two survivors who return to the prison, coming face-to-face with some of the guards who insist that they were only following bureaucratic orders.
Plot Keywords: survivor, war criminal, prisoner, teenager, guard, disturbing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Adolf Eichmann is brought to a tribunal and charged with crimes against humanity, he describes himself as a bureaucrat doing his job. Eichmann, an officer in Hitler's Schutzstaffel, is responsible for planning the transportation and murder of millions of people during the Holocaust. Eyal Sivan's documentary is a meditation on his unthinkable crimes. Using hours of footage from Eichmann's trial, including testimonies from survivors, Sivan paints a frightening picture of a war criminal.
Plot Keywords: nazi, prosecutor, witness, judge, israeli, officer, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: journalist, government official, diplomat, lawyer, secretary of state, fascinating, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A loving bond develops between a Polish war widow and a former American prisoner of war in post-World War II Poland.
Plot Keywords: war widow, baker, daughter, soldier, american, mother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Ben Lawrence's beautifully acted debut feature, a war photographer Hugo Weaving and a refugee Andrew Luri discover a photograph that threatens to destroy them both. Daniel Fisher Weaving returns home, and despite his partner's protests, prepares for his next dangerous overseas assignment. At the same time, he is preparing for an upcoming retrospective exhibition of his work from the world's war zones. South Sudanese refugee, Sebastian Aman Luri has built a life in Australia, living happily with his wife and young child. When he learns that Daniel's exhibition may display photographs of a massacre in Sebastian's village 15 years earlier, he finds Daniel and appeals to him to exclude those photographs. An unlikely friendship develops between the two men, but it is severely tested when Daniel makes a shocking discovery. Hearts and Bones centres around the relationship of these two men, from very different backgrounds, who bond over their shared trauma. Andrew Luri, who has never acted before and was driving a garbage truck when he auditioned for the role, and Hugo Weaving both brilliantly convey the intricate relationship between the men. With these two powerful performances at its centre, Ben Lawrence has made an intelligent, morally complex and deeply moving film.
Plot Keywords: war correspondent, photographer, refugee, bleak, brooding, dark, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former U.S. special prosecutor, Major Robert Lawson, begins to suspect that a Nazi war criminal on death row, General Otto Stiegman, has been wrongfully convicted of leveling a French village along with all of its inhabitants in WWII.
Plot Keywords: attorney, nazi, girlfriend, major, general, witness, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
Plot Keywords: industrialist, son, journalist, father, mistress, wife, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Director Chris Weitz's historical thriller is based on the story of how a group of Israeli secret agents arrested notorious SS officer Adolf Eichmann - the man who masterminded the "Final Solution" - in Argentina. Oscar Isaac plays the legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin, while Ben Kingsley plays his emotionally manipulative arch-nemesis. After tracking Eichmann down to Buenos Aires, Malkin and his men captured him and brought him to Israel for a historic 8-month trial.
Plot Keywords: secret agent, soldier, jew, war criminal, lieutenant, nazi, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of agents in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the C.I.A.) are sent to Italy during World War II to spy on the Germans. Most of them are killed because of an inside betrayal. After the war, one of the agents returns to find the traitor.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: captain, secret agent, young man, traitor, love interest, young woman, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Audie Murphy plays a young Jesse James falling under the Svengali-like spell of the outlaw William Quantrill, played by Brian Donlevy. Jesse and his youthful gang join the rebels to avenge the death of his parents only to become disillusioned with the senseless violence and looting of innocent civilians. Goaded by Quantrill's girl to leave, Jesse vacillates until the Yankees close in. Quantrill forces Jesse to leave and faces the Yankees gunfire alone. Jesse rides off with his gang and the rest is history.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: outlaw, murderer, confederate soldier, robber, orphan, tense, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.
Plot Keywords: war correspondent, woman, driver, criminal, ss officer, brooding, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Holland. Spring 1945. Two armies face each other in the final confrontation of World War II. On the one hand are the powerful forces of the Allies, on the other, all that remains of the Third Reich. The scene is set for the Battle of the Ardennes.—Leigh Thomas
Plot Keywords: soldier, war hero, nazi, prisoner of war, thief, bleak, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This landmark documentary chronicles a 1971 meeting during which more than 100 American veterans spoke publicly at a Detroit motel about the inhumanity and brutality of the Vietnam War. Attempting to add context to the recently uncovered My Lai Massacre of 1968, the soldiers, a group that includes future Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry, recall witnessing atrocities committed against Vietnamese soldiers, unarmed civilians, children and prisoners of war.
Plot Keywords: soldier, john kerry, veteran, army recruit, marine, military observer, dark ...
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