Billy Budd (1962), Breaker Morant (1980), From Here to Eternity (1953), King and Country (1964), The Bamboo Prison (1955), Time Limit (1957), The Bridge (1999), Orders to Kill (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Court Martial movies.
Storyline: Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam. He returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the Service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. Hodges is in no position to decline: Childers saved his life in Vietnam.
Plot Keywords: war, legal, moral dilemma, comrades, loyalty, duty, justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwaffe veteran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, racial discrimination, murder mystery, bruce willis, drama, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Private Peaceful details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie - two young brothers - and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close friends. But one thing they cannot escape is summary military justice.—Guy de Beaujeu
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war i, brotherhood, coming of age, romance, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes in Ryker's innocence and pleads for a new trial.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: war, military, courtroom, drama, suspense, crime, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An officer leads a band of Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese in anticipation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return.
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, military, drama, history, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.
Plot Keywords: war, prison, abuse, military, based on true events, war crimes, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American army officer, troubled by reports of brutality, volunteers to investigate conditions inside North Korean POW camps. He parachutes behind enemy lines and infiltrates a group of G.I.s being marched to one of these camps. There, he witnesses scenes of G.I.s being brainwashed, beaten, subjected to mock executions, deprived of food and water, and more, under the supervision of a Russian colonel.—dinky-4
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, military, drama, historical, american film, black and white ...
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