Taps (1981), The Lords of Discipline (1983), Toy Soldiers (1991), Ten Gentlemen From West Point (1942), Damien: Omen II (1978), Top Gun (1955), Renaissance Man (1994), Brother Rat (1938) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Military Academy movies.
Storyline: An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander. Under the command of a student cadet major, the cadets seize the campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront the real military.
Plot Keywords: teen rebellion, gun violence, leadership, loyalty, honor, tragedy, idealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Will arrives for his last year at The Carolina Military Institute, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960s. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.—Matthew Stanfield <mattst@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: brotherhood, racial discrimination, loyalty, betrayal, coming of age, power struggle, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious boys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis School to put the son of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis School would be an even better bargaining chip.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, crime, military, teen, school ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: If anyone is looking for a real history of the Military Academy at West Point Ten Gentlemen From West Point will not be what you are looking for. It should be remembered that we were just going to war in 1942 and this film and a film for the would be enlisted men and junior officers about the creation of the army brass who were leading them was a film that Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Fox was ready to give the movie going public.What is true is that the Academy in its early years was a pretty slap dash affair which did face challenges to its existence. The superintendent who really got the place going on a full time basis was a man named Sylvanus Thayer who arrived in 1817 after the War Of 1812.But this story which is before the War Of 1812 has a man from the regular army come with a company of regular army men to be in charge of the Military Academy. Laird Cregar does not believe in the mission of the Academy, you only learn by being in the army and he says plainly to those new recruits is force them to quit and to close the Academy at West Point down. Of course the cadets show they have the right stuff and as we know West Point still exists. As for the particulars of the plot Washington society belle Maureen O'Hara whose father supported the idea of the Academy has two recruits sniffing around her in some deep heat. One is southern aristocrat John Sutton and the other is frontiersman from Kentucky George Montgomery. No doubt Montgomery was in a part that may have been offered to Tyrone Power first. Personally I think Maureen's favorite leading man John Wayne would have been ideal.She would have settled for either Ty or the Duke whom she spoke favorably of in her memoirs. Her rather distasteful memory of the film comes from Montgomery trying to take liberties with her while the film was shooting. Maureen said she loathed Montgomery and walked off the set, but came back and finished the film.It's not history but Ten Gentlemen From West Point holds up well as action/adventure entertainment.
Plot Keywords: war, history, usa, world war ii, drama, black and white, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Seven years later, Damien Thorn is about to turn 13 and is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is in line to inherit everything from his family. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien's father (Ambassador Robert Thorn) started?
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, cult, demonic, supernatural, religious, prophecy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gunfighter Rick Martin returns to his hometown of Casper, Wyoming to learn of the fate of his mother and to warn the town of an impending raid by the Tom Quentin gang. The townspeople however reject him, afraid that his gunslinging past will cause new trouble. Rick learns that his mother did not die of illness but was murdered, and he comes to suspect the town's leading citizen -- a man now engaged to marry the woman Rick loves.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, aviation, heroism, honor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A down-on-his-luck businessman desperately takes the only job offered - a teacher in the U.S. Army. His mission: keep a ragtag bunch of underachieving misfits from flunking out of basic training! Be on alert as this unlikely new teacher and his underdog class unexpectedly inspire each other to be all they can be!
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, inspirational, education, military, teacher, students ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Plot Keywords: comedy, campus, brotherhood, friendship, pranks, youth, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a shocking worldwide public service announcement, the United Nations reveals that in three days a meteor careening toward Earth will collide with the planet's surface and end life as we know it. In light of widespread looting and epic gridlock on the region's choked roads, Ale (Víctor Clavijo) resolves to spend 72 continuous hours of carefree debauchery. But, when a prison break endangers his brother's young children, Ale braves the chaos to defend those who matter most.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, nazi, germany, teenagers, coming of age, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'd make it to Annapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman he's selected, despite dubious grades. Once inside Jake soon proves sub-standard academically. Constantly challenged to his limits, repeatedly made the 'over-cocky' reason for the entire class to suffer, Jake nearly quits, but after facing his utterly unsupportive father's gloating returns just in time. Stubborn Jake finds support with mates as well as Ali, his lover-to-be, and a discipline he may excel in: the 'brigade' boxing tournament, open to all ranks.
Plot Keywords: military, navy, boxing, inspirational, coming of age, competition, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A father and son aviation drama, in which a gruff sergeant wants to make a man and a flyer out of his young son.
Plot Keywords: war, military, training, pilot, usa, 1930s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Coach Frank Cavanaugh returns to college football after World War I, then gradually goes blind.
Plot Keywords: war, biography, sports, football, military, inspirational, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), up for the baseball coaching job at Virginia Military Institute, is summoned to New York City by fellow-VMI grad Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), who is going to "fix" everything for Bing, as his father, Sterling Randolph (Thurston Hall) is one of the alumni who will make the final decision. Everything is "fixed" so good that meddling Billy gets thrown out of his father's home. Big loses the job and their friend, Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan) loses his job, with Billy responsible for all of the trouble. They all move into the apartment of the uncle Mr. Harper (Berton Churchill) of southern belle Kate (Jane Bryan) Kate, bringing more havoc to the already sticky-situation. Billy eventually pulls a publicity stunt involving the baby "Commencent" (Peter Good) that gets them all jobs with Mr. Harper's airline.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, romance, brotherhood, misunderstanding, marriage, humor ...
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