Fail-Safe (1964), By Dawn's Early Light (1990), Taps (1981), The Final Countdown (1980), Spies Like Us (1985), Down Periscope (1996), Soar Into the Sun (2012), Bombers B-52 (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Military Exercise movies.
Storyline: A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American 'Vindicator' bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.
Plot Keywords: cold war, nuclear war, military, political thriller, crisis, soviet union, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president (Martin Landau) feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
Plot Keywords: war, nuclear war, cold war, military, strategy, crisis, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: In 1980, the assistant of the Department of Defense Warren Lasky is assigned by his mysterious chief Richard Tideman to visit the aircraft carrier USS Nimtz commanded by Capt. Matthew Yelland as an observer of the routines. Lasky finds that Wing Commander Richard T. Owens has a great knowledge of history. Out of the blue, the vessel faces a weird storm and they find that they have traveled back in time to the eve of the attack of Pearl Harbor on 06 December 1941. When the two Japanese Zeros attack the motorboat of Senator Samuel Chapman, the crew of the Nimitz rescues the senator and his assistant Laurel Scott. But sooner Lasky learns that the senator had disappeared on that day and Capt. Matthew Yelland is planning to attack the Japanese. Will these actions create a time paradox?
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, military, time travel, world war ii, pearl harbor, alternate history, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two low-level government employees, Emmitt Fitz-Hume (played by Chevy Chase) and Austin Milbarge (Dan Aykroyd), are chosen for a top-secret CIA mission. They are unsuitable as CIA agents but are deliberately chosen for this reason, as their mission is a decoy one and they are expendable. After being fast-tracked through training they are parachuted into Pakistan where all manner of adventures await them.
Plot Keywords: comedy, spy, cold war, buddy, adventure, military, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days. With a crew that consists only of weird guys (and a gal), he's headed against the atomic powered USS Orlando, with the mission to destroy a dummy battleship.
Plot Keywords: comedy, military, submarine, adventure, action, american film, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tae-hun causes trouble for the his unit with his antics. He does not take much seriously until a dogfight leaves a pilot dead and another missing. Tae-hun and the other members of his unit launch a rescue mission to prevent a war from breaking out.
Plot Keywords: action, war, military, korean movie, patriotism, brotherhood, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: U.S Air Force Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. He first met him in Korea, where his emergency arrival for repairs while enroute for what Chuck thought was the colonels "hot date" in Tokyo, caused the death of several of his crewmen. Now several years later when Chuck, while still in the Air Force, is now weighing continued enlistment or retirement, the base's new C.O. is none other than Col. Herlihy. Compounding his dislike is a budding romance with Chuck's daughter, Lois.—Bill Walch
Plot Keywords: war, military, cold war, usa, 1950s, drama, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. An assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion, in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness, along with a Captain in Germany's Kreigsmarine (Navy).
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, world war ii, usa, action, history, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the governor of Tokyo is killed in his campaign for election, the former CIA agent Travis Hunter is assigned to find the responsible working together with the rookie FBI agent Sean. Travis was raised in Japan, has great connections with the underworld of the streets and is a master in sword and martial arts, trained by a former member of Yakuza. Travis discloses that there is a war between the old and traditional members of Yakuza and the new generation leaded by the deranged and sick Kuroda, who has associated to the Chinese Tong mobster Chen in a powerful drug dealing business. When his fiancée Nayako is brutally and cowardly murdered by one of Kuroda's men, the mission of Travis becomes a personal issue and he seeks revenge.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, usa, pilot, terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A renegade general (Robert Miano) plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man (Dolph Lundgren) is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered several men and stolen the plane. Then try to murder his wife and take his daughter prisoner. Threatening to kill his daughter if he doesn't help, he appears trapped. However, his best friend (Mystro Clark) who is the plane's computer specialist has a few tricks up his sleeve.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, military, spy, adventure, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission. As they begin their assault, Chappy finds that a nuclear strike has been ordered should they fail, which will catch his forces on the ground next to ground zero.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, military, cold war, sequel, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When three small town National Guardsmen bound for Iraq are unknowingly dropped into Mexico, their confusion leads them to "liberate" a small village from a band of corrupt Federales
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, military, adventure, war, humor, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Air Force pilot Owen Turner (Ice-T) fakes his death during a mission and goes to work for arms dealer Roberto Menendez (Andrew Divoff). After Owen successfully steals a fighter jet and a powerful satellite, Roberto threatens to destroy Washington, D.C., if he does not receive $10 billion. Owen's former partner, Ryan Mitchell (Costas Mandylor), despite promising his ex-wife, Erin (Erika Eleniak-Goglia), to quit his dangerous work for a safer position, is called in to fight the evil duo.
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, war, military, adventure, technology, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Air Force bomber pilot (George Clooney) receives erroneous orders to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Plot Keywords: war, cold war, military, political, thriller, drama, historical ...
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