Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2002), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Spitfire (2018), The Cold Blue (2018), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004), A Thousand Times Goodnight (2013), Spitfire (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best War Documentary movies.
Storyline: Filmmakers André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer interview Traudl Junge, a secretary to Adolf Hitler in 1942.
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, history, nazi, biography, germany, holocaust ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, survival, aviation, biography, vietnam war, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, history, documentary, british, world war ii, military, heroism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1943, director William Wyler crafted 'Memphis Belle,' a tribute to the titular WWII bomber. Using footage from the National Archives shot by Wyler and his team, director Erik Nelson has created a new film, featuring narration from some of the last surviving B-17 pilots.—AFI Fest
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, aviation, history, war, usa, archival footage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. As United States and Japanese relations strain over the U.S. embargo of raw materials, Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda (Tatsuya Mihashi) plans the preemptive strike against the United States. Although American intelligence agencies intercept Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil.
Plot Keywords: war, history, pearl harbor, world war ii, japan, military, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary on Senator John Kerry's Navy tour of duty in Vietnam, his contributions to the peace movement that followed, and the ultimate shape of his future political career.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, war, vietnam war, history, biography, american politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A war-zone photojournalist's (Juliette Binoche) dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny).
Plot Keywords: family conflict, career vs family, female protagonist, psychological trauma, marital crisis, afghanistan war, family responsibility ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to design a completely new type of fighter plane and that sooner or later Britain's very survival may depend on what he comes to call the Spitfire.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, britain, history, documentary, military, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly one thousand four hundred cameramen. It opens as the assembled Allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain, and covers all of the major events of the war in Europe, from the Normandy landings, to the fall of Berlin.—Phil Landon
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, world war ii, military, history, victory, combat ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film's thin veneer of social propriety (the story of how the VietCong came under Hanoi's control) is merely a cover for a rolicking old-time battle tale, complete with a hard-tack sergeant, his rebellious sidekick, and a demoralized base that needs to be whipped into shape before the VietCong attack.—Binyamin Appelbaum
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, action, military, combat, drama, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A new man joins the civilian firefighters at a London unit during the Second World War. He meets his fellow firemen and firewomen, manages to enjoy some leisure time with them, and then goes on his first mission with the crew as it attempts to save an explosives warehouse on Trinidad Street near the London docks.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: war film, documentary, world war ii, british film, realism, black and white, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake's exploits as he risks everything-including his life-to tell his brothers' story. Often humorous, but sometimes downright lethal, it is a remarkable journey where Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq. Unprecedented access to US and Iraqi combat units take him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper "hide sites" in the Sunni Triangle, through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army. Ultimately, the film follows his brothers home where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents, siblings, wives, and children. It is a rare look at the bonds and service of our soldiers on the front lines and the profound effects their service has on the loved ones they leave behind.—Samuel Goldwyn Films
Plot Keywords: war, family, brothers, documentary, military, iraq war, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A official documentary movie about the misson of the US forces on an island of the Aleutians, from which US bombers are attacking the Japanese occupied island Kiska. The movie includes footage from a bombing raid over Kiska with B-17 and B-24 bombers.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: world war ii, military operation, historical archive, black and white film, war propaganda, 1940s, alaska ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, fewer than 100 US Troops were sent on a secret mission to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war-origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the impact of 15 years of constant combat.—edited by Peter Victor
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, military, special forces, counterterrorism, usa, combat ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: war, history, american civil war, drama, short film, black and white, silent film ...
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