The Fog of War (2003), The Cold Blue (2018), Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004), Up Front (1951), The Big Red One (1980), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Journey Together (1945), Report From the Aleutians (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best War Memoir movies.
Storyline: Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, vietnam war, cold war, history, politics, moral dilemma ...
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: 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: Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day pass in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves the pair with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, world war ii, usa, black and white, military, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a hardened army sergeant and four of his men, from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war. As the five of them fight - and survive to fight yet again in the next battle - new recruits joining the squad are swatted down by the enemy on a regular basis. The four privates are naturally reluctant to get to know any of the new recruits joining the squad, who become just a series of nameless faces.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, veteran, combat, survival, historical reenactment, war trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, historical, american, combat, military, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Wilton (Sir Richard Attenborough), John Aynesworth (Jack Watling), and Smith (David Tomlinson) are amongst a group of cadets hoping to become pilots in the Royal Air Force. David, however, has poor height perception and cannot master his landings. Therefore, he is sent to navigator's school, but finds it hard to concentrate on his new job due to despondency over losing his chance to be "something important", a pilot. His friends and teachers join in an effort to show David the vast importance of the navigator, something he learns for himself over the target city of Berlin.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: war film, world war ii, british film, historical, military training, documentary style, black and white ...
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: A colonel and his squad venture into hostile territory to rescue Marines and stop a Russian terrorist.
Plot Keywords: war, military, action, combat, iraq war, documentary, soldiers ...
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