They Shall Not Grow Old (2018), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Glory (1989), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Last Samurai (2003), Gettysburg (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bayonet Fight movies.
Storyline: In 1836, General Santa Anna and the Mexican Army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders Colonel William Travis to defend a small mission on the Mexicans' route at all costs. Travis' small troop is swelled by groups accompanying Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, but as the situation becomes ever more desperate Travis makes it clear there will be no shame if they leave while they can.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, sword fight, shootout, gunfight, infantry, fistfight, sword ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: military, desert, kidnapping, u.s. president, politics, german soldier, morocco ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Japan has just invaded the Phillipines and the US Army attempts a desperate defence. Thirteen men are chosen to blow up a bridge on the Bataan peninsula and keep the Japanese from rebuilding it.—<khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
Plot Keywords: propaganda, war injury, japanese army, u.s. army, sabotage, u.s. soldier, american soldier ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After an Egyptian Army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880s, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war, but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston), something of a folk hero in the Sudan, as he had cleared the area of the slave trade, to arrange for the evacuation. Gordon agrees, but also decides to defend the city against the forces of Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier), "The Expected One", and tries to force the British to commit troops.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: 1880s, place name in title, blackface, exploding ship, ship, explosion, machine gun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: engineer, military training, u.s. military, u.s. soldier, naval uniform, oil tanker, nurse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea...including him. Captain Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
Plot Keywords: swashbuckler, claim in title, dead man, revenge, violence, ship, fifth part ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancée give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor.
Plot Keywords: male nudity, locker room, blindness, sex, whipping, nudity, disgrace ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The rise and fall of legendary war hero Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as he leads the Confederacy to great success against the Union from 1861 to 1863.
Plot Keywords: behind enemy lines, military training, hand to hand combat, west virginia, american civil war, brother brother relationship, surprise attack ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War II when the Americans needed to find a secure method of communicating they devised a code using the Navajo language. So Navajos were recruited to become what they call code talkers. They would be assigned to a unit and would communicate with other units using the code so that even though the enemy could listen they couldn't understand what they were saying. And to insure that the code is protected men are assigned to protect it at all costs. One of these men is Joe Enders, a man who sustained an injury that can make him unfit for duty but he manages to avoid it and is told of his duty and that the man he is suppose to protect is Ben Yahzee. Initially there is tension but the two men learn to get along.
Plot Keywords: japanese army, japanese soldier, navajo indian, u.s. soldier, year 1944, steel helmet, prisoner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the Independence of Texas.
Plot Keywords: texas, remake, 1830s, siege, standoff, mexican, stabbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: American aviator Tom Wayne (John Wayne)and his co-pilot, Stubbs (Noah Beery Jr.)are flying over an African desert when they see trouble below...Arab bandits are attacking three troopers of the French Foreign Legion. Using the machine gun mounted on his airplane, Wayne quickly stops the Arab attack. The rescued Legionaires---Clancy (Jack Mulhall), Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Dutch Schmidt (Francis X. Bushman Jr.)introduce themselves as "The Three Musketeers." They inform Wayne that the attackers were followers of "The Devil's Circle," a fanatic cult out to destroy the Foreign Legion by gun-running and insurrection. The cult's leader is El Shaitan, a masked man whose real identity is known to none. Wayne is drawn into the fight through the encouragement of his new friends, and a call for help from an old friend, Armand Corday (Lon Chaney Jr.), who has been duped into The Devil's Circle, but is trying to break away. But Armand, is killed by an assassin before he can tell what he knows about the cult. Stubbs is also killed. Helped by the Musketeers and Armand's sister, Elaine (Ruth Hall)), Wayne sets out to smash the cult.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: ruse, brawl, escape, horse chase, foot chase, chase, main character shot ...
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