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1) Farscape
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Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.
2) Catch 22
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The cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. An anti-war satire of epic proportions.
4) Dunkirk
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Gorgeously restored and available for the first time in HD, DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo during WWII, while honoring the bravery of its soldiers and exposing the brutality of the war.
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Based on the true story about the three dramatic days in April 1940 when the King of Norway was presented with an unimaginable ultimatum from the German armed forces: Surrender or die. After three days of desperately trying to evade the Germans, King Haakon makes his final decision. He refuses to capitulate, even if it may cost him, his family and many Norwegians their lives.
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Based on a true story and actual events in the life of Ukrainian sniper Mykola Voronin. In 2014, after invading soldiers kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground, a Ukrainian physics teacher renounces his peaceful way of life, enlists in the military, and becomes a skilled sniper. Vowing revenge for both his wife and his fallen instructor and friend, he must find the elite Russian soldiers responsible and eliminate them one by one.
7) Mr. Pip
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Based on the best-selling novel, MR. PIP is a film by Andrew Adamson and stars Hugh Laurie as Mr. Watts, the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s.
8) Camp X-Ray
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Kristen Stewart gives a stunning performance as a Guantanamo prison guard who forms an unlikely relationship with an inmate in this riveting psychological drama.
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In one of the most powerful films ever made about World War II, director Samuel Fuller tells the semi-autobiographical story of a squad of sharpshooters trying not to die in THE BIG RED ONE. World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Academy Award winner Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from...
10) Good Kill
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Ethan Hawke stars in this riveting look at the world of drone warfare, where combat unfolds like a first-person shooter game -- only with real lives at stake. With January Jones.
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Unknown to humans, an invisible battle is waged between supernatural beings known as youmu, and mystical fighters known as Spirit World Warriors. Half-youmu, half-human Akihito Kanbara belongs to both worlds and yet neither, and goes through the motions of a normal daily life by attending high school. But when Akihito encounters a mysterious girl from a cursed clan, the bespectacled beauty will change his life forever.
12) Foxhole
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Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars –The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq–FOXHOLE follows a small group of soldiers trapped in a confined space as they grapple with an increasingly volatile combat situation.
14) Father
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A man well-settled into the autumn of his life, Joe Mueller is lovingly supported by his daughter Anne and her husband Bobby, a close-knit family ill-prepared for the dark secrets that are about to be uncovered. Tracked down by Holocaust survivor Iya Zetnick (AFI Award winner Julia Blake, Travelling North) Joe is soon exposed as a concentration camp functionary responsible for murdering her family back in Lithuania. Branded a war criminal and subject...
15) Platoon
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Inspired by Oliver Stone's own experiences, this anti-war epic tells the tale of PFC Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), an Army recruit sent to Vietnam, who witnesses the atrocities of war – many of which are carried out by his comrades. Heralded by critics as the best film of 1986, PLATOON won four of the eight Academy Awards® for which it was nominated, including Best Picture and Director for Oliver Stone, and earned Supporting Actor nominations...
16) '71
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In 1971, a young and disorientated British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast. **BAFTA Award** nominee.
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What happens when the rules that command a soldier become the rules that condemn him' Samuel L. Jackson delivers an electrifying performance as a patriot and war hero who finds himself facing a court martial after a peacekeeping mission goes terribly wrong. Tommy Lee Jones is a comrade-in-arms military lawyer of questionable abilities. Together, they must face the battle of their lives.
18) The Drummer
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Set in 2008, THE DRUMMER revolves around active and former members of the U. S. military. With the US engaged in a seemingly perpetual war, the devastating traumas that soldiers suffer abroad continue to be felt at home.
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This fact-based, Emmy-nominated film recounts the August 6,1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima through the eyes of a number of disparate survivors, including Japanese soldiers, citizens, and American prisoners of war. German priest Father Siemes, Japanese physician Dr. Hara, and American soldier Pete Dunham are all prominently featured as they struggle to survive amid the mayhem and ruin.
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Tells the remarkable true story of Australia's involvement in one of the greatest raids in wartime history. Comprised of volunteers of all branches of the Allied Forces, Z Special Forces was a secret operations unit of the Australian Army during World War II and came under the direct command of General Douglas MacArthur. In an amazing display of courage and determination, Z Special carried out 284 undercover missions in the south-west Pacific...
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