Films like Hannibal Brooks
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on...
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Von Ryan's Express
Film · 1965 · also warVon Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldi...
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Decision Before Dawn
Film · 1951 · also warWWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the...
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Catch-22
Film · 1970 · also comedy and warA WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
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You Can't Win 'Em All
Film · 1970 · also comedy and warDuring the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret...
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Tropic Thunder
Film · 2008 · also comedy and warA group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director ref...
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Sahara
Film · 1995 · also warAfter the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lin...
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We Go In at Dawn
Film · 2020 · also warWhen a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Tro...
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Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk
Film · 2020 · also warOccupied France, 1940. A Nazi Commander discovers one of his prisoners, Danny is a champion boxer. He forces him to fight for his company's entertainment. But the POWs re...
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The Onion Movie
Film · 2008 · also comedyVenerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts...
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Britannia Hospital
Film · 1982 · also comedyBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis...
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