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   Birdy

   Film · 1984 · also drama and war

   Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a me...

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   Bat★21

   Film · 1988 · also drama and war

   Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambl...

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   Behold a Pale Horse

   Film · 1964 · also drama and war

   Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his...

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   Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

   Film · 2019 · also drama and war

   Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very y...

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   The Yellow Birds

   Film · 2018 · also drama and war

   Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured b...

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   King Rat

   Film · 1965 · also drama and war

   When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American...

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   Field of Lost Shoes

   Film · 2015 · also drama and war

   A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenan...

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   The Last Full Measure

   Film · 2020 · also drama and war

   The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, P...

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   Men in War

   Film · 1957 · also drama and war

   In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose...

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    Casualties of War

    Film · 1989 · also drama and war

    During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

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