Films like Johnny Mad Dog
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.
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Beasts of No Nation
Film · 2015 · also drama and warBased on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he f...
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Glory
Film · 1989 · also drama and historyRobert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Field of Lost Shoes
Film · 2015 · also drama and historyA 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 Great War
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyIn November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
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The Yellow Birds
Film · 2018 · also drama and warTwo 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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The Woman King
Film · 2022 · also drama and historyThe story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world...
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Danny Boy
Film · 2021 · also drama and warSoldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from...
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Jacknife
Film · 1989 · also drama and warA conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the trag...
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Walking with the Enemy
Film · 2014 · also drama and historyRegent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or els...
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Beneath Hill 60
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyThe true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggl...
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