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During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to...
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H.M.S. Defiant
Film · 1962 · also adventure and historyDefiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's fi...
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Film · 1999 · also adventure and warLieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Film · 2003 · also adventure and dramaAfter an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to ca...
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The Last Rifleman
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyA WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing...
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The Cruel Sea
Film · 1953 · also drama and historyAt the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make l...
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The Battle of the River Plate
Film · 1956 · also drama and historyIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the grea...
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Zulu Dawn
Film · 1979 · also adventure and dramaIn 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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The Scarlet and the Black
Film · 1983 · also drama and historyFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become s...
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The Guns of Navarone
Film · 1961 · also adventure and dramaA team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent...
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The Longest Day
Film · 1962 · also drama and historyThe retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being establ...
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