The Hurt Locker
9
Monday 31st August 2009
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Inglourious Basterds
9
Sunday 30th August 2009
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with…
Waltz with Bashir
9
Tuesday 31st March 2009
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term service in that conflict.
Paths of Glory
9
Monday 9th March 2009
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.
The Reader
9
Sunday 11th January 2009
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Burk re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
The Downfall
9
Sunday 26th October 2008
Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Rescue Dawn
9
Sunday 6th July 2008
A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Platoon
9
Tuesday 1st April 2008
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Full Metal Jacket
9
Monday 31st March 2008
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
Apocalypse Now Redux
9
Friday 21st March 2008
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
Brotherhood
9
Friday 23rd March 2007
A drama about the fate of brothers forced to fight in the Korean War.
Forrest Gump
8
Saturday 30th January 2010
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.
The Pianist
8
Friday 3rd April 2009
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Che: Part One
8
Sunday 1st February 2009
In 1956, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Defiance
8
Sunday 18th January 2009
Three Jewish brothers escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.
Three Kings
8
Wednesday 10th December 2008
In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, 4 soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.
Letters from Iwo Jima
8
Sunday 22nd June 2008
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
The Deer Hunter
8
Sunday 4th May 2008
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Atonement
8
Saturday 26th April 2008
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
Sophie Scholl
8
Sunday 20th January 2008
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Joyeux Noël
8
Saturday 19th January 2008
On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.
300
8
Tuesday 27th March 2007
Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
Grave of the Fireflies
8
Sunday 18th February 2007
A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister’s struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Hotel Rwanda
8
Saturday 9th December 2006
Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
Jarhead
8
Saturday 14th January 2006
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford’s best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
A Very Long Engagement
7
Tuesday 15th June 2010
Tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Joint Security Area
7
Friday 28th May 2010
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier…
Green Zone
7
Tuesday 16th March 2010
Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.
Stop-Loss
7
Tuesday 15th December 2009
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Tropic Thunder
7
Saturday 20th September 2008
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Saboteur
7
Sunday 24th February 2008
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
The 9th Company
7
Sunday 26th August 2007
Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.
Beyond Borders
7
Saturday 25th August 2007
An epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world’s most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is…
Flags of Our Fathers
7
Friday 9th March 2007
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.
Rules of Engagement
7
Sunday 5th February 2006
An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a third world country.
Dear John
6
Tuesday 4th May 2010
A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he’s home on leave.
Brothers
6
Sunday 24th January 2010
A young man comforts his older brother’s wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.
The Men Who Stare at Goats
6
Saturday 7th November 2009
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
Redacted
6
Monday 7th September 2009
A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.
Saints and Soldiers
6
Saturday 7th March 2009
Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Valkyrie
6
Saturday 24th January 2009
Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.
Slaughterhouse-Five
6
Friday 16th May 2008
A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens.
Turtles Can Fly
6
Sunday 23rd September 2007
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
28 Weeks Later
6
Monday 14th May 2007
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of the British Isles, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.
Centurion
5
Monday 26th April 2010
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack.
Seraphim Falls
5
Wednesday 2nd September 2009
At the end of the Civil War, a colonel hunts down a man with whom he has a grudge.
War, Inc.
4
Tuesday 22nd December 2009
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President…
