Tag: soldier

  • The Last Samurai

    Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai’s way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior…

  • Dead Man’s Shoes

    A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

  • R-Point

    On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.

  • A Very Long Engagement

    Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he’s gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

  • H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds

    In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive “walkers” cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find…

  • Turtles Can Fly

    Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

  • The Jacket

    A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

  • Welcome to Dongmakgol

    Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.

  • Valley of the Wolves: Iraq

    The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.

  • Joy Division

    A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is ‘adopted’ by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.

  • Kokoda

    A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

  • Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

    Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site…

  • Redacted

    A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.

  • Closing the Ring

    During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who…

  • Badland

    Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He…

  • Zombie Wars

    Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as the rest of the surviving world’s population struggles to survive against the zombie…

  • Rescue Dawn

    A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

  • The Lucky Ones

    The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.

  • Lemon Tree

    Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank’s occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees’ removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad…

  • Mutant Chronicles

    It’s the year 2707. Earth’s natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine that was once defeated thousands of years ago. The order that awaited its return must now lead…

  • Miracle at St. Anna

    Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.