This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

Blind Chance

1987

Polish

7.7

♡ 15

73%

Krzysztof Kieslowski Director

Marzena Trybala as 2. Werka

Jerzy Stuhr as dzialacz ZSMP

Aleksander Mikolajczak as dzialacz ZSMP

Boguslaw Linda as Witek Dlugosz

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

The Colonel's Stray Dogs

2021

English

6.6

♡ 3

military dictatorship

political activism

Khalid Shamis Director

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to inherit the mess he left. The film is an intricate blend of rare first-hand accounts, propaganda archival material turned on its head, evocative cinematography and an untold history of a country.

Bitter Victory

1957

English

6.7

♡ 3

78%

Nicholas Ray Director

Richard Burton as Captain Leith

Curd Jürgens as Major Brand

Harry Landis as Private Browning

Nigel Green as Private Wilkins

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

The Hill

1965

English

7.8

♡ 16

75%

Sidney Lumet Director

Ian Bannen as Harris

Ossie Davis as Jacko King

Sean Connery as Joe Roberts

Roy Kinnear as Monty Bartlett

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

The Black Tent

1956

English

5.5

♡ 4

40%

Brian Desmond Hurst Director

Donald Pleasence as Ali

Anthony Steel as Capt. David Holland

Nanette Newman as Mabrouka

Michael Craig as Sheik Faris

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.

You Are Not a Soldier

2021

Portuguese

8.0

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

father daughter relationship

Maria Carolina Telles Director

Andre Liohn as

As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

2016

English

7.3

♡ 332

51%

83%

Action

assault rifle

based on a true story

based on novel or book

central intelligence agency (cia)

Michael Bay Director

Demetrius Grosse as DS Dave Ubben

David Giuntoli as DS Scott Wickland

John Krasinski as Jack Silva

Pablo Schreiber as Kris 'Tanto' Paronto

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Sahara

1943

English

7.5

♡ 16

92%

Zoltan Korda Director

Dan Duryea as Jimmy Doyle

John Wengraf as Maj. Von Falken

Humphrey Bogart as Sgt. Joe Gunn

Hans Schumm as Sgt. Krause

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

Point and Shoot

2014

English

6.8

72%

Marshall Curry Director

Joseph Oliveira as Lt Rashidd

Matthew Vandyke as Self

Matt Sager as TV News Anchor

At first glance, Matthew VanDyke—a shy Baltimore native with a sheltered upbringing and a tormenting OCD diagnosis—is the last person you’d imagine on the front lines of the 2011 Libyan revolution. But after finishing grad school and escaping the U.S. for "a crash course in manhood," a winding path leads him just there. Motorcycling across North Africa and the Middle East and spending time as an embedded journalist in Iraq, Matthew lands in Libya, forming an unexpected kinship with a group of young men who transform his life. Matthew joins his friends in the rebel army against Gaddafi, taking up arms (and a camera). Along the way, he is captured and held in solitary confinement for six terrifying months.

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You Are Not a Soldier

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Sahara

Point and Shoot