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3.4

♡ 5

Sidney J. Furie Director

Anne Marie DeLuise as Communication Officer

Al Waxman as General Brad Kettle Ron Lea

Ron Lea as Snyder

Sean McCann as Wilcox

While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.

Hearts and Minds

1974

8.2

♡ 20

90%

Peter Davis Director

Helen Hayes as Herself

John F. Kennedy as Himself

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

The Secret Invasion

1964

5.8

♡ 19

67%

Roger Corman Director

William Campbell as Jean Saval

Henry Silva as John Durrell - Assassin

Raf Vallone as Roberto Rocca - Organizer

Mickey Rooney as Terence Scanlon - Demolition

During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.

Slaughterhouse-Five

1972

6.8

♡ 17

82%

68%

husband wife relationship

Comedy

Drama

George Roy Hill Director

Richard Stahl as Army Doctor

Warren Frost as Driver

Eugene Roche as Edgar Derby

Perry King as Robert Pilgrim

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Some Kind of Hero

1982

5.8

♡ 8

50%

Michael Pressman Director

John Fujioka as Captain Tan Tai

Mary Jackson as Frances

Peter Jason as Honcho #1

Bill Morey as Major Ryan

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

The Camp on Blood Island

1958

6.5

♡ 9

71%

Val Guest Director

Wolfe Morris as Interpreter

Lee Montague as Jap Officer

Edwin Richfield as Sergeant

Aileen Lewis as Woman's Camp Prisoner

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.

We Go in at Dawn

2020

3.6

♡ 14

17%

Ben Mole Director

Tim Berrington as Bernard

Samantha Coughlan as Betty

Ryan Winsley as Brandt

Christos Lawton as Victor Laurence

When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.

Paradise Road

1997

6.8

♡ 9

48%

Bruce Beresford Director

Nicholas Hammond as Marty Merritt

Penne Hackforth-Jones as Mrs. Pike

Jennifer Ehle as Rosemary Leighton-Jones

Cate Blanchett as Susan Macarthy

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

Mrs. Miniver

1942

7.6

♡ 12

93%

84%

William Wyler Director

Ian Wolfe as Dentist

Tom Conway as Man

Sidney D'Albrook as Man in Store

Forrester Harvey as Mr. Huggins

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

The Hanoi Hilton

1987

6.1

♡ 3

47%

Lionel Chetwynd Director

Jeffrey Jones as Fischer

Aki Aleong as Major Ngo Doc

David Soul as Oldham

Michael Moriarty as Williamson

Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention camp. He assumes command after Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) is dragged off to be tortured.

Escape to Athena

1979

5.7

♡ 14

32%

George P. Cosmatos Director

Elliott Gould as Charlie Dane

Philip Locke as Vogel

Telly Savalas as Zeno

Paul Picerni as Zeno's Man

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

Operation Mad Ball

1957

6.5

♡ 5

42%

based on play or musical

Richard Quine Director

Arthur O'Connell as Col. Rousch

Roy Jenson as Hospital Guard

Richard Bull as Military Police Sergeant

Mary Tyler Moore as Nurse

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.

Breakout

1959

6.8

♡ 7

50%

Don Chaffey Director

Dennis Price as Capt. Rupert Callender

Cyril Shaps as Lt. Cyriakos Coutoules

David Graham as Lt. Moxhay

Michael Caine as Prisoner with Pin-Up

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Faith of My Fathers

2005

6.2

♡ 2

66%

Peter Markle Director

Troy Ruptash as Bud Day

Scott Glenn as Jack McCain

Shawn Hatosy as John McCain

Shea Whigham as Norris Overly

Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich with military service.

A Town Like Alice

1956

7.2

♡ 6

77%

australia

Jack Lee Director

Sam Kydd as Australian Driver

Peter Finch as Joe Harman

Jean Anderson as Miss Horsefall

Geoffrey Keen as Solicitor

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

Love Camp 7

1969

3.9

♡ 5

Lee Frost Director

Louis Mazzarella as

Ken Sims as

Shari Mann as Prisoner with Col. Kemp

Bruce Kimball as Sgt. Klaus Müller

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

On Wings of Eagles

2016

5.6

♡ 5

60%

62%

japanese occupation of china

based on a true story

Stephen Shin Director

Joseph Fiennes as Eric Liddell

Elizabeth Arends as Florence Liddell

Bruce Locke as Old Xu Niu

Shawn Dou as Xu Niu

Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

1983

Japanese

7.2

♡ 17

christmas movie alternative

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Daisuke Iijima as Corporal Ueki

Takeshi Kitano as Hara

Masanori Okada as Japanese Soldier

Hiroshi Mikami as Japanese Soldier

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

The Great Raid

2005

6.6

♡ 53

39%

70%

based on a true story