Dauntless: The Battle of Midway

2019

English

3.5

♡ 42

23%

Mike Phillips Director

Judd Nelson as Admirial Raymond Spruance

C. Thomas Howell as Commander Miles Browning

Will Ropp as Mansfield

Louie Chapman as Smokey

By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with springing a trap on the enemy. During this pivotal battle, the two-man crew of a U.S. Navy dive bomber is forced to ditch in the sea. Set adrift, the men look towards their comrades for rescue; namely, the ragtag crew of a PBY Catalina, who are sent to search for survivors. Amid the vast openness of the Pacific, with days passing and the chance of rescue fading, the men are forced to face their own mortality.

Memorial Day

2012

English

6.1

♡ 5

64%

Samuel Fischer Director

Steven Luke as Brandt

James Cromwell as Bud Vogel

Jonathan Bennett as SSgt. Kyle Vogel

Jackson Bond as Young Kyle Vogel

Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey into Bud's complicated wartime past, but also into Kyle's wartime future. As the two men share parallel experiences in combat, they come to realize how that magical day on the porch shaped both of their lives.

City of Life and Death

2009

Chinese

7.7

♡ 17

92%

second sino-japanese war (1937-45)

Chuan Lu Director Ye Liu

Ye Liu as Lu Jianxiong

Hideo Nakaizumi as Sgt. Masao Kadokawa

Wang Kai as Tang family nanny

Yûko Miyamoto as Yuriko

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.