In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."

Khartoum

1966

English

6.8

♡ 24

100%

Basil Dearden Director

Roger Delgado as

Nigel Green as Gen. Wolseley

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Lord Northbrook

Ralph Michael as Sir Charles Dilke

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

The Way Ahead

1944

English

6.9

♡ 7

100%

Carol Reed Director

Jack Watling as Buster - Marjorie's boyfriend

Trevor Howard as Officer on Ship

Stanley Holloway as Pvt. Ted Brewer

Tracy Reed as The Perry's Daughter

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

Biggles: Adventures in Time

1986

English

5.6

♡ 6

47%

John Hough Director

Peter Cushing as Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond

Michael Siberry as Algy

Alex Hyde-White as Jim Ferguson

David Cann as Sapper Officer

Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s......

Freetown

2015

English

4.7

♡ 5

50%

Garrett Batty Director

Nuong Faalong as Akatika

Bill Myers as Ansa

Great Ejiro as Forkpah

Godwin Namboh as Momulu

A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.

A Nightingale Falling

2014

English

5.2

♡ 10

27%

Action

Drama

History

ira (irish republican army)

War

Garret Daly Director

Michael Hough as Dermot

Blathnaid Ryan as Jeannie Devlin

Mark Tankersley as Rev. Johnston

Derek O'Sullivan as Soldier 1

Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a crucial time in their extraordinary and tragic lives.

The Last Rescue

2015

English

4.4

♡ 18

81%

Eric Colley Director

Elizabeth Rice as 2nd Lt. Nancy Bell

Gilles Marini as Bruno Travert

Tino Struckmann as Dittrich

Cody Kasch as Pvt. James Lewis

World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Farewell to the King

1989

English

6.2

♡ 14

55%

John Milius Director

Nigel Havers as Botanist

James Fox as Ferguson

Gerry Lopez as Gwai

Nick Nolte as Learoyd

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

The Purple Heart

1944

English

6.4

♡ 6

40%

Lewis Milestone Director

Anne Baxter as Anne

Richard Conte as Lt. Angelo Canelli

Martin Garralaga as Manuel Siva

Philip Ahn as Saburo Goto

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.

Field of Lost Shoes

2015

English

5.7

♡ 12

51%

Action

Drama

War

Sean McNamara Director

Erik Aude as Hawker

Lauren Holly as Mrs. Clinedinst

Keith David as Old Judge

Tom Skerritt as Ulysses S. Grant

A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

Jeruzalem

2015

English

4.8

♡ 42

54%

Doron Paz Director

Danny Zahavi as David's father

Yon Tumarkin as Kevin

Yael Grobglas as Rachel

Danielle Jadelyn as Sarah

When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city.

The Captive Heart

1946

English

7.0

♡ 11

72%

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.

Gordon Jackson as Lieut. Lennox

Basil Radford as Major Ossy Dalrymple

Sam Kydd as POW in Top Bunk

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.

Shenandoah

1965

English

7.3

♡ 10

100%

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Warren Oates as Billy Packer

James Best as Carter, Rebel Soldier

Gregg Palmer as Guard

Tom Simcox as Lt. Johnson

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

Kokoda: 39th Battalion

2006

English

6.1

♡ 15

71%

Alister Grierson Director

Christopher James Baker as Blue

Jack Finsterer as Jack Scholt

Tom Budge as Johnno

William McInnes as The Colonel

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

Michael Collins

1996

English

7.1

♡ 51

78%

presidential election

Thriller

War

Neil Jordan Director

Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan

Brendan Gleeson as Liam Tobin

Liam Neeson as Michael Collins

Charles Dance as Soames

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

Hellfighters

1968

English

6.5

♡ 8

13%

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Valentin de Vargas as Amal Bokru

Alan Caillou as Harry York

Vera Miles as Madelyn Buckman

Ethelreda Leopold as Restaurant Patron

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

The Fighting Seabees

1944

English

6.4

♡ 17

100%

Edward Ludwig Director

Robert J. Wilke as Arriving Construction Worker

Addison Richards as Capt. Joyce

Forbes Murray as Navy Surgeon

Ben Welden as Yump Lumkin

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Culloden

1964

English

7.7

♡ 11

100%

92%

18th century

Action

bonnie prince charlie

Peter Watkins Director

Peter Watkins as Field Interviewer

Tony Cosgrove as Lt. Ward / Field Interviewer

Olivier Espitalier-Noel as Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Robert Oates as Pvt. Alexander Laing

Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Great Britain. Its aftermath was tragic. The men responsible for such a disaster must be exposed. The men, women and children who suffered because of it must be remembered.