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2) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
3) Flanders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
André Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another man. A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. Left behind, Barbe, alone and wasting away, faces misfortunes of her own, while awaiting the soldiers return....
4) Bloodshot
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on the best selling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as a superhero by the RST Corporation. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he's an unstoppable force, stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. But in controlling his body, the company has sway over his mind and memories, too. Now, Ray doesn't know what's real and what₂s not, but he's on a mission to...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of "decompression leave" with their unit, among tourists, at a five-star resort in Cyprus. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave violence behind.
6) I am
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Follows film director Tom Shadyac as he travels the world to talk to people about what is wrong with humanity and how we can change our actions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? Follow former enemy combatants, many of whom served years in prison, who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say enough. The film reveals their transformational journeys from soldiers committed to armed battle to nonviolent peace activists, leading to the creation of Combatants for Peace.
9) Hostiles
Publisher
Entertainment Studios
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Full battle rattle is a revelatory look at the soul of the American war machine--an astonishing journey inside a once top-secret military base where U.S. soldiers train to confront a new kind of enemy. In California's Mojave Desert, the U.S. Army has built a billion dollar urban warfare simulation--a cluster of towns and villages modeled on counterparts in the Middle East, complete with full-time residents played by Iraqi Americans. With un-restricted...
12) Ezra
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa's largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Ezra stands out among other African films because it is a complex...
13) The Osiris child
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When a soldier helping to make other planets suitable for human habitation discovers that his employers are planning to kill a desert planet's residents, he seeks the help of an escaped convict to rescue his child.
14) Carmel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
From Israel's most important filmaker, Carmel is Amos Gitai's (Kadosh, Kippur) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history. Through exquisitely composed long takes, he re-enacts the Jewish-Roman wars that began in 66 A.D. , and contrasts them to the young soldiers enlisting in Israel's army today, including his own son, making...
15) Mine
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
16) Megan Leavey
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Full screen.
Language
日本語
Description
Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II, this drama about a group of rank-and file Japanese soldiers jailed for crimes against humanity was adapted from the diaries of real prisoners.
19) Armadillo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Danish
Description
The first documentary ever chosen to compete in the International Critics' Week at Cannes (where it won the grand prize), Janus Metz's Armadillo follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. An intimate, visually stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare, the film premiered at the top of the box office in Denmark, provoking a national debate over government policy and the rules of...
20) Zama
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When ZAMA...
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