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By 1812, Napoleon's forces controlled much of Europe. Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, prepares to face Napoleon's troops together with Austria. Among the Russian soldiers are Count Nicholas Rostov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. Count Pierre Bezukhov, a friend of Andrei's and self-s β¦tyled intellectual who is not interested in fighting. Pierre's life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov, Nicholas's sister, but she is too young, so he gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, manipulative Princess Helene. The marriage ends when Pierre discovers his wife's true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. Months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year until Natasha turns 17. While Andrei is away on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin, a womanizer. Pierre saves Natasha by telling her of Anatole's past before she can elope with him. Napoleon invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | starvationinheritanceexecution |
Locations: | russiasnow |
Characters: | boy soldierfrench soldierrussian soldieralcoholichusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | imperial russiatsarist russiamoscow russiafrench armysword fightartillery firescorched earth policynapoleonic conquestomnipotent narratorwife and husband lead actorsyear 1812drunken partypontoonfox huntfield hospital β¦napoleon bonaparteyoung soldiercossacksabrenapoleonic warswounded soldieropera houseopening narrationsleighflintlock pistolillegitimate sondutch anglebombardmentflintlock rifleretreatwar violencecometfiring squadcavalryinfantrybayonetmonasterymudevacuationliteraturecannonblockbusterbattlefieldduelforeign language adaptationassassinationarmycombatswordbattlehorsefirebased on novelviolence (See All) |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve β¦r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | starvation |
Locations: | russiasnow |
Characters: | russian soldierhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | imperial russiatsarist russiamoscow russiafield hospitalsleighblockbusterforeign language adaptationbased on novel |
Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
Subgenre: | epic |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sword fightflintlock riflewar violencecavalryinfantrybayonetcannonarmycombatswordbattleviolence |
Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice β¦, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | starvation |
Characters: | father son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sword fightwar violencecavalrybayonetarmycombatswordbattlehorsebased on novelviolence |
In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial β¦Omura cabinet's first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren's courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto's failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield... (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | alcoholichusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sword fightsabreretreatbayonetcannonblockbusterbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle w β¦hen 40 bandits attack the village. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | starvation |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | sword fightsabreflintlock riflemudbattlefieldduelcombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
Zululand, South Africa, 1879. The British are fighting the Zulus and one of their columns has just been wiped out at Isandlwana. The Zulus next fix their sights on the small British outpost at Rorke's Drift. At the outpost are 150 British troops under the command of Lieutenants Bromhead and Chard. I β¦n the next few days these 150 troops will fight about 4,000 Zulus in one of the most courageous battles in history. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | alcoholic |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sabreretreatwar violencecavalrybayonetbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlefire |
Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia (today part of Greece), Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally m β¦ade his way east to India. This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sword fightfield hospitaldutch angleretreatwar violencecavalryblockbusterbattlefieldassassinationarmycombatswordbattlehorsefire β¦violence (See All) |
Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes β¦ friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | field hospitalflintlock riflewar violencebayonetblockbusterbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorsebased on novelviolence |
Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation.
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | french soldier |
Story: | bombardmentwar violenceinfantrybayonetcannonbattlefieldarmycombatbattlefireviolence |
It is 1776 in colonial South Carolina. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, now wants nothing more than to live peacefully on his small plantation, and wants no part of a war with the most powerful nation in the world, Great Britain. Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, G β¦abriel and Thomas, can't wait to enlist in the newly formed "Continental Army." When South Carolina decides to join the rebellion against England, Gabriel immediately signs up to fight...without his father's permission. But when Colonel William Tavington, British dragoon, infamous for his brutal tactics, comes and burns the Martin Plantation to the ground, tragedy strikes. Benjamin quickly finds himself torn between protecting his family, and seeking revenge along with being a part of the birth of a new, young, and ambitious nation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | father son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sword fightwar violencecavalryinfantrycannonbattlefieldduelcombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
In 1950, in South Korea, shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his 18-year-old old student brother, Jin-seok Lee, form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae's fiance Young-shin Kim, and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the u β¦niversity. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | retreatwar violencefiring squadbayonetbattlefieldarmycombatbattleviolence |
Paris is starving, but the King of France is more interested in money and bedding women. When a young soldier dies for the sake of a shag, Aramis, Athos and Porthos band together with a plan to replace the king. Unknown to many, there is a 2nd king, a twin, hidden at birth, then imprisoned for 6 yea β¦rs behind an iron mask. All that remains now is D'Artagnan, will he stand against his long time friends, or do what is best for his country? (Read More)
Themes: | starvation |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | sword fightyoung soldierflintlock pistolillegitimate sonflintlock riflecannonduelforeign language adaptationswordbattlehorsebased on novelviolence |
King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result, he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way, the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.
Subgenre: | epic |
Story: | sword fightwar violencebattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorseviolence |
Jack Crabb is 121 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.
Characters: | alcoholichusband wife relationship |
Story: | sword fightwar violencecavalryblockbusterbattlefieldcombatswordbattlehorsebased on novelviolence |
William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. O β¦nce he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | sword fightwar violencecavalryblockbusterbattlefieldcombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sword fightbattlefieldassassinationarmycombatswordbattlehorsefirebased on novelviolence |
The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue t β¦hem in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Story: | sword fightflintlock pistolbombardmentflintlock rifleretreatwar violencecannonswordbattlebased on novel |
The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.
Themes: | execution |
Characters: | french soldier |
Story: | french armybombardmentfiring squadinfantrybayonetarmyfirebased on novel |
At the turn of the century, the young lord Vlad and his family live a peaceful life ruling over their small kingdom, but when a Turk warlord demands from Vlad a thousand boys and his son to create an army Vlad seeks a terrible power that will allow him to protect his kingdom and family from the Turk β¦s at a terrible cost. (Read More)
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sword fightmonasteryevacuationcannonbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
Evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26- June 04, 1940, during Battle of France in World War II.
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | french soldierfather son relationship |
Story: | french armyyoung soldierbombardmentretreatevacuationcannonarmycombatbattlefireviolence |
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit ro β¦oftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates. (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sword fightflintlock pistolflintlock riflecometcannonduelcombatswordbattlebased on novelviolence |
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter.
Themes: | execution |
Characters: | french soldierhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | french armynapoleonic warsfiring squadbattlehorseviolence |
In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lan β¦ds from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | sword fightwar violenceblockbusterbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlebased on novelviolence |
This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith.
Subgenre: | epic |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | father son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | wounded soldierbayonetcannonarmycombatbattlehorsebased on novel |
In April 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, H.M.S. Surprise, a British frigate, is under the command of Captain Jack Aubrey. Aubrey and the Surprise's current orders are to track and capture or destroy a French privateer named Acheron. The Acheron is currently in the Atlantic off South America headed β¦toward the Pacific in order to extend Napoleon's reach of the wars. This task will be a difficult one as Aubrey quickly learns in an initial battle with the Acheron that it is a bigger and faster ship than the Surprise, which puts the Surprise at a disadvantage. Aubrey's single-mindedness in this seemingly impossible pursuit puts him at odds with the Surprise's doctor and naturalist, Stephen Maturin, who is also Aubrey's most trusted advisor on board and closest friend. Facing other internal obstacles which have resulted in what they consider a string of bad luck, Aubrey ultimately uses Maturin's scientific exploits to figure out a way to achieve his and the ship's seemingly impossible goal. (Read More)
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sword fightnapoleonic warsflintlock pistolflintlock riflewar violencebayonetcannoncombatswordbattlebased on novel |
The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Milady. Rochefort, the Cardinal's right-hand man, announces the β¦ official disbanding of the King's Musketeers. Three, however, refuse to throw down their swords - Athos the fighter and drinker, Porthos the pirate and lover, and Aramis the priest and poet. Arriving in Paris to join the Musketeers, D'Artagnan uncovers the Cardinal's plans, and the four set out on a mission to protect King and Country. (Read More)
Story: | sword fightflintlock pistolflintlock riflebayonetcannonduelcombatswordbattlehorsefirebased on novelviolence |
The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command o β¦f the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | young soldierretreatcavalrybayonetcannonarmyswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
In Russia, Boris Grushenko is in love with his pseudo-intellectual cousin Sonja, who loves him since he too is a pseudo-intellectual, but she is not in love with him. Instead she is in love with his brother Ivan. But as Ivan doesn't seem to return her affections, she is determined to marry someone - β¦ anyone - except Boris. If that person isn't the perfect husband, then she has to find a suitable lover in addition. Boris' pursuit of Sonja has to take a back seat in his life when he, a pacifist and coward, is forced to join the Russian Army to battle Napoleon's forces which have just invaded Austria. Despite Sonja not being in the picture while he's away at war, Boris' thoughts do not stray totally from women. Although they take these two divergent paths in their lives, those paths cross once again as they, together, both try to find the perfect spouse and lover, and try to assassinate Napoleon. (Read More)
Themes: | execution |
Locations: | russia |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | napoleon bonapartenapoleonic warsfiring squadcannonduelarmybattle |
As the Greeks fall, they decided to head back home. King Priam decides to have one last battle with the Greeks to leave Troy for good. It was a night battle so the Greeks didn't knew, raining them down with flaming arrows and lighting huge balls of dry branches and rolling them down at the beach. It β¦ was a battle that Achilles wasn't in, but his cousin Patroclus pretended to be him by wearing his armor, his sword, his helmet, and his moves. Hector finally had a battle with Achilles not knowing it wasn't him. Patroclus was fast but Hector was faster, causing him to cut Patroclus's neck and finishing him with a sword to the heart. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sword fightretreatblockbusterbattlefieldduelarmyswordbattle |
It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers.
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sword fightbattlefieldassassinationarmyswordbattlehorseviolence |
Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. Th β¦e mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?. (Read More)
Story: | war violencebayonetmonasteryevacuationcannonblockbusterbattlefieldcombatbattlebased on novelviolence |
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and β¦ the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | starvation |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | blockbusterbattlefieldarmycombatbattlehorsefireviolence |
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Locations: | russiasnow |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | moscow russiamonasterymudarmyswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers". Leo arrests Mei, β¦only to have Jin breaking her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem... (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | sword fightduelassassinationarmycombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
"Patton" tells the tale of General 'George S. Patton (I)' (qv), famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Europe and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper β¦ and tendency toward insubordination, faults that would prevent him from becoming the lead American general in the Normandy Invasion as well as to his being relieved as Occupation Commander of Germany. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Story: | bombardmentwar violenceinfantrycannonblockbusterarmycombatviolence |
In 1935 in Foshan, south China, there are martial arts schools on every street corner. Ip Man is the undisputed martial arts champion, yet he has not devoted himself to teaching. Despite this, it seems that all the kung fu masters of the city are eager to fight him to improve their reputation.
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | war violencebayonetblockbusterduelassassinationcombatswordbattleviolence |
Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effe β¦cts of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon. (Read More)
Story: | bombardmentwar violenceinfantrybayonetblockbusterbattlefieldcombatbattleviolence |
The true story of Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt, in September 1944, to hasten the end of WW2 by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany. The idea was for US airborne divisions to take the towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen and a British airborne division, reinforced by a Polish a β¦irborne brigade, to take the town of Arnhem. They would be reinforced, in due course and in turn, by the British XXX Corps, land-based and driving up from the British lines in the south. The key to the operation was the bridges, as if the Germans held or blew them, the paratroopers could not be relieved. Faulty intelligence, Allied high command hubris and stubborn German resistance would ensure that Arnhem was a bridge too far. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Story: | bombardmentwar violenceinfantrybayonetcannonblockbusterarmycombatbattlebased on novelviolence |
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sword fightwar violencebattlefieldcombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
2013,Post-Apocalyptic America. An unnamed wanderer retrieves a Postman's uniform and undelivered bag of mail. He decides to pose as a postman and deliver the mail to a nearby town, bluffing that the United States government has been reinstated and tricking the town into feeding him. However, he relu β¦ctantly becomes a symbol of hope to the townspeople there who begin to remember the world that once was and giving them the courage to stand up to a tyrannical warlord and his army. (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Story: | firing squadcavalrycannonbattlefieldduelarmyswordhorsebased on novelviolence |
In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domremy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, β¦she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town. Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove her divine mission. After the successful liberation of Orleans and Reims, the Dauphin can be crowned traditionally in the cathedral of Reims - and does not need her anymore, since his wishes are satisfied. Jeanne d'Arc gets set up in his trap and is imprisoned by the Burgundians. In a trial against her under English law, she can't be forced to tell about her divine visions she has had continuously since childhood. Being condemned of witchcraft and being considered as relapsed heretic, she is sentenced to death. Jeanne d'Arc is burnt alive in the marketplace of Rouen on May 30th, 1431, at only 19 years of age. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Story: | sword fightretreatwar violencecavalryinfantryarmycombatswordbattleviolence |
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | execution |
Characters: | alcoholichusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | firing squadcavalryhorsebased on novel |
Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when a pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war t β¦o end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers and her true destiny. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | alcoholicfamily relationships |
Story: | sword fightbayonetcannonblockbusterbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
While hunting in the forest, Lord Asano of Ako and his samurai find a young half-breed and take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Naga β¦to, and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira's evil plot, the samurais and the half-breed sets out for revenge against the Shogun's order. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sword fightopening narrationbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
During World War II when the Americans needed to find a secure method of communicating they devised a code using the Navajo language. So Navajos were recruited to become what they call code talkers. They would be assigned to a unit and would communicate with other units using the code so that even t β¦hough the enemy could listen they couldn't understand what they were saying. And to insure that the code is protected men are assigned to protect it at all costs. One of these men is Joe Enders, a man who sustained an injury that can make him unfit for duty but he manages to avoid it and is told of his duty and that the man he is suppose to protect is Ben Yahzee. Initially there is tension but the two men learn to get along. (Read More)
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sword fightfield hospitalwar violencebayonetcannonbattlefieldcombatbattlefireviolence |
Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator β¦. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | sword fightbattlefieldarmycombatswordbattlehorsefireviolence |
In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. An β¦na meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they feel attracted by each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose to Kitty, who is the younger sister of her sister-in-law Dolly. Anna satisfactorily resolves the infidelity case of her brother and Kitty invites her to stay for the ball. However, Anna Karenina and Vronsky dance in the ball, calling the attention of the conservative society. Soon they have a love affair that will lead Anna Karenina to a tragic fate. (Read More)
Locations: | russiasnow |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | imperial russiamoscow russiacavalryhorsebased on novel |
A telling of the 1st Battalion, 7 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division's battle against overwhelming odds in the La Drang valley of Vietnam in 1965. Seen through the eyes of the battalion's commander, Lt. Col. Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson), we see him take command of the battalion and its prepa β¦rations to go into Vietnam. We also see how the French had, years earlier, been defeated in the same area. The battle was to be the first major engagement between US and NVA forces in Vietnam and showed the use of helicopters as mobility providers and assault support aircraft. (Read More)
Story: | french armyinfantrybayonetbattlefieldarmycombatbattlebased on novel |
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans f β¦inish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancee to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | starvationexecution |
Characters: | french soldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | french armybayonetmudcannonbattlefieldarmycombatbattlebased on novel |