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Title Director Abstract Year of Publication Type of Source
Ballad of a Soldier Chukhray, Grigoriy

Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime. [IMBd]

 1959 Feature Film
Band of Brothers Spielberg, Steven

Based on a book by historian Stephen Ambrose, this award-winning HBO miniseries follows an American military company throughout World War II. The men of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division travel from Camp Toccoa in Georgia to various...

2001 Film, Television/Netflix/Amazon Series
Band of Ninja Ôshima, Nagisa

In this experimental animated film, director Nagisa Oshima explores the unification of Japan under Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period. A young son of a feudal lord avenges his father's assassination  by aligning with a renegade ninja.

 1967 Film, Feature Film
Barry Lyndon Kubrick, Stanley

An adaptation of Thackeray's 19th century novel, Barry Lyndon explores amorality and passivity in the Thirty Years War. A young Irish man rises from modest means to the British aristocracy through marriage and war. Director Stanley Kubrick insists things happen to Barry Lyndon rather...

1975 Film
Bat*21 Markle, Peter

Based on a true story, this film recounts the events of a rescue operation of Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton during the Vietnam War. Hambleton, an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, evacuates from a gunned-down plane over the jungles of North Vietnam. He waits for rescue, delayed by weather...

1988 Film
Bataan Garnett, Tay

Based on the Battle of the Bataan during World War II, this film follows a group of black and white American soldiers intent on blocking the Japanese capture of the Philippines. The group faces enemy fire, disease, and hand-to-hand combat in their effort to destroy a strategic bridge.  

 1943 Film
Battle of Britain Hamilton, Guy

Renowned at the time for its unprecedented and spectacular flying sequences, this big-budget war film, directed by Guy Hamilton, drew multiple major acting names to star in its depiction of the Battle of Britain, the conflict that took place over the summer and autumn of 1940 when the British...

1969 Feature Film
Battle of the Bulge Annakin, Ken

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the...

1965 Film
Battle of the Japan Sea Maruyama, Seiji

Battle of the Japan Sea depicts the origins of the Russo-Japanese War. When Japan's attack on Port Arthur in China fails, Russia sends aid. As one Japanese general conducts naval warfare, another negotiates with the Bolsheviks to defeat the Russians politically. 

 1970 Film, Feature Film
Battleground Wellman, William

Widely regarded as one of the best World War II film released after the conflict, Battleground explores the horror and the humanity of war during the Battle of the Bulge. A company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army faces hunger, exhaustion, and...

1950 Film, Feature Film
Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein, Sergei

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. [IMBd]

 1925 Short Film
Beach Red Wilde, Cornel

More than fifty years after its release, Beach Red stands as an influential anti-war film. Actor-director Cornel Wilde conveyed the violence and the humanity of Americans and Japanese as they battle over a Pacific island controlled by the Japanese. Wilde dedicated the first thirty...

1967 Film, Feature Film
Beaufort Cedar, Joseph

Oscar-nominated for Best Foriegn Language Film, Beaufort recounts the final months of Israeli occupation of Lebanon during 2000. Israeli soldiers guard the mountain fortress, which symbolized their 18-year presence in South Lebanon. Under attack, without any ground support, the soldiers...

2008 Film
Before the Fall Gansel, Dennis

A young boy earns a boxing scholarship to a school known as a training ground for Nazi elite during World War II. Friedrich's indoctrination into Nazi discipline, brutality and ruthlessness is interrupted after his friendship with a budding journalist and the fate of a Soviet P.O.W.

 2004 Film, Feature Film
Before the Rain Manchevski, Milcho

This Oscar-nominated film weaves together three loves stories to reveal the interconnectedness of modern Europe during the Macedonia conflict in the Yugoslav Wars. A monk helps Zamira, a young Albanian girl, escape, a London agent falls for a Macedonia photographer, and the photographer returns...

1994 Film, Feature Film
Behind Enemy Lines Moore, John

The international politics of war delay the rescue mission of a U.S. naval pilot during the Bosnian War. During a reconnaissance mission, Lt. Chris Burnett flies off course and identifies mass graves in the demilitarized zone. After his plane is shot down, Burnett tries to escape Bosnian Serbs...

2001 Film, Feature Film

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