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Title Director Abstract Year of Publication Type of Source
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 Films
Battle of Britain Hamilton, Guy

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle vs. the Nazi Germany Air Force for control of British air space to prevent a Nazi invasion of Britain.

 1969
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 Films
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 Films, 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 Films, Feature Film
Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein, Sergei

Броненосец «Потемкин»

 1925
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 Films, Feature Film
Beaufort Cedar, Joseph

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.

 2008
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 Films, 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 Films, 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 Films, Feature Film
Behind This Convent Ndahayo, Gilbert

This documentary presents the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide from Tutsis who survived. On April 10, 1994, Hutus invaded the small village of Astrida and excuted 200 Tutsis behind a convent. Director Gilbert Ndahayo, who was 13 at the time and away from home, discovered the open mass grave...

2008 Films, Documentary
Behold a Pale Horse Zinnemann, Fred

Vengeance and obsession drive men to relive the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Artiguez, a famed Republican guerilla fighter, lives in exile in France. A young boy asks him to return to avenge the death of his father, killed by Artiguez's nemesis Viñolas. The police captain sets a trap to ensure...

1964 Films, Feature Film
Belgrano Pivotto, Sebastián

This biographical drama reveals the last ten years of the life of General Manuel Belgrano, one of the leaders during Argentine Wars for Independence. After rising to prominence after the May Revolution, Belgrano led a series of military campaigns and served in the First Assembly. His commitment...

2010 Films, Biographies
Belle Epoque Trueba, Fernando

An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Belle Epoque portrays the brief period of tranquility between the dawn of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. A young army deserter finds himself in the company of a warm, happy, and beautiful family. He falls in love...

1994 Films, Feature Film
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor Salomon, Mikael

This biographical television film offers a portrait of Benedict Arnold during the American Revolutionary War. Once an admired and respected general for the Continental Army, Arnold abandons the call for revolution for the love a woman. He then fights on behalf of the British, making him the most...

2003 Films, Television

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