WAR+WESTERN+HISTORY 2001
WAR+WESTERN+HISTORY 2001
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- DirectorRidley ScottStarsJosh HartnettEwan McGregorTom SizemoreThe story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
- DirectorMichael BayStarsBen AffleckKate BeckinsaleJosh HartnettA tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJude LawEd HarrisJoseph FiennesA Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- DirectorJohn MooreStarsGene HackmanOwen WilsonGabriel MachtA disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia goes on the run from the local military and an assassin, as his commanding officer risks all to save him.
- DirectorGregor JordanStarsJoaquin PhoenixAnna PaquinEd HarrisA criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsDougray ScottKate WinsletSaffron BurrowsA young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
- DirectorDavid L. CunninghamStarsRobert CarlyleKiefer SutherlandCiarán McMenaminDuring World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsLeelee SobieskiHank AzariaDavid SchwimmerJews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
- DirectorTim Blake NelsonStarsDavid ArquetteVelizar BinevDavid ChandlerA Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.
- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsCate BlanchettJames FleetAbigail CruttendenA young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsEddie IzzardMatt LeBlancUdo KierA mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsRicky SchroderPhil McKeeJamie HarrisFact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsJouko AholaTim RothAnna GourariA Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
- DirectorBill AndersonStarsWill AdamsdaleNick BartlettChristopher BenjaminGuy Crouchback, heir to a declining English Roman Catholic family, returns to England from Italy at the start of World War II, and joins the Royal Corps of Halberdiers along with various eccentrics, though his attempts to get back with his wife Virginia, from whom he is separated, fail. After being implicated in a colleague's death, he is sent to train a commando brigade on a Scottish island, and ends up on Crete, taking part in its evacuation, and escaping to Egypt with fellow officers Ludovic and Ivor Claire. He is returned to England courtesy of Mrs. Stitch, to possibly prevent him from naming Claire as a deserter. Guy marries Virginia a second time, by which time she has a child by ex-lover Trimmer. While Guy is in Yugoslavia having a confusing time with the partisans, Virginia is killed, along with Guy's uncle Peregrine, by a doodlebug bomb. Guy returns to England after getting involved in charitable agencies, and eventually remarries.
- DirectorRob GreenStarsJason FlemyngAndrew TiernanChristopher FairbankGermany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsOndrej VetchýKrystof HádekTara FitzgeraldThe friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
- DirectorRalph ZimanStarsSam NeillGina McKeeUlrich ThomsenIn the midst of a devastating civil war in an Eastern European country, a disillusioned ex-Communist is left behind to take care of the animals in the capital's zoological gardens until a U.N. rescue force arrives.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsIoan GruffuddRobert LindsayDavid WarnerHornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny.
- DirectorYurek BogayeviczStarsHaley Joel OsmentWillem DafoeRichard BanelA twelve-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
- DirectorRobert J. WilsonStarsSusan DeyScott CooperPamela Moore SomersA German Shepard named Rain is trained to fight in the Vietnam War and his intelligence and courage in the face of adversity wins the respect and loyalty of his platoon.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsIoan GruffuddRobert LindsayDavid WarnerHornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
- DirectorReverge AnselmoStarsKirsten DunstJulie WaltersGeraldine JamesA younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsCallum BlueBarbora BobulovaPeter BowlesBased on a true story, a British soldier stranded in enemy territory during WWII falls in love with a local Italian girl. But with the Germans advancing, the war that brought them together could now separate them forever.
- DirectorLionel ChetwyndStarsWilliam HurtHoward RyshpanCarol ShamyVarian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsYang Dong-geunMin-jung BanKim Young-minRomances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsCasper Van DienJaimz WoolvettBobby HoseaA group of Marines return to Vietnam with a news crew to relive their tragic war experiences.
- DirectorHo YimStarsWillem DafoeLuo YanSau SekWith World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsSamantha MortonThomas JaneLuke HollandIs the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Kalkofsky, a German Jew and bookseller, left behind his family in Europe. He accommodates Silvia, a young revolutionary against British rule.
- DirectorChito S. RoñoStarsArmando GoyenaDanilo BarriosAlbert MartinezAging Carmelo likes telling his grandson, Jobert about his youth in the Philippines. Jobert especially likes the stories about Carmelo's time in World War II, where he helped bury the legendary Yamashita treasure. When Carmelo is kidnapped, it is left to Jobert to go to Manila, using his grandfather's diary to find the treasure and save Carmelo before a Japanese crime boss steals the fortune.
- DirectorIbolya FeketeStarsSasa AnocicGyula BodrogiCarlos DíazThe adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
- DirectorDonald DowdStarsAl RobertsBenjamin SilvaDaniel Smith
- DirectorJim StarrStarsDavid BardeenTodd BerryBernard BygottGerman, 1945. The third Reich is in ruins and Leni Riefenstahl faces hard questions from the U.S. Army interrogators: Why did she glorify the Nazis in her infamous documentary, TRIUMPH OF THE WLL? Did she believe in Hitler's policy of hate? Was she his mistress? Or was are her only concern? Like so many in Nazi Germany, Riefenstahl faced a moral dilemma. This is the dramatic story of the choices she made, and why she made them, shedding light on perhaps the most crucial question of the 20th century: How could this happen?
- DirectorJonathan MartinIn 1942, the British Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten, ordered a reconnaissance-in-force to seize the French port of Dieppe. The Allies' objective was to determine if it was possible to occupy a major port for a short period, gather intelligence and assess the German army's ability to respond to infantry attack. The raid, primarily manned by the Canadian army, was a major disaster, resulting in over 60% of the force of 6000 men killed, wounded or captured, plus more than 500 casualties sustained by Royal Navy personnel, along with the loss of more than 100 Allied aircraft.
- DirectorMarion MilneStarsEva BraunHerbert DöhringAdolf HitlerHome footage plus reenactments of the life & times of Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun. Their early days of happiness followed by long separations due the war causing much loneliness for Eva. Up until their suicides in the Bunker as the war was drawing to its inevitable conclusion.
- DirectorJonathan MartinStarsAdolf HitlerThe Belgian fort of Eben-Emael, considered impregnable by the Allies, was the key to the defense of the Belgium and France plains in World War II. The German army, at Hitler's urging, developed a plan to attack the fort using glider troops armed with revolutionary "hollow charges" designed to knock out the forts formidable artillery emplacements and allow the panzers to rapidly pierce the Allied lines.
- StarsGavin MacFadyenA detailed military history of the Korean War and preceding events, from 1945 to 1953.
- DirectorLasse JensenStarsFrederick ForsythDuring the Biafra war in Nigeria 1967-70, Joint Church Aid (JCA) or "Jesus Christ Airlines" provided an air-bridge to aid the starving people of Biafra. This documentary tells the story behind this unique and daring relief operation.
- DirectorChris HartyStarsHarry SmithStephen AmbrosePaul TibbetsWorld War II veterans, and others who were alive then, reminisce about their wartime "moments of truth".
- DirectorTony Long
- DirectorJonathan MartinStarsAdolf HitlerDuring World War II, British commandos staged raids on Axis shipping in enemy ports by sending teams of saboteurs into heavily guarded ports using flimsy, specially-made canoes nicknamed "cockleshells." This documentary traces two of the most spectacularly successful efforts in which freighters and naval vessels in Bordeaux and Singapore where sunk or disabled by a handful of men, most of whom never returned from their mission.
- DirectorTony Long
- StarsGreg StebnerStory of a P-47 Thunderbolt unit of the 362nd Fighter Group, filmed in color during the last days of World War II as requested by "Hap" Arnold. Features pilots of the 362nd FG through color footage from March 1945 through the end of the war. Unvarnished and uncompromising, this color film - shot from remote cameras on the planes themselves and specially-equipped bombers following the strike teams - is an extraordinary documentary of the air war over Europe. Includes never-before-seen footage, modern narrations and interviews with the pilots.
- DirectorLes MayfieldStarsColin FarrellScott CaanAli Larter5 Southern friends return home when the war ends 1865. But Yankee soldiers and Pinkerton are busy helping a railroad baron grab land from farmers along the planned railroad west. The 5 friends fight back.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsJames Van Der BeekRachael Leigh CookAshton KutcherA ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsTom SelleckVirginia MadsenWilford BrimleyRafe promises a dying friend to look after his wife and 40,000 acre ranch in Wyoming. A powerful businessman wants the ranch and widow by whatever means necessary.
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsKiefer SutherlandMarcus ThomasDaryl HannahTwo brothers, One is a bull rider, the other a rodeo bullfighter/stock contractor, clash over the love of barrel racer Celia Jones, while each comes into their own in their respective field in the rodeo world.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsJames CaanDavid CarradineRachel TicotinJohn, a decent prison warden in 1910 Arizona, meets an old friend in his prison who plans an escape. A prisoner about to be hanged asks John to give a ring and message to his wife. Single John meets the cute widow and kid.
- DirectorJeremy KaganStarsGlenn CloseJena MaloneBruce McGillThe adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsJoseph FiennesDavid WenhamAdrian LesterA New York thief, a tough-as-nails hundred-year-old woman, two brothers from the Wild West, a Macedonian revolutionary and a beautiful pregnant woman, all cross paths in a tale that spans two continents and three centuries.
- DirectorDavid ListerStarsJudge ReinholdTanja ReichertTodd JensenThe ghost of the sharp-shooter Lucius Meek (Judge Reinhold) calls on a young Danny Logan to help him clear his name so he can move on to the afterlife. -Echo Bridge Entertainment.
- DirectorJames CrowleyStarsBrad HuntDaniel LapaineDash MihokOrphaned since he and his brother were boys, a man tries to find and redeem the other who is now an outlaw in the Wild West.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsSamantha OlsenLina RomayViktor SeastromMados, a Reporter in town for an interview gets more than she bargained for at the Vampire Junction.
- DirectorBill McNallyStarsChristopher AtkinsNancy CrissMickey JonesTwo innkeepers meet a strange assortment of outlaws and gunslingers in this hilarious comedy set in the Old West.
- DirectorRick SimpsonStarsColin CoffeyColin CoffeyDoug Krahn
- DirectorRandall FranksStarsRandall FranksRamblin' Tommy ScottFrankie ScottStill Ramblin' follows the career of film, television and music star Ramblin' "Doc" Tommy Scott from the foothills of Georgia to stardom through interviews, rare photos and never before seen film footage woth friends Stingbean Akeman, Sunset carson, Carolina Cotton, Col. Tim Mccoy, Bill Monroe, Charlie Monroe, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Curly Seckler and many more.
- DirectorCharles ShyerStarsHilary SwankSimon BakerJonathan PryceIn pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsAmanda HoldenAdrian LukisSamantha BondA story of love, sex, seduction and violent death, set against the backdrop of a battle amongst the hunting fraternity. Sarah Campbell is a woman ostracised by the village she moves to after she bans the local hunt from using her land.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauStarsLuc PicardSylvie DrapeauFrédéric GillesFrench Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.
- DirectorCharles VanderpoolStarsMel GibsonGerard J. ReyesBrad HowardA documentary narrated by Mel Gibson that is about the expedition to search for Captain Kidd's flagship, The Adventure Galley.
- DirectorJim MendiolaStarsJesse BorregoMyrna CabelloJesse De Luna"Come and Take it Day" uses Texas history to tell a story of friendship, envy, betrayal, and greed. The fictional story centers around the hunt for the lost treasure in gold coins that had been given to the person who captured the legendary Gregory Cortez.
- DirectorBetsy SteinbergStarsLarry GuliDick LehrGerard O'Neill
- DirectorArthur DrookerStarsWill LymanHow the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.
- DirectorNicholas White
- DirectorMark KrewatchStarsEdward HerrmannElizabeth McNamerJudy Yates SikerA study of the first Christmas from a historical, archaeological, and astronomical perspective, including the birth of Jesus, Three Wise Men, and slaughter of the innocents under King Herod.
- StarsArthur KentEric LongabardiAlfred D'MarioFor the first time, survivors of America's most serious nuclear weapons accidents speak publicly about their experiences.
- DirectorGary GlassmanStarsAdam BarDilly BarlowJoell A. JacobNefertari, Hatchepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra - they governed Ancient Egypt and on the power could be compared to the rulers-men. The striking finds of egyptologists help to expose the secrets of unbelievable influentialness of women-pharaohs.
- DirectorLynne Bader-GregoryStarsBill CluneA visit to the Pan-American Exposition based on a wealth of archival material including photographs and film footage, period music, historical quotes and diaries.
- DirectorJim Milio
- DirectorDavid DavisStarsRobert X. CringelyHow computers and other digital technologies are transforming the worlds of finance, business, and money.
- DirectorFiona ProctorStarsJancis RobinsonEva BraunHerbert DöhringFrom the beginning, German dictator Adolf Hitler had a lot of women around him who helped him. They prevented him from committing suicide, payed his debts, but most of all they worshiped him.
- DirectorJohn Tindall
- DirectorSean Maguire
- Once upon a time, calling someone a bitch was an insult; but now it is a badge worn with pride. In this irreverent pageant, panelists nominate Britain's bitchiest women for the cool and coveted crown of Queen Bitch.