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Death and Glory in Changde

Death and Glory in Changde is a 2010 Chinese war film based on the events in the Battle of Changde in 1943 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Many Tanks Mr. Atkins

Many Tanks Mr. Atkins is a 1938 British comedy war film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Claude Hulbert, Reginald Purdell and Barbara Greene.

Sailors Three

Sailors Three is a 1940 British war comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Carla Lehmann.

Siluri umani

Siluri umani (internationally released as Human Torpedoes) is a 1954 Italian war film directed by Antonio Leonviola with the advisory of the former Admiral Marc-Antonio Bragadin.

Some May Live

Some May Live is a 1967 British war film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Peter Cushing, Joseph Cotton and Martha Hyer.

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black-and-white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon.

The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling

A 1966 Mirisch Productions World War I war film with the title starring Gregory Peck and Ian McKellen, directed by David Miller with a screenplay by Roald Dahl was abandoned after 5 weeks filming in Switzerland.

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall is a 1942 British black-and-white comedy war film, directed by Will Hay and Basil Dearden, and; starring Will Hay as Professor Will Davis, John Mills and Basil Sydney.

The Goose of Sedan

The Goose of Sedan (German: Die Gans von Sedan) is a 1959 French-West German comedy war film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hardy Krüger, Jean Richard and Dany Carrel.

The Naked Brigade

The Naked Brigade is a 1965 Greek-American war film directed by Maury Dexter and starring Shirley Eaton, Ken Scott and Mairi Hronopoulou.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford and starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne and featuring Donna Reed.

Tita Duran

She joined in a war film with Carmen Rosales entitled Guerilyera and typecasted in numerous musical films paired by some of the Sampaguita's finest actor.

Todd Armstrong

He had only one additional leading role, in the World War II film King Rat (1965),directed by Bryan Forbes; his later work consisted of supporting parts in films and guest work on television work.

Two Half Times in Hell

Two Half Times in Hell (Hungarian: Két félidő a pokolban), also known as The Last Goal is a 1962 Hungarian war drama film based on The Death Match.

Vater Radetzky

Vater Radetzky is a 1929 Austrian war film directed by Karl Leiter and starring Karl Forest, Otto Hartmann and Theodor Pistek.


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21 and a Wake-Up

21 and Wake-Up is a 2009 American war film starring Amy Acker, Danica McKellar, Faye Dunaway, and was directed and written by producer, director, and writer Chris McIntyre.

27 Down

The film was shot on location on Mumbai trains, platforms, and at Mumbai's Victoria Terminus station, the cinematographer of the film, Apurba Kishore Bir was 22-year old, when he got the project, he shot 70 percent of the film using a hand-held camera, inspired by The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 war film with an aim to put the camera right in the conflict, he shot with wide lenses rather than zooms.

Alan Cobham

In 1927 Cobham starred as himself in the 1927 British war film The Flight Commander directed by Maurice Elvey.

Anthony Lledo

Lledo's latest projects includes the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg, directed by Adrian Moat and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the horror/thriller Darkroom, directed by Britt Napier as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which premieres early 2013.

Blessed by Fire

A powerful Argentine anti-war film in the tradition of American Vietnam war films such as Full Metal Jacket and Coming Home, Blessed By Fire is the story of two young men who were sent to fight the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands (or as they are known in Argentina, Las Malvinas) and who return home bearing the brutal scars of war.

Carl de Groof

De Groof was then selected to write the background music and arrangement by Helmut Käutner for his legendary guerrilla and anti-war film Die letzte Brücke (The Last Bridge).

Caught in the Draft

Colonel Peter Fairbanks (Clarence Kolb) visits the studio set as a consultant for the war film, and with him he has brought his beautiful daughter Antoinett 'Tony' (Dorothy Lamour).

Christopher Challis

He worked on projects in other genres too, such as The Spanish Gardener (1956), the war film Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).

Coates, Cambridgeshire

Part of the filming for the 2007 war film Atonement starring Keira Knightley was filmed outside Coates at the end of Eldernell Lane.

Danger Within

Stalag 17 (similar war film involving an informer inside an American POW camp)

Daniel Goossens

(His classic Route vers l'enfer book is a war film pastiche starring Father Christmas.)

Deep Six

The Deep Six, a 1958 World War II war film starring Alan Ladd

Elton Brand

The first project of Gibraltar Films was the production of a Vietnam-era prisoner-of-war film Rescue Dawn, directed by Werner Herzog.

FMJ

Full Metal Jacket, a 1987 war film produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick

Fort William Henry Harrison

made famous by the 1966 book, The Devil's Brigade, co-written by Robert H. Adleman and George Walton, and The Devil's Brigade, the 1968 American war film.

Hotel Chevalier

A man (Jason Schwartzman) lies on a hotel bed in a yellow bathrobe, watching the black-and-white American war film Stalag 17 and reading the newspaper.

How We Beat the Emden

The movie was later combined with another Australian war film, For Australia (1915) to create a new movie, For the Honour of Australia (1916).

Huang Jiguang

In one version of the story, it was also claimed that Huang's final action was specifically inspired by the Soviet war film Private Alexander Matrosov, which was in turn based on the real life exploit of Alexander Matrosov during the Great Patriotic War.

I Surrender Dear

The song is referenced in the 1949 war film Battleground, which depicts the hardships of American troops attempting to hold the town of Bastogne in late December, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge.

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts

Aakraman, a 1975 Hindi war film based on the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, directed by J. Om Prakash.

Inglorious Bastards

Inglourious Basterds, a 2009 American war film directed by Quentin Tarantino (who liked the title of Castellari's film, and included cameos of Castellari and his lead)

The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato), a 1978 Italian war film directed by Enzo Castellari

Keith Gordon

His other films include the 1992 anti-war film about a group of American soldiers in the Ardennes just before and during the Battle of the Bulge, A Midnight Clear, as well as Mother Night (adapted from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut), Waking the Dead, and the 2003 Robert Downey Jr. film The Singing Detective.

Lady Sun

Chinese actress Zhao Wei portrayed Sun Shangxiang in the 2008 Chinese epic war film Red Cliff directed by John Woo.

Marguerite Chapman

She also starred in the famous pro-Soviet war film Counter-Attack, released in 1945.

Marsena R. Patrick

Patrick appears briefly in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals, portrayed by Ryan Cutrona.

Operation Source

The operation was later portrayed in the 1955 war film, Above Us the Waves, featuring John Mills, which was based on both Operation Source, and the earlier Chariot human torpedo attacks on the Tirpitz.

Perfume River

The Perfume River is featured in the 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket; the action in the second half of the film occurs around the city of Huế and the Perfume River.

Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed

The film's story has no relation to the events or characters portrayed in the 2003 war film Saints and Soldiers.

San Gabriel Dam

The dam appears in the 2001 action/war film Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman, and is set in southern Bosnia.

Sandie Pendleton

Pendleton was portrayed by Jeremy London in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals, and was a minor character in the Jeff Shaara book of the same name.

Sniper Alley

1997 war film Welcome to Sarajevo by director Michael Winterbottom includes several scenes and actual footage of snipers harassing residents of the besieged city.

Spanish submarine G-7

In 1958, as one of the few U-boats still in existence, G-7 was used in the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien about Gunther Prien and his U-47.

The Immortal Garrison

The Immortal Garrison (Russian: Bessmertnyy garnizon) is a 1956 Soviet war film directed by Zakhar Agranenko and Eduard Tisse.

The Last Hunter

Director Antonio Margheriti decided to make a Vietnam War film due to the success of the American film The Deer Hunter.

There Will Be Peace in the Valley... When We Get the Keys to the Mansion on the Hill

A cover version of Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is featured on the album, as well as a reference to the 1944 war film, Wing and a Prayer.

Twenty Days Without War

The "Twenty Days Without War" film describes the life of Major Lopatin (actor Yuri Nikulin (1921-1997)), military journalist during World War II, who went to his hometown of Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in Middle Asia at the end of 1942 to spend a 20-day leave following the Battle of Stalingrad and to see the shooting of a film based on his wartime articles he has written, and where he was romantically involved with woman, played by the talented actress Ludmila Gurchenko (1935-2011).

Wenhua Film Company

Like other private studios, notably Kunlun Film Company, Wenhua continued in operation after the Communist takeover, putting out several films with the popular actor-director Shi Hui, including This Life of Mine (1950) (based on a novella by Lao She), Corruption (1950) (based on a work by Mao Dun), and the war film Platoon Commander Guan (1951).

Wild Grass

The film incorporates a number of references to cinema, notably in excerpts from and discussion of the American war film The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954).

William Kong

He co-produced the historical drama war film called The Flowers of War.

William N. Pendleton

Pendleton was portrayed in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals by John Castle.

Wolfgang Lukschy

Possibly his most noted performances worldwide were his roles as Alfred Jodl in the 1962 American war film The Longest Day and as John Baxter in Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars alongside Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté.