The useful war movie list.
A list of films that add to the debate about the realities of war.
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- DirectorTomasz WiszniewskiStarsBob HoskinsSergiusz ZymelkaKrzysztof MajchrzakSharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.Sharkey is a vulture who preys on the remains of war-ravaged Bosnia. Posing as a Unicef worker, he roams the countryside searching for children for an illegal adoption ring. Vlado is a damaged nine year old boy...
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna Zimic MijovicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.Esma is struggling not to tell her daughter the truth about her father.
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerWill PattonLarenz TateA nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America.A travelling showman roams the desolate remains of an America torn apart by civil war and marauding criminal militia.
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.A decorated Union Soldier is given his choice of posting, as a reward for his bravery. He chooses an isolated outpost on the American frontier.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.This very black comedy, ostensibly about the Korean war, was actually a swipe at the West's involvement in Vietnam. It hits hard.
- DirectorDavid StevensStarsAndrew McFarlaneOlivia HamnettFrank GallacherJohn Sullivan, after having tended to a dying British commando bearing urgent information for Allied top brass, must do all he can to escape his Yugoslav hosts who refuse to let him leave.John Sullivan is a private in the Australian army medical corp, who goes undercover in the Balkans during the second world war, as a medic.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsVivien MerchantJenny AgutterJohn RonaneTwo families in Belfast, one Protestant and one Catholic, find that their long-standing friendship is threatened by the escalating sectarian violence that surrounds them.This explores the effect of the Northern Ireland conflict on the children.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsJohn ThawNick RobinsonAnnabelle ApsionA shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.Very moving children's film about the war on the home front.
- DirectorPaul FeigStarsBen TibberJim CaviezelJoan PlowrightA twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark.A young boy escapes from a post -WWII communist re-education camp that he was born in. He is told by the guard that helps him that he must cross Europe to find his Mother in the West.
- DirectorCate ShortlandStarsSaskia RosendahlKai-Peter MalinaNele TrebsAs the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.In the dying embers of the Third Reich the eldest daughter of a German officer must lead her younger siblings across Germany to her Grandmother's house, evading arrest by the Russians, Americans, and British, as she crosses the Allied Zones. As they travel, they learn the truth of Hitler's Germany.
- DirectorYurek BogayeviczStarsHaley Joel OsmentWillem DafoeRichard BanelA twelve-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.A Jewish family in Poland during WWII arrange for their son to be escorted from the Krakow Ghetto to safety before the Germans take them to the transports. This is the story of the boy and his new catholic family in the countryside.
- DirectorGérard JugnotStarsJules SitrukGérard JugnotMichèle GarciaIn 1942, in occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When Pierre-Jean Lamour, his future son-in-law and collaborator of the Germans calls the Germans to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the fugitives, Batignole decides to travel with them to Switzerland.This is a well acted true story about a Pork Butcher who helped three Jewish children escape from the Nazis. It challenges the perception that many English people have had about the way that French people behaved during the Nazi occupation, by looking at the situation in a more even-handed manner. It does, however, not shy away from the issue of French collaboration with the Nazis, nor does it shy away from the issue of real prejudice against Jewish people. The characters are imbued with the different shades of humanity that most people display, and the quality of the direction and acting lift this even more. This is the first time I have seen a film directed by Gerard Jugnot, and I am impressed with his direction, as I am with his acting. Jules Sitruk is a revelation too! Tough yet vulnerable, I am certain that you will come to respect Sitruk's Simon, as well as care about him. I had previously seen Sitruk in 'Son of Rambow' and assumed he was an English actor doing a bad French accent. He is French, and really very good!