• Director:Anthony Hemingway
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
• Release Date:20 January 2012 (USA)

Cast

Bryan Cranston : Maj. William Mortamus
Josh Dallas : Ryan (as Joshua Dallas)
Daniela Ruah : Sofia
Cuba Gooding Jr. : Major Emanuelle Stance
Terrence Howard : Col. A.J. Bullard

World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once — one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination back home and within the military. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base — leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills — while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings. Until now.

As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight — a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses — Easy’s pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy — and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.” Read more

Director:Steven Spielberg
Taglines:Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.
Genres:Drama | War
Release Date:25 December 2011 (USA)

Cast

Tom Hiddleston : Captain Nichols
Benedict Cumberbatch : Major Stewart
Emily Watson : Rose Narracott
David Thewlis : Lyons
Peter Mullan : Ted Narracott

Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

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• Director:Angelina Jolie
• Genres:Drama | Romance | War
• Release Date:23 December 2011 (USA)

Cast

Rade Serbedzija
Zana Marjanovic
Nikola Djuricko
Goran Kostic
Branko Djuric

Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who is now held captive in his camp. Soon they discover their once promising relationship has become ambiguous as their motives have changed. Read more

• Directors:Jackie Chan, Li Zhang
• Taglines:Fall of the Last Empire
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War

Cast

Jackie Chan : Huang Xing
Bingbing Li : Xu Zonghan (as Bing Bing Lee)
Winston Chao : Sun Yat-Sen (as Wen Xuan Zhao)
Joan Chen : Longyu
Jaycee Chan : Zhang Zhenwu

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• Official site [China]
• Official site [Japan]

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings. Read more

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• Director:Carl Colby
• Genres:Documentary | Biography | History | War

THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby is a personal exploration into the life of America’s controversial former CIA Director told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl. Through extraordinary events in twentieth century history, this consummate soldier/spy stood at the center of the Agency’s most clandestine activities and operations. The film reveals the ‘cover life’ of this CIA operative, who followed orders and took on the dirtiest assignments until the Nixon Administration ordered him to ‘stonewall’ Congress about the CIA’s past abuses, but he refused. This film reveals why, for the first time, he could not obey.

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• Director:Renny Harlin
• Genres:Action | Drama | War
• Release Date:19 August 2011 (USA)

Cast
Rupert Friend : Thomas Anders
Val Kilmer : Dutchman
Andy Garcia : President of Georgia
Dean Cain : Chris Bailot
Emmanuelle Chriqui : Tatia

The film starts with a brief scene in Iraq where the Georgian contingent of the coalition forces saves the life of an American reporter Thomas Anders. After Anders loses one of his colleagues in Iraq, he returns to Los Angeles but soon goes to Georgia on the advice of some of his friends in Tbilisi, who suspect that a large conflict is brewing. He, along with his cameraman Sebastian Ganz, delve deeper into Georgian life as conflict escalates and they get caught in the crossfire when an air raid strikes a local wedding they stumble upon. With the help of a Georgian soldier who saved them in Iraq, their mission becomes to get their report out of the country to raise awareness of violence they have witnessed.Read more

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• Director:John Sayles
• Genres:Drama | War
• Release Date:20 August 2011 (USA)

Cast

Garret Dillahunt : Lt. Compton
Chris Cooper : Col. Hardacre
DJ Qualls : Zeke
Lucas Neff : Shanker
Yul Vazquez : Padre Hidalgo

Amigo centers on Rafael Dacanay, cabeza of the barrio of San Isidro in a rice-growing area of Luzon. His brother Simón, head of the local guerrilla band, has forced the surrender of the Spanish guardia civil outpost and charged Rafael with the task of imprisoning the guardia Captain and the barrio’s Spanish friar, Padre Hidalgo, in the name of the revolutionary government. But when the American troops chasing General Aguinaldo arrive, the Spanish officer and Padre Hidalgo are freed, and a garrison under the command of Lieutenant Ike Compton is left to ‘protect’ the barrio. The American occupation policy now changes from ‘hearts and minds’ to ‘concentration’ (what was called ‘hamletting’ during the Vietnam war) and Rafael has to answer to both the Americans and the Filipino patriots, with deadly consequences. Read more

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• Director:Chen Jin
• Genres:Drama | War

Cast

Degang Guo
Huang Haibing
Wu Jiang
Tian Jing
Hee-seon Kim

A historical epic about rival military strategists, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, two students of military strategy who fought for supremacy during China’s Warring States Period.

• Director:Janus Metz Pedersen
• Taglines:For you it’s a movie, for them it’s reality
• Genres:Documentary | War

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• Official site
• Official site [France]

In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shootout with Taliban fighters. The filmmakers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes… Read more

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• Director:Chuan Lu
• Genres:Drama | History | War
• Runtime :132 min

Cast

Ye Liu : Lu Jianxiong
Yuanyuan Gao : Miss Jiang
Hideo Nakaizumi : Kadokawa
Wei Fan : Mr. Tang
Yiyan Jiang : Xiao Jiang

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City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, shortly after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the capital of the Republic of China, Nanking. What followed is now known as the Nanking Massacre, a period of several weeks wherein massive numbers of Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were killed.

After some KMT commanders of the National Revolutionary Army flee Nanking, a Chinese Nationalist KMT soldier, Lu Jianxiong and fellow soldier Zhao attempt to stop a fleeing group of troops from leaving the city, but as they exit the city gates, they are captured by Japanese Imperial troops that have surrounded the city.

As the Japanese search the city, a Japanese soldier named Masao Kadokawa and other troops are raided by Lu and a small unit of KMT regular and irregular soldiers who attack from building tops. However, they are eventually forced to surrender as more Japanese troops arrive. Lu is captured and all the soldiers are marched out to the beach to be killed in a mass execution. Afterwards, Zhao finds Lu dead, but also sees that Xiaodouzi, a young boy soldier, has survived. Both of them flee to the Nanking Safety Zone run Dr. John Rabe, a German business man and Nazi party member as well as other Westerners. In this safety zone, thousands of Chinese women, children, elderly men, and wounded soldiers seek refuge from the killing. The safety zone is forcefully entered several times by bands of Japanese soldiers intent on raping female refugees. Due to the repeated intrusions, the women are forced to cut their hair and dress like men in order to avoid being raped. Xiaojiang, an attractive prostitute refuses to do so saying that she needs to keep her hair in order to feed herself.

Meanwhile, Kadokawa develops feelings for a Japanese comfort woman named Yuriko, and struggles to come to terms with the omnipresent violence around him with his own conflicting impulses. Despite his feelings of alienation, Kadokawa brings Yuriko candy and gifts from Japan and vows to marry her after the war. Read more

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