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The Caine Mutiny
Film
1954
Humphrey Bogart stars in this naval courtroom drama about the trial of a group of mutineers from the US Pacific Fleet. As the trial unfolds, we learn that the ship's Captain (Bogart) was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane, and that the men relieved him of command to save their own lives. The drama is compulsive and the starry cast make the most of a mountain of words – especially Bogart, whose final disintegration in court before our eyes has become part of movie legend.
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Carve Her Name With Pride
Film
1958
Virginia McKenna shines as the English girl who marries a handsome young French soldier during the Second World War. Soon after, she receives word that he has been killed in action in North Africa. McKenna is then herself approached to help the war effort, by becoming a secret agent, and get the chance to avenge the death of her husband. Keep your eyes peeled for a glimpse of the young Michael Caine as an uncredited extra in this stirring account of gung-ho wartime exploits.
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Casablanca
Film
1942
With nearly every line of its script engraved on the collective unconscious, and its central performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman defining iconic cool, Casablanca is an exultant classic. With its romantic story, the songs performed by Dooley Wilson, a fantastic script and, of course, the incredibly poignant climactic sequence at the airport, Casablanca has rightly become one of the most popular - if not the most popular - films of all time.
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Casualties Of War
Film
1989
In Brian De Palma's brutal and disturbing fact-based Vietnam film, a Vietnamese women is kidnapped, raped and murdered by four GIs led by battle-scarred Sean Penn. But new recruit Michael J Fox is determined they shouldn't get away with murder - unlike the rest of the American soldiers in Vietnam - and the battle lines are drawn between him and Penn, the leader of the gang.
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Catch 22
Film
1970
Based on Joseph Heller's award-winning 1961 novel, Catch-22 tells the delightfully subversive tale of Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desperate to prove his own insanity so that he can be discharged from the airforce. Only problem is that his superiors know that anyone who wants to try to avoid fighting must be sane. If you use the phrase 'catch-22' in your day to day speech, now you know where it comes from.
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The Charge Of The Light Brigade
Film
1936
Legendary swashbuckler Errol Flynn leads the Light Brigade on their heroic charge into the Valley of Death. Flynn has everything going for him here: romance with Olivia de Havilland, battle scenes and stunts galore. Director Michael Curtiz keeps the action bowling along at a breakneck pace, with never a care for the suffering of either human or animal (Flynn secretly tipped off the RSPCA, resulting in stricter legislation being passed to protect animals in films). Historically incorrect, but magnificent nonetheless.
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Cold Mountain
Film
2003
Jude Law and Nicole Kidman head the all-star cast in Anthony Minghella's stunning drama set during the American Civil War. A wounded confederate soldier named Inman (Law) attempts to return home to the eponymous North Carolina town and be reunited with Ada (Kidman), the woman he left behind. Along the way, he meets a host of colourful characters who help or hinder his passage home, while Kidman struggles to run her father's dilapidated farm and holds onto the hope that Law is still alive. The two leads give powerful performances in a poignant film about how there is no glory in war, only death, but it's the Oscar-winning Renée Zellweger who steals the show.
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The Colditz Story
Film
1955
With a cast chock full of war movie veterans, and based on the real-life memoirs of Pat Reid, The Colditz Story is a an entertaining, and moving, account of life in the most notorious prison camp in the Third Reich. More a rousing adventure story than a portrayal of harsh realities of war, the film follows numerous foiled escape attempts until one of the heroes hits on a brilliant plan...
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Come And See
Film
1986
A harrowing but worthy portrait of a young Russian boy's experiences during The Second World War as he turns from green teenager to hardened resistance fighter. The Second World War always brought out the best in Soviet filmmakers and director Elem Klimov found his ideal subject in this harrowing story of a teenage boy's view of the conflict. The lad Florya is taken off by a group of partisans, fighting in the woods of Byelorussia in 1943. They disappear and he is left to wander, gun in hand, until he rejoins them at the end as an active and hardened participant, his young face prematurely aged.
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Cromwel
Film
1970
Boasting lavish sets, costumes and a British cast to die for, this biopic of the Protestant leader who caused the downfall of Charles I and ruled the country briefly between monarchs takes some liberties with historical accuracy, but is so well made that it gets away with it. Unusually, Richard Harris' Cromwell comes across as la fanatical God-botherer, ultimately leaving audience sympathy to rest with Alec Guinness as the doomed king whose head is destined for the block. As long as you don't rely on the film for your history essay you'll be in for a treat.
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Cross Of Iron
Film
1977
Coming at the Second World War from an unusual angle for an American movie, Sam Peckinpah's tale of Germans retreating from the Russian front is as intelligent as it is violent. Pekinpah concentrates his direction on the conflict between two German officers in a platoon making the dash for safety, but expands that to consider the importance of the individual against the necessity of everyone pulling together to survive. The cast (Max Schell, James Mason, James Coburn and David Warner) all play to the best of their ability - which is considerable - and it makes you wonder what Pekinpah could have achieved if he'd returned to warfare as a topic after this.
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The Cruel Sea
Film
1953
Based on Nicholas Monsarrat's best selling novel derived from his experiences on the North Sea convoys, The Cruel Sea is set during 'the battle of the Atlantic', as the U-boats attempted to destroy British shipping lanes and starve the country into surrender. The film follows the men of the Compass Rose, a small corvette protecting the merchant shipping, as they deal with the unseen menace of the submarines.
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