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World War I: 1,660 Battle of the Falkland Islands: 1914 World War I: 1,900 Battle of Dogger Bank: 1915 World War I: 1,081 Battle of Jutland: 1916 World War I: 12,000 Battle of Cape Machichaco: 1937 Spanish Civil War: 35 Battle of Cape Palos: 1938 Spanish Civil War: 765 Battle of the River Plate: 1939 World War II: 196 Attack on Mers-el-Kébir ...
The siege was the most destructive in history and possibly the most deadly, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths. It was not classified as a war crime at the time, [ 12 ] but some historians have since classified it as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war films often end with them. [6] John Wayne in The Longest Day, 1962. The film critic Stephen Neale suggests that the genre is for the most part well defined and uncontentious, since war films are simply those about war being waged in the 20th century, with combat scenes central to the drama.
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968) and one campaign during the Iraq ...
The story was immortalized by Joseph Conrad and made into the movie The Duellists by Ridley Scott. 1830: French writer Sainte-Beuve and one of the owners of Le Globe newspaper, Paul-François Dubois, fought a duel under a heavy rain. Sainte-Beuve held his umbrella during the duel claiming that he did not mind dying but that he would not get wet.
This list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative. The entries on this list are war films or miniseries that are concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War ) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
The success of the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series popularized the subgenre of yakuza film called Jitsuroku eiga or "actual record films", often depicting events based on true stories. [25] Prior, movies about yakuza were known as Ninkyō eiga or "chivalry films" and set in pre-war Japan.