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Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
Pages in category "War drama films based on actual events" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Diên Biên Phu (French for Điện Biên Phủ) is a French 1992 epic war film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer.With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of both the French and Vietnamese armed forces, Dîen Bîen Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies produced in French filmmaking history.
Although Rambo is set in 1985, the film's message is that the Vietnam war was a war that the United States could, should and would have won had it not been for the "stab-in-the-back" by American leftists. [10] Reinforcing the film's pro-war message is the portrayal of the relationship between the Soviet characters and the Vietnamese characters ...
Geschwader Fledermaus (Bat Squadron) (1957); Cerný prapor (The Black Battalion/Das schwarze Bataillon/Bataillon des Teufels) (1958); Kommando 52 (Commando 52) (1965); Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man – Confessions of a Killer) (1966)
The British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward and David Lean's In Which We Serve (1942)—"the most successful British film of the war years" [62] —Millions Like Us (1943), and The Way Ahead (1944). [63] B-25s about to launch from the USS Hornet in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ...
The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War.The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan.
The Dark World (Turkish: Karanlık Dünya) (1953) – Turkish biographical drama film depicting a realistic account of the life of the bard Veysel, shot in his native village [121] The Desert Rats (1953) – war film concerning the Siege of Tobruk in 1941 North Africa during World War II [122]