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Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 Japanese-American epic war film that dramatizes the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, from both American and Japanese positions.
I.N.R.I. (1923) – German silent religious epic film depicting a retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ [173] The Little Napoleon (German: Der kleine Napoleon ) (1923) – German silent historical comedy film depicting the life and amorous adventures of Jérôme Bonaparte , the younger brother of Napoleon , who ...
By December 1780, the American Revolutionary War's North American theatres had reached a critical point. The Continental Army had suffered major defeats earlier in the year, with its southern armies either captured or dispersed in the loss of Charleston and the Battle of Camden in the south, while the armies of George Washington and the British commander-in-chief for North America, Sir Henry ...
He is depicted as courtly in manner, but tolerant, or even supportive, of brutal practices against those found deficient among his own forces, and against enemy prisoners. In the 2000 film The Patriot about the events leading up to Yorktown, Cornwallis was portrayed by English actor Tom Wilkinson. [117]
The siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of General Cornwallis and the capture of both him and his army. The Continental Army 's victory at Yorktown prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.
Sarajevo (French: De Mayerling à Sarajevo) (1940) – French historical drama film portraying the love affair and marriage between Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, leading up to their eventual assassination in 1914 in events that triggered the First World War [32]
The Government Inspector (2005) – British biographical drama television film based on the life of David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom [51] The Great Raid (2005) – American-Australian war drama film about the Raid at Cabanatuan on the island of Luzon, Philippines during World War II [52]
The storming of redoubt #10 at Yorktown. The siege of Yorktown was the culminating act of the Yorktown campaign, a series of military operations occupying much of 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.