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This is a list of films featuring the French Foreign Legion in which the Foreign Legion is portrayed either through its plot or by a main character.. The Foreign Legion is an elite unit of the French army, established in 1831, and it has seen action throughout the world, recently in Africa and the Middle East.
The history of French airborne units began in the Interwar period when the French Armed Forces formed specialized paratroopers units. First formed in the French Air Force, they were rapidly integrated into the French Army, French Navy, National Gendarmerie and from the British Armed Forces. Some were later included in the postwar French Armed ...
Headquarters sends only a single plane load of French paratroopers, under the command of Major de Clairefons. Despite Raspéguy's attempts to provide covering fire, the paratroopers are slaughtered as they land. Major de Clairefons is killed when his parachute drags him into a minefield.
For other nations airborne forces, see List of paratrooper forces. Films. Theirs Is the Glory (1946) [1] The Red Beret (1953) [2] The Longest Day (1962) [3] [4]
This is a list of films produced in the French cinema, ordered by year and decade of release on separate pages. Before 1910. List of French films before 1910;
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed is a 2012 war drama film directed by Ryan Little and produced by Little and Adam Abel. It is the second installment in the Saints and Soldiers film series, and is based on events that took place during the invasion of Southern France in World War II.
The film occupied the 48th place on the Critics' Top 250 Films of Sight and Sound ' s 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, [25] as well as 120th place on Empire magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. [26] In 2010, Empire ranked the movie 6th in its list of the 100 Best Films of World Cinema. [27]
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.