War+WESTERN+HISTORY 2009
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- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
- DirectorJim SheridanStarsJake GyllenhaalNatalie PortmanTobey MaguireWhile on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.
- DirectorGrant HeslovStarsEwan McGregorGeorge ClooneyKevin SpaceyA reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
- DirectorOren MovermanStarsBen FosterSamantha MortonWoody HarrelsonAn American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
- DirectorRoss KatzStarsKevin BaconTom AldredgeNicholas ArtBased on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.
- DirectorChuan LuStarsYe LiuWei FanHideo NakaizumiIn 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
- DirectorStephen PoliakoffStarsRomola GaraiEddie RedmayneJuno TempleThe adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsColin FarrellJamie SivesPaz VegaThe wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
- DirectorSanping HanJianxin HuangStarsGuoqiang TangGuoli ZhangQing XuInspired by true events, Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
- DirectorSamuel MaozStarsYoav DonatItay TiranOshri CohenDuring the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
- DirectorUwe BollStarsKristanna LokenDavid O'HaraNoah Dalton DanbyAmerican journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
- DirectorRenzo MartinelliStarsRutger HauerRaz DeganF. Murray AbrahamGerman Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire. But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor.
- DirectorJoshua NewtonStarsRoy ScheiderScott CohenAlexander NewtonA retired cop seeks revenge against an elderly man he's convinced is the Nazi who slaughtered his family during WW2.
- DirectorBrent HuffStarsVladimir RajcicMichael MadsenMark DacascosThis action thriller, set in Belgrade, Chicago and Kosovo, chronicles the complicated relationship and reunion of estranged brothers, Alex and Peter and the forbidden love of a Serbian soldier and a young Muslim woman. Alex, believing his father to be at death's door and in need of a bone marrow transplant, ventures from Serbia to Chicago to find his brother Peter in an effort to save their dying dad. Peter escaped from Serbia with their mother years ago, leaving behind his brother and father to fight in the war. With the help of an American CIA operative, Alex finds his brother in Chicago. What Alex does not realize is that their father is being used as a tool by a terrorist named Dreq, who thinks that Peter holds the key to a devastating chemical weapon that their father developed under duress for the Soviets during the Cold War. Goran Obilich is prepared to sacrifice everything to make sure that the chemical weapon will never fall into terrorist hands. Alex convinces his brother to return to Serbia where they discover that Alex's Muslim girlfriend has become a pawn in Dreq's deadly game. Secret alliances are revealed and hidden identities become known as the brothers discover that freedom is never free.
- DirectorChris McIntyreStarsAmy AckerDanica McKellarFaye DunawayThe film is based on real events, focusing on the lives of three young nurses, one of whom undertakes a treacherous journey up the Mekong River to Cambodia to save a very young Vietnamese-American girl before her life is destroyed during the American bombing of Cambodia.
- DirectorJerry ButeynStarsTino StruckmannMichael BerrymanOlivier GrunerIn the waning days of WWar II, enemies must become allies in order to deliver a message that could change the world.
- DirectorDavid WhitneyStarsShaun DooleyDean AndrewsRasheed NazIn 1999, a British mine clearance engineer working for the Taliban government in Afghanistan must flee the country when he becomes embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue and betrayal.
- DirectorSang-woo LeeStarsMoon Sung-KeunKim Roe-haJeon Hye-jinDuring the Korean War, small mountain village is evacuated as retreating American GIs approach.
- DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsRiley O'BryanKate Lyn SheilBruno Meyrick JonesTyrone aimlessly embarks upon an obfuscating journey into nonsensical frustration as he tries to locate German V-2 rockets at the end of World War II, as a soldier in the United States Army's Operation Paperclip.
- DirectorJustin Eugene EvansStarsMichael ScovottiRoss MarquandMichael WincottIn 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders are clear: take the documents from Dzerzhinsky and kill him.
- DirectorJean LibertéStarsPreston James HillierKrash MillerRussell WhaleyFive American soldiers enter Nazi-occupied Europe on a covert assignment to kidnap the head of Operation Bernhard.
- DirectorHaider RashidStarsIan AttfieldZoe RigbyGraham BoweThe son of a world renowned Iraqi writer faces the aftermath of his father's assassination in Baghdad, and his undeclared love for his best friend.
- DirectorStephanie ArgyAlec BoehmStarsLee PerkinsDonal Thoms-CappelloMeg BroganWashington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, a charming and irrepressible young thief is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device that the Japanese military is using to encode its top-secret messages. During the mission, which is complicated by the spy's dark past in Tokyo, the two discover that they are pawns in a larger game. Together, they devise an intricate but risky scheme to outwit the people trying to use them.
- DirectorGiacomo TalaminiStarsGiacomo TalaminiPhillip SacramentoPatrizia LiccardiThe movie is set in 2007, taking place before or right after the first part of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
- DirectorRob BottsStarsGary WeeksRob BottsPaul J. AlessiLine in the Sand is the story of two US Marines lost in the wastelands of Iraq fighting insurgency, the environment, their own ideologies, and eventually each other, to survive.