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Reach for the Sky
1956 • Drama • War
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Purple Plain
1954 • Drama • Adventure • War
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Who?
1974 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal i…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Hireling
1973 • Drama • Romance
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Above Us the Waves
1955 • War
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means,…
Why matched: genres War
Plenty
1985 • Drama • Romance
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Defence of the Realm
1986 • Thriller • Action
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Fo…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
The Longest Day
1962 • Drama • War • Action
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established a…
Why matched: genres Drama, War