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11:55 (2016)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  80 min. 
Plot: Returning to his hometown, US Marine Nelson Sanchez finds himself trapped by the violent past he had tried to escape.
Cast: Victor Almanzar, Shirley Rumierk, Elizabeth Rodriguez. Directed by Ari Issler & Ben Snyder.
Categories:  Drama  Military  Domestic Relations

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Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  57 min. 
Plot: American Soldiers fighting in the Iraq war and their homecomings.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent.
Categories:  Documentary  Military  Television

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Andersonville Trial, The (1970)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD  150 min. 
Plot: Adaptation of Saul Levitt's 1959 play about one of America's most notorious trials - the prosecution of the commander of an infamous Civil War P.O.W. camp that held 50,000 Yankee prisoners, 14,000 of whom died.
Cast: Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Jack Cassidy. Directed by George C. Scott.
Categories:  History  Military  Human Rights

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Avatar (2009)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  162 min. 
Plot: Paraplegic marine is dispatched to the Moon Pandora on a unique mission.
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel Moer. Directed by James Cameron.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Corporations  Military

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Boot, Das (1981)
Rated:  R  Stars: *****
Format:  DVD  209 min. 
Plot: A German U-Boat commander struggles to keep his young crew alive during the height of World War II's Battle of the Atlantic. In German, with English subtitles.
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson.
Categories:  Military  Maritime  War

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Boys From Brazil, The (1978)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  127 min. 
Plot: A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Steve Guttenberg, James Mason. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  International  Military

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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Rated:  PG13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  124 min. 
Plot: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending the USA's ideals.
Cast: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Joe Johnston.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Military  National Security

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Captain Marvel (2019)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  Blu-ray  124 min. 
Plot: A member of the Starforce elite begins to discover there's more to her past.
Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn , Jude Law, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Clark Gregg . Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Government  Military

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Children in War (2000)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  110 min. 
Plot: In the past decade two million children have been killed in wars around the world and here some survivors tell their story.
Cast: Narration by Susan Raymond. Directed by Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond.
Categories:  Documentary  History  Military

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Close to Home (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  90 min. 
Plot: Two 18-year-old girls are assigned to work together during their compulsory military service and an unlikely friendship forms. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Cast: Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar, Irit Suki, Dani Geva. Directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu.
Categories:  Foreign  Women  Military

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Commando (1985)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  90 min. 
Plot: A retired elite commando must rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator.
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke. Directed by Mark L. Lester.
Categories:  Military  Action  Government

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Crimson Tide (1995)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  116 min. 
Plot: On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini, Matt Craven. Directed by Tony Scott.
Categories:  Action  Military  Maritime

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Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Rated:  PG  Stars: *****
Format:  DVD  91 min. B&W
Plot: A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack.
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Categories:  Military  National Security  Comedy

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Fail-Safe (1964)
Rated:  NR  Stars: **** 1/2
Format:  DVD  112 min. 
Plot: A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe zone.
Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
Categories:  Military  International  Drama

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Few Good Men, A (1992)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  138 min. 
Plot: Naval lawyers must defend two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, J.T. Walsh J.T. Walsh, Christopher Guest. Directed by Rob Reiner.
Categories:  Military  Drama  Criminal Law

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First Blood (1982)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  96 min. 
Plot: A Vietnam Veteran is arrested in a small northern town by an abusive sheriff, only to escape and wage a one man war against the sheriff.
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy. Directed by Ted Kotcheff.
Categories:  Action  Military  Mental Health

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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  132 min. 
Plot: The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Categories:  History  War  Military

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Fog of War, The (2003)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  107 min. 
Plot: A film about the former US Secretary of Defense and the various difficult lessons he learned about the nature and conduct of modern war.
Cast: Robert McNamara. Directed by Erol Morris.
Categories:  Documentary  Military  War

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Fort Apache (1948)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  128 min. B&W
Plot: Duty bound soldiers must obey tactics of their glory seeking commander.
Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz. Directed by John Ford.
Categories:  Western  Law Enforcement  Military

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General's Daughter, The (1999)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  116 min. 
Plot: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson. Directed by Simon West.
Categories:  Military  Mystery/Suspense

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Good German, The (2006)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  108 min. B&W
Plot: In post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.
Cast: Jack Thompson, John Roeder, George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Categories:  International  Criminal Law  Military

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Great Escape, The (1963)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 172 min. 
Plot: Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Cast: Steve McQueen, James garner, Richard Attenborough. Directed by John Sturges.
Categories:  War  International  Military

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Great Santini, The (1979)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  115 min. 
Plot: A son struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father.
Cast: Blythe Danner, Robert Duvall, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw, Lisa Jane Persky. Directed by Lewis John Carlino.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Military

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Hart's War (2002)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  125 min. 
Plot: During World War II, a former law student is chosen to defend a black prisoner of war accused of murder.
Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Dashon Howard, Cole Hauser. Directed by Gregory Hoblit.
Categories:  Military  Criminal Law  War

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High Crimes (2002)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  115 min. 
Plot: A high-powered lawyer finds her world turned upside down when her husband is arrested and revealed to be another man on trial for murdering Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines.
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, James Caviezel. Directed by Carl Franklin.
Categories:  Military  Criminal Law  Drama

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Hunt for Red October, The (1990)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  135 min. 
Plot: In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in charge of their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA.
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill. Directed by John McTiernan.
Categories:  Action  Military  National Security

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Hurt Locker (2008)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  130 min. 
Plot: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
Categories:  War  Action  Military

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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  120 min. 
Plot: Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat.
Cast: Liam Hensworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman. Directed by Roland Emmerich.
Categories:  Action  SciFi/Fantasy  Military

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Jarhead (2005)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 123 min. 
Plot: A marine's memoir of his experiences in boot camp through his combat in Desert Storm.
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper. Directed by Sam Mendes.
Categories:  Military  International  Human Rights

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Last Detail, The (1973)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  104 min. 
Plot: Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young. Directed by Hal Ashby.
Categories:  Comedy  Drama  Military

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 217 min. 
Plot: A young British intelligence officer organizes an Arab guerrilla army and leads them against the Turks during World War I.
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy. Directed by David Lean.
Categories:  International  Military  War

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Lucky Ones, The (2008)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  115 min. 
Plot: Three injured Iragi war soldiers are home on leave and end up on a cross country road trip searching for themselves.
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Pena. Directed by Neil Burger.
Categories:  War  Drama  Military

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Man in the Middle (1964)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  93 min. 
Plot: A military lawyer defending an officer for court martial finds his case blocked at all turns by a conspiracy.
Cast: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard. Directed by Guy Hamilton.
Categories:  War  Drama  Military

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Man Who Would be King, The (1975)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  129 min. 
Plot: Two ex-soldiers in India head off to Kafiristan in order to become kings in their own right.
Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer. Directed by John Huston.
Categories:  Government  Military

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Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  129 min. 
Plot: In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.
Cast: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
Categories:  Drama  Mystery/Suspense  Military

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Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: *****
Format:  DVD  127 min. B&W
Plot: A platoon of Korean War G.I.s returns home with mysterious gaps in their memories, which seem to point toward a diabolic political plot.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
Categories:  Military  Politics

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Men of Honor (2000)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  129 min. 
Plot: The son of a sharecropper becomes the first African-American U.S. Navy diver after surviving the instruction of his embittered trainer.
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Charlize Theron. Directed by George Tillman, Jr.
Categories:  Military  Racism  Drama

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Messenger, The (2009)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  113 min. 
Plot: A soldier struggles with ethical dilemma due to his involvement with widow of fallen officer.
Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker. Directed by Oren Moverman.
Categories:  Drama  Military  Ethics

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No End in Sight (2007)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  102 min. 
Plot: A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
Cast: Campbell Scott as narrator. Directed by Charles Ferguson.
Categories:  Documentary  War  Military

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No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  119 min. 
Plot: A country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and is too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy.
Cast: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Don Knotts. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
Categories:  Comedy  Military  War

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On the Town (1949)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  98 min. 
Plot: Three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller. Directed by Gene Kelly.
Categories:  Military  Comedy

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Paths of Glory (1957)
Rated:  NR  Stars: *****
Format:  DVD  86 min. B&W
Plot: When soldiers in WWI refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example by court martialing them.
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Timothy Carey, Ralph Meeker. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Categories:  War  Drama  Military

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Patriot Guard Riders (2011)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  75 min. 
Plot: Documents the work of a 200,000-member motorcycle group whose members act as honor guards at funerals for American soldiers killed in action.
Cast: . Directed by Ellen Frick.
Categories:  Documentary  War  Military

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Patton (1970)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 171 min. 
Plot: The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted.
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
Categories:  Biography  Military  War

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Predator (1987)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  107 min. 
Plot: A team of commandos find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior, while on a mission in the Central American jungle.
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, R.G. Armstrong, Shane Black, Kevin Peter Hall. Directed by John McTiernan.
Categories:  Military  Action  SciFi/Fantasy

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Prisoners of the Sun (1990)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  108 min. 
Plot: At the end of World War II on the Indonesian island of Ambon two Australian officers are in charge of prosecuting Japanese officers.
Cast: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach, Russell Crowe. Directed by Stephen Wallace.
Categories:  War  Military  International

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Rio Grande (1950)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  105 min. B&W
Plot: A Union cavalry officer risks court-martial with an unorthodox plan to battle the marauding Apaches.
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claud Jarman, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carroll Naish, Victor McLaglen. Directed by John Ford.
Categories:  Western  Romance  Military

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Rules of Engagement (2000)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  127 min. 
Plot: An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a third world country.
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer, Blair Underwood. Directed by William Friedkin.
Categories:  Military  International  Drama

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 170 min. 
Plot: US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Categories:  War  Military  Drama

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Serenity (2005)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  119 min. 
Plot: A crew of an interstellar smugglers fights to keep one of their own from falling into the hands of the totalitarian military regime.
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass. Directed by Joss Whedon.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Contracts

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Soldier's Story, A (1984)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  102 min. 
Plot: A lawyer from Washington, D.C. is sent to investigate the murder of a sergeant at a Louisiana Army base.
Cast: Howard Rollins, Jr., Adolph Ceasar. Directed by Norman Jewison.
Categories:  Military  Drama

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Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  116 min. 
Plot: Examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Errol Morris.
Categories:  Documentary  War  Military

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Stealth (2005)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: **1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 121 min. 
Plot: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Cast: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh. Directed by Rob Cohen.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Military

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Stripes (1981)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  106 min. 
Plot: Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
Cast: Bill Murphy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, John Candy. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
Categories:  Drama  Military  Comedy

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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 148 min. 
Plot: Two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War. In Korean with English subtitles.
Cast: Dong-Kun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Yeong-ran Lee. Directed by Je-gyu Kang.
Categories:  Foreign  Military  War

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They Were Expendable (1945)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  135 min. B&W
Plot: The PT boat unit Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three defends the Philippines from Japanese invasion during World War II.
Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, and Donna Reed. Directed by John Ford.
Categories:  Drama  War  Military

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Thing From Another World, The (1951)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  87 min. B&W
Plot: Scientists and American Air Force officials at a remote arctic outpost must fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism.
Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, James Arness. Directed by Christian Nyby.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Horror

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Top Gun (1986)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc) 110 min. 
Plot: Macho students compete to be best in class of an elite flying school.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan. Directed by Tony Scott.
Categories:  Action  Military  Aviation

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Town Without Pity (1961)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  103 min. B&W
Plot: When four young American soldiers are accused of raping a girl from a German village near their camp, a lawyer is assigned the distasteful task of defending them.
Cast: E.G. Marshall, Kirk Douglas, Robert Blake, Frank Sutton, Mal Sondock. Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt.
Categories:  Criminal Law  Military  Drama

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United Red Army (2011)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  190 min. 
Plot: Two of the most radical student groups come together to form the United Red Army. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Cast: Sakai Maki, Arata, Namiki Akie. Directed by Koj Wakamatsu.
Categories:  Foreign  Military  Action

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Very Long Engagement, A (2004)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 133 min. 
Plot: A young woman relentlessly searches for her fiance, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War I. In French, with English subtitles.
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Categories:  Military  Romance  Foreign

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WarGames (1983)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  113 min. 
Plot: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing and possibly starts World War III.
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. Directed by John Badham.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Drama

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Welcome, The: A Healing Journey for War Veterans and Their Families (2010)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  93 min. 
Plot: Offers an intimate view of life after war: the pride, isolation, fear, anger and pain of post-traumatic stress that affects vets and family members alike.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Kim Shelton.
Categories:  Documentary  Military  Mental Health

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Why We Fight (2005)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  98 min. 
Plot: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War.
Cast: Interviews with Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, John S.D. Eisenhower, and Dan Rather. Directed by Eugene Jarecki.
Categories:  Documentary  Military  Economics

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X-Men 2: X-Men United (2003)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 134 min. 
Plot: The X-Men band together to find a mutant assassin; meanwhile the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen, Halle Berry. Directed by Bryan Singer.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Government

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You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2010)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  100 min. 
Plot: An encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and a child detainee in Guantanamo Bay Prison.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Henriquez.
Categories:  Documentary  Military  Children

Law movies
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  157 min. 
Plot: Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Joel Edgerton. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
Categories:  Drama  History  Military

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