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Is Paris Burning? (1966)
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Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Original name: Paris brûle-t-il?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but von Choltitz disobeyed.The film follows historical events as U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, head of the Allied invasion, refuses to divert troops to liberate Paris. His hand is forced by the French military leader, Philippe Leclerc, and by a Resistance uprising in the city. Von Choltitz keeps details of the uprising from the German high command in an effort to save the city being destroyed in retaliation. The film follows his turmoil as a soldier and as the man who doesn't wish to be seen by history as the cause of a beautiful city's destruction.
Style: harsh, factual, tense, suspense, serious, emotional, captivating, suspenseful, retro, informative ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, resistance, holocaust, nazi, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, rescue, totalitarianism, wartime life, against the odds, survival, danger, insubordination, heroic mission, anti hero, liberation, military, resistance movement, justice, machine gun, french history, occupation, fictional history, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1966, year 1944, 40s
Place: france, paris france, europe, warsaw poland, germany
Keyword: gangsters, german, french

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Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The ...
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Place: belgium, america, europe
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The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
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Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
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Katyn (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
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Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 153 min.
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Female Agents (2008)
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Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 175 min.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 110 min.
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April 9th (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
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Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 117 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
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Only the Brave (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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