Movies like MacArthur
If MacArthur's mix of world war ii, korean war (1950-53) and pacific war stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what MacArthur's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Directed by Terrence Malick · 171 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, pacific war · Also drama and history
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
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Unbroken
2014 · Directed by Angelina Jolie · 137 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, pacific war · Also drama and war
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Directed by Toshio Masuda · 144 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, pacific war · Also war and history · From the same decade (1970s)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end.
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Flags of Our Fathers
2006 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 135 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, pacific war · Also war and drama
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945.
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Hacksaw Ridge
2016 · Directed by Mel Gibson · 139 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Cross of Iron
1977 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 133 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history · From the same decade (1970s)
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…
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Defiance
2008 · Directed by Edward Zwick · 137 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis.
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The Great Raid
2005 · Directed by John Dahl · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also history and war
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.