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War Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Silver Fleet
1943 · War
The Man from Down Under
1943 · Drama
Halls of Montezuma
1951 · Drama
Back to Bataan
1945 · Drama
Flying Tigers
1942 · Action
The War Lover
1962 · Drama
Attack
1956 · Drama
The Fugitive
1910 · War
Band of Brothers
2001 · Drama
Time Limit
1957 · Drama
Cavalcade
1933 · Drama
100 Rifles
1969 · Adventure
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 · Adventure
Wings
1929 · Action
Hell Is for Heroes
1962 · Drama
Objective, Burma!
1945 · Action
PT 109
1963 · Biography
They Died with Their Boots On
1942 · War
Waterloo Bridge
1940 · Drama
They Were Expendable
1945 · Drama
Till the End of Time
1946 · Drama
Hondo
1953 · Drama
36 Hours
1965 · Thriller
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Action
The One That Got Away
1958 · Adventure
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · Fantasy
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Drama
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Drama
Zulu
1964 · Drama
Lifeboat
1944 · Drama
Stalag 17
1953 · Drama
To Have and Have Not
1945 · Adventure
Where Eagles Dare
1969 · Action
Saboteur
1942 · Thriller
Mister Roberts
1955 · Drama
The Diary of Anne Frank
1959 · Biography
The Hill
1965 · Drama
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Action
The Longest Day
1962 · Action
Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Drama
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