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War Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Action
Beasts of No Nation
2015 · Drama
The Russian Woodpecker
2015 · History
Soldiers of the Damned
2015 · Action
Northern Limit Line
2015 · Drama
Testament of Youth
2015 · Biography
The Water Diviner
2015 · Drama
Little Boy
2015 · Drama
Monsters: Dark Continent
2015 · Sci-Fi
Tangerines
2015 · Drama
In Country
2015 · History
Battle for Sevastopol
2015 · War
My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes
2015 · History
Battle of Surabaya
2015 · History
'71
2015 · Action
1944
2015 · War
Picket 43
2015 · War
Unbroken
2014 · Action
American Sniper
2014 · Action
The Imitation Game
2014 · Biography
The Invisible Front
2014 · Biography
Suite Française
2014 · Romance
Private Peaceful
2014 · Drama
Fury
2014 · Action
Camp X-Ray
2014 · Drama
Ordered to Forget
2014 · War
Dracula Untold
2014 · Action
Field of Lost Shoes
2014 · Action
Corn Island
2014 · War
Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014 · Drama
Fires on the Plain
2014 · Drama
Canopy
2014 · Adventure
The Notebook
2014 · Drama
Saints and Soldiers: The Void
2014 · War
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
2014 · Adventure
Warsaw 44
2014 · History
Prelude to Axanar
2014 · War
Secrets of War
2014 · Family
Burning Blue
2014 · Biography
Children of War
2014 · War
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