Anti War
"anti war" Movies and TV Shows
#1
All Quiet on the Western Front
Synopsis:
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Starring:
Daniel Brühl,
Thibault de Montalembert,
Felix Kammerer
Plot:
based on novel or book,
world war i,
tank,
battle,
period drama,
world war one,
trench warfare,
flamethrower,
no man's land,
mud
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#2
Zabriskie Point
Synopsis:
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Starring:
Harrison Ford,
Philip Baker Hall,
Rod Taylor
#3
Woodstock
Synopsis:
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of…
Starring:
Roger Daltrey,
Pete Townshend,
John Entwistle
Plot:
drugs,
woodstock,
music festival,
1960s,
year 1969,
rock festival,
vietnam era,
anti war,
outdoor concert,
concert film
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#4
WarGames
Synopsis:
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armaged…
Starring:
Matthew Broderick,
Barry Corbin,
John Wood
Plot:
hacker,
cold war,
computer,
modem,
phreaking,
telephone call,
nuclear attack,
game,
norad,
war game
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#5
Three Kings
Synopsis:
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
Starring:
Ice Cube,
Mark Wahlberg,
Cliff Curtis
#6
The Way We Were
Synopsis:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Starring:
Robert Redford,
Murray Hamilton,
Bradford Dillman
#7
The Time Machine
Synopsis:
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Starring:
Rod Taylor,
Sebastian Cabot,
Whit Bissell
Plot:
post apocalypse,
dystopia,
future,
distant future,
morlock,
london england,
time travel,
based on novel,
time machine,
utopia
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#8
The Thin Red Line
Synopsis:
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. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Woody Harrelson,
John C. Reilly
#9
The Great Dictator
Synopsis:
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Starring:
Billy Gilbert,
Charlie Chaplin,
Paulette Goddard
#10
The Deer Hunter
Synopsis:
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
John Savage,
Christopher Walken
#11
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Synopsis:
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Starring:
Sam Jaffe,
Hugh Marlowe,
Patricia Neal
#12
The Cranes Are Flying
Synopsis:
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with…
Starring:
Valentin Zubkov,
Tatyana Samoylova,
Aleksey Batalov
#13
The Big Lebowski
Synopsis:
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Starring:
Peter Stormare,
Steve Buscemi,
Sam Elliott
Plot:
rug,
nihilism,
pornographer,
mistaken identity,
death of friend,
bowling alley,
bowling,
death,
cult film,
millionaire
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#14
Platoon
Synopsis:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Starring:
Keith David,
Johnny Depp,
Willem Dafoe
#15
Paths of Glory
Synopsis:
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Starring:
Joe Turkel,
Kirk Douglas,
Richard Anderson
Plot:
trench warfare,
military officer,
courtroom,
rifle,
world war one,
bayonet,
fear of death,
soldier,
military,
general
...
#16
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Synopsis:
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
Starring:
Iemasa Kayumi,
Kōhei Miyauchi,
Ichirō Nagai
#17
M*A*S*H
Synopsis:
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Tom Skerritt,
Elliott Gould
#18
Masculin Féminin
Synopsis:
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Starring:
Jean-Pierre Léaud,
Henri Attal,
Brigitte Bardot
Plot:
france,
french new wave,
nouvelle vague,
1960s,
disillusionment,
timeframe 1960s,
singer,
friend,
french,
politics
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#19
Johnny Got His Gun
Synopsis:
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories.
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Timothy Bottoms,
Jason Robards
#20
Ivan's Childhood
Synopsis:
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Starring:
Nikolay Grinko,
Irma Raush,
Nikolay Burlyaev
Plot:
child spy,
orphan,
great patriotic war,
childhood memory,
espionage,
world war two,
1940s,
wehrmacht,
eastern front,
enemy lines
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