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Summary: Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Runtime: 2 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 70,000,000
Domestic: $ 217,049,603
International: $ 265,300,000
Summary: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Runtime: 2 h 41 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 27,200,000
International: $ 530
Summary: When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Runtime: 2 h 20 min
MPAA: R

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Movie budget: $ 12,800,000
Domestic: $ 1,111,061
International: $ 75,176,921
Summary: In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Denmark, Germany
Language: Danish
Movie budget: $ 35,500,000
Domestic: $ 435,266
International: $ 2,734,287
Summary: After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Release Date: December 16, 1994
Genres: Drama, War
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Hong Kong, China
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 2,332,728
Summary: A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, China
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 68,000,000
Domestic: $ 85,817,906
International: $ 126,004,791
Summary: After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,661,530
Summary: The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 671,437
Summary: In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min
MPAA: R

Language: German
Summary: Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
Runtime: 2 h 38 min
MPAA: M

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,700,000
Domestic: $ 7,100,000
International: $ 435
Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
Runtime: 2 h 24 min
MPAA: GP

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 4,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,200,000
Summary: During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Summary: A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 41,040
International: $ 38,688
Summary: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000
Domestic: $ 189,740,665
International: $ 340,691,457
Summary: After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 65,000,000
Domestic: $ 115,637,895
International: $ 45,821,402
Summary: A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Hungary, France
Language: Hungarian
Movie budget: $ 1,500,000
Domestic: $ 1,777,043
International: $ 4,882,078
Summary: Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Runtime: 2 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Italy, United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 45,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,919,117
International: $ 1,414,537