Movies like Paths of Glory

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   The Longest Day

   Strong story similarity

   1962 · 178 min · Action · Drama · War

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   The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: black and white and soldier

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   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

   Same director

   1964 · 95 min · Comedy · War

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   After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong shared themes: anti war and black and white

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   The Young Lions

   Strong story similarity

   1958 · 167 min · Action · Drama · War

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   The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: black and white and soldier

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   Cast a Giant Shadow

   Shared cast

   1966 · 146 min · Drama · War

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   An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Fear and Desire

   Same director

   1953 · 62 min · Drama · Thriller · War

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   After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

   Strong story similarity

   1955 · 100 min · Drama · War

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   A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Hell Is for Heroes

   Strong story similarity

   1962 · 90 min · Drama · War

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   World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: france and germany

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   Johnny Got His Gun

   Strong story similarity

   1971 · 112 min · Drama · War

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   A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: anti war and world war i

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   Judgment at Nuremberg

   Strong story similarity

   1961 · 191 min · Drama · History

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   In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    Similar atmosphere

    1957 · 162 min · Drama · History · War

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    The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
    • similar audience response

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