Description: Classic books adapted to the big screen… Recommended for watching and reading! (An ever growing list! 🙂)
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The Great Escape
( 1963 )
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
( 1957 )
After settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
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Letters from Iwo Jima
( 2006 )
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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The African Queen
( 1952 )
In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
( 2013 )
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
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The Boat
( 1982 )
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
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The Right Stuff
( 1983 )
The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
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The Man Who Would Be King
( 1975 )
Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
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