241. Flying Leathernecks
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen, William Harrigan
242. To Hell and Back
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Actors: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer, Paul Picerni
243. The Devil's Disciple
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Janette Scott, Eva Le Gallienne, Harry Andrews
244. Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti
Actors: Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, Faisal Talal, Firas al Lateef, Marwan Reyad
Plot: Follows the members of Iraq's only heavy-metal band, Acrassicauda, from 2003, just after Saddam's ouster, through 2008 as they struggle with life in Iraq to becoming refugees.
245. Children of Hiroshima ( Gembaku no ko )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Niwa Saito, Tsuneko Yamanaka, Shinya Ofuji, Takashi Ito
246. Men in War
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine, Nehemiah Persoff, Vic Morrow
247. Desert of the Tartars, The ( deserto dei Tartari, Il )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Max von Sydow, Jacques Perrin
Plot: Lieutenant Drogo finds his first assignment is an isolated fortress located on the border of a desert and a mountain range. The fort is designed to halt an attack by the Tartars from the desert, but the men assigned to the fort have never seen any signs of the Tartar forces. Sacrificing everything for a distant military ideal - some men prepare, others further their careers while yet others have given up every seeing action.
248. The Zookeeper
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Ziman
Actors: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri, Marek Vasut, Javor Loznica
249. The Good German
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett, Tony Curran, Ravil Isyanov, John Roeder
Plot: A military journalist is back in Berlin during post war Germany when he
begins to investigate a murder and his former girlfriend.
250. Five Graves to Cairo
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova
Plot: A lone British man hides among the French inhabitants in a North African
village as Rommel's troops advance.
