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1 day ago · 1966's Sand Pebbles is an oft-forgotten epic starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough. While most war movies of the era were about World War II, Sand Pebbles takes place in the inter-war ...
5 days ago · Something about the 1980s action movie marks it as the most extravagant, bold and explosive era of the genre. ... This one came right at the tail end of the Cold War. Russia proved a cinematic ...
5 days ago · Master and Commander. Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd. 197 votes. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, directed by Peter Weir, is a brilliant blend of British cinema and war themes, immersing viewers in the thrilling world of naval warfare during the Napoleonic Wars.
5 days ago · The Wind Rises. Emily Blunt, Martin Short, John Krasinski. 32 votes. This poignant animated film from celebrated director Hayao Miyazaki follows the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the brilliant but conflicted designer of Japan's most famous fighter plane during World War II.
2 days ago · This type of conspiracy theory, which routinely appears in the mainstream media, posits that the United States, in an effort to minimize the risk to its own citizens, funded dangerous research in China, where oversight is lax and scientific knowledge (allegedly) lags behind. These experiments were supposedly undertaken in secret in order to ...
1 day ago · At the end of the war, the Soviet Union had lost 27 million people. The Western allies lost less than 2 million. Germany lost around 4 million troops in the Eastern Front. On the Western Front it lost 1 million. I think the German officials are invited to the D-Day celebrations but Russia is kept out. Where is the outcry about this?
1 day ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
