Movies like Cast a Giant Shadow

20 movies like Cast a Giant Shadow, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Bitter Victory(1958), Enemy at the Gates(2001), Midway(2019), The Camp Followers(1965), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(1944), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp(1943), The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957), Wake Island(1942), Mongol(2007), Caterpillar(2010), Is Paris Burning?(1966) ...

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Cast a Giant Shadow

In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.

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They Shall Not Grow Old

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

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Bitter Victory

A British captain (Richard Burton) goes on a raid in World War II Libya with a major (Curt Jurgens) he knows his wife (Ruth Roman) has slept with.

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Enemy at the Gates

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Midway

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

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The Camp Followers

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.

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Wake Island

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

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Mongol

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

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Caterpillar

In 1940s Japan a villager must fulfill her duty to her husband, a decorated soldier who returned from war a quadruple amputee.

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Is Paris Burning?

The departure of the German Army from Paris in 1944.

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This Above All

Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.

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Night Ambush

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.

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Journey Together

British propaganda film from WW2 stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.

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Decision Before Dawn

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.

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A Yank in the RAF

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

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Crash Dive

A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl.

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We Were Soldiers

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.

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In Enemy Hands

When American submarine Swordfish is torpedoed the survivors are picked up by a passing German U-boat but an outbreak of meningitis threatens all aboard.

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