
Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.


“Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.”
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

Jeremy Irvine
Albert Narracott

Peter Mullan
Ted Narracott

Emily Watson
Rose Narracott

Niels Arestrup
Grandfather

David Thewlis
Lyons

Tom Hiddleston
Capt. James Nicholls

Benedict Cumberbatch
Maj. Jamie Stewart

Celine Buckens
Emilie

Toby Kebbell
Geordie Soldier

Patrick Kennedy
Lt. Charlie Waverly
War Horse is a war, history, adventure film released in 2011 exploring themes of world war i, horse, farm life, execution, trapped, alcoholic. Directed by Steven Spielberg, it stars Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson. On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman.