The Big Red One
May 28, 1980 | IMDB 6.7
113 min Watch NowDrama, War
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
The Hospital
Attack
Carry On Sergeant
Infection
The Lion
The Burmese Harp
Taxi for Tobruk
Akitsu Hot Springs
Rügyek
Captain Newman, M.D.
Mountains of the Moon
Two Thousand Women
Too Late the Hero
The Sicilian
Hell Is for Heroes
Captains of the Clouds
The Tanks Are Coming
Amina
The Great Dictator
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1968
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...The Hospital
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1971
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.Attack
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1956
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.Carry On Sergeant
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 1958
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.Infection
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2004
Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.The Lion
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 2003
In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years.The Burmese Harp
IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 1956
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.Taxi for Tobruk
IMDB 7.1 | May , 1961
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.Akitsu Hot Springs
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1962
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.Rügyek
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
Timi (23) has just been transferred to the Oncology department. She is a meticulous nurse who follows the rules and tries to do her job to the best of her ability. She meets Julia (78), who is in a serious condition on the ward. Timi tries to do everything she can to help Julia, but she no longer wants help, she just wants to end her suffering. Timi, seeing Julia's suffering, is faced with the choice of following the right path or the right way.Captain Newman, M.D.
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1963
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.Mountains of the Moon
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 1990
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.Two Thousand Women
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1944
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.Too Late the Hero
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1970
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.The Sicilian
IMDB 5.2 | Oct , 1987
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.Hell Is for Heroes
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1962
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.Captains of the Clouds
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1942
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.The Tanks Are Coming
IMDB 5.1 | Oct , 1941
Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.Amina
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2021
In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a true story.The Great Dictator
IMDB 8.3 | Oct , 1940
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.