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    Champ d'honneur (1989)

    The Franco-Prussian war is the setting for this drama about a young peasant boy who enlists in the...

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    King and Country (1965)

    During World War I, an army private is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to...

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    Promis... jure!

    World War II as seen through the eyes of a an infatuated young man.

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    Codice Privato (1988)

    When a writer breaks off his affair with a poor girl, she searches for the clue to his departure...

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    Ayahku

    The Indonesian Ayahku (My Father) takes place two decades after W.D. Mochtar deserted his family to...

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    Netepichnaja Istoria

    Grigori Chukrai is well-respected director, known in the West for his films Clear Skies and Ballad...

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    Everybody Go Home! (1962)

    In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly...

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    La Piu bella del reame

    A woman goes to a deserted hotel to write a book and befriends an old gentleman.

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    Schatten der Wuste

    Adventure thriller about two men and a woman as they cross the desert in Africa.

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    Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels

    A casual glance at adolescent anxiety and unspoken love along the way.

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    Tropico de Cancer

    Families living in poverty in central Mexico's desert landscape.

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    Colorado

    A cowboy (Roy Rogers) tracks down his brother, a traitor during the Civil War.

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    The Flying Deuces (1939)

    Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) join the Foreign Legion and wind up scheduled for a...

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    Green Dolphin Street (1947)

    Two sisters (Lana Turner, Donna Reed) love a man (Richard Hart) amid revolt and natural disaster in...

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    The Leatherneck

    When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille...

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    Man on the Run (2009)

    A Scotland Yard inspector (Edward Chapman) hunts an army deserter (Derek Farr) tied to a holdup.

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    Another Man's Wife

    Real-life husband and wife James Kirkwood and Lila Lee play Mr. and Mrs. in Another Man's Wife....

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    Arms and the Man

    This first film version of George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of questionable manners stars Barry...

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    The Big Bonanza

    An unjustly court-martialed Army officer (Richard Arlen) escapes and finds his buddy (Robert...

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    California (1947)

    Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked...

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    Canyon of Light

    Tom Mix's lucrative contract with Fox Studios was drawing to a close when the World's Most Popular...

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    The Divine Woman (1928)

    One of the great directors of the silent era, Victor Sjostrom, teamed with fellow Swede Greta Garbo...

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    Fort Defiance

    A man (Ben Johnson) tracking a Civil War deserter (Dane Clark) helps him and his blind brother...

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    Gilded Fool

    Essanay's A Gilded Fool begins as the dim-witted young hero inherits several million dollars....

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    Harriet Craig (1950)

    A businessman's (Wendell Corey) wife (Joan Crawford) is obsessed with running their household and...

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    Her Man O'war

    During WWI, two American doughboys, William Boyd and Jimmie Adams, volunteer to pose as deserters...

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    Hurricane

    That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a...

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    The Last Train from Madrid

    Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of...

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    The Man Worth While

    Romaine Fielding produced, directed, and starred in this drama, which was based on the famous poem...

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    Mary Jane's Pa

    A deserter (Guy Kibbee) saves his wife (Aline MacMahon) from gangsters out to ruin her newspaper.