Hot Shots!

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 31 Jul 1991 · English

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 21 May 1993 · English

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Movie · 8.1 / 10 · 29 Jan 1964 · English

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

The Alamo

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 23 Oct 1960 · English

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Kelly's Heroes

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 22 Jun 1970 · English

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

Love and Death

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 10 Jun 1975 · English

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Lawrence of Arabia

Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 11 Dec 1962 · English

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.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 10 Apr 1951 · English

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

The 300 Spartans

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 1 Aug 1962 · English

The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.

Khartoum

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 9 Jun 1966 · English

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Hannibal Brooks

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 18 Jan 1969 · English

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.

Carry On Jack

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 23 Feb 1964 · English

Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.