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A collection of six war movies all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. 300: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700...

Atonement: In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will...

In Pei, a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander faces peril both inside and outside the palace walls. But he has a secret weapon: a look-alike who can fool both Pei's enemies and the King himself.

It tells the story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans of the bombing campaign.

"Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault."

The dramatic World War II story of Britain's heroic attempts to sink the Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord, using the midget "X-craft" submarines.

Set in Nazi Germany in 1936, this is the story of George Heisler who along with six others escapes from a concentration camp. One by one the others are captured while George keeps one step ahead and is aided by others who risk their own lives to help him.

This documentary tells the fate of the World War II heavy cruiser Indianapolis using first-person accounts from the last crew and their families. A devastating torpedo attack killed three-fourths of the crew, and survivors spend five days floating alone in the Pacific, before their miraculous rescue. Includes rare WWII footage, previously unpublished photographs, open-ocean reenactments and new footage from one of the last heavy cruisers of the...

Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.

Responsible for some of the greatest films of the twentieth century-including The Grapes of Wrath and The Quiet Man-John Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military. Ford lived his life against the background that Twentieth Century-Fox fashioned for him, and as he did, the facts of his life merged with-and became inseparable from-his multifaceted legend. In The Westerns and War Films of John...