Law Library Movies

	Andersonville Trial, The (1970) Rated:   Stars: ****1/2 Format: DVD    150 min.   Plot: Adaptation of Saul Levitt's 1959 play about one of America's most notorious trials - the prosecution of the commander of an infamous Civil War P.O.W. camp that held 50,000 Yankee prisoners, 14,000 of whom died. Cast: Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Jack Cassidy. Directed by George C. Scott. Categories: History  Military  Human Rights
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	Boys From Brazil, The (1978) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    127 min.   Plot: A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Steve Guttenberg, James Mason. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Categories: Mystery/Suspense  International  Military
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	Close to Home (2005) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    90 min.   Plot: Two 18-year-old girls are assigned to work together during their compulsory military service and an unlikely friendship forms. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Cast: Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar, Irit Suki, Dani Geva. Directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu. Categories: Foreign  Women  Military
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	Commando (1985) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    90 min.   Plot: A retired elite commando must rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke. Directed by Mark L. Lester. Categories: Military  Action  Government
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	Crimson Tide (1995) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    116 min.   Plot: On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so. Cast: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini, Matt Craven. Directed by Tony Scott. Categories: Action  Military  Maritime
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	Das Boot (1981) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    209 min.   Plot: A German U-Boat commander struggles to keep his young crew alive during the height of World War II's Battle of the Atlantic. In German, with English subtitles. Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, ubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig, Uwe Ochsenknecht. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Categories: Military  Maritime  War
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	Dr. Strangelove (1964) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    91 min.  B&W Plot: A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack. Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Categories: Military  National Security  Comedy
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	Fail-Safe (1964) Rated:   Stars: **** 1/2 Format: DVD    112 min.   Plot: A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe zone. Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Categories: Military  International  Drama
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	Few Good Men, A (1992) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    138 min.   Plot: Naval lawyers must defend two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier. Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore. Directed by Rob Reiner. Categories: Military  Drama  Criminal Procedure
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	First Blood (1982) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    96 min.   Plot: A Vietnam Veteran is arrested in a small northern town by an abusive sheriff, only to escape and wage a one man war against the sheriff. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy. Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Categories: Action  Military  Mental Health
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	Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    132 min.   Plot: The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima. Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Categories: History  War  Military
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	Fog of War, The (2003) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    107 min.   Plot: A film about the former US Secretary of Defense and the various difficult lessons he learned about the nature and conduct of modern war. Cast: Robert McNamara. Directed by Erol Morris. Categories: Documentary  Military  War
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	General's Daughter, The (1999) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    116 min.   Plot: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point. Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson. Directed by Simon West. Categories: Military  Mystery/Suspense
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	Good German, The (2006) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    108 min.  B&W Plot: In post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver. Cast: Jack Thompson, John Roeder, George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Categories: International  Criminal Law  Military
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	Great Escape, The (1963) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  172 min.   Plot: Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. Cast: Steve McQueen, James garner, Richard Attenborough. Directed by John Sturges. Categories: War  International  Military
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	Hart's War (2002) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    125 min.   Plot: During World War II, a former law student is chosen to defend a black prisoner of war accused of murder. Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Dashon Howard, Cole Hauser. Directed by Gregory Hoblit. Categories: Military  Criminal Law  War
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	High Crimes (2002) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    115 min.   Plot: A high-powered lawyer finds her world turned upside down when her husband is arrested and revealed to be another man on trial for murdering Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, James Caviezel. Directed by Carl Franklin. Categories: Military  Criminal Procedure  Drama
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	Hunt for Red October, The (1990) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    135 min.   Plot: In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in charge of their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill. Directed by John McTiernan. Categories: Action  Military  National Security
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	Hurt Locker (2008) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    130 min.   Plot: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Categories: War  Action  Military
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	Jarhead (2005) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  123 min.   Plot: A marine's memoir of his experiences in boot camp through his combat in Desert Storm. Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper. Directed by Sam Mendes. Categories: Military  International  Human Rights
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	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Rated:   Stars: ****1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  217 min.   Plot: A young British intelligence officer in Cairo organizes a guerrilla army and leads the Arabs in victories over the Turks; eventually leading his army northward to help defeat the Ottoman Empire. Cast: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy. Directed by David Lean. Categories: International  Military  War
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	Lucky Ones, The (2008) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    115 min.   Plot: Three injured Iragi war soldiers are home on leave and end up on a cross country road trip searching for themselves. Cast: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Pena. Directed by Neil Burger. Categories: War  Drama  Military
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	Man in the Middle (1964) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    93 min.   Plot: A military lawyer defending an officer for court martial finds his case blocked at all turns by a conspiracy. Cast: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard. Directed by Guy Hamilton. Categories: War  Drama  Military
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	Man Who Would be King, The (1975) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    129 min.   Plot: Two ex-soldiers in India head off to Kafiristan in order to become kings in their own right. Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer. Directed by John Huston. Categories: Government  Military
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	Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    127 min.  B&W Plot: A platoon of Korean War G.I.s returns home with mysterious gaps in their memories, which seem to point toward a diabolic political plot. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Categories: Military  Politics
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	Men of Honor (2000) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    129 min.   Plot: The son of a sharecropper becomes the first African-American U.S. Navy diver after surviving the instruction of his embittered trainer. Cast: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Charlize Theron. Directed by George Tillman, Jr. Categories: Military  Racism  Drama
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	On the Town (1949) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    98 min.   Plot: Three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up. Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller. Directed by Gene Kelly. Categories: Military  Comedy
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	Paths of Glory (1957) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    86 min.  B&W Plot: When soldiers in WWI refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example by court martialing them. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Timothy Carey, Ralph Meeker. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Categories: War  Drama  Military
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	Predator (1987) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    107 min.   Plot: A team of commandos find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior, while on a mission in the Central American jungle. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, R.G. Armstrong, Shane Black, Kevin Peter Hall. Directed by John McTiernan. Categories: Military  Action  SciFi/Fantasy
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	Prisoners of the Sun (1990) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    108 min.   Plot: At the end of World War II on the Indonesian island of Ambon two Australian officers are in charge of prosecuting Japanese officers. Cast: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach, Russell Crowe. Directed by Stephen Wallace. Categories: War  Military  International
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	Rio Grande (1950) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    105 min.  B&W Plot: A Union cavalry officer risks court-martial with an unorthodox plan to battle the marauding Apaches. Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claud Jarman, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carroll Naish, Victor McLaglen. Directed by John Ford. Categories: Western  Romance  Military
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	Rules of Engagement (2000) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    127 min.   Plot: An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a third world country. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer, Blair Underwood. Directed by William Friedkin. Categories: Military  International  Drama
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	Saving Private Ryan (1998) Rated:   Stars: ****1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  170 min.   Plot: US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines. Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Categories: War  Military  Drama
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	Serenity (2005) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    119 min.   Plot: A crew of an interstellar smugglers fights to keep one of their own from falling into the hands of the totalitarian military regime. Cast: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass. Directed by Joss Whedon. Categories: SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Contracts
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	Soldier's Story, A (1984) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    102 min.   Plot: A lawyer from Washington, D.C. is sent to investigate the murder of a sergeant at a Louisiana Army base. Cast: Howard Rollins, Jr., Adolph Ceasar. Directed by Norman Jewison. Categories: Military  Drama
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	Stealth (2005) Rated:   Stars: **1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  121 min.   Plot: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war. Cast: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh. Directed by Rob Cohen. Categories: SciFi/Fantasy  Military
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	Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  148 min.   Plot: Two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War. In Korean with English subtitles. Cast: Dong-Kun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Yeong-ran Lee. Directed by Je-gyu Kang. Categories: Foreign  Military  War
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	Thing From Another World, The (1951) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    87 min.  B&W Plot: Scientists and American Air Force officials at a remote arctic outpost must fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism. Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, James Arness. Directed by Christian Nyby. Categories: SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Horror
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	Town Without Pity (1961) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    103 min.  B&W Plot: When four young American soldiers are accused of raping a girl from a German village near their camp, a lawyer is assigned the distasteful task of defending them. Cast: E.G. Marshall, Kirk Douglas, Robert Blake, Frank Sutton, Mal Sondock. Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. Categories: Criminal Law  Military  Drama
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	Very Long Engagement, A (2004) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  133 min.   Plot: A young woman relentlessly searches for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War I. In French, with English subtitles. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Categories: Military  Romance  Foreign
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	WarGames (1983) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    113 min.   Plot: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing and possibly starts World War III. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. Directed by John Badham. Categories: SciFi/Fantasy  Military  Drama
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The W&M Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to our Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you think the library should own, please submit a suggestion form at the circulation desk, or send us an email at [[lawcir]]. You can see a list of all Law Library movies in the online catalog.