Sentences with phrase «war novel based»

A wide - ranging Civil War novel based on the true story of a Union raid into Alabama.

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That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

According to the «biblical prophecies» on which the novels are based, the Antichrist will support a Russian invasion of Israel, rebuild the Jerusalem temple, and lead nation into war against nation.

It is also a historical fiction novel that is based on the events of the Battle of Waterloo at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the wWar II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the warwar.

For his second novel, Uris wrote The Angry Hills, dealing with the British campaign in Greece during World War II and based on the diary of an uncle of his who had been a member of the Palestine Brigade.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.

It's World War Z, based on a 2006 novel by Max Brooks that's anything but back - to - the - old - grindhouse.

In this low budget fantasy adventure from Britain, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs» 1918 science fiction novel, a German submarine holding American prisoners of war during World War I, veers off courwar during World War I, veers off courWar I, veers off course.

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

Based on Humphrey Cobb's antiwar novel, this classic war movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjowar movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe MenjoWar I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjou).

Based on the novel by Joseph Kanon, The Good German takes place in the ruins of post-World War II Berlin, where U.S. Army was correspondent Jake Geismar (Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt (Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies.

Based on a novel and probably one of the most realistic war films I have ever see.

Based on the series of novels by James S.A.Corey, this space opera is set 200 years in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, which is divided and on the brink of war.

Based on Max Brooks» novel and directed by Marc Forster (Machine Gun Preacher, Quantum of Solace), World War Z also stars Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, David Morse, and James Badge Dale.

Based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, the six - part series stars James as Hap Collins, a working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War — Watch the trailer below!

Leading up to the release of one of Marvel's biggest films, based on one of their best selling graphic novels, Captain America: Civil War, all of us were uttering the sentence, «Who's going to die?»

Based on RC Sherriff's play and novel of the same name, JOURNEY»S END is set in March 1918 as C - Company, led by a war - weary Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin) arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front - line trenches.

Director Brett Ratner (Tower Heist) and screenwriters Ryan Condal (short Plurality) and Evan Spiliotopoulos (Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure) must be thankful that their film, as based on Steve Moore's graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars, found such a fitting on - screen manifestation.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periWar II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periwar to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

Based on the Vince Flynn novel of the same name, the film stars Dylan O'Brien as Mitch Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit who comes under the instruction of a Cold War veteran, played by Michael Keaton.

Based on Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel, Dee Rees» «Mudbound» addresses racial conflict in World War II - era Mississippi and speaks to viewers with its bold visual language.

Based on the graphic novel «Hercules: The Thracian Wars.»

Official Synopsis: Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster «300,» this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield — on the sea — as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war.

The title of Spike Lee's war drama, based on the novel by James McBride, suggests a war miracle movie where all are saved by kindness or luck or divine intervention, but there is no such otherworldly benevolence here, merely the sacrifice of four black servicemen — Buffalo Soldiers — to protect the folks of a small mountain village in Tuscany surrounded by the Germans.

«Every legend starts with a true story and when I read the script based on the graphic novel «Hercules: The Thracian Wars,» what blew me away is that it was so grounded in a reality you could feel.

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, it tells the story of a young boy named Albert (Jeremy Irvine) whose horse is sold to the cavalry during World War I.

The new period romance starring Michelle Williams and Matthias Shoenaerts is based on a novel that survived World War II against the odds.

Based on the Robert C. O'Brien novel of the same name, «Z for Zachariah» centers on Ann (Margot Robbie) a farm girl who's become a woman on the fringe of a world ravaged by nuclear war.

Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Indignation is set in 1951 and focuses on Marcus (Lerman), the 18 - year - old son of a kosher butcher in Newark who grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.

Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld series), the film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living in a dark, gothic metropolis who finds himself caught in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.

Based on the highly acclaimed novel, director Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation brings to life the gripping tale of Agu (newcomer Abraham Attah), a child soldier torn from his family to fight in the civil war of an African country.

First: In writer / director Nicolas Boukhrief's «The Confession,» which is based on Béatrix Beck's 1952 novel «Léon Morin, prêtre,» Marine Vacth plays a fiery, fiercely free - thinking woman who develops an unconventional friendship with a charming priest (Romain Duris) in a small French town during World War II.

Based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction novel of the same name, the film stars Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh as the Warsaw Zoo keepers Antonina and Jan Zabinska, who during World War II used their home and zoo to shelter and save the lives of hundreds of displaced Jews; take a look below...

Comedy - War Machine is a satirical comedy starring Brad Pitt, and is based on the best - selling novel The Operators: The Wild...

The World War I drama features a cast that includes Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge, and Toby Jones; watch it below... Based on RC Sherriff's play and novel of the same name, JOURNEY»S END is -LSB-...]

The film is based on Ben Fountain's 2012 novel that tells the story of an Iraq veteran who is hailed as a war hero, but wrangling with disenchantment.

The first of these, The Marquise of O (1976), based on the novel by Heinrich von Kleist, leaves the young intellectuals of Paris for Italy of the late 18th century Napoleonic wars.

Based on the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and the Tony Award - winning play of the same name, «War Horse» is like a movie from another era — an old - fashioned, Golden Age - style epic in the vein of «Gone with the Wind.»

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.

The film is based on J.G. Ballard's acclaimed 1975 novel of the same name: «When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on «enemy» floors.»

Released late last year, Gary Oldman's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was a Cold War drama based on a novel by the genre's master, John Le Carre.

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

«Justice League: War» is based on the 2012 graphic novel, «Justice League: Origin» and focuses on the world before the Justice League was created and gives us a new animated incarnation of DC Entertainment's «The New 52».

Based on the Lissa Evans novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, Scherfig's film tells a behind - the - scenes story (with a witty script by Gaby Chiappe) about a group of filmmakers tasked with creating effective World War II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the wWar II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the warwar.

Based on E.M. Forster's posthumously published novel, Maurice begins in the ritualized world of pre-World War I Cambridge University.

This war drama directed by Ang Lee is based on the novel of the same name by Ben Fountain.

One Day You'll Understand (Unrated) Holocuast docudrama, based on Jerome Clement's autobiographical novel, set in the Eighties, recounting a Frenchman's (Hippolyte Girardot) obsession with determining what happened to his Jewish grandparents who perished in a concentration camp during World War II.