British action war films

The Dirty Dozen

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 7.7

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentence...

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Where Eagles Dare

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 7.6

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Al...

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A Bridge Too Far

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany...

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Centurion

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face...

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Ironclad

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.1

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of...

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The Passage

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 6

During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.

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