WAR DOGS

War Dogs (2016)

Star Cast	-     Miles Teller, Jonah Hill, Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas
Director	-       Todd Phillips
Producer	-       Mark Gordon, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips
Rating	-       U/A
Year of Release	-       2016
Category	-       Hollywood
Genre	-       Crime, Comedy, War, Drama

Movie Gist     
War Dogs is a biographical war film. The movie follows two arms' dealers David Packouz & Efraim Diveroli, who win a U.S. military contract of $300 million to supply arms & ammunition to Afghan National Army. The duo get eventually caught for fraud.

A HATFUL OF RAIN

A Hatful of Rain (1957)

Star Cast	-     Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Eva Marie Saint, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva, Michael Vale
Director	-       Fred Zinnemann
Producer	-       Buddy Adler
Rating	-       U
Year of Release	-       1957
Category	-       Hollywood
Genre	-       Drama

Movie Gist     
A Hatful of Rain is a beautiful picturization of addiction. A war veteran gets addicted to morphine during his stay in the military hospital. The movie exposes how a havoc is wreaked on his family due to his addiction, leading to complicated & dynamic situations.

CASABLANCA

Casablanca (1942)

Star Cast	-     Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Curt Bois
Director	-       Michael Curtiz
Producer	-       Hal B. Wallis
Rating	-       U
Year of Release	-       1942
Category	-       Hollywood
Genre	-       Drama, Romance, War

Movie Gist     
The plot of the movie is set during World War II. Casablanca focuses on an American expatriate who has a difficult decision to make between a woman's love and aiding her husband who is a Czech Resistance leader to escape from Casablanca to fight against the Nazis.

AMERICAN SNIPER

American Sniper (2014)

Star Cast	-     Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller,  Max Charles, Kyle Gallner, Luke Grimes, Sammy Sheik, Marnette Patterson, Jake McDorman
Director	-        Clint Eastwood
Producer	-        Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Peter Morgan
Rating	-        U/A
Year of Release	-        2014
Category	-        Hollywood
Genre	-        Action, Drama, Thriller, History, War, Biography

Movie Gist     
American Sniper is a biographical war-drama movie. It revolves around a Navy SEAL Sniper, Kyle, whose accuracy saves innumerable lives during war. This action makes him a legend. After four tours of duty when Kyle returns home, he realizes that he cannot leave his war behind.

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Star Cast	-     Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Sheb Wooley, Kyle Eastwood, Matt Clark
Director	-        Clint Eastwood
Producer	-        Robert Daley
Rating	-        U
Year of Release	-        1976
Category	-        Hollywood
Genre	-        Crime, Western, War

Movie Gist     
The movie revolves around Josey Wales, a farmer from Missouri, whose family gets murdered during Civil War by Union Militants. Josey, who now seeks revenge, joins a Confederate guerrilla band to fight in the Civil War. Post the war, Josey becomes an outlaw & is pursued by Union soldiers & bounty hunters.

55 DAYS IN PEKING

55 Days in Peking (1963)

Star Cast	-    Charlton Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner, John Ireland, Flora Robson, Robert Helpmann, Leo Genn, Paul Lukas, Kurt Kasznar
Director	-        Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton, Guy Green
Producer	-        Samuel Bronston
Rating	-        U
Year of Release	-        1963
Category	-        Hollywood
Genre	-        History, Drama, Action, War

Movie Gist     
55 Days at Peking is a dramatization of the historical epic that took place in China during Boxer Revolution in 1900. The movie shows how U.S. Army Major Matt Lewis, with the help of British Consulate Sir Arthur, plans a strategy to keep the rebel boxers at bay until the arrival of a back-up from an international military.

GENGHIS KHAN

Genghis Khan (1965)

Star Cast	-    Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd, Eli Wallach, Robert Morley, James Mason, Telly Savalas, Kenneth Cope, Woody Strode
Director	-        Henry Levin
Producer	-        Irving Allen
Rating	-        U
Year of Release	-       1965
Category	-        Hollywood
Genre	-        Adventure, War, Drama, History

Movie Gist     
The plot of the movie goes back to the  the 13th century. It is a film depicting the life & the conquests of Genghis Khan, the Mongol Emperor. The movie has lot of inspirational quotes & the attitude that Omar Sharif wears playing Genghis Khan is commendable.

One of my favorite lines said by Genghis Khan while lying on his death bed - "Do not weep for me yet. There will be much time after I am dead!" 

Must watch this movie...It isn't just a movie, it's an epic.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Star Cast	-    Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtney, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin
Director	-        David Lean
Producer	-        Carlo Ponti
Rating	-        U
Year of Release	-        1965
Category	-        Hollywood
Genre	-        Drama, Romance, Action, War

Movie Gist     
Another feather in David Lean's hat, Doctor Zhivago is a British-American drama-romance movie based on Boris Pasternak's novel with the same name. The movie has a back-drop of pre-WWI (World War I). The plot revolves around the life & experiences of a married Russian physician & poet who falls in love with a political activist's wife & the hardships that he goes through during WWI & the October Revolution.

UNBROKEN

Unbroken (2014)

Star Cast	-      Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Miyavi, Finn Wittrock
Director	-          Angelina Jolie
Producer	-          Angelina Jolie, Erwin Stoff, Clayton Townsend, Matthew Baer
Rating	-          U
Year of Release	-          2014
Category	-          Hollywood
Genre	-          Biography, Sport, War, Drama

Movie Gist     
The plot revolves around the life of Louis Zamperini, a USA Olympian, who survives in a raft with his 2 fellow crew-men for 47 days after a fatal bomber crash in WWII; but subsequently gets caught by the Japanese navy & sent to a series of prisoner-of-war camps. 

The movie is based on a non-fiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.