Movies and TvShows featuring "army-training" theme.
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Gould Shaw leads the first all-black volunteer company in the Union Army. They face prejudices from both their own side and the Confederates. Despite the challenges, they fight bravely, inspiring the Union to recruit more black soldiers and achieve victory over the Confederacy.
In 'Stripes,' a group of misfits join the army and undergo basic training during the Cold War. The film follows their hilarious and irreverent journey as they navigate the challenges of military life and embark on a rescue mission to Czechoslovakia. With satire, friendship, and a touch of romance, 'Stripes' is a comedic military adventure.
God of War is set during the Ming Dynasty and follows the story of a general who must defend his kingdom against invaders. With martial arts, sword-fighting, and intense battles, the general shows unwavering dedication to protect his people.
After her husband dies of a heart attack during sex, a woman enlists in the U.S. Army. She goes through basic training and faces challenges in a male-dominated environment. Along the way, she discovers her own strength and independence.
A reporter in Iraq meets Lyn Cassady, a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. Together, they uncover the truth about the New Earth Army and its founder, Bill Django. As they journey through Iraq, encountering terrorists and private defense contractors, they learn about the power of love and redemption.
Lone Star is a neo-western film that explores the dark secrets of a small Texas town. The story follows a sheriff with a dark past as he investigates a murder and uncovers a web of deceit, corruption, and hidden relationships. The film delves into themes of love, betrayal, and the complexities of human nature.
Beau Travail is a French movie set in the scorching deserts of Djibouti, focusing on a French Foreign Legion sergeant who engages in power play, obsession, and jealousy. The film explores themes of masculinity, discipline, and homoeroticism within the military. It is an adaptation of the novel 'Billy Budd', and showcases the existential loneliness faced by soldiers in a foreign land.
In G.I. Blues, a soldier named Tulsa McLean is stationed in Germany and falls in love with a nightclub singer named Lili. He enters a bet with his friends that he can spend the night with her, but as he gets to know her, his feelings become genuine. The movie is a comedy-musical that follows Tulsa's attempts to win Lili's heart while dealing with the challenges of military life.
A young woman joins the military and goes through intense training in the south of France. She meets a skilled survivalist and they develop a complicated love-hate relationship amidst the challenges of military life.
Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.
The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government. As even some of Quatermass's closest colleagues fall victim to the alien influence, he is forced to use his own unsafe rocket prototype, which recently caused a nuclear disaster at an Australian testing range, to prevent the aliens from taking over mankind.
Abbott and Costello join the Foreign Legion in Algeria and get mixed up with henchmen, wrestling promoters, and a beautiful slave girl.
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.
Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father on a daily basis, being excluded from his family’s past, and forced into bullying other kids at school. Everything changes when he is thrown into a life-altering adventure that propels him into an exciting unfamiliar landscape.
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry training, showing how they are turned from civilians into soldiers. As well as being a unique portrait of the US army at work, the film is also a fascinating snapshot of a time and place at a defining moment in American history.
A close friendship between two women is shattered when one of them seeks temporary solace in the other's husband.