“During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. Written by PopeyePete”

• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Release Date: 21 August 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 153 min
• Country: USA , Germany , France
• Genre: Drama , War
• MPAA: Rated R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.

Tagline: Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France…

Trivia: In 2005, Quentin Tarantino was quoted as saying that he had written the script, a World War II story, but that he needed to convert it to a shooting script. He said that writing the script and preparing a shooting script were “two different things”.

“A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Brian De Palma
• Release Date: 16 November 2007 (Spain)
• Run Time: 90 min
• Country: USA , Canada
• Genre: Crime , Drama , War
• MPAA: Rated R for strong disturbing violent content including a rape, pervasive language and some sexual references/images.

Tagline: Truth is the first casualty of war.

Trivia: The genesis of the film began when HDNet Films approached Brian De Palma in 2006 to make a film with only two strings attached: it had to be shot for $5 million and on HD.

Goofs: Factual errors: At the military checkpoint scene, U.S. Army soldiers are seen with a Challenger tank. The U.S. Army does not use the Challenger tank.

“Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who’s a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a promising student to re-engage. Decisions press upon the reporter, the student, and the soldiers. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Robert Redford
• Release Date: 9 November 2007 (USA)
• Run Time: 92 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , War
• MPAA: Rated R for some war violence and language.

Tagline: If you don’t STAND for something, you might FALL for anything

Trivia: Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title ‘Barrie’.

Goofs: Errors in geography: When Janine is riding past the White House in the taxi near the end of the movie, her view of the White House, as represented during her passing, cannot be obtained from a taxi since those streets are closed to vehicular traffic. Also, her view of the rows of graves in Arlington Cemetery during the same sequence cannot be obtained from a taxi since the paved paths in Arlington are closed to ordinary vehicular traffic as a taxi would be.

“Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor. Written by Paramount Pictures”

• Director: Kimberly Peirce
• Release Date: 28 March 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 112 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , War
• MPAA: Rated R for graphic violence and pervasive language. (re-rating; originally also some strong sexuality)

Tagline: The bravest place to stand is by each other’s side.

Trivia: The shoot in Morocco took place during Ramadan.

Goofs: Errors in geography: When Brandon is fleeing to Washington and while still in Texas, there is a shot of a bus going by which is a Ride-On bus, which only operates in Montgomery County, MD.

“Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.”

• Director: Errol Morris
• Release Date: 29 May 2008 (Germany)
• Run Time: 116 min | Germany:118 min (Berlin International Film Festival)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Documentary , Crime , War
• MPAA: Rated R for disturbing images and content involving torture and graphic nudity, and for language.

Tagline: I wouldn’t recommend a vacation to Iraq anytime soon

Trivia: First documentary ever to be nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (2008).

Goofs: Factual errors: It’s a common mistake to use standard instead of standing when referring to SOP, but SOP stands for Standing Operating Procedure not Standard. A good reference is AMC (Army Material Command) Reg 700-107.

“When Morgan Spurlock and his wife find out they are expecting a child in an unsafe world that faces multiple terrorist and environmental threats, Morgan decides to track down the world’s most wanted and dangerous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, undergoes self-defense training, takes all required medical shots, and sets out to travel to Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan amongst others to try and locate the man who has managed to elude the American army for nearly a decade. His fears, generated due to biased media coverage that Muslims and Arabs are hostile, are laid to rest when he does encounter friendly, and quite refreshingly well educated, hospitable, politically matured men and women, who are well aware of America’s faulty ‘foreign policy’, and do not subscribe to Jihad nor to the Taliban nor Osama’s terror-tactics. But he does encounter some hostility, quite ironically, in two of America’s allies -- Israel and Saudi Arabia -- and it is on the soil of Pakistan -- his country’s ally against the so-called War Against Terror -- is where he eventually hopes to find Osama. The questions does remain: will he able to find him where many others have purportedly failed? And most importantly will he be allowed to remain alive after finding him? Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)”

• Director: Morgan Spurlock
• Release Date: 9 May 2008 (UK)
• Run Time: 90 min
• Country: France , USA
• Genre: Documentary , War
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some strong language.

“A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man, to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check. Written by fmmini”

• Director: Joshua Seftel
• Release Date: 4 September 2008 (Israel)
• Run Time: 107 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Comedy , Thriller , War
• MPAA: Rated R for violence, language and brief sexual material.

Tagline: When it comes to war…America means business

Trivia: This is the second time Marisa Tomei plays a character whose first name is Natalie. The first time was in In the Bedroom (2001). This is also the second time she plays a reporter in a film. The first time was in The Paper (1994).

Goofs: Factual errors: Hauser has his dry cleaning delivered from “Laundry Unit Rammstein” in Germany. The German town -- and the name of the real-life Air Force base -- is spelled “Ramstein”.

“People thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation discover their capacity for love and responsibility. A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Roger Spottiswoode
• Release Date: 3 April 2008 (China)
• Run Time: 125 min
• Country: Australia , China , Germany
• Genre: Drama , War
• MPAA: Rated R for some disturbing and violent content.

Tagline: War made them orphans, one man made them legends

Trivia: Marks the first official co-production between Australia and China.

“Temudgin, a young Mongol boy, endures years of poverty and torment before forming one of the most powerful empires in human history; as Genghis Khan, the leader extends the Mongol Empire from East Asia to Central Europe — creating a legacy that lasts for over 150 years.”

• Director: Sergei Bodrov
• Release Date: 20 September 2007 (Russia)
• Run Time: 126 min
• Country: Kazakhstan , Russia , Mongolia , Germany
• Genre: Biography , Drama , Romance , War
• MPAA: Rated R for sequences of bloody warfare.

Tagline: Greatness comes to those who take it.

Trivia: Originally, ‘Mongol’ was the first part of a projected trilogy. However after the difficulty making this film, director Sergei Bodrov decided not to make the sequels. Several months after shooting wrapped however, he changed his mind again and decided to conflate his scripts for parts 2 and 3 into one script, and just do the one sequel, entitled ‘The Great Kahn’, it is scheduled to be released in 2010.

Goofs: Factual errors: The Mongolian tribes, including the hordes that conquered their vast empire, rode on a very peculiar race of horses, stocky build, with relatively short legs and a large head. The horses used in the movie look like ordinary western horses.

“After being released from his 15-year prison sentence, Jan Dte looks back on his life, and how he went from being a waiter at Prague’s most-celebrated hotel with dreams of being as wealthy as his diners, to becoming a millionaire himself, only to watch his fate take a turn as Hitler’s army began to break apart his native Czechoslovakia.”