KEITH'S LIST OF 56 MOVIES ABOUT OR INVOLVING THE MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM
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- DirectorRob ReinerStarsTom CruiseJack NicholsonDemi MooreMilitary lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders.
- DirectorNissim MossekAlan RosenthalStarsGabriel BachEdith EcksteinMiky GoldmanAlthough Eichmann was responsible for implementing the "Final Solution" which led to the deaths of over 5 million Jews, 40 years after his execution, he still remains an enigma. How did this simple and unsuccessful salesman rise to power in the SS and Nazi regime? What motivated him? What inspired him? This film looks at Eichmann the man, parallel to Eichmann the Nazi who invented the "Eichmann System". The "Eichmann System", which was based on lies and deceit, led millions to their extermination in his gas chambers. For the first time, Eichmann's story is portrayed through his own eyes. He reveals how the system operated and how he felt implementing it. EICHMANN - THE SECRET MEMOIRS is not just an in - depth profile of one man.
- DirectorHarry MosesStarsSamuel L. JacksonSam WaterstonMason AdamsThe story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets, Whittaker was court-martialed on the grounds that he staged his own assault to avoid taking a philosophy exam. His defense attorneys consisted of a racist and a Harvard Graduate who squabble over how best to present his defense.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsJoseph CottenLloyd HaynesDewey MartinDuring the Cold War, enemy agents, posing as U.S. Navy crew, plan to sabotage a nuclear submarine and steal its anti-ballistic missile guidance system.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsMel GibsonAnthony HopkinsLaurence OlivierFed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
- DirectorJohn Steven LasherStarsGreg MatthewsA tour around Sydney Harbour aboard the replica of the ship used in the 1985 Mel Gibson film. The first Kinopanorama 3-strip film ever shot in Australia.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsHumphrey BogartJosé FerrerVan JohnsonWhen a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsEric BogosianJeff DanielsBrad DavisA full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
- DirectorChris GerolmoStarsStephen ReaDonald SutherlandMax von SydowDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsGary CooperCharles BickfordRalph BellamyA dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJames OlsonKen HowardBrian KeithGeneral Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
- DirectorLarry PeerceStarsAndre BraugherDaniel SternRuby DeeA film about the early life of the baseball star in the army and in particular his court-martial for insubordination regarding segregation.
- DirectorErnest MorrisStarsLaurence PayneSusan StephenRalph MichaelLawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
- DirectorChanoch Ze'eviStarsHugh ThomasGerald PosnerMartin Adolf BormannIn 1997, the D. A. of Frankfurt consented to perform a DNA test on bones unearthed in 1973. This was to determine whether the remains were those of Martin Bormann, Hitler s right-hand man who allegedly disappeared at the end of WW II.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsMartin SheenMariclare CostelloNed BeattyThe story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
- StarsKris FreemanSaddam HusseinJoshua MeenanAn amateur video shot by an Iraqi government official showcasing the execution of Saddam Hussein.
- StarsJames NaughtonThe atrocities of the My Lai massacre and the courts-martial trial of Lt. Calley had a deep and lasting effect on the American consciousness - an effect that still lingers to this day. This 1-hr documentary looks at the story from the soldier's point of view, interviewing the men of Charlie Company to learn the actions and reasons that led to the infamous massacre.
- DirectorPeter HartlGuido KnoppStarsChristian BrücknerJoseph GoebbelsAdolf HitlerThe life and crimes of Hitler's propaganda minister - Joseph Goebbels.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsTopolNick MancusoJanet SuzmanA true-life political thriller that dramatizes the 1960 capture in Argentina of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, by the Israelis.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyBurt LancasterRichard WidmarkIn 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony MusanteRichard BasehartBo HopkinsThe trial and conviction of William "Rusty" Calley, an unknown 27-year-old lieutenant charged with the murder of 102 men, women, and children in the tiny Vietnamese village of My Lai, shocked the nation and split public opinion of our presence and involvement in Vietnam.
- 19741h 30m6.0 (27)TV MovieDirectorLee BernhardiStanley KramerStarsPhilip AhnPhilip BrunsWilliam DevaneDramatization of the trial of General Yamashita when he was tried for his actions in the Philippines during World War 2 that resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. And of how the lawyers assigned to defend him tried to.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsSam WaterstonHaing S. NgorJohn MalkovichA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsKirk DouglasRobert MitchumTony CurtisA former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsRobert DuvallArliss HowardJeffrey TamborThe story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsMaximilian SchellLois NettletonLawrence PressmanMossad agents kidnap an American Jewish man, accuse him of being a fugitive Nazi war criminal and take him to Jerusalem to face trial for genocide.
- DirectorDan SettonStarsRuth EliasMarc BerkowithJosef KleinmanThe warrant for the arrest of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death" Dr. Josef Mengele was a catalog of horror. A look back of the crimes and life of the SS Doctor who sent 400,000 people to the gas chambers in the pursuit of racial purification.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsEric BanaDaniel CraigMarie-Josée CrozeAfter the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJessica LangeArmin Mueller-StahlFrederic ForrestA lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneCarol ReedGeorge SeatonStarsMarlon BrandoTrevor HowardRichard HarrisIn 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
- DirectorLauren Gray WilliamsStarsJamie HynemanAdam SavageTory BelleciAdam and Jamie test the merits of a famous assassination attempt while Kari, Grant, and Tory face the pain to see if you really can 'slap some sense' into someone.
- DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsFarrah FawcettTom ContiGeraldine PageFarrah Fawcett plays real-life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife who, with the help of her Jewish law-student husband, Serge, began an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, most of which is centered on Klaus Barbie. The story follows her pursuit while she survives jail, torture, numerous assassination attempts, and arrests in South America and in Germany.
- DirectorMarcus ValentinStarsFred NapoliGerald PosnerGuy WaltersNazi Hunters examines how Mossad agents from Israel spent nearly thirty years tracking the notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele. After the war, Mengele flees to Argentina where he lives a relatively nondescript life. After the arrest of Adolph Eichmann he flees to Paraguay and, then, Brazil eluding captivity until his death in 1979.
- DirectorMartin HughesStarsAlisdair SimpsonAdolf EichmannSimon WiesenthalNazi Hunters examines the search of Adolf Eichmann the logistical mind behind Hitler's Final Solution. He organized the transportation and incarceration of six million Jews to the death camps. After the war, he escaped justice and made his way to Argentina. Eventually, Israel's intelligence service Mossad catch up with him. He is sent to Israel for trail and is later put to death.
- DirectorPeter NicholsonStarsHannes HellmannDes McAleerRobert JezekThe Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and the prison guards who stand watch over the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
- DirectorNigel PatersonStarsMatthew MacfadyenHenry KingRichard OveryA profile on Nazi Germany's top architect Armaments Minister, who sought survival in the trials through carefully phrased contrition.
- DirectorEyal SherStarsJanet AlmogMichel BacosEhud BarakThe story of the hijacking of Air France Flight AF139 on 27 June 1976 from Athens and the subsequent mission to rescue the hostages from the airport terminal at Entebbe in Uganda. The movie contains interviews with former hostages, including Captain Bacos who (together with his crew) refused to abandon his passengers as well those who planned the rescue mission and those executed it.
- DirectorJo BaierStarsSebastian KochUlrich TukurHardy Krüger Jr.In 1944, in fear of a complete German defeat in the World War II, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.
- DirectorJean-Pierre IsboutsStarsAdam AndersonJason AndersonJonathan BarbeeAt the height of Adolf Hitler's sinister tyranny, a brace group teamed to assassinate him. This doc tells the story of Operation Valkyrie, featuring testimonials from families who helped with the plot, including those who knew Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the man behind the mission. Historians, rare footage, and reconstructions feature in this documentary.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsPeter FinchCharles BronsonYaphet KottoTrue story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.
- StarsBen GazzaraAnthony HopkinsLeslie CaronA physician (Sir Anthony Hopkins) sues a novelist (Ben Gazzara) for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
- DirectorMartin DavidsonStarsAndrew SachsAlbert SpeerAlan Bullock
- StarsJack PalanceHolly PalanceRobert Gruenberg Jr.Operation Valkyrie; The Century Cactus; South Koreans celebrate the Moses Miracle at Jindo Island; The echidna; Diving bell spider; African tribe of two-toes people; The glass snake; World Eskimo-Indian Olympic Games; Wu-shu; A Mongolian conqueror played polo with the heads of the conquered generals; Landfills and garbage collection; University of Arizona garbologists; Sewage treatment in San Diego using hyacinths; Lufkin, Texas, sewage treatment using worms; Los Angeles sculptor makes sculptures from garbage; In Bangkok, the Wat Arun temple is covered with broken dishes; Man juggles bowling balls, flaming swords, and a chainsaw with two apples; Fire-breather street performer in Mexico City; Juggler balances a person in a chair on his chin; Artist recreates Michaelangelo paintings on Paris sidewalks; Benjamin Banneker's involvement in Washington, DC.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsTommy Lee JonesSamuel L. JacksonGuy PearceAn attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country.
- DirectorPaul LeafStarsBrad DourifEllen HollyHarrison PageThe true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsGlenn CloseJudy DavisJan RubesThe true story of a decorated officer's legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.
- DirectorLarry ShawStarsGail O'GradyBess ArmstrongCameron BancroftA dramatized account of a female US Naval officer's ordeal of being sexually harassed at a Naval convention and her legal retaliation.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsTom CruiseBill NighyCarice van HoutenA dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
- DirectorMichaël PrazanStarsDavid BrinkleyEdward AsnerBrian BedfordActual trial footage, emotional recollections of trial witnesses and other key participants provide insight and contrasting perspectives of the Eichmann legacy.
- DirectorMackenzie CriswellStarsCaseon PierceWesley CandottiThe story of a group of German Nazi SS officers who constructed a daring attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and gain control of the Nazi Party in a coup.
- DirectorKevin BurnsStarsRobert ClotworthyChristopher McQuarrieJens JessenCreated as a companion documentary to the film Valkyrie, this documentary details the true story behind the plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler.
- StarsJoel Grey