Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "major-general"

1. Valkyrie (2008)

PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, History, Thriller

A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh

Votes: 259,504 | Gross: $83.08M

2. Kelly's Heroes (1970)

GP | 144 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor

Votes: 53,764 | Gross: $1.38M

3. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 37,257 | Gross: $29.55M

4. Welcome to Marwen (2018)

PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Steve Carell, Falk Hentschel, Matt O'Leary, Nikolai Witschl

Votes: 26,010 | Gross: $10.76M

5. The Pirate Movie (1982)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

A 1980s take-off of The Pirates of Penzance which centers on a noble pirate who leaves his profession and falls in love with a fiery young maiden.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Richard Franklin | Stars: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr

Votes: 4,805

6. White Christmas (1954)

Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

Votes: 51,157 | Gross: $30.00M

7. Joyeux Noel (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History, Music

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.

Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay

Votes: 32,012 | Gross: $1.05M

8. The Lighthorsemen (1987)

PG | 131 min | Drama, History, War

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Peter Phelps, Nick Waters, John Larking, Jack Heywood

Votes: 2,027

9. Simon (1980)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A group of scientists takes Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he is a being from another planet.

Director: Marshall Brickman | Stars: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart

Votes: 1,040

10. Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Transmutation (2022)

142 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The Elric brothers' long and winding journey comes to a close in this epic finale, where they must face off against an unworldly, nationwide threat.

Director: Fumihiko Sori | Stars: Ryôsuke Yamada, Tsubasa Honda, Dean Fujioka, Misako Renbutsu

Votes: 1,392

11. Black Rider (2023– )

TV-14 | Action, Crime, Drama

A delivery driver becomes a vigilante on his motorcycle and faces a powerful crime syndicate that threatens his city.

Stars: Ruru Madrid, Matteo Guidicelli, Yassi Pressman, Raymart Santiago

Votes: 46

12. The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, War

In 1943, a group of captured Allied military can't agree on an escape plan, The allies headquarters develop a plan and send in a man who they hope is captured, to coordinate the captives' escape.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley

Votes: 1,785 | Gross: $7.70M

13. Reptile 2001 (1999)

PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

It's been asleep for two hundred million years. Now it been awakened by aliens from another galaxy. The aliens are using Yonggary to destroy mankind.

Director: Hyung-rae Shim | Stars: Richard Livingston, Harrison Young, D.J. Robbins, Brad Sergi

Votes: 1,939

14. Colonel Redl (1985)

R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

Votes: 3,348 | Gross: $0.00M

15. A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Approved | 117 min | Drama, Western

West Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory

Votes: 1,110

16. The Lady Says No (1951)

Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

A woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature story on her. Complications ensue.

Director: Frank Ross | Stars: Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan

Votes: 454

17. The Weight of Chains (2010)

Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, News

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Malagurski | Stars: Rade Aleksic, James Bissett, John Bosnitch, Michel Chossudovsky

Votes: 4,539

18. Army Girl (1938)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A fight to keep cavalry horses from being replaced by tanks culminates in a great race between machine and beast.

Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Madge Evans, Preston Foster, Neil Hamilton, Ruth Donnelly

Votes: 113

19. Romano Sagrado: Talim sa dilim (1996)

Action, Horror

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Director: Rogelio Salvador | Stars: Monsour Del Rosario, Edu Manzano, Alma Concepcion, John Estrada

Votes: 17

20. Sigmund Jähn - Der erste Deutsche im All (2017 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Every child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, ... See full summary »

Director: Rene Römer | Stars: Carsten Linke, Sigmund Jähn, Eberhard Köllner, Romy Mothes

21. My Three Sons (1960–1972)
Episode: Adjust or Bust (1960)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

After Steve visits the office of a potential client, a General whose motto is "Adjust or bust," he experiences many transportation inconveniences and missed connections getting home in time for the General's dinner appointment.

Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Fred MacMurray, William Frawley, Tim Considine, Don Grady

Votes: 75

22. Person to Person (1953–1961)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (1953)

Documentary, News, Talk-Show

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Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Edward R. Murrow, William F. Dean, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy

23. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 19 January 1953 (1953)

News, Talk-Show

Huie and Hazlitt interview Major General Charles A. Willoughby, former Chief Intelligence Officer in the Far East. Topics include the Spanish Civil War and the United States' position on Spain and its ruler Francisco Franco.

Stars: Henry Hazlitt, William Bradford Huie, Charles A. Willoughby

24. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 26 January 1953 (1953)

News, Talk-Show

Huie and Hazlitt interview Major General Frank L. Howley, formerly the first military governor of Berlin. Topics include the Cold War, peace negotiations to end the Korean War, West ... See full summary »

Stars: Henry Hazlitt, Frank Howley, William Bradford Huie

25. Psych (2006–2014)
Episode: You Can't Handle This Episode (2010)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Shawn and Gus go undercover at a military base when Juliet's brother is accused of murdering one of his fellow officers.

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson

Votes: 978

26. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 1 March 1954 (1954)

News, Talk-Show

Lesueur and Crawford interview Major General Harry G. Armstrong, the U.S. Air Force's Surgeon General. Topics include advances in military medicine and techniques to evacuate military patients from combat zones.

Stars: Harry G. Armstrong, Winston Burdett, Kenneth Crawford, Larry LeSueur

27. The Conquerors (2005)
Episode: Sherman's March to the Sea (2005)

46 min | Documentary, Biography, History

How Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led a force of 60.000 infantry and 5500 Union Calvary on a punitive march, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, through the Confederacy in late 1964 to end the American Civil War.

Stars: Anne J. Bailey, Thomas Y. Cartwright, Matthew Davis, Dale Dye

28. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2017)

TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Kardakow seeks help in retrieving the Sorokin's gold. Rath faces a moral dilemma and Bruno makes a power play.

Directors: Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries | Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Peter Kurth, Matthias Brandt

Votes: 913

29. Sirius the Jaeger (2018)
Episode: Beginning of Trickery (2018)

TV-MA | Animation, Action, History

The team investigates the researcher's death, and Willard crosses paths with a secret agent. Yuliy and Dorothea head to Shizuoka.

Directors: Jong Heo, Masahiro Andô | Stars: Yûto Uemura, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Nanako Mori, Yûsuke Kobayashi

Votes: 63

30. Sirius the Jaeger (2018)
Episode: The Frankenstein (2018)

TV-MA | Animation, Action, History

Aboard the train, Yuliy meets someone he thought was dead: his brother. When a group of bandits attacks the train, they make a strange discovery.

Directors: Fumihiko Suganuma, Masahiro Andô | Stars: Yûto Uemura, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Nanako Mori, Yûsuke Kobayashi

Votes: 63

31. Grant (2020)
Episode: Unlikely Hero (2020)

TV-14 | 81 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In an unlikely American history story, Ulysses S. Grant rises from his humble beginnings to become the winning general in one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles.

Director: Malcolm Venville | Stars: Francis Chouler, Owen de Wet, Doug Douds, David Dukas

Votes: 188