Best "firing squad" Movies of All Time

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(1921)

2h 12min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.

Directed by Rex Ingram - With Josef Swickard, Bridgetta Clark, Rudolph Valentino, Wallace Beery, Alice Terry, Alan Hale, ...

The Devil's Brother(1933)

1h 30min | Comedy, Music

3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

Directed by Hal Roach, Charley Rogers - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, Jimmy Finlayson, Arthur Pierson, ...

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Noah's Ark(1928)

2h 15min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Anthony Coldeway - With Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Louise Fazenda, Paul McAllister, Myrna Loy, William V. Mong, ...

Yesterday's Enemy(1959)

1h 35min | Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.

Directed by Val Guest - With Stanley Baker, Gordon Jackson, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Philip Ahn, Bryan Forbes, ...

La Cucaracha(1959)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.

Directed by Ismael Rodríguez - With María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Pedro Armendáriz, ...

The Shadow of the Strongman(1960)

2h 9min | History, Crime, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.

Directed by Julio Bracho - With Carlos López Moctezuma, Ignacio López Tarso, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Tito Novaro

The Execution of Private Slovik(1974)

2h | War, Drama, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

The 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.

Directed by Lamont Johnson - With Martin Sheen, Mariclare Costello, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Charlie Sheen

Stamboul Quest(1934)

1h 26min | Romance / Love, Thriller, Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route, she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Myrna Loy, George Brent, Georges Renavent, Helen Freeman, Belle Mitchell

The Last Train from Madrid(1937)

1h 18min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, War

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

Directed by James P. Hogan - With Alan Ladd, Anthony Quinn, Charles Middleton, Dorothy Lamour, Evelyn Brent, Gilbert Roland, ...

Fall Out(1996)

1h 26min | Comedy, Drama

This film is an adaptation of Jean Amila's novel Le Boucher des Hurlus. The story, set in the aftermath of the war, is about Michel, a young man orphaned in this manner. He lives with his mother until she collapses under the wave of vituperation from the women in her community, who consider her murdered husband to have been a traitor. When he is sent to an orphanage, he discovers that many of the children in it are there for the same reason he is. Michel decides to escape his captivity and kill the general who ordered his father's death. He and the other children like him are able to get away from the orphanage, in the course of their journeys, they tour the grim battlefields of the recent war. Together, they return to Paris, determined to exact their revenge.

Directed by Jean-Denis Robert - With Danièle Delorme, Didier Flamand, Erwan Dujardin, Jean-François Dérec, Josiane Lévêque, Laure Duthilleul, ...