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Movies: Best "paratrooper" Movies


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Overlord(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 50min | Horror, War, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 1,255 votes)

France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.

Dead Reckoning(1947)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 57 votes)

Paratroopers Captain 'Rip' Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out whatever he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed.

Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers(2011)

1h 31min | Action, History, War
2.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

The Two Parachutists(1965)

1h 28min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam.

The Red Beret(1953)

1h 28min | War, Drama
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.

Paratroop Command(1959)

1h 11min | Drama, War
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.

Theirs Is the Glory(1946)

1h 22min | War, Documentary
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, Terence Young - With Allan Wood

Parachute Battalion(1941)

1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.

Warriors Five(1962)

1h 24min | Drama, War

World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.

The Black Parachute(1944)

1h 8min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.

Directed by Lew Landers - With John Carradine

Band of Brothers(2001)

11h 45min | Action, Drama, War
4.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.