The Alamo

Current Status: Filming
Release Date: December 25th, 2003
War Genre: Mexican-American
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Dennis Quaid (Sam Houston), Jason Patric (Jim Bowie), Billy Bob Thornton (Davy Crockett), Emilio Echevarria
Story: A new version of the story of the last stand at the Alamo. This is the story of a small force of less than 300 men who, in 1836, fortified a fort called the Alamo in San Antonio in Texas (before it joined the United States of America), determined to defend it from the daunting power of the far larger Mexican Army, led by General Santa Anna... Variety reports that the script includes details not included in the John Wayne movie, like more on the Mexican point of view, William Barret Travis' "serial marital infidelities", Jim Bowie's slave trading, and Davy Crockett's "overall political incorrectness". (from Yahoo Movies)

Official Site: http://www.thealamofilm.com

Battle of Shaker Heights

Current Status: Completed
Release Date: August 29, 2003
War Genre: Reenactment Comedy
Director: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Anson Mount, Shiri Appleby, Elden Henson, Kathleen Quinlan
Story: The winner of the second Project Greenlight screenwriting contest, THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS, is a uniquely funny portrait of modern youth under siege. For high school senior Kelly Ernswiler, life is war - or, at least, it's simulated war. In all his 17 years, Kelly has found just one true passion: re-enacting the epic battle scenes of World War II. When he meets Bart Bowland, a fellow war re-enactor who is Kelly's direct opposite, his life take twists and turns he never expected – including a real-life Special Ops mission against a school bully, an ongoing battle with his outrageous family and the epic teenage crush of a lifetime.. (from Yahoo Movies)

Official Site: http://www.miramax.com/battle_of_shaker_heights

Beautiful Country

Current Status: Post-Production
Release Date: 2004
War Genre: Post Vietnam
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Cast: Nick Nolte, Thu Anh, Ling Bai
Story: The son (Nguyen) of an American man (Nolte) and a Vietnamese woman searches for his own sense of identity... (from Yahoo Movies)

Updated: 08/23/2003

Cold Mountain

Current Status: Filming
Release Date: December, 2003
War Genre: Civil
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson
Story: The story of Inman (Jude Law), a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive, and revive her father's farm with the help of intrepid young drifter Ruby (Renee Zellweger). (from Yahoo Movies)

Updated: 06/27/2003

Conspirator

Current Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004?
War Genre: Civil
Director: ?
Cast: Robin Williams, Susan Surandon, Paul Newman
Story: A period courtroom drama set during the Civil War, which focuses on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Updated: 08/23/2003

The Deserter

Current Status: Post-Production
Release Date: 2003
War Genre: American Revolution
Director: Eric Bruno Borgman
Cast: Michael Kaplan (III), George Souza, Michael Greeley
Story: The story is set during the American Revolution in the late 1700's, when America fought for it's independence from Britain. A loyal British drummer, one of the thousands of British soldiers stationed in America, accidently drops his canteen into a stream while trying to fill it with water. A British officer sees the drummer chasing his canteen and mistakes him as a deserter running away through the woods. The officer quickly orders some soldiers after him. The drummer, after catching up to his canteen gets lost in the woods and can't find his way back to the British encampment. Things go from bad to worse for the drummer when it comes to his attention that he is being hunted down for execution as a deserter. In the meantime, the British forces, back at the encampment, march off to meet the American forces for a grand battle, which will rage for hours. (from IMDB.com)

Official Site: http://www.geocities.com/ebbpeg/Deserter.html

Dreadnaught

Current Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004
War Genre: Modern Military
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: Vin Diesel
Story: When a commercial airliner is accidentally shot down in a military exercise by the Dreadnaught, the most advanced Navy warship ever created, the captain (Diesel) decides to mutiny after he's ordered by his superiors to kill the sole survivor. Soon, the Dreadnaught finds itself locked in a high-tech, high seas game of cat-and-mouse with the rest of the U.S. Navy... (from Yahoo Movies)

The Great Raid

Current Status: Filming
Release Date: Feb. 13, 2004
War Genre: World War II
Director: John Dahl
Cast: Benjamin Bratt (Lt. Colonel Henry Mucci), James Franco, James Carpinello, Marton Csokas (Redding), Clayne Clawford (Private Len Johnson), Mark Consuelos, Kenny Doughty, Joseph Fienne
Story: Forced to retreat from the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur promised to return. Set three years later, in January, 1945, this is the true story of Army ranger Lt. Colonel Henry Mucci (Bratt), who was chosen by MacArthur to lead an effort to liberate more than 500 American prisoners of war from the Japanese camp, Cabanatuan, part of the bloody and infamous Bataan Death March. The young colonel, eager to take on this mission first, however, had to undergo a vigorous guerrilla warfare training program, before leading his men, the 6th Ranger Battallion, on a hazardous rescue mission, thirty miles behind enemy lines, that they were not guaranteed to return from... (from Yahoo Movies)

Official Site: www.miramax.com/the_great_raid

Inglorious Bastards

Current Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: May, 2004
War Genre: World War II
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Michael Madsen, Bo Svenson
Story: Set in World War 2, Tarantino's story revolves around group of soldiers on their way to be executed, only they get the chance for a reprieval. He describes them as "Not your normal hero types that are thrown into a big deal in World War II." (from IMDB.com)

The Last Full Measure

Current Status: Announced
Release Date: 2004
War Genre: Post Vietnam
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Story: A young Pentagon insider risks his career uniting reluctant American Vietnam War Veterans who survived a bloodbath known as "Operation Abilene. " Now, together, they attempt to convince Congress to award the Medal of Honor to the Air Force Pararescueman who died saving them thirty-five years before.(from IMDB.com)

Love and Honor

Current Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004
War Genre: American Revolution
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast: Unknown
Story: An American envoy is sent to Russia to persuade Catherine the Great from joining the British in the American Revolution. The story also explores her love life. (from IMDB.com)

The Ninth Man

Current Status: Rumored
Release Date: ??
War Genre: WW2
Director: ??
Cast: Harrison Ford
Story: Rumors are circulating that Harrison Ford is planning on starring in an adaptation of the novel The Ninth Man by John Lee. The book has the premise of eight Nazis taking a U-boat to the US and wreak havoc on the East coast...while a ninth sneaks away to assassinate President Roosevelt. Dreamworks is thought to be producing.

Rebels

Current Status: Completed
Release Date: 2003
War Genre: American Revolution
Director: David L. Cunningham
Cast: Tommy Flanagan (I)
Story: The true story of Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen (1738-1789) and his group of fighters, the Green Mountain Boys, who fought for the freedom of Vermont before the War officially started. The conflict arose because selling rights to the land that is now Vermont was given to both New Hampshire and New York. When a ruling invalidated all sales done with New Hampshire, New York tried to roust the over 100 New Hampshire-sold townships, inspiring the Vermont settlers to take up arms. The name refers to the Green Mountains they felt they were being pushed into (out of their new homes). The Republic of Vermont lasted from 1777-1791 when it became the 14th state. (from IMDB.com)

Saints of War

Current Status: Post-Production
Release Date: 2003
War Genre: WWII
Director: Ryan Little
Cast: Unknown
Story: The true story of Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen (1738-1789) and his group of fighters, the Green Mountain Boys, who fought for the freedom of Vermont before the War officially started. The conflict arose because selling rights to the land that is now Vermont was given to both New Hampshire and New York. When a ruling invalidated all sales done with New Hampshire, New York tried to roust the over 100 New Hampshire-sold townships, inspiring the Vermont settlers to take up arms. The name refers to the Green Mountains they felt they were being pushed into (out of their new homes). The Republic of Vermont lasted from 1777-1791 when it became the 14th state. (from IMDB.com)

The Song of Rose

Current Status: Completed
Release Date: 2003
War Genre: World War II
Director: Mikhail Ptashuk
Cast: Marina Golub, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Pavel Konstantinov
Story: A young Jewish-American female singer is trapped in the USSR behind the enemy lines during the WWII...
(from IMDB.com)

Strike the Tent

Current Status: Completed
Release Date: 2003
War Genre: Civil War
Director: Blaine Miller (II)
Cast: Julian Adams (II), Wendy Belt Edwards, Eric Holloway (I), Tippi Hedren, Lee Majors, Mickey Rooney
Story: The film is based on the real life of Robert and Eveline McCord Adams. The film shows the men and women’s perspective of what they endured during the Civil War in the 19th century.

Tripoli

Current Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2005
War Genre: Tripolitan War
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Kingsley
Story: This is the grand epic adventure of how William Eaton (Crowe), a diplomat representing President Thomas Jefferson and the United States in North Africa, joined forces with Hamet Karamanli, the exiled heir to the throne of the Barbary Coast nation of Tripoli (now called Libya) in 1804 to overthrow a corrupt ruler (Hamet's brother) who had taken his place. Organizing a relatively small group of 500 soldiers comprised of U.S. Marines (does "to the shores of Tripoli" sound familiar?), Arabs and Greeks, Eaton successfully marched across 600 miles of desert to storm and capture the seaport of Derna in April, 1805. Eaton and his men then prepared to continue their fight all the way to the capital city of Tripoli... (from Yahoo Movies)

Troy

Current Status: Filming
Release Date: May 21, 2004
War Genre: Trojan War
Director: Wolfgang Peterson
Cast: Brad Pitt (Achilles), Eric Bana (Prince Hector of Troy), Orlando Bloom (Prince Paris of Troy), Diane Kruger (Helen of Troy), Peter O'Toole (King Priam of Troy), Sean Bean (Odysseus), Saffron Burrows (Andromache), Rose Byrne (Briseis), Julie Christie (Thetis)
Story: In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris (Bloom) of Troy stole the beautiful Greek woman, Helen (Kruger), away from her husband, Menelaus, the king of Sparta, setting the two nations at war with each other, as the Greeks began a bloody siege of Troy using their entire armada, led by Achilles (Pitt), that lasted over a decade... (from Yahoo Movies)

U-Boat

Current Status: Post-Production
Release Date: 2003/2004
War Genre: WWII
Director: Tony Giglio
Cast: William H. Macy, Lauren Holly, Xander Berkeley, Scott Caan, Sam Huntington, Thomas Kretschmann
Story: When a group of American P.O.W.s (Prisoners of War), the survivors of the wrecked U.S.S. Swordfish, are brought aboard German U-Boat 429 during World War II, their loyalties are tested as they are forced to either join the Germans or fight each other for their lives. (from Yahoo Movies)

Undivided

Current Status: Announced
Release Date: 2004
War Genre: WWII
Director: Vincent Spano
Cast: Matt Kennard
Story: Twin brothers, unaware of each other's existence, find themselves on opposite sides of WWII and in love with the same woman.(from IMDB.com)

Valiant

Current Status: In Production
Release Date: 2005
War Genre: World War II
Director: Rob Letterman
Cast: ??
Story: Computer Animated comedy. During World War II, England communicated with the French Resistance and Allied troops in Europe using the Royal Pigeon Service, using carrier pigeons that went through a rigorous training regimen. This is the story of Valiant, a comically clumsy misfit of a (wood) pigeon who sneaks his way into the Royal Pigeon Service, eager to contribute his efforts to the needs of his country, even though he is vastly unqualified to do so. Immediately given an assignment, Valiant's job turns out to be one of the most important of the war... carrying essential messages from the French to the Allied forces who are about to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. (from Yahoo Movies)

Who Goes There

Current Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2003
War Genre: WWII
Director: Benjamin Ross
Cast: Jamie Bell
Story: Set in WWII, this is the true story of a friendship that emerges when a U-boat accidentally lands its crew near a Welsh seaside village. A local boy (Bell) befriends a young German sailor, but their patriotic loyalties may be stronger...
(from Yahoo Movies)