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Description	Year	Answer	% Correct
During the Normandy invasion of World War II, Captain John Miller is assigned the task of searching for Private [BLANK], whose three brothers have already been killed in the war.	1998	Saving Private Ryan	90%
During World War II, soldiers from the British Empire, Belgium and France try to evacuate from the town of Dunkirk during a arduous battle with German forces.	2017	Dunkirk	87%
During the Second World War, a large group of imprisoned Allied soldiers, known for breaking out of prison, are confined in an escape-proof prison camp	1963	The Great Escape	79%
Two soldiers, assigned the task of delivering a critical message to another battalion, risk their lives for the job in order to prevent them from stepping right into a deadly ambush.	2019	1917	78%
Oskar [BLANK], a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party, tries to save his Jewish employees after witnessing the persecution of Jews in Poland	1993	Schindler's List	78%
During World War II, a team of Nazi officers comes up with a plan to assassinate Hitler and destroy the Nazi rule by using Operation Valkyrie as a means to do so.	2008	Valkyrie	67%
A German submarine patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, manned by a crew that must contend with tense conflicts and long stretches of confined boredom	1981	Das Boot	66%
Colonel Nicholson reluctantly agrees to camp commander Saito's suggestion of getting the World War II POWs to build a railway bridge. However, the project soon becomes an obsession for him.	1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	65%
Lawrence, a lieutenant in the British Army, is asked by Colonel Brighton to moderately assess Faisal, their ally. Lawrence is impressed with Faisal and seeks his help to plan an attack on the enemy.	1962	Lawrence of Arabia	63%
A missionary and his daughter watch the British soldiers battling African Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.	1964	Zulu	61%
Captain Willard is sent to Cambodia on a dangerous mission to assassinate a renegade colonel who has won the trust of a local tribe.	1979	Apocalypse Now	60%
Alan Turing, a British mathematician, joins the cryptography team to decipher the German enigma code. With the help of his fellow mathematicians, he builds a machine to crack the codes.	2014	The Imitation Game	56%
During World War II, the British Royal Air Force fights the Luftwaffe while trying to sabotage Adolf Hitler's plan of invading Great Britain.	1969	Battle of Britain	54%
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is faced with a tough choice as he must decide whether to sign a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler's Germany or continue fighting the war against them.	2017	Darkest Hour	54%
Wardaddy, along with his crew of five members, embarks on a mission that puts many lives in danger. The crew members realise that the odds are against them, but still decide to attack the Nazi army.	2014	Fury	54%
Vasily Zaytsev, a Russian sniper, gains notoriety for killing numerous Nazis during the Battle of Stalingrad. Major Konig of Germany is then tasked to get retribution and kill Zaytsev.	2001	Enemy at the Gates	50%
The Allied armies concocted a plan to win the World War II at Arnhem. Disaster ensues when the area around Arnhem, including the key bridges of Germany, is loaded with armoured assaults.	1977	A Bridge Too Far	49%
During WWII, a British scientist develops a chemically modified bomb that skips across the waters until it meets a dam and causes a massive explosion. It is dropped on Germany's Ruhr Valley Dams.	1955	The Dam Busters	49%
Napoleon has returned from exile to the delight of his French countrymen and has assembled an army to conquer Europe. Wellington leads the allied forces of the British, Austrians, Prussians and Russians to fight the French, with the two armies finally meeting in Waterloo, Belgium.	1970	Waterloo	49%
The Allied Forces and the U.S. Army plan an invasion landing in Normandy when General Eisenhower gives them the permission to do so.	1962	The Longest Day	48%
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery	1968	The Charge of the Light Brigade	45%
During World War II, Nazi officer Max Radl (Robert Duvall) devises a plan to kidnap or kill the British prime minister. Approved by German Cmdr. Heinrich Himmler (Donald Pleasence), the scheme moves forward with Col. Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine) leading the mission	1976	The Eagle Has Landed	33%
Captain Anson (John Mills) is tired and thirsty. Forced to leave his North African post when it becomes clear it will be invaded, Anson is on his way to Alexandria, Egypt, and looking forward to a nice cold beer	1958	Ice Cold in Alex	29%
A lethal riot takes place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, between Catholics and Protestants. A young British soldier, abandoned inadvertently by his military unit, has to survive the riot alone.	2014	71	28%
Despite his guilt over a recent harrowing sea battle in which many of his men were lost, Lt. Cmdr. George Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is assigned to helm the new H.M.S. Compass Rose with the help of steadfast seaman Lt. Lockhart (Donald Sinden).	1953	The Cruel Sea	24%
A British Army Reserve Major leads a suicide mission, to destroy the German ships docked upriver at Bordeaux.	1955	The Cockleshell Heroes	16%
After the British destroyer Torrin capsizes, some of the crew members await rescue while remembering their families and loved ones.	1942	In Which We Serve	15%

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