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Drama/Historical/War Titles

Titles of this category should cover the events of a war as significant element of the storyline (even if the actual conflict doesn't get that much airtime). The opponents should be nations at least (alien races, star systems, parallel universes etc. are fine as well); conflicts between smaller organisations would rather be categorized as "fighting".
An example for a real-world war would be Hotaru no Haka, a fantasy war would be Lodoss Tou Senki (OAV), a SF war would be Saishu Heiki Kanojo.

Title Rating Synopsis
G
Grave of the Fireflies Buy See Hotaru no Haka
H

Hotaru no Haka
Buy A brother and sister try to survive after they are left orphans from the fire-bombing of Kobe in World War II.
M

Mononoke Hime
Rent A young man, cursed with death for saving his village, leaves home to find where the curse originated from. Doing so takes him into the middle of a conflict between man and nature, an unmoving rock between two unstoppable forces. But can he save those he loves and respects while removing his curse? Will he be forced to side against his friends?
P
Princess Mononoke Rent See Mononoke Hime
T

The Cockpit: Kamikaze Stories
Rent The Cockpit is a series of 3 OVAs focusing on three separate stories of the tragedy of war. The first, Slipstream, follows a Luftwaffe pilot who must choose between his duty to his country: to guard a bomber loaded with Germany's final hope of victory, the world's first atomic bomb, or his duty to the world: to let it fall in flames to enemy Spitfires and be a footnote in history. Of course, things are complicated by the plane's other cargo, the woman he loves. The second story, Sonic Boom Squadron follows the pilot of an Ohka bomb, the purest kamikaze desperation weapon of the Pacific war. He once dreamt of flying a rocket into space, but instead he is to fly a rocket into an American ship for the glory of Japan. If only they would have let him live another 30 years. The third story, Knight of the Iron Dragon, is set on the Philippine island of Leyte, where a rusted old motorcycle tells the story of two Japanese soldiers who returned to a captured airfield to fulfill a promise, a promise that neither could ever keep.
ザ・コクピット (Japanese) Rent See The Cockpit: Kamikaze Stories
Release Year
1997(1) 1994(1) 1993(1) 1988(1)
Type
Movie(2) OVA(1)
Setting
Fantasy(1)
Keywords
Action(3) Animals(1) Artistic(1) Classic(1)
Dark(1) Epic(1) Soul Mates(1) Spiritual(1)
Supernatural(1) Tragedy(1)

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