military school

18 movies and shows

Ender's Game

Thu, 24 Oct 2013

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

Taps

Sun, 20 Dec 1981

Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

Napoleon

Mon, 10 Jan 1927

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Up the Creek

Fri, 06 Apr 1984

Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.

The Ogre

Thu, 12 Sep 1996

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.

The Winslow Boy

Fri, 24 Sep 1948

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Combat Academy

Sun, 23 Nov 1986

"Police Academy"-style comedy set in a military school. Two errant high-school students are ordered by a judge to spend a year at a prestigious military academy, where one of the cadets finds out who is responsible for a spate of midnight thefts. Written by Mark Lennon

The Strange One

Fri, 12 Apr 1957

A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

The City and the Dogs

Thu, 18 Jul 1985

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.

Macon County Line

Thu, 08 Aug 1974

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.

On Dress Parade

Sat, 18 Nov 1939

The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

The Lottery Lover

Tue, 05 Feb 1935

A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters.

Annapolis Salute

Fri, 10 Sep 1937

The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.

The Silence

Thu, 06 Nov 1975

A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.

Beredskapspojkar

Thu, 26 Dec 1940

Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

Square Shoulders

Sun, 10 Mar 1929

Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.

The Hall Monitor

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After rejection from his dream military academy, August Hoffman; A High School Hall Monitor snaps, going on a killing spree against people who disobey school rules outside of school grounds. Meanwhile a mysterious stalker watches August enact these crimes from afar.