God and Country (2008)

Actors: Bill Flynn (actor), Justin Arnold (actor), Vernon Reeves (actor), Ralph Goin (actor), Daniel Piatt (producer), Daniel Piatt (director), Daniel Piatt (writer), Sherief Abraham (composer), Rebekah Turner (actress), Armand J. Saucier (actor), Roger Schwermer Jr. (actor), Earl Nottingham (actor), Mitchell Self (actor), Phil Vandermeer (miscellaneous crew), Dustin Tilton (actor),

Plot: It is the spring of 1942 and the world is at war. Hitler has swept unchecked across the European landscape and is pounding at the doors of Great Britain. To break the stalemate with Great Britain, the Germans begin developing a new weapon at a secret research facility in Poland. God and Country is a dramatic film portraying a team of three Americans who put their lives on the line to stop the German's diabolical plan. GOD AND COUNTRY, winner of the "Best Narrative Short" at the 2008 G.I. Film Festival, is written and directed by Daniel Piatt.

Keywords: world-war-two
Genres: Action, Short, War,
Taglines: Spring, 1942. Can three men sway the fate of the world...or will they sacrifice everything for God and country?

Sergeant York (1941)

Actors: Erville Alderson (actor), James Anderson (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), David Bruce (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), James Bush (actor), Nat Carr (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Clyde Cook (actor),

Plot: A hillbilly sharpshooter becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI when he single-handedly attacks and captures a German position using the same strategy as in turkey shoot.

Keywords: 1910s, ambush, american-history, american-soldier, appalachia, bar, bar-brawl, bar-fight, bayonet, behind-enemy-lines
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: America's Greatest Modern Hero! Timelier today than ever . . thrilling and inspiring story of the kind of men that America is made of! Missiles! Jets! Tanks! ...It's Still The Guy With Guts And A Gun Who Wins The War!

Quotes:

Sergeant: Where did ya learn to shoot York?::Alvin: Well I ain't never *learned* Sergeant! Folks back home used to say I could shoot a rifle before I was *weaned*, but they was exaggeratin' some.::[everybody laughs]

Gracie Williams: Folks say you're no good, 'ceptin' for fighting and hell-raising.

Ike Botkin: Ain't nobody ever cut 5 centers, lessen' it were Daniel Boone.

Alvin: Well I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me... I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done.::Maj. Buxton: Do you mean to tell me that you did it to save lives?::Alvin: Yes sir, that was why.::Maj. Buxton: [amazed] Well, York, what you've just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all!

Alvin: Therefore, render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.

Alvin: What we done in France, we had to do. And some as done it, didn't come back, and that kind of thing ain't for buying and selling.

Rosie York: Ma, what're they fighin' for over there?::Mother York: Don't rightly know, Child. Don't rightly know.

Drummer: [remarking on the area's isolation] What I'd like to know is, how do you fellows get into this valley?::Zeke: We was born here!

Pastor Rosier Pile: See that rock, Alvin? You've been plowin' around that rock a heap o' years.::Alvin: Sure have!::Pastor Rosier Pile: Did you ever think when you start plowin' yer furrows crooked, it's mighty hard to get 'em straight again?::Alvin: I never thought on it much.::Pastor Rosier Pile: It's that-a-way, I reckon, with other things 'sides plowin'. Satan's got ya by the shirt tail, Alvin!

[Alvin puts a handful of dirt onto a plate at the table and pushes it toward his mother]::Mother York: That there's bottom land soil, ain't it? Queer how the folks on the bottom looks down on the folks on the top. It was always that way. No changin' it!::Alvin: I'm gonna *get* us a piece of bottom land!::Mother York: Your pa set out to get a piece of bottom land once. Nary a man ever tried any harder! Liked to *kill* hisself tryin'!