War
Films on DVD
War
Films on VHS
Military
& War Documentaries on VHS
Military
& War Documentaries on DVD
War Movie Sections (VHS):
Recommended War Movies
Saving
Private Ryan (1999)
Steven Spielberg
Spielberg at his very best. The opening scenes are rivetting, and appallingly
realistic.
Stars Tom Hanks
Black
Hawk Down (2002) VHS
~ Josh Hartnett
Lucie
Aubrac
Lucie Aubrac is part thriller and part romance, but both halves are
handled with a subdued discretion that doesn't prevent the movie from being
deeply engaging. Meticulous and skillful, director Claude Berri paces his
story carefully, paying attention to the details of life in occupied France.
The fully developed atmosphere, never overstated, gives just the right
frame to Lucie and Raymond's passionate marriage. Auteuil is solid, but
it's Bouquet's film; her performance is as low-key as the movie, yet completely
compelling and deeply affecting. Based on a true story. --Bret Fetzer
- Amazon.com
Schindler's List (1993)
Steven Spielberg
Listed under Holocaust Movies
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Listed under Vietnam War Movies
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Listed under Vietnam War Movies
War Movies - Alphabetical Listing
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Squadron (1964)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, et al.
Director: Walter Grauman
A
Bridge Too Far (1977)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery et al.
Director: Richard Attenborough
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
The Civil War (1990)
~ Ken Burns
Listed under Civil War Documentaries
The
Manchurian Candidate (1962) VHS
~ Frank Sinatra
Breaker
Morant (1980)
Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson
Director: Bruce Beresford
ASIN: 1572521775
Casualties of War (1989) VHS
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, et al.
Listed under Vietnam War Movies
Cross
of Iron (1977)
Starring: James Coburn, et al.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Color, NTSC
Das
Boot - The Director's Cut
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Color, Widescreen, 209 minutes
The
Desert Fox (1951)
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, et al.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Enemy
at the Gates
VHS Tape from Paramount Studio
starring Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes
directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Published: 29 January, 2002 |
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Farewell to Arms (1932)
DVD from Madacy Entertainment
starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper
The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to
the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by
Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticizing of
the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian
front in World War I, an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls
in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes, before she became the official First
Lady of the American The-a-tah). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real
life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls;
his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt
approach. ... Amazon.com
directed by Frank Borzage
Published: 11 August, 1998
For
Whom the Bell Tolls
DVD from Universal Studios
starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
directed by Sam Wood
Published: 02 September, 2003
Fat
Man and Little Boy (1989)
Starring: Paul Newman, et al.
Director: Roland Joffe
NTSC format (US and Canada only) Color
Force
10 from Navarone (1978)
Starring: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, et al.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Sequel to Alistair McLean's Guns of Navarone, but generally
panned.
Foreign
Legion
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Color, HiFi Sound, Box set, NTSC
Number of tapes: 2
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Listed under Vietnam War Movies
Gallipoli
(1981)
Starring: Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, et al.
Director: Peter Weir
The
Guns of Navarone (Special Edition) (1961)
Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, et al.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Guadalcanal
Diary (1943)
Starring: Preston Foster, et al.
Director: Lewis Seiler
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Black & White, NTSC
ASIN: 6301663012
The
Longest Day (1962)
Starring: Richard Burton, et al.
Director: Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton
Merrill's
Marauders (1962) VHS
Midway
(Collector's Edition) (1976)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, et al.
Director: Jack Smight
Edition Details:
Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Color, Widescreen
No Man's Land
Listed under Balkan War Movies
Pearl
Harbor (2001)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, et al.
Director: Michael Bay
Piece
of Cake DVD
Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Based on the books of Derek
Robinson
Piece
of Cake Collection Set VHS
Thin
Red Line VHS
Sean Penn, Nick Nolte
WWII in the Pacific. Opening scenes depict bronzed and dogtagged hero,
pans to beach, carefree native children, fibreglass surfboard... Guadalcanal
deserves much better than this dreary flick.
Too
Late the Hero (1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, et al.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Fictional account of guerrilla warfare in the Pacific. Highly rated.
Wake
Island (1942)
Starring: Robert Preston, et al.
Director: John Farrow
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
The
Longest Day (1962)
Starring: John Wayne, et al.
Director: Gerd Oswald, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton,
Bernhard Wicki
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ASIN: 6304935765
Raid
on Rommel (1971)
Starring: Burton, Colicos, et al.
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Color, NTSC
ASIN: 6304288565
Secrets of War: Spy Games of World War II (1998)
Starring: Charlton Heston, et al.
Contains Four Parts: German Intelligence in World War II (52 min.),
Tools of
Deception (52 min.), Rommel's Enigma (52 min.) & D-Day Deceptions
(52 min.)
Listed under WWII Documentaries
Stalingrad
(1992) VHS ~ Subtitled in English
Amazon.com It's tempting to call this harrowing picture a World War
II version of All Quiet on the Western Front: both films take the perspective
of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. Stalingrad surveys the misery
of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost
one and a half million people, Russian defenders and German invaders alike.
Not unlike Spielberg's approach to Saving Private Ryan, German director
Joseph Vilsmaier rarely steps outside the action to comment on the higher
purpose of the war, assuming the audience is aware of the evil of the Nazi
regime. Instead, we simply follow a group of soldiers as they endure a
series of gut-wrenching episodes, events which have the tang of authenticity
and horror. Vilsmaier has a taste for symbolism and surreal touches, which
only add to the unsettling sense of insanity this movie conjures up so
well. --Robert Horton - Amazon.com
~ Dominique Horwitz |
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Platoon (1986)
Listed under Vietnam War Movies
Battle of Britain (1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, et al.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Out of Print - Try Used
Movies
Battleship
Potemkin
DVD from Image Entertainment
starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky
directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Published: 07 October, 1998
Battleships
Combat at Sea / VHS Tape / Published 1993
NTSC format (for use in US and Canada only)
Out of Print - Try Used
Movies
D-Day Battle for the Beach/Battle of San Pietro (1996)
Black & White, Color, NTSC
Number of tapes: 2
ASIN: 6304979487
Out of Print - Try Used
Movies
Tora!
Tora! Tora!
VHS Tape from Twentieth Century Fox
starring Martin Balsam, Sรด Yamamura, Joseph Cotten,
Jason Robards
directed by Akira Kurosawa, Richard Fleischer, Toshio
Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku (1970)
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Tora!
Tora! Tora!
DVD from Twentieth Century Fox
The
Desert Rats (1953)
DVD from Fox Home Entertainme
directed by Robert Wise
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