George Chakiris is a resistance fighter whose fate numbers among the many ironies in the expertly written screenplay (by James Clavell and Howard Koch). To make the film, which was based on a true story, a squadron of legendary Mosquito fighter bombers was resurrected from near extinction. Dazzling flying sequences, bone shaking sound and superb special effects help to make this one of the most realistic air combat films ever to reach the screen.
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster.
As the city crumbles around them Vassili and Major Koenig begin a cat and mouse game of daring skill and patience. In this one-on-one struggle to the death each man is waiting for the perfect shot...and only one of them will walk out of Stalingrad alive.
Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, EXODUS is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into newly-partitioned Palestine, right before the United Nations is to vote on making it a Jewish homeland.
On July 1, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers were drawn by fate to the defining moment of the Civil War. Men of honour in an age when honour meant everything, they fought out of loyalty to country or homeland, or to preserve states' rights; many more were moved to the defence of individual freedom. When it was over, a third of their number lay wounded or dead in the quiet wheat fields outside Gettysburg, PA. The Union Army had prevailed. The Republic would survive.
A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg. This prequel to "Gettysburg" explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home.
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces - and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War: The Green Berets. John Wayne stars in and co-directs this red-white-and-blue depiction of America's Vietnam effort, based on Robin Moore's novel. Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request military assistance for the film - and got more than enough firepower to create an impressive spectacle.
In WWII France, Corporal Britt Harris is assigned to work alongside war-weary Sgt. Loggins - a man he soon rivals for the affections of the beautiful Monique Blair, an American who grew up in France. But when the men learn that Monique's parents are racially mixed, it tests the character of each...and provides the powerful thematic framework that shapes "Kings Go Forth" into a hard-hitting and still timely film.
Psychological study of an untried young Union soldier who panics in his first encounter with the enemy but regains his courage and emerges a hero. Based on Stephen Cranes novel. Screenplay by John Huston. NTSC format
A powerful frontline cast explodes into action as a U.S. infantry unit battles for control on Guadalcanal in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II.
In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.
Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood go Where Eagles Dare in this twisty World War II thriller written by action master Alistair MacLean and directed by Brian G. Hutton.
