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The
war film is a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about
navy, air force or army battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoner of war, covert operations, Military education and training or other related subjects. Sometimes they focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles. Their stories may be fiction,
historical drama film, docudrama or occasionally biographical.
The term
anti-war film is sometimes used to describe films which bring to the viewer the pain and horror of war, often from a political or ideological perspective.
History
1920s and 1930s
Films made in the years following World War I tended to emphasise the horror or futility of warfare, most notably
The Big Parade (1925) and
What Price Glory? (1926 film). With the sound era, films like
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Howard Hawks'
Road to Glory (1936) and
Grand Illusion (film) (1937), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as
Buster Keaton's
Doughboys (1930) and Wheeler & Woolsey's
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930), or exciting tales of the
U.S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America,
China, and the
Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's
Flight (1930),
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936) and
Tell it to the Marines (1926 film). Other films focused on the drama inherent in the new technology and fading
chivalry of
aerial combat in films such as
Wings (film) (1927),
Hell's Angels (film) (1930) and
The Dawn Patrol (1930 and 1938 versions).
1940s
The first popular war films during the
Second World War came from United Kingdom and
Germany and were often documentary film or semi-documentary in nature. Examples include
The Lion Has Wings and
Target for Tonight (British) and
Sieg im Westen (German).
By the early 1940s, the
Cinema of the United Kingdom began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noel Coward's
In Which We Serve (1942),
Millions Like Us (1943) and
The Way Ahead (1944). Others used the medium of the fiction film to carry a propaganda message; about the need for vigilance (
Went the Day Well?) or to avoid "careless talk" (
The Next of Kin).
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the
United States Congress on September 16, 1940, becoming the first peacetime
conscription in United States history. Hollywood reflected the interest of the American public in
Conscription in the United States by having nearly every film studio bring out a military film comedy in 1941 with their resident comedian(s).
Universal Pictures' Abbott and Costello came out with the first feature film on the subject
Buck Privates and followed it with the team
In The Navy and in the
United States Army Air Corps to
Keep 'Em Flying. Paramount Pictures' Bob Hope was
Caught In The Draft,
Warner Brothers told
Phil Silvers and
Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now,
Columbia Pictures put
Fred Astaire in the army declaring
You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of
William Tracy and Joe Sawyer
Tanks a Million and
20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going
Great Guns. The minor studios such as
Republic Pictures made Bob Crosby and Eddie Foy Jr
Rookies on Parade and
Monogram Pictures enlisted Nat Pendleton as
Top Sergeant Mulligan. However, the first comedians to hit the screen in an army comedy were The Three Stooges as
Boobs in Arms.
Serious 1941 films involving training for war included U.S. Cavalry in MGM's
The Bugle Sounds,
RKO's
Parachute Battalion, Paramount Pictures
I Wanted Wings and Warner Brothers'
Dive Bomber.
20th Century Fox made the last pre-war military film about the U.S. Marine Corps
To The Shores of Tripoli. When the
Pearl Harbor attack occurred the studio reshot the ending to have John Payne reenlist in the Corps and march off with the Marines whilst his father implores hime ot 'Get a Jap for me'.
Prior to Pearl Harbor,
Warner Brothers warned of
Confessions of a Nazi Spy whilst
Producers_Releasing_Corporation told of
Hitler, Beast of Berlin. A
metaphor for America was
Gary Cooper as the real life
Sergeant York who went from
hillbilly hell-raiser, to pacifist, to a
Conscriptionee comparing the
Bible to the
History of the United States and deciding that his
marksmanship against the Germans was righteous.
After the
United States entered the war in 1941
Hollywood began to mass-produce war films. Many of the American dramatic war films in the early 1940s were designed to celebrate American unity and demonize "the enemy." One of the conventions of the genre that developed during the period was of a cross-section of the American people who come together with a common purpose for the good of the country, i.e. the need for mobilization.
The American industry also produced films designed to extol the heroics of America's allies, such as
Mrs. Miniver (film) (about a British family on the home front),
Edge of Darkness (Norwegian resistance fighters) and
The North Star (1943 film) (the Soviet Union and its
Communist Party). Towards the end of the war popular books became the source of films of higher quality and more serious tone, extoling more long-term values, including
Guadalcanal Diary (film) (1943),
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and
They Were Expendable (1945).
1950s
The years after World War II brought a large number of mostly patriotic war films, which used the war as a backdrop for dramas and adventure stories. Many films made in Britain drew on true stories, such as
The Dam Busters (film) (1954),
Dunkirk (film) (1958),
Reach for the Sky (1956) telling the life of Douglas Bader and
Sink the Bismarck! (1960). The immediate aftermath of the war in Hollywood avoided the action film and delved into problems experienced by the returning veterans, turning out a number of high quality movies that included
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946),
Battleground (1949),
Home of the Brave (1949),
Command Decision (1948), and
Twelve O'Clock High (1949). The latter two examined the psychological effects of combat and the stresses of command.
Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice in films like
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949),
Halls of Montezuma (1950) or
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956). They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding; almost anyone sharing personal information - especially plans for returning home - would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die (or both, in quick succession).
Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war movies realistically-filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them
The Frogmen,
Go for Broke! (1951 film),
You're in the Navy Now, and
Decision Before Dawn.
Another large group of films emerged from the plethora of popular war novels penned after the war. Their quality was largely dependent on their faithfulness to the plot or theme of the original, casting, direction,and production values. Much of their appeal for the American public was that they covered virtually every branch of the service involved in the war. These include:
The Young Lions (1958),
The Naked and the Dead (1958),
Battle Cry (film) (1955),
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958),
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963),
The Caine Mutiny (1954),
Away All Boats (1956),
From Here to Eternity (1953),
Kings Go Forth (1958),
Never So Few (1959),
The Mountain Road (1960), and
In Harm's Way (1965).
POW films
A popular sub-genre of war films in the 1950s and '60s was the
prisoner of war film. This was a form popularised in United Kingdom and recounted stories of real escapes from (usually
Germany)
P.O.W. camps in World War II. Examples include
The Wooden Horse (1950),
Albert R.N. (1953) and
The Colditz Story (1955). Hollywood also made its own contribution to the genre with
The Great Escape (1963) and the fictional
Stalag 17 (1953). Other fictional P.O.W. films include
The Captive Heart (
1947),
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),
King Rat (1965 film) (1965),
Danger Within (1958),
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) and
Hart's War (2002). Unusually, the British industry also produced a film based on German escaper
Franz von Werra,
The One That Got Away in (1957).
1960s
By the early 1960s films based on
commando missions like
The Gift Horse (1952) based on the St. Nazaire raid, and
Ill Met by Moonlight (1956) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as
The Guns of Navarone (film) (1961),
The Dirty Dozen (1967) and
Where Eagles Dare (1968), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films. The latter films had American producers, stars and financing but were filmed in England or on location with British film crews, supporting actors, and expertise.
The late 1950s and 1960s also brought some more thoughtful big war films like Andrei Tarkovsky's
Ivan's Childhood (1962),
David Lean's
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and
Lawrence of Arabia (film) (1962) as well as a fashion for all-star epics based on battles which were often quasi-
Documentary film in style and filmed in Europe where extras and production costs were cheaper. This trend was started by
Darryl F. Zanuck's production
The Longest Day (film) in 1962, based on the first day of the 1944
D-Day landings. Other examples included
Battle of the Bulge (film) (1965),
Anzio (1968),
Battle of Britain (film) (1969),
Waterloo (film) (1970),
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (based on the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor),
Midway (film) (1976) and
A Bridge Too Far (1977 film) (1977). A more recent example is the
American Civil War film
Gettysburg (movie) which was based on events during the battle, including the defense of
Little Round Top by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in
Jack L. Warner's
Brushfire (1961), and Marshall Thompson's
A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964) and
To the Shores of Hell (1966), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any
Vietnam War films with the exception of
John Wayne's
The Green Berets (film) based on the best selling book by
Robin Moore and using the theme song Ballad of the Green Berets. No Vietnam war films followed until Jack Starrett's
Nam Angels AKA
The Losers (1970) filmed on Philippine sets left over from Robert Aldrich's
Too Late the Hero (1970).
Post-Vietnam films
The effects of the Vietnam War tended to diminish the appetite for fictional war films by the turn of the 1970s. American war films produced during and just after the Vietnam War often reflected the disillusion of the American public towards the war. Most films made after the Vietnam War delved more deeply into the horrors of war than movies made before it. (This is not to say that there were no such films before the Vietnam War;
Paths of Glory is a notable critique of war from 1957, the beginning of the
Vietnam War era.) Later war films like
Catch-22 (film) (set in WWII) and the black comedy
MASH (film) (set in Korea), reflected some of these attitudes.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the American industry produced war films critical of American involvement in Vietnam, including
Apocalypse Now,
Go Tell the Spartans,
Platoon (movie),
Full Metal Jacket and
Casualties of War, and others, such as
Hamburger Hill that emphasized the soldiers' suffering.
1990's to 2000's
The success of Steven Spielberg's visceral
Saving Private Ryan in 1998, helped to usher in a revival of interest in World War II films. A number of these, such as
Pearl Harbor (film) and
Enemy at the Gates were aimed fairly squarely at the blockbuster market, while others, like
Enigma (movie),
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and
Charlotte Gray, were more nostalgic in tone.
The military and the film industry
Many war films have been produced with the cooperation of a nation's military forces. The United States Navy has been very cooperative since World War II in providing ships and technical guidance;
Top Gun (film) is the most famous example. The
U.S. Air Force provided considerable verisimilitude for
The Big Lift,
Strategic Air Command and
A Gathering of Eagles, filmed on Air Force bases and using Air Force personnel in many roles.
Typically, the military will not assist filmmakers if the film is critical of them. Sometimes the military demands some editorial control in exchange for their cooperation, which can bias the result. The German Ministry of
Propaganda, making the epic war film
Kolberg (film) in January 1945, used several divisions of soldiers as extras. Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels believed the impact of the film would offset the tactical disadvantages of the missing soldiers.
If the home nation's military will not cooperate, or if filming in the home nation is too expensive, another country's may assist. Many 1950s and 1960s war movies, including the Academy Awards-winning films
Patton (film),
Lawrence of Arabia (film), and
Spartacus (film), were shot in Spain, which had large supplies of both Allied and Axis Powers equipment. The Napoleonic epic
Waterloo (movie) was shot in
Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), using Soviet soldiers. The D-Day scenes in
Saving Private Ryan were shot with the cooperation of the
Ireland army, and all of the major sequences in
Dark Blue World were shot in the Czech Republic, at a disused air force base.
See also
External links
- http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Warflicks/
- List of World War II Movies at WWII Movies
- Top War Movies at the Internet Movie Database
- War Movies & Literature Discussion Forum
- War Movie Reviews and News at WarMovieBlog
The
war film is a
film genre concerned with warfare, usually about
navy, air force or army battles, sometimes focusing instead on
prisoner of war, covert operations,
Military education and training or other related subjects. Sometimes they focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles. Their stories may be
fiction,
historical drama film, docudrama or occasionally biographical.
The term
anti-war film is sometimes used to describe films which bring to the viewer the pain and horror of war, often from a political or ideological perspective.
History
1920s and 1930s
Films made in the years following
World War I tended to emphasise the horror or futility of warfare, most notably
The Big Parade (1925) and
What Price Glory? (1926 film). With the sound era, films like
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),
Howard Hawks'
Road to Glory (1936) and
Grand Illusion (film) (1937), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's
Doughboys (1930) and Wheeler & Woolsey's
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930), or exciting tales of the
U.S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like
Frank Capra's
Flight (1930),
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936) and
Tell it to the Marines (1926 film). Other films focused on the drama inherent in the new technology and fading
chivalry of
aerial combat in films such as
Wings (film) (1927),
Hell's Angels (film) (1930) and
The Dawn Patrol (1930 and 1938 versions).
1940s
The first popular war films during the
Second World War came from United Kingdom and
Germany and were often documentary film or semi-documentary in nature. Examples include
The Lion Has Wings and
Target for Tonight (British) and
Sieg im Westen (German).
By the early 1940s, the Cinema of the United Kingdom began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like
Noel Coward's
In Which We Serve (1942),
Millions Like Us (1943) and
The Way Ahead (1944). Others used the medium of the fiction film to carry a propaganda message; about the need for vigilance (
Went the Day Well?) or to avoid "careless talk" (
The Next of Kin).
The
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the United States Congress on September 16,
1940, becoming the first peacetime conscription in
United States history. Hollywood reflected the interest of the American public in
Conscription in the United States by having nearly every film studio bring out a military film comedy in
1941 with their resident comedian(s).
Universal Pictures'
Abbott and Costello came out with the first feature film on the subject
Buck Privates and followed it with the team
In The Navy and in the
United States Army Air Corps to
Keep 'Em Flying.
Paramount Pictures'
Bob Hope was
Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told
Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante
You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring
You'll Never Get Rich,
Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of
William Tracy and Joe Sawyer
Tanks a Million and
20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of
Laurel & Hardy going
Great Guns. The minor studios such as Republic Pictures made Bob Crosby and Eddie Foy Jr
Rookies on Parade and
Monogram Pictures enlisted Nat Pendleton as
Top Sergeant Mulligan. However, the first comedians to hit the screen in an army comedy were
The Three Stooges as
Boobs in Arms.
Serious 1941 films involving training for war included
U.S. Cavalry in MGM's
The Bugle Sounds, RKO's
Parachute Battalion, Paramount Pictures
I Wanted Wings and
Warner Brothers'
Dive Bomber. 20th Century Fox made the last pre-war military film about the
U.S. Marine Corps To The Shores of Tripoli. When the Pearl Harbor attack occurred the studio reshot the ending to have John Payne reenlist in the Corps and march off with the Marines whilst his father implores hime ot 'Get a Jap for me'.
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Warner Brothers warned of
Confessions of a Nazi Spy whilst
Producers_Releasing_Corporation told of
Hitler, Beast of Berlin. A metaphor for America was
Gary Cooper as the real life
Sergeant York who went from
hillbilly hell-raiser, to pacifist, to a Conscriptionee comparing the
Bible to the History of the United States and deciding that his
marksmanship against the Germans was righteous.
After the United States entered the war in 1941 Hollywood began to mass-produce war films. Many of the American dramatic war films in the early 1940s were designed to celebrate American unity and demonize "the enemy." One of the conventions of the genre that developed during the period was of a cross-section of the American people who come together with a common purpose for the good of the country, i.e. the need for
mobilization.
The American industry also produced films designed to extol the heroics of America's allies, such as
Mrs. Miniver (film) (about a British family on the home front),
Edge of Darkness (Norwegian resistance fighters) and
The North Star (1943 film) (the Soviet Union and its
Communist Party). Towards the end of the war popular books became the source of films of higher quality and more serious tone, extoling more long-term values, including
Guadalcanal Diary (film) (1943),
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and
They Were Expendable (1945).
1950s
The years after World War II brought a large number of mostly patriotic war films, which used the war as a backdrop for dramas and adventure stories. Many films made in Britain drew on true stories, such as
The Dam Busters (film) (1954),
Dunkirk (film) (1958),
Reach for the Sky (1956) telling the life of Douglas Bader and
Sink the Bismarck! (1960). The immediate aftermath of the war in Hollywood avoided the action film and delved into problems experienced by the returning veterans, turning out a number of high quality movies that included
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946),
Battleground (1949),
Home of the Brave (1949),
Command Decision (1948), and
Twelve O'Clock High (1949). The latter two examined the psychological effects of combat and the stresses of command.
Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice in films like
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949),
Halls of Montezuma (1950) or
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956). They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding; almost anyone sharing personal information - especially plans for returning home - would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die (or both, in quick succession).
Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war movies realistically-filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them
The Frogmen,
Go for Broke! (1951 film),
You're in the Navy Now, and
Decision Before Dawn.
Another large group of films emerged from the plethora of popular war novels penned after the war. Their quality was largely dependent on their faithfulness to the plot or theme of the original, casting, direction,and production values. Much of their appeal for the American public was that they covered virtually every branch of the service involved in the war. These include:
The Young Lions (1958),
The Naked and the Dead (1958),
Battle Cry (film) (1955),
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958),
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963),
The Caine Mutiny (1954),
Away All Boats (1956),
From Here to Eternity (1953),
Kings Go Forth (1958),
Never So Few (1959),
The Mountain Road (1960), and
In Harm's Way (1965).
POW films
A popular sub-genre of war films in the 1950s and '60s was the
prisoner of war film. This was a form popularised in United Kingdom and recounted stories of real escapes from (usually Germany)
P.O.W. camps in World War II. Examples include
The Wooden Horse (1950),
Albert R.N. (1953) and
The Colditz Story (1955). Hollywood also made its own contribution to the genre with
The Great Escape (1963) and the fictional
Stalag 17 (1953). Other fictional P.O.W. films include
The Captive Heart (1947),
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),
King Rat (1965 film) (1965),
Danger Within (1958),
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) and
Hart's War (2002). Unusually, the British industry also produced a film based on German escaper Franz von Werra,
The One That Got Away in (1957).
1960s
By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like
The Gift Horse (1952) based on the
St. Nazaire raid, and
Ill Met by Moonlight (1956) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as
The Guns of Navarone (film) (1961),
The Dirty Dozen (1967) and
Where Eagles Dare (1968), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films. The latter films had American producers, stars and financing but were filmed in England or on location with British film crews, supporting actors, and expertise.
The late 1950s and 1960s also brought some more thoughtful big war films like Andrei Tarkovsky's
Ivan's Childhood (1962), David Lean's
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and
Lawrence of Arabia (film) (1962) as well as a fashion for all-star epics based on battles which were often quasi-
Documentary film in style and filmed in Europe where extras and production costs were cheaper. This trend was started by Darryl F. Zanuck's production
The Longest Day (film) in 1962, based on the first day of the 1944
D-Day landings. Other examples included
Battle of the Bulge (film) (1965),
Anzio (1968),
Battle of Britain (film) (1969),
Waterloo (film) (1970),
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (based on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor),
Midway (film) (1976) and
A Bridge Too Far (1977 film) (1977). A more recent example is the
American Civil War film
Gettysburg (movie) which was based on events during the battle, including the defense of
Little Round Top by Colonel
Joshua Chamberlain.
Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in
Jack L. Warner's
Brushfire (1961), and Marshall Thompson's
A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964) and
To the Shores of Hell (1966), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of
John Wayne's
The Green Berets (film) based on the best selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song
Ballad of the Green Berets. No Vietnam war films followed until Jack Starrett's
Nam Angels AKA
The Losers (1970) filmed on Philippine sets left over from Robert Aldrich's
Too Late the Hero (1970).
Post-Vietnam films
The effects of the Vietnam War tended to diminish the appetite for fictional war films by the turn of the 1970s. American war films produced during and just after the Vietnam War often reflected the disillusion of the American public towards the war. Most films made after the Vietnam War delved more deeply into the horrors of war than movies made before it. (This is not to say that there were no such films before the Vietnam War;
Paths of Glory is a notable critique of war from 1957, the beginning of the Vietnam War era.) Later war films like
Catch-22 (film) (set in WWII) and the
black comedy MASH (film) (set in Korea), reflected some of these attitudes.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the American industry produced war films critical of American involvement in Vietnam, including
Apocalypse Now,
Go Tell the Spartans,
Platoon (movie),
Full Metal Jacket and
Casualties of War, and others, such as
Hamburger Hill that emphasized the soldiers' suffering.
1990's to 2000's
The success of Steven Spielberg's visceral
Saving Private Ryan in 1998, helped to usher in a revival of interest in World War II films. A number of these, such as
Pearl Harbor (film) and
Enemy at the Gates were aimed fairly squarely at the blockbuster market, while others, like
Enigma (movie),
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and
Charlotte Gray, were more nostalgic in tone.
The military and the film industry
Many war films have been produced with the cooperation of a nation's military forces. The United States Navy has been very cooperative since World War II in providing ships and technical guidance;
Top Gun (film) is the most famous example. The U.S. Air Force provided considerable verisimilitude for
The Big Lift,
Strategic Air Command and
A Gathering of Eagles, filmed on Air Force bases and using Air Force personnel in many roles.
Typically, the military will not assist filmmakers if the film is critical of them. Sometimes the military demands some editorial control in exchange for their cooperation, which can bias the result. The German Ministry of
Propaganda, making the epic war film
Kolberg (film) in January 1945, used several divisions of soldiers as extras. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels believed the impact of the film would offset the tactical disadvantages of the missing soldiers.
If the home nation's military will not cooperate, or if filming in the home nation is too expensive, another country's may assist. Many 1950s and 1960s war movies, including the
Academy Awards-winning films
Patton (film),
Lawrence of Arabia (film), and
Spartacus (film), were shot in
Spain, which had large supplies of both
Allied and Axis Powers equipment. The Napoleonic epic
Waterloo (movie) was shot in Ukraine (then part of the
Soviet Union), using Soviet soldiers. The D-Day scenes in
Saving Private Ryan were shot with the cooperation of the
Ireland army, and all of the major sequences in
Dark Blue World were shot in the Czech Republic, at a disused air force base.
See also
External links
- http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Warflicks/
- List of World War II Movies at WWII Movies
- Top War Movies at the Internet Movie Database
- War Movies & Literature Discussion Forum
- War Movie Reviews and News at WarMovieBlog
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The 2007 Sundance festival will open with a film about violent US anti-war protests in the 1960s, organisers say.
War Of The Worlds film and Television gallery
War Of The Worlds film and Television gallery ... Superman #62 (DC, 1950) Classics Illustrated #125 (Gilberton, 1955) Killraven (Marvel, 1973-2003)
War films: the great escape from the truth | Ben Macintyre - Times ...
This is a true story,” proclaims the title card at the opening of The Great Escape, perhaps the most popular Second World War film ever made.