As honest and brutal as Saving Private Ryan and spread over ten episodes, it doesn't get much better than this!
Band Of Brothers
(6 discs)
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Matthew Settle Director:Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Certificate:
This 10-part HBO television miniseries focuses on Easy Company, a group of American soldiers in World War II, tracking their experiences from the beginning of boot camp to the end of the war. Anchored by actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston, the series gives detailed attention to their ..read more »
Awesome and brutally honest. No.1 WW2 movie of all time!
Saving Private Ryan
on DVD
(1998) Starring:Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore Director:Steven Spielberg Certificate:
Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in ..read more »
Black Hawk Down
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Ewan McGregor, Kim Coates, Gabriel Casseus Director:Ridley Scott Certificate:
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk ..read more »
Stalingrad
on DVD
(1992) Starring:Dominique Horwitz, Sebastian Rudolph, Jochen Nickel Director:Joseph Vilsmaier Certificate:
This German film is a gritty, devastating retelling of the battle for Stalingrad during World War II, in which more than a million and a half soldiers lost their lives. Told from the point of view of the German soldiers, who were under orders to neither retreat nor surrender, this film ..read more »
Great film, just a load of messed up guys not knowing what their fighting for!
Platoon
on DVD
(1986) Starring:Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger Director:Oliver Stone Certificate:
In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
Like all true Brits they start with no hope in hell and come through at the end with their dignity intact! Classic film that should never be forgotten!
The Bridge On The River Kwai
on DVD
(1957) Starring:Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins Director:David Lean Certificate:
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over ..read more »
Enemy At The Gates
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz Director:Jean-Jacques Annaud Certificate:
September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the second man only gets the weapon when the first is cut down. Trapped in no man's land between the opposing ..read more »
Good movie largely under rated, doesn't shy away from the fact that the yanks got their butts kicked in Vietnam!
Hamburger Hill
on DVD
(1987) Starring:Anthony Barrile, Tim Quill, Michael Dolan Director:John Irvin Certificate: Watch now: £2.49
Because Hamburger Hill was released less than a year after Oliver Stone's Platoon and within months of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, this exceptionally well-made film about one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War was largely overshadowed and overlooked. It's a pity, because in some ..read more »
Enough to put any overweight teenager off ever wanting to be a marine, the classic line "this is my rifle, this is my gun" will live long in the memory!
Full Metal Jacket
on DVD
(1987) Starring:Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio Director:Stanley Kubrick Certificate:
In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the cold war), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET, adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT ..read more »
A real little gem, brilliantly shot and a true story I knew nothing about!
Windtalkers
on DVD
(2002) Starring:Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach Director:John Woo Certificate:
WINDTALKERS begins quietly--with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It's 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret ..read more »