CLASSIC WAR MOVIES
Index of Movies Reviewed, In chronological order.
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Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein (Alexander Antonov) Odessa Mutiny (1905)
The Big Parade (1925) King Vidor (John Gilbert, Renée Adorée) World War I
Wings (1927) William Wellman (Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper) World War I
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)( Lewis Milestone, Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim) World War I
The Dawn Patrol (1938) Edmund Goulding (Errol Flynn, David Niven) World War I
Sergeant York (1941) Howard Hawks (Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan) World War I
In Which We Serve (1942) Noel Coward, David Lean (Noel Coward, John Mills) World War II
Wake Island (1942) John Farrow (Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey) World War II
Flying Tigers (1942) David Miller (John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee) World War II
The Lost Patrol (1943) John Ford (Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff) World War I
Guadalcanal Diary (1943) Lewis Seiler (Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn) World War II
Air Force (1943) Howard Hawks (John Ridgely, Gig Young) John Ridgely, Gig Young) World War II
Sahara (1943) Zoltan Korda (Humphrey Bogart, Lloyd Bridges) World War II
Destination Tokyo (1943) Delmer Daves (Cary Grant, John Forsythe) World War II
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Cecil B. DeMille (Gary Cooper, Laraine Day) World War II
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Mervyn LeRoy (Van Johnson, Robert Walker) World War II
The Fighting Seabees (1944) Howard Lydecker/ Edward Ludwig (John Wayne, Susan Hayward) World War II
Back to Bataan (1944) Edward Dmytryk (John Wayne, Anthony Quinn)World War II
The Fighting Sullivans (1944) Lloyd Bacon (Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond) World War II
Objective, Burma! (1945) Raoul Walsh (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull) World War II
A Walk in the Sun (1945) Lewis Milestone (Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges) World War II
They Were Expendable (1945) John Ford, WWII) (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne) World War II
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) William Wellman (Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith) World War II
Open City (1945) (Italy) Roberto Rossellini (Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno) World War II
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) Henry King (Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe) World War II
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Allan Dwan (John Wayne, John Agar) World War II
Battleground (1949) William Wellman (Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban) World War II
Breakthrough (1950) Lewis Seiler (David Brian, John Agar, Frank Lovejoy ) World War II
Halls of Montezuma (1950) Lewis Milestone (Richard Widmark, Karl Malden) World War II
Operation Pacific (1951) George Waggner (John Wayne, Patricia Neal) World War II
The Tanks Are Coming (1951) Lewis Seiler (Steve Cochran, Philip Carey) World War II
The Desert Fox (1951) Henry Hathaway (James Mason, Richard Boone) World War II
Flying Leathernecks (1951) Nicholas Ray (John Wayne, Robert Ryan) World War II
Decision Before Dawn (1951) Anatole Litvak (Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill) World War II
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Raoul Walsh (Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo) Napoleonic Wars
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann, (Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift) World War II
The Desert Rats (1953) Robert Wise (Richard Burton, James Mason) World War II
Stalag 17 (1953) Billy Wilder (William Holden, Otto Preminger) World War II
The Caine Mutiny (1954) Edward Dmytryk (Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer) World War II
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) Mark Robson (William Holden, Mickey Rooney) Korea
Battle Cry (1955) Raoul Walsh (Van Heflin, James Whitmore, Anne Francis) World War II
The Colditz Story (1955) Guy Hamilton (John Mills, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries) World War II
To Hell and Back (1955) Jesse Hibbs (Audie Murphy, David Janssen) World War II
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson (Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave) World War II
Above Us the Waves (1955) Ralph Thomas (John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden) World War II
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter) World War II
Reach for the Sky(1956) Lewis Gilbert (Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow) World War II
War and Peace (1956) King Vidor (Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer) Napoleonic Wars
The Enemy Below (1957) Dick Powell (Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens) World War II
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)David Lean (Alec Guinness, William Holden) World War II
Kanal(1957) (Poland) Andrzej Wajda (Wienczyslaw Glinski) World War II
Paths Of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick (Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker) World War I
The Young Lions (1958) Edward Dmytryk (Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift) World War II
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) Douglas Silk ( John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver , Jock Mahoney) World War II
Dunkirk (1958) Leslie Norman (John Mills, Richard Attenborough) World War II
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)Robert Wise (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster) World War II
The Naked and the Dead (1958) Raoul Walsh (Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson) World War II
Torpedo Run (1958) Joseph Pevney (Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine) World War II
Pork Chop Hill (1959) Lewis Milestone (Gregory Peck, George Peppard) Korea
Sink the Bismarck (1960, Lewis Gilbert (Kenneth More, Dana Wynter) World War II
The Guns of Navarone (1961) J. Lee Thompson (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn) World War II
The Longest Day (1962) Ken Annakin, (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum) World War II
Merrill's Marauders (1962) Samuel Fuller (Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins) World War II
Hell Is For Heroes (1962) Don Siegel (Steve McQueen, James Coburn) World War II
The Great Escape (1963) John Sturges (Steve McQueen, James Garner) World War II
633 Squadron (1964) Walter Grauman (Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews) World War II
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) Anthony Mann (Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris) World War II
Von Ryan's Express (1965) Mark Robson (Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard) World War II
The Train (1965) John Frankenheimer (Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield) World War II
In Harm's Way (1965) Otto Preminger (John Wayne, Kirk Douglas) World War II
Operation Crossbow (1965) Michael Anderson (George Peppard, Sophia Loren) World War II
King Rat (1965) Bryan Forbes (George Segal, Denholm Elliott) World War II
Cast A Giant Shadow (1966) Melville Shavelson (Kirk Douglas, Sanat Berger, Angie Dickenson, John Wayne) Israeli War
The Sand Pebbles (1966) Robert Wise (Steve McQueen) China Uprising (1926)
Battle of the Bulge (1966) Ken Annakin (Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw) World War II
Closely Watched Trains (1966) (Czechoslovakia) Jirí Menzel (Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova) World War II
The Blue Max (1966) John Guillermin (George Peppard, James Mason) World War II
The Dirty Dozen (1967) Robert Aldrich (Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas) World War II
The Green Berets (1968) Ray Kellogg, (John Wayne, David Janssen) Vietnam
Battle of Britain (1969) Guy Hamilton (Michael Caine, R. Shaw, Laurence Olivier) World War II
Too Late the Hero (1969) Robert Aldrich (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott) World War II
Where Eagles Dare (1969) Brian G. Hutton (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood) World War II
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)John Guillermin (George Segal, Robert Vaughn) World War II
Many Wars Ago (aka Uomini Contro) (1970) (Italy/ Yugoslavia) Francesco Rosi (Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny) World War I
Kelly's Heroes (1970) Brian G. Hutton (Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland) World War II
Patton (1970) Franklin J. Schaffner (George C. Scott, Karl Malden) World War II
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Richard Fleischer (Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten) World War II
Midway (1976) Jack Smight (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune) World War II
The Boys in Company C (1977) Sidney J. Furie (Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens) Vietnam
MacArthur (1977) Joseph Sargent (Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders) World War II / Korea
A Bridge Too Far (1977) Richard Attenborough (Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine) World War II
Cross of Iron (1977) Sam Peckinpah (James Coburn, James Mason) World War II
Force 10 From Navarone (1978) Guy Hamilton (Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford) World War II
Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Ted Post (Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson) Vietnam
Soldier of Orange (1978) (Netherlands) Paul Verhoeven (Rutger Hauer) World War II
The Deer Hunter (1978 ) Michael Cimino (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep) Vietnam
The Wild Geese (1978) Andrew V. McLaglen (Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris) Mercenaries
Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando) Vietnam
The Big Red One (1980)Samuel Fuller (Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine) World War II
Gallipoli (1981) Peter Weir (Mel Gibson, Mark Lee) World War I
Das Boot (1981) (Germany) Wolfgang Peterson (Jurgen Procnow) World War II
Platoon (1986) Oliver Stone (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen) Vietnam
Heartbreak Ridge (1986) Clint Eastwood, Grenada) (Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles) Grenada
Hamburger Hill (1987) John Irvin (Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman) Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket. (1987) Stanley Kubrick (Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin) Vietnam
Casualties of War (1989) Brian De Palma (Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox) Vietnam
Memphis Belle (1990) Michael Caton-Jones (Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz) World War II
A Midnight Clear (1992) Keith Gordon (Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise) World War II
Stalingrad (1992) (Germany) Joseph Vilsmaier (Dominique Horwitz) World War II
Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley)World War II
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) Robert Markowitz (Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne) World War II
Courage Under Fire (1996) Edward Zwick (Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan) Iraq (1991)
The Thin Red Line (1998) Terrence Malick (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte) World War II
Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg) (Tom Hanks, Edward Burns)World War II
Three Kings (1999) David O. Russell (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) Iraq (1991)
Black Hawk Down (2001) Ridley Scott) (Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett) Somalia (1993)
Enemy at the Gates (2001) Jean-Jacques Annaud (Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris) World War II
Band of Brothers (2001) (TV) David Frankel (Scott Grimes, Damien Lewis) World War II
Jarhead (2005) Sam Mendes (Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal) Desert Storm (1995)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) Clint Eastwood (Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya) World War II
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Clint Eastwood (Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford) World War II
The Pacific (2010) (TV) Jeremy Podeswa/ Timothy Van Patten (James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda) World War II
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Kathryn Bigelow (Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain) War Against Terrorism
Satire/Comedy Movies
Gunga Din (1939) George Stevens (Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) British Empire
Sailor Beware (1951) Hal Walker (Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) World War II
Mister Roberts (1955) John Ford (Henry Fonda, James Cagney) World War II
Operation Petticoat (1959) Blake Edwards (Cary Grant, Tony Curtis) World War II
Wake Me When It's Over (1960) Mervyn LeRoy (Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn) World War II
Operation Snatch (1962) Robert Day (Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries) World War II
Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick (Peter Sellers, George C. Scott) Cold War
McHale's Navy - (1964) Edward J. Montagne Jr. (Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway) World War II
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? - (1966) Blake Edwards (James Coburn)World War II
How I Won the War (1967) Richard Lester, WWII) (Michael Crawford, John Lennon) World War II
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) Jack Smight (Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina) World War II
M*A*S*H (1970) Robert Altman (Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland) Korea
Catch-22 (1970) Mike Nichols (Alan Arkin, Richard Benjamin) World War II
M*A*S*H (1972–1983) (TV) Various Directors (Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr) Korea
Private Benjamin (1980) Howard Zieff) (Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan) Peacetime
Stripes (1981) Ivan Reitman (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis) Cold War
Top Secret! (1984) Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker (Val Kilmer) World War II
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) Barry Levinson (Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker) Vietnam
Tropic Thunder (2008) Ben Stiller (Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.) Vietnam
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