This war drama (which prefigures the later “Full Metal Jacket”) follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training Read More »
War
Army Girl (1938) George Nichols Jr., Madge Evans, Preston Foster, James Gleason
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army’s horses with mechanized vehicles faces Read More »
Cobra Mission (1986) Fabrizio De Angelis, Oliver Tobias, Christopher Connelly, Manfred Lehmann
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia Read More »
Charlie Bravo (1980) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Bruno Pradal, Jean-François Poron, Karina Verlier
After a nurse is captured in Vietnam and held prisoner in a small jungle village, a group of soldiers is tasked with rescuing her. Read More »
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine / S21, la machine de mort khmère rouge (2003) Rithy Panh, Khieu ‘Poev’ Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En
Between 1975 and 1979, the communist inspired Khmer Rouge waged a campaign Read More »
Two Half-Times in Hell / Két félidö a pokolban (1961) Zoltán Fábri, Imre Sinkovits, Dezsö Garas, László Márkus
On Hitler’s birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans. Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific / Taiheiyô no washi (1953) Ishirô Honda, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon’yanagi, Masao Shimizu
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
The Unwritten Code (1944) Herman Rotsten, Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Roland Varno
The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime “B” picture. Read More »
Thunder Birds (1942) William A. Wellman, Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. Read More »
The Human Comedy (1943) Clarence Brown, Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig
Homer Macauley remains in a small town looking after his widowed mother Read More »