In 1944, during D-Day plus two, American sergeant Edward Baxter and a platoon of American infantrymen Read More »
War
Hell Squad (1958) Burt Topper, Wally Campo, Brandon Carroll, Fred Gavlin
During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Read More »
The Puppetmaster AKA Xi meng ren sheng (1993) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tian-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng
This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master Read More »
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) John Ford, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero Read More »
War AKA Voyna (2002) Aleksey Balabanov, Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Read More »
Tokyo Trial AKA Tôkyô saiban (1983) Masaki Kobayashi, Kei Satô
”THE TOKYO TRIAL” is a 4 1/2-hour account of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that is visually satisfying but historically empty. Read More »
Something of Value (1957) Richard Brooks, Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller
Even though Peter and Kimani grow up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. Read More »
Housewife, 49 (2006) Gavin Millar, Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper
In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast Read More »
Seraphim Falls (2006) David Von Ancken, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston
In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. Read More »
Up Front (1951) Alexander Hall, David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Marina Berti
Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front Read More »