War

The Hurt Locker

Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War-set action thriller The Hurt Locker presents the conflict in the Midd... Read more

On the Waterfront

This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) rules the waterfront with an iron fist.... Read more

Coming Home

Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives.... Read more

Apocalypse Now

One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt.... Read more

Platoon

Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam.... Read more

The Front Line

FRONT LINE: ... Read more

Battle Royale: The Complete Collection

The first time I saw Battle Royale I was blown away. Like Kubrick’s 1971 opus to the contradictions of society from a youth’s perspective, so was Battle Royale.... Read more

All Quiet on the Western Front

IN THE ARMY NOW:... Read more

Act of Valor

An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story ofcontemporary global anti-terrorism.... Read more

The Devil's Rock

June 5, 1944, on the eve of D-Day, two Allied Commando’s from New Zealand following orders to destroy gun emplacements inside enemy territory on the Channel Islands. Upon landing the two men come across a massive bunker where they attempt to accomplish their goal only to find things amiss.... Read more

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