Subgenre Sampler
Sales > War: 95 films to Buy
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- A much–admired Spielberg epic in which a young boy witnesses the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Based on the memoirs of sci–fi…
- DVD $19.95
- Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
- DVD $39.95
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Disturbing account of the recruitment, training and combat of young Americans in Vietnam. A powerful indictment of the senselessness of war, superbly…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
- Robin Williams tour–de–force performance as an irreverant, rebel radio–jock stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The funny…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Platoon (1986)
- This film won the Best Picture Oscar for its compelling and sincere account of the Vietnam, also ushering the era of 1980s film reappraisals of the…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Rambo 2 (1985)
- Iconic actioner in which traumatised commando John Rambo (Stallone) returns to Vietnam to rescue imprisoned G.I.s. Simplistic and violent, but a key…
- Blu-Ray
$20 $15
- Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
- The true story of Hungarian diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked his own life manufacturing protective passports for thousands of Jews in exile…
- DVD $24.95
- A Soldier's Story (1984)
- In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Keep, The (1983)
- German soldiers camping in a Romanian castle are visited by various ghoulies in Michael Mann's off–beat supernatural yarn set during WWII,…
- DVD $19.95
- How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
- Daniel Day–Lewis plays a Protestant whose friendship with a fellow Catholic solider is severely tested during the harsh realities of WWI in…
- DVD $24.95