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Sales > Action/Adventure > War: 17 films to Buy
Front Line, The (2011)
- Big battles clash with big themes in this sizable war epic set during the last days of the Korean war, where soldiers from both the North and South…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
Inglourious Basterds (Inglorious Bastards) (2009)
- A cocky, revisionist war epic channeling spaghetti westerns and the Dirty Dozen, Quentin Tarantino’s long–time pet project is perhaps his…
- Blu-Ray
$19.95 $14.95
Kokoda (2005)
- Visceral, against–the–odds WWII flick revisits the legendary story of inexperienced Aussie battlers taking on the mighty Japanese army in…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
Hornblower (TV Series) (1998-2003)
- Lavish, high–end production of C. S. Forester's legendary Horatio Hornblower, with Ioan Gruffudd staunchly portraying the British Naval…
- DVD $49.95
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Tom Hanks commands a squad assigned to retrieving a single man from behind German lines in WWII France.
With 'sacrifice' the key theme,…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Thin Red Line, The (1998)
- A studiously arthouse rendition of WWII, isolating a crucial battle of the Pacific campaign (Guadacanal) as a minutely observed microcosm of humanity…
- DVD
$20 $15
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
Big Red One, The (1980)
- The best role in years for Lee Marvin, who plays the intrepid squadron leader of director Sam Fuller's WWII memoirs. Distinctive war film is…
- Poster (U) $12.95
Dogs of War, The (1980)
- Frederick Forsyth's best–seller gets reasonably good treatment here, Christopher Walken playing a hard bastard mercenary hired by Big Business…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
G.I. Samurai (Sengoku jieitai; Time Slip) (1979)
- A squadron of Japanese soldiers, together with their weaponry, helicopter and gunboat, are accidentally caught in a 'time slip' and transported back…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Deer Hunter, The (1978)
- A grimly realistic portrait of how the atrocities of the Vietnam war have an effect on a group of friends. Robert De Niro heads a virtuoso cast in…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
Battle of Britain (1969)
- Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier head an ensemble cast of British old boys for this extravagant re–enactment of the famous aerial battle that…
- DVD
$20 $15
Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
- A group of hardened criminals redeem themselves when recruited for a suicide mission during World War 2. An exciting adventure classic.
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Blue Max, The (1966)
- Impressively staged, this WW1 actioner concerns the career of ace German combat pilot Bruno Stachel (Peppard). Although the human drama is fairly…
- DVD $29.95
Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?) (1966)
- An international cast grace this lengthy war drama, set in 1944 Paris as the retreating Germans prepared to burn the city to the ground on Hitler's…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
Great Escape, The (1963)
- McQueen heads a star–studded international cast in this superb drama based on a true account of an escape from a German POW camp by a group of…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Rats of Tobruk, The (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) (1944)
- Aussie battler Chips Rafferty fight hard in the Battle of Rommel in this chest–thumping follow–up to FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN.
- DVD $24.95