Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > War: 198 Films to Buy & Rent
Purple Heart, The (1944)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger…
- Watchable flag–waver from WW2 depicts the show trial of a crew of American airmen (led by Andrews) who are shot down over Tokyo in 1944. Has…
Rats of Tobruk, The (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) (1944)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch
- Aussie battler Chips Rafferty fight hard in the Battle of Rommel in this chest–thumping follow–up to FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN.
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Lloyd Nolan, Preston Foster…
- Filmed just after US victory in the Solomon Islands during WW2, this standard issue war–film is a reasonably solid account of a grueling…
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis
- Sturdy WWII actioner has a British sub sent out to sink a heavily–armed Nazi battleship with the help of three German sailors, but getting into…
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Portman, Bernard Miles, Hugh Williams
- Brisk war–thriller about how a six man British aircrew must find their way back to England across the Occupied Netherlands. Raised above the…
Forty Thousand Horsemen (40,000 Horsemen) (1940)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty
- This rollicking war romp depicts the deeds of the Australian Light Horse cavalry during WWI. Stars the archetypal Aussie bushman, Chips Rafferty.
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
- Set in India during the British Raj, this rousing literary adaptation follows a British regiment struggling to retain it's stronghold in the…
Hell's Angels (1930)
- Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon…
- Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…