Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Lili Marleen (1980)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer - Fassbinder's fact–based account of the recording of the Nazi anthem, sung by a jaded cabaret singer with a Jewish love interest.
Lion of the Desert (1980)- Dir. Moustapha Akkad
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, John Gielgud… - An epic account of the 'David and Goliath' battle on the Libyan desert between Mussolini's all–powerful army and the Bedouin, circa 1930.
Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)- Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet - Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…
Private Benjamin (1980)- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante… - Well–fashioned vehicle for Hawn's natural comic talents, she here plays a swanky socialite who joins the army on the spur of the…
Sea Wolves, The (1980)- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven… - Salty War drama based on a real covert mission during World War II in which a group of middle–aged civilian ex–soldiers are sent by the…
Spoils of War, The (TV Series) (1980)- Feat. Alan Hunter, William Lucas, Emily Moore
- British drama series examining the effects of World War II on two families.
To Serve Them All My Days (TV Series) (1980)- Feat. John Duttine
- A shell–shocked WWI vet retreats to a teaching post in Devon, England, where he inspires students through unconventional and empowering means.…
1941 (1979)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune - The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence… - While the 1930's film of Erich Maria Remarque's exceptional anti–war novel is undoubtedly a masterpiece, this later version should not be…
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall… - A harrowing account of a soldier's hazardous river journey, his mission to assasinate a renegade colonel who has gone mad in the depths of the…
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