Subgenre Sampler
Khartoum (1966)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston… - Lavishly mounted biopic of General Gordon's defeat by Arab tribesmen in 1833.
Lost Command (1966)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal… - Atypical war movie follows Anthony Quinn's realpoliticking officer through French colonial defeats from Dien Bien Phu to Algeria. Tough action film…
Patriotism (Yûkoku) (1966)- Dir. Yukio Mishima
Feat. Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka - Short film directed by Japanese writer and revolutionary Yukio Mishima, based on his short story of the same name published in 1961. Set in February…
Sand Pebbles, The (1966)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen - An epic series of adventures on an American gunboat in the turbulent China of the 1920s, Steve McQueen giving a particularly underrated performance,…
Tobruk (1966)- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell… - This WW2 desert actioner is about the activities of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), who ran commando raids against Rommel and his Afrika…
Triple Cross (1966)- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard… - Minor curio concerns the real–life adventures of English safe–cracker Eddie Chapman (Plummer) who was in prison on Jersey when the Nazis…
War and Peace (1966)
- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova - The definitive version of Leo Tolstoy's gargantuan novel, set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in the early 19th century. Nothing else quite…
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? (1966)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Aldo Ray - Deft farce set during World War II. Coburn and company charged with seizing a small Sicillian village are surprised to find its inhabitants only too…
Battle of Algiers, The (1965)- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag - Gripping account of the Muslim uprising which led to the withdrawal of France from Algeria was shot merely four years after the revolution, and as…
Battle of the Bulge (1965)- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan… - Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…
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