Subgenre Sampler
War: 956 Films to Buy & Rent
My Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)
- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe
- In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Secret Invasion, The (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney…
- Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
Thin Red Line, The (1964)
- Dir. Andrew Marton
Feat. Keir Dullea, Jack Warden
- First version of James Jones' war–novel (later redone by Terrence Malick), chronicles the US invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII in grim B&W,…
Train, The (1964)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau…
- Burt Lancaster leads the French Resistance in stopping (or at least diverting) a train used by the Nazis to steal precious French art treasures in…
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
- Dir. Henri Verneuil
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Geret…
- The decimation of French and English troops who retreated to the coastal settlement of Dunkirk in 1940 is the sobering subject of this otherwise…
633 Squadron (1963)
- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Cliff Robertson, James Clavell
- WWII airmen Cliff Robertson and co maintain their staunchly British reserve as they prepare to bomb a Nazi rocket factory in Norway. Slow but with…
Donovan's Reef (1963)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden…
- One of dir. Ford’s more comically inclined efforts with ex–Navy buddies John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden raising hell on the remote…
Great Escape, The (1963)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough…
- 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…
It Happened Here (1963)
- Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
- A genuine filmic curiousity, this meticulous historical fantasy proposes that Nazi Germany invaded Britain in 1940 – leading to a lengthy…
300 Spartans, The (1962)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker
- Richard Egan leads the hardened best of Sparta into the famous battle at Thermapayle between the Greek and Persian empires in in the 5th century…