Subgenre Sampler
Classics > War: 267 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Bedford Incident, The (1965)
- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier
- Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
- Cast a Giant Shadow (1965)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson…
- Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
- Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson…
- Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
- Hill, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear
- Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
- Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) (1965-1966)
- Feat. Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner…
- Cheeky American WW2 series centred around a motley bunch of Yankee prisoners and their haphazard endeavours to disturb the Nazi war effort and make…
- In Harm's Way (1965)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal…
- Epic and stately treatment of the aftermath of Japan's WW2 attack on Pearl Harbour, with Wayne playing a sidelined Admiral who tries to claw back…
- King Rat (1965)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. George Segal, James Fox, Tom Courtenay…
- Star–studded adaption of James Clavell's novel, set in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. At the darker end of the genre, with 'hero' George…