Subgenre Sampler
Television > War: 85 Films to Buy & Rent
Colditz (TV Series) (1972)
- Dir. Michael Ferguson, William Slater, Philip Dudley
Feat. Jack Hedley, Robert Wagner, David McCallum…
- BBC drama series about prisoners of war in Colditz Castle during WW2, and their multiple attempts to escape. The real British Escape Officer at…
MASH (TV Series) (M*A*S*H) (1972-1983)
- Feat. Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit
- Long running and much loved TV Series loosely based on Robert Altman’s 1969 film set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean…
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…
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…
McHale's Navy (TV Series) (1962-1965)
- Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway
- Predating MASH, Borgnine and Flynn engage in naval nonsense in this fondly remembered maritime comedy of hierarchical hi–jinks and seaman…