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- Apocalypse Now Redux. Francis Ford Coppola's legendary Vietnam War epic went through an infamously fraught production process, and the final product as it was initially released in the 1970s was never up to the director's standards.
- By Dawn's Early Light. In the days of the Cold War, it was fairly common for Hollywood to speculate over what World War III might look like. That speculation gave us comedies like "Doctor Strangelove," but it also gave us a string of dramas imagining the mutually assured destruction of a battle between the Americans and the Soviets.
- A Farewell to Arms. Ernest Hemingway's classic tale of love amid the carnage of World War I is brought to the screen in this excellent adaptation. The story of an American ambulance driver (Cooper) and an English nurse (Hayes) who fall in love, this film cuts much of Hemingway's cynicism out of its grand romance.
- Fear and Desire. Stanley Kubrick's feature directorial debut isn't based on any real war, and its opening narration will make sure you know that. Made on a shoestring budget with a tiny crew in the midst of the Korean War, "Fear and Desire" is instead a haunting meditation on the costs and trials of war as a universal concept, following four soldiers as they fight to survive behind enemy lines.
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- Platoon (1986) Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) finds himself trapped in the middle of a life-or-death situation in the heat of battle while also caught between the differing philosophies of his two superior officers.
- Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) Psychologically and emotionally damaged after accidentally killing one of his fellow soldiers, and confined to a wheelchair after being paralyzed in battle, Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) comes home to find a country with no intentions of taking care of him or others in his position.
- Heaven & Earth (1993) Caught in the middle of the devastation of the Vietnam War and abused by soldiers and leaders on both sides of the conflict, Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) attempts to find her place in the world; a journey made a little easier after meeting U.S. Marine Steve Butler (Tommy Lee Jones).
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) A young soldier/photographer (played by Matthew Modine) goes from covering the Vietnam War to being caught in a life-or-death firefight in the middle of one of its bloodiest battles.
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Also known as “Duck, You Sucker!” is this Sergio Leone (“A Fistful of Dollars”) western starring Rod Steiger (“Mars Attacks!”) and James Coburn (“The Great Escape”). The Mexican Revolution is in full swing during the first decade of the 1900s. Two Irish rebels on the run from British authorities happen to run into each other while making their way ...
Director Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of Chris Kyle’s memoir was an instant war movie classic when it was released in 2014. Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”) stars as Kyle, who joined the Navy after watching news reports of the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he deploys to Iraq, where he earns the ni...
"The Best Years of Our Lives" was a surprisingly hard-nosed story about the struggles of veterans returning from World War II. WWII Army veteran Harold Russell, who lost both hands in a training accident, was awarded a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a Navyveteran who lost both arms in combat. The movie also won Best Picture, Best ...
The 1988 film “Biloxi Blues” was brought to us by the EGOT-winning (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) director Mike Nichols (“Catch-22”). Matthew Broderick (“Ferris Bueller's Day Off”) plays Eugene Jerome, a Jewish Brooklyn native who is drafted into the Army during World War II and sent to basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi. The movie is based on p...
Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe, "Shooter”) is a newly minted FBI agent assigned to work with fellow agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper, “Adaptation”). But his assignment is just a cover; O’Neill is watching Hanssen because the bureau suspects him of being a sexual deviant. But anyone who’s interested in Cold War espionage knows the cover is really ju...
Set during the Roman invasion of Britain in the year 43 A.D., "Britannia" portrays the brutal combat and even more brutal scheming between tribes as the native cultures try to survive and drive out the enemy. If you think Kelly Reilly is scary as Beth Dutton on "Yellowstone," wait until you see her with a sword in her hand as Queen Kerra in "Britan...
As the Islamic State captured large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, a secret group of citizen journalists called Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently documented ISIL's war crimes and atrocities for the world to see. "City of Ghosts" is a documentary about the then-anonymous efforts of the reporters and how they uncovered ISIL crimes ...
"The Courier" is the true Cold War-era story of how the CIA and MI6 used a civilian salesman with no intelligence experience as a go-between for Western intelligence agencies and a Soviet agent from the Russian GRU. After deciding they can't use one of their own officers, the CIA and MI6 enlist British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch,...
"The Devil's Brigade" is a silver-screen adaptation of historian Robert H. Adleman's book that depicts the creation of the 1st Special Service Force, a joint unit of Canadian and American commandos formed during World War II. Trained in Montana, the joint force would fight in Italy, southern France and the Aleutian Islands. It was one of the founda...
Frontiersman Jess Remsberg (James Garner, “The Great Escape”) is secretly hunting for the American who scalped and killed his Comanche wife. After he’s told the town marshal of Fort Concho, Texas, has information about the murder, he agrees to scout for a new troop of green U.S. Cavalry headed to Fort Concho. Accompanying them is a horse breaker na...
- Apocalypse Now. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is a burnt-out Special Ops soldier assigned to sneak into Cambodia and assassinate a rogue U.S. colonel (Marlon Brando) who has apparently gone insane.
- Platoon. Wanting to do his part to help the American war effort in Vietnam, college dropout Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) volunteers for the U.S. Army.
- Full Metal Jacket. Divided cleanly into two acts, "Full Metal Jacket" follows a group of Marine recruits as they complete basic training under the watchful eye of their sadistic drill sergeant (Lee Ermey).
- The Deer Hunter. In 1968, best friends Mike, Steven, and Nick (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, respectively) are drafted into the U.S. Army.
Sep 8, 2023 · The Best War Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now. By Hunter Wooden. Updated Sep 8, 2023. From 'Saving Private Ryan' to 'American Sniper,' Prime Video is streaming some of the big...
Aug 20, 2018 · You can watch some of these best Vietnam war movies on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime. 10. Rescue Dawn (2006) Starring Christian Bale as Dieter Degler in this epic war drama, the film borrows the story from a 1997 documentary titled ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’.
