Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Classics > War: 22 films to Buy
- Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
- Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
- Blu-Ray $34.95
- Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
- A great WW2 nail–biter in which Gregory Peck and David Niven lead the all–star macho cast as an elite squad assigned to destroy two giant…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
- After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- A Town Like Alice (1956)
- Based on Neville Shute's 1950s bestseller, this WWII drama opens with the fall of Singapore and the internment of Virginia McKenna in a Japanese POW…
- DVD $24.95
- Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (1954)
- Ace pilot William Holden is out to destroy the 'impossible' target in this excellent Korean War thriller.
- Blu-Ray $34.95
- Dambusters, The (Dam Busters, The) (1954)
- British inventor Barnes Wallis's ingenious attempts to destroy German dams during WWII forms the basis of this splendid thriller. Michael Redgrave…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Desert Rats, The (1953)
- No–nonsense British Army officer Richard Burton assumes command of an Australian platoon, but struggles to win their respect. Sequel to The…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Frank Sinatra established himself an actor alongside Burt Lancaster in this account of life at a Honolulu barracks at the time of Pearl Harbour.…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Stalag 17 (1952)
- Sophisticated WW2 film in which comedy and suspense make uneasy but fascinating bedfellows. William Holden leads imprisoned American G.Is who plan…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70