Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Action/Adventure > War: 14 films to Buy on DVD
- Front Line, The (2011)
- Big battles clash with big themes in this sizable war epic set during the last days of the Korean war, where soldiers from both the North and South…
- DVD $29.95
- Inglourious Basterds (Inglorious Bastards) (2009)
- A cocky, revisionist war epic channeling spaghetti westerns and the Dirty Dozen, Quentin Tarantino’s long–time pet project is perhaps his…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Kokoda (2005)
- Visceral, against–the–odds WWII flick revisits the legendary story of inexperienced Aussie battlers taking on the mighty Japanese army in…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Hornblower (TV Series) (1998-2003)
- Lavish, high–end production of C. S. Forester's legendary Horatio Hornblower, with Ioan Gruffudd staunchly portraying the British Naval…
- DVD $49.95
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Tom Hanks commands a squad assigned to retrieving a single man from behind German lines in WWII France.
With 'sacrifice' the key theme,…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Disturbing account of the recruitment, training and combat of young Americans in Vietnam. A powerful indictment of the senselessness of war, superbly…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Platoon (1986)
- This film won the Best Picture Oscar for its compelling and sincere account of the Vietnam, also ushering the era of 1980s film reappraisals of the…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Rambo 2 (1985)
- Iconic actioner in which traumatised commando John Rambo (Stallone) returns to Vietnam to rescue imprisoned G.I.s. Simplistic and violent, but a key…
- Big Red One, The (1980)
- The best role in years for Lee Marvin, who plays the intrepid squadron leader of director Sam Fuller's WWII memoirs. Distinctive war film is…
- Poster (U) $12.95
- Dogs of War, The (1980)
- Frederick Forsyth's best–seller gets reasonably good treatment here, Christopher Walken playing a hard bastard mercenary hired by Big Business…
- DVD
$15 $11.25