Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Dogs of War, The (1980)- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Christopher Walken, Colin Blakely, Tom Berenger - Frederick Forsyth's best–seller gets reasonably good treatment here, Christopher Walken playing a hard bastard mercenary hired by Big Business…
Kagemusha (1980)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara - A majestic 16th century saga about a petty thief who ascends to tribal leadership on account of his resemblance to a dying warlord. Shared the top…
Lion of the Desert (1980)- Dir. Moustapha Akkad
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, John Gielgud… - An epic account of the 'David and Goliath' battle on the Libyan desert between Mussolini's all–powerful army and the Bedouin, circa 1930.
Sea Wolves, The (1980)- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven… - Salty War drama based on a real covert mission during World War II in which a group of middle–aged civilian ex–soldiers are sent by the…
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall… - A harrowing account of a soldier's hazardous river journey, his mission to assasinate a renegade colonel who has gone mad in the depths of the…
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall… - Twenty years after its release, dir. Coppola’s expressionist epic of the Vietnam War, is ‘healed’ (redux in Latin) by the re–inclusion of…
From Hell to Victory (1979)- Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz… - Italian exploitation hack Umberto Lenzi directs this serviceable WWII epic, about six friends who vow to reunite despite going their separate ways…
G.I. Samurai (Sengoku jieitai; Time Slip) (1979)- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Sonny Chiba, Jun Eto - A squadron of Japanese soldiers, together with their weaponry, helicopter and gunboat, are accidentally caught in a 'time slip' and transported back…
Boys in Company C, The (1978)- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, R. Lee Ermey… - A rugged and absurdist action film about young soldiers scarred by the horrors and blunders of war. Faintly critical of America’s involvement, this…
Deer Hunter, The (1978)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep - A grimly realistic portrait of how the atrocities of the Vietnam war have an effect on a group of friends. Robert De Niro heads a virtuoso cast in…
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