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Subgenre Sampler

 
Three KingsThree Kings (1999) Aro Favourite
Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-Cube
A refreshingly irreverent view of the US Military translated into a box–office hit for this unpredictable black–comedy that puts a…
Trench, TheTrench, The (1999)
Dir. William Boyd
Feat. Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer
WWI film set in the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme, in which the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day of…
Hornblower (TV Series)Hornblower (TV Series) (1998-2003)
Feat. Ioan Gruffudd
Lavish, high–end production of C. S. Forester's legendary Horatio Hornblower, with Ioan Gruffudd staunchly portraying the British Naval…
Saving Private RyanSaving Private Ryan (1998) Recommended
Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Tom Hanks commands a squad assigned to retrieving a single man from behind German lines in WWII France. With 'sacrifice' the key theme,…
SoldierSoldier (1998)
Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Kurt Russell, Gary Busey, Jason Scott Lee
Military sci–fi adventure wherein Kurt Russell utters terse words as an out–moded fighting machine grasping at a few straws of humanity…
Thin Red Line, TheThin Red Line, The (1998) Aro Favourite
Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Elias Koteas
A studiously arthouse rendition of WWII, isolating a crucial battle of the Pacific campaign (Guadacanal) as a minutely observed microcosm of humanity…
GI JaneGI Jane (1997)
Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft
A staunch, suede–headed Demi Moore is enlisted in a US Army commando squad in a call for equal–opportunity by stylist dir. Ridley Scott. …
Andersonville (TV Mini-series)Andersonville (TV Mini-series) (1996)
Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Jarrod Emick
TV western set during the American Civil War, about a group of Union soldiers who are sent to a Confederate prison camp near Andersonville, Georgia…
GettysburgGettysburg (1993)
Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen
A truly epic screen version of the three–day American Civil War battle of 1863. The director's decade–long obsession is rich in military…
StalingradStalingrad (1992) Recommended
Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier
Feat. Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Superlative evocation of WW2 tragedy from a German perspective. A unit of soldiers are posted to the front line in the merciless Russian winter to…

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