Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? (1966)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Aldo Ray - Deft farce set during World War II. Coburn and company charged with seizing a small Sicillian village are surprised to find its inhabitants only too…
Battle of Algiers, The (1965)
- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag - Gripping account of the Muslim uprising which led to the withdrawal of France from Algeria was shot merely four years after the revolution, and as…
Battle of the Bulge (1965)- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan… - Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…
Bedford Incident, The (1965)- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier - Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
Cast a Giant Shadow (1965)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson… - Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson… - Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
Hill, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear - Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) (1965-1966)- Feat. Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner…
- Cheeky American WW2 series centred around a motley bunch of Yankee prisoners and their haphazard endeavours to disturb the Nazi war effort and make…
In Harm's Way (1965)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal… - Epic and stately treatment of the aftermath of Japan's WW2 attack on Pearl Harbour, with Wayne playing a sidelined Admiral who tries to claw back…
King Rat (1965)- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. George Segal, James Fox, Tom Courtenay… - Star–studded adaption of James Clavell's novel, set in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. At the darker end of the genre, with 'hero' George…
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