Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
King and Country (1964)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay - Earnest drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a deserter (Tom Courtenay) during WW1. Moral dilemma was close to the…
Train, The (1964)- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau… - Burt Lancaster leads the French Resistance in stopping (or at least diverting) a train used by the Nazis to steal precious French art treasures in…
633 Squadron (1963)- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Cliff Robertson, James Clavell - WWII airmen Cliff Robertson and co maintain their staunchly British reserve as they prepare to bomb a Nazi rocket factory in Norway. Slow but with…
Donovan's Reef (1963)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden… - One of dir. Ford’s more comically inclined efforts with ex–Navy buddies John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden raising hell on the remote…
300 Spartans, The (1962)- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker - Richard Egan leads the hardened best of Sparta into the famous battle at Thermapayle between the Greek and Persian empires in in the 5th century…
Damn the Defiant! (1962)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Christopher Challis, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde… - Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
Hell Is For Heroes (1962)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker… - An expertly written and delivered WWII adventure, where a small squad of US soldiers, headed by Steve McQueen, must hold off an advancing German…
Ivan's Childhood (1962)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov - A teenage spy works behind enemy lines in WW2 Germany. The Russian master's first feature is his least self–conscious and most efficient…
Longest Day, The (1962)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum… - One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
Guns of Navarone (1961)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, David Niven - 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…
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