Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Action/Adventure > War: 13 films to Buy on DVD
- Dunkirk (2017)
- Christopher Nolan's grandiose staging of the famous evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in May 1940 is a departure from the fantasy pictures the…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- 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
- 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
$20 $15
- 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
- Blue Max, The (1966)
- Impressively staged, this WW1 actioner concerns the career of ace German combat pilot Bruno Stachel (Peppard). Although the human drama is fairly…
- DVD $29.95
- Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
- After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Rats of Tobruk, The (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) (1944)
- Aussie battler Chips Rafferty fight hard in the Battle of Rommel in this chest–thumping follow–up to FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN.
- DVD $24.95
- Hell's Angels (1930)
- Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70