Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Classics > War: 21 films to Buy
- Battle of Algiers, The (1965)
- 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…
- DVD
$29.95 $22.45
- Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
- Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
- Blu-Ray $34.95
- Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
- Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- 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
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- Kurosawa transposes MacBeth into a Samurai setting and the result justifies his reputation. Nothing short of an awesome spectacle Shakespeare himself…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- A Town Like Alice (1956)
- Based on Neville Shute's 1950s bestseller, this WWII drama opens with the fall of Singapore and the internment of Virginia McKenna in a Japanese POW…
- DVD $24.95
- Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (1954)
- Ace pilot William Holden is out to destroy the 'impossible' target in this excellent Korean War thriller.
- Blu-Ray $34.95
- Dambusters, The (Dam Busters, The) (1954)
- British inventor Barnes Wallis's ingenious attempts to destroy German dams during WWII forms the basis of this splendid thriller. Michael Redgrave…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- 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