Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Monocled Mutineer, The (TV Mini-series) (1986)- Dir. Jim O'Brien
Feat. Paul McGann, Robert Fellows - A four–part BBC historical drama depicting the life of Private Percy Toplis, who supposedly led a British army mutiny against training officers…
Platoon (1986)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen - This film won the Best Picture Oscar for its compelling and sincere account of the Vietnam, also ushering the era of 1980s film reappraisals of the…
ANZACS (TV Series) (1985)- Dir. John Dixon, George Miller, Pino Amenta
Feat. Paul Hogan, Andrew Clarke, Jon Blake… - An exemplary depiction of a group of ANZAC soldiers in WWI as they progress through the horrors of the war in Europe. Told mainly from the Australian…
Biggles - Adventure in Time (1985)- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Cushing, Alex Hyde-White - Curious, though effective recasting of the 'Biggles' stories by W.E. Johns, in which a NYC office–worker travels through time back to WWI to…
Colonel Redl (1985)- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Klaus Maria Brandauer offers another tour–de–force performance for the second in Szabo's WW2 trilogy (between MEPHISTO and HANUSSEN)…
Come and See (1985)
- Dir. Elim Klimov
Feat. Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius - Shattering film that chronicles the devastating effect the Nazi occupation had on Russian peasantry, focusing on one impoverished youth. The brutal…
Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series) (1985)- Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Julia Blake - WW2 set mini–series following a group of suspected Jewish spies sent from England to a POW camp in NSW, Australia. Nicely balanced historical…
Eleni (1985)- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt - John Malkovich plays a U.S. reporter in Greece trying to find the long–lost truth about his mother's political execution.
Flesh and Blood (1985)- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh - Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh are mercenary soldier and captive who fall in love amid rampant flesh and blood–letting in medieval…
Mussolini - The Untold Story (1985)- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. George C. Scott, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Downey Jnr.… - Based on the memoirs of his eldest son this memorable mini–series begins with Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 and follows his political and…
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