Subgenre Sampler
Classics > War: 267 Films to Buy & Rent
- Blue Max, The (1966)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. George Peppard, Anton Diffring, James Mason…
- Impressively staged, this WW1 actioner concerns the career of ace German combat pilot Bruno Stachel (Peppard). Although the human drama is fairly…
- Guerre Est Finie, La (1966)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Genevieve Bujold…
- (The War is Over). Deeply romantic film in which Spanish Civil War refugee Yves Montand tries in vain to keep alive the memory of his struggle.
- Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?) (1966)
- Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron…
- An international cast grace this lengthy war drama, set in 1944 Paris as the retreating Germans prepared to burn the city to the ground on Hitler's…
- Khartoum (1966)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston…
- Lavishly mounted biopic of General Gordon's defeat by Arab tribesmen in 1833.
- Lost Command (1966)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal…
- Atypical war movie follows Anthony Quinn's realpoliticking officer through French colonial defeats from Dien Bien Phu to Algeria. Tough action film…
- Patriotism (Yûkoku) (1966)
- Dir. Yukio Mishima
Feat. Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
- Short film directed by Japanese writer and revolutionary Yukio Mishima, based on his short story of the same name published in 1961. Set in February…
- Sand Pebbles, The (1966)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen
- An epic series of adventures on an American gunboat in the turbulent China of the 1920s, Steve McQueen giving a particularly underrated performance,…
- Tobruk (1966)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell…
- This WW2 desert actioner is about the activities of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), who ran commando raids against Rommel and his Afrika…
- Triple Cross (1966)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard…
- Minor curio concerns the real–life adventures of English safe–cracker Eddie Chapman (Plummer) who was in prison on Jersey when the Nazis…
- War and Peace (1966)
- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova
- The definitive version of Leo Tolstoy's gargantuan novel, set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in the early 19th century. Nothing else quite…