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Subgenre Sampler
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…
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? (1966)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Aldo Ray - Deft farce set during World War II. Coburn and company charged with seizing a small Sicillian village are surprised to find its inhabitants only too…
Battle of Algiers, The (1965)- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag - 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…
Battle of the Bulge (1965)- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan… - Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…
Bedford Incident, The (1965)- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier - Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
Cast a Giant Shadow (1965)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson… - Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
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