Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Culloden (1964)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
- A groundbreaking documentary depicting the famous battle in 1746 between the English loyalists and Scottish Jacobites.
Re–enacting this…
Diamonds of the Night (1964)
- Dir. Jan Nemec
Feat. Ladislav Jansky, Antonin Kumbera, Irma Bischofova
- Extraordinarily intense account, told with almost no dialogue, of two Jewish teenagers running for their lives after escaping from a train bound for…
Father Goose (1964)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
- Wartime situational comedy with Cary Grant in his penultimate role as an uncouth South Sea beachcomber who becomes a coast watcher for the Allies,…
Guns At Batasi (1964)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Dame Flora Robson…
- Set during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa, an anachronistic martinet RSM is caught in a local coup d'etat, and must use his…
Guns of August, The (1964)
- Dir. Nathan Kroll
- A World War I documentary based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman that traces the origins and actions of the…
King and Country (1964)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
- Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
McHale's Navy (1964)
- Dir. Edward Montagne
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn…
- War–time comedy where marines are embroiled in a gambling misadventure, based on the 60's TV sitcom of the same name.
My Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)
- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe
- In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Secret Invasion, The (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney…
- Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
Thin Red Line, The (1964)
- Dir. Andrew Marton
Feat. Keir Dullea, Jack Warden
- First version of James Jones' war–novel (later redone by Terrence Malick), chronicles the US invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII in grim B&W,…