Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Go for Broke! (1951)
- Dir. Robert Pirosh
Feat. Van Johnson, Warner Anderson, Don Haggerty
- The story of the 442nd Regiment, a team composed of second–generation Japanese–American soldiers fighting in Italy who were heavily…
Red Badge of Courage, The (1951)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audie Murphy, Royal Dano, Arthur Hunnicutt
- A classic film version of the classic American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane, which depicts the line between courage and cowardice in the Yankee…
American Geurrilla In The Phillipines (I Shall Return) (1950)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle
- War film from Fritz Lang following a group of American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after a motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese…
At War With The Enemy (1950)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
- After stealing the show in MY FRIEND IRMA, the duo of Martin and Lewis took centre stage here for the first time, enveloped in the potential madness…
Halls of Montezuma (1950)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden…
- Unflashy and well–cast war film, that follows the US Marines into action on a Pacific island. Makes a fairly gung–ho contrast to dir.…
Odette (1950)
- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring…
- Drama based on the true story of Odette Sansom, the British Special Operations Executive agent in WWII who miraculously evaded death after being sent…
Three Came Home (1950)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond…
- Harrowing true life tale of a woman's imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner–of–war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII.
Wooden Horse, The (1950)
- Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel…
- Allied P.O.W.'s attempt to escape a Nazi prison camp by way of an excercise vaulting horse.
Battleground (1949)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban…
- A tough depiction of WW2 combat set among an American squad during the gruelling Battle of the Bulge, that stands as something of an early classic.…
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
- Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. John Wayne
- Popular WWII saga with John Wayne as a tough Sarg, spurring his troops on in the Pacific.