Subgenre Sampler
War Years (1939-1945)- An excellent representative selection of wartime footage shot by the National Film Unit during WW2. Originally distributed as newsreels, this…
Alexander Nevsky (1938)- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Nikolai Okhlopkov - Eisenstein's first sound film is a patriotic epic about the 13th century hero who led his people against the Teutonic Knights. Monumental battle…
Dawn Patrol, The (1938)- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Errol Flynn, David Niven - Errol Flynn and David Niven play ace fighter–pilots in a tense action/drama set during WWI.
I Accuse (J'Accuse) (1938)- Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou - Dir. Gance’s own remake of his 1919 silent classic, in which a soldier traumatised by the slaughter of WWI attempts to prevent future…
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim… - The heroics and hypocrasies of war are illustrated through an imprisoned French squadron in WW1 and their cultured German commandant. A hailed…
O.H.M.S (You're in the Army Now) (1937)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Mills, Wallace Ford, Anna Lee… - Broad comedy with Ford as an American gangster who evades capture by joining the British army posing as a comedian.
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen - Charming adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure story, with young Shirley negotiating between the British army and Afghani rebels.
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn - Rousing action on the North–western frontier with Errol Flynn leading the climactic charge into certain death with fellow British cavalry men.
Crusades, The (1935)- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon - Hollywood Heavyweight Cecil B. DeMille Directs this overblown spectacle that differs vastly from it's grisly historical origins.
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell - Set in India during the British Raj, this rousing literary adaptation follows a British regiment struggling to retain it's stronghold in the…
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