Videohound's War Movies: Classic Conflicts on Film

by Mayo, Mike

• ISBN13: 9781578590896
• ISBN10: 1578590892
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Edited by Mayo (a film reviewer for 99 Lives), the newest book in VideoHound's growing library of film genre paperbacks, reviews and discusses a selection of 201 of the most significant international war movies of all time --from the silent era through 1998. Arranged chronologically by war and separated geographically, the films each receive a plot-heavy but thought-provoking one- page overview.

Table of Contents

About the Author	iii
Foreword	ix
Dale Dye
Introduction	xv
Acknowledgments	xxiii
War Video Sources	xxiv
Instructions for Use	xxvi
American Wars	1	(48)
The Alamo	4	(2)
America	6	(3)
Birth of a Nation	9	(3)
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	12	(2)
The General	14	(2)
Gettysburg	16	(2)
Glory	18	(2)
Gone with the Wind	20	(3)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	23	(2)
The Horse Soldiers	25	(3)
Last of the Mohicans	28	(2)
The Real Glory	30	(2)
The Red Badge of Courage	32	(4)
The Sand Pebbles	36	(2)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	38	(2)
Shenandoah	40	(2)
They Died with Their Boots On	42	(3)
The Wind and the Lion	45	(4)
British Wars	49	(32)
Beau Geste	52	(2)
Braveheart	54	(2)
Breaker Morant	56	(2)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)	58	(4)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)	62	(2)
The Four Feathers	64	(2)
Gunga Din	66	(2)
Henry V (1944)	68	(3)
Henry V (1989)	71	(2)
Lives of a Bengal Lancer	73	(3)
Rob Roy	76	(3)
Zulu	79	(2)
French Wars	81	(16)
The Battle of Algiers	84	(3)
Napoleon	87	(5)
317th Platoon	92	(2)
Waterloo	94	(3)
Japanese Wars	97	(14)
The Hidden Fortress	100	(2)
Ran	102	(4)
Seven Samurai	106	(3)
Yojimbo	109	(2)
Russian Wars	111	(17)
Alexander Nevsky	114	(3)
Battleship Potemkin	117	(2)
Chapayev	119	(2)
Doctor Zhivago	121	(3)
War and Peace (1956)	124	(4)
World War I	128	(41)
All Quiet on the Western Front	130	(3)
The Big Parade	133	(2)
The Blue Max	135	(3)
Dawn Patrol (1938)	138	(2)
The Fighting 69th	140	(2)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	142	(2)
Gallipoli	144	(3)
Grand Illusion	147	(2)
The Guns of August	149	(2)
Hell's Angels	151	(2)
Lawrence of Arabia	153	(2)
The Lighthorsemen	155	(2)
The Lost Patrol	157	(5)
Paths of Glory	162	(1)
Sergeant York	162	(3)
Wings	165	(4)
Between the World Wars	169	(20)
Across the Pacific	172	(2)
Dive Bomber	174	(2)
For Whom the Bell Tolls	176	(2)
From Here to Eternity	178	(3)
The Great Dictator	181	(2)
Hong Kong 1941	183	(1)
Land and Freedom	184	(2)
The Winter War	186	(3)
World War II: Europe and North Africa	189	(102)
Action in the North Atlantic	192	(3)
The Battle of Britain	195	(3)
Battle of the Bulge	198	(2)
Battleground	200	(3)
The Big Red One	203	(4)
The Bridge	207	(2)
A Bridge Too Far	209	(2)
The Caine Mutiny	211	(2)
Catch-22	213	(3)
Come and See	216	(2)
Command Decision	218	(2)
Crash Dive	220	(2)
Cross of Iron	222	(2)
Das Boot	224	(2)
The Dirty Dozen	226	(2)
Five Graves to Cairo	228	(2)
The Guns of Navarone	230	(2)
Hell Is for Heroes	232	(2)
Immortal Battalion	234	(2)
The Immortal Sergeant	236	(3)
In Which We Serve	239	(2)
Is Paris Burning?	241	(2)
Lifeboat	243	(2)
The Longest Day	245	(3)
A Midnight Clear	248	(2)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War	250	(2)
Mother Night	252	(2)
Patton	254	(2)
Sahara	256	(4)
Saving Private Ryan	260	(4)
Sink the Bismarck!	264	(2)
The Story of G. I. Joe	266	(2)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die	268	(2)
To Hell and Back	270	(2)
The Train	272	(2)
The Tuskegee Airmen	274	(2)
Twelve O'Clock High	276	(3)
Underground	279	(2)
The Victors	281	(2)
A Walk in the Sun	283	(2)
When Trumpets Fade	285	(1)
Where Eagles Dare	286	(2)
The Young Lions	288	(3)
World War II: Pacific	291	(60)
Above and Beyond	294	(2)
Air Force	296	(4)
Bataan	300	(2)
Battle Cry	302	(2)
Fighting Seabees	304	(2)
The Fighting Sullivans	306	(2)
Fires on the Plain	308	(2)
Flying Leathernecks	310	(3)
The Gallant Hours	313	(2)
Guadalcanal Diary	315	(3)
Hell in the Pacific	318	(2)
Home of the Brave	320	(2)
In Harm's Way	322	(2)
Merrill's Marauders	324	(2)
Mister Roberts	326	(2)
Objective, Burma!	328	(2)
Run Silent Run Deep	330	(2)
Sands of lwo Jima	332	(3)
So Proudly We Hail	335	(2)
They Were Expendable	337	(2)
The Thin Red Line	339	(2)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo	341	(2)
Too Late the Hero	343	(2)
Tora! Tora! Tora!	345	(2)
Wake Island	347	(4)
World War II: Documentaries	351	(16)
Battle of Midway	354	(4)
Battle of San Pietro	358	(2)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress	360	(2)
Report from the Aleutians	362	(5)
World War II: The Holocaust	367	(16)
Au Revoir les Enfants	370	(2)
The Last Metro	372	(2)
Life Is Beautiful	374	(2)
Schindler's List	376	(4)
The Wannsee Conference	380	(3)
World War II: Homefront	383	(22)
Bye Bye Blues	386	(2)
Hope and Glory	388	(3)
The Land Girls	391	(3)
Mrs. Miniver	394	(4)
1941	398	(2)
Since You Went Away	400	(2)
The White Cliffs of Dover	402	(3)
World War II: Pows	405	(30)
Bridge on the River Kwai	408	(4)
Empire of the Sun	412	(3)
The Great Escape	415	(2)
King Rat	417	(2)
A Man Escaped	419	(3)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	422	(2)
Paradise Road	424	(2)
The Seventh Cross	426	(2)
Stalag 17	428	(3)
Three Came Home	431	(2)
Von Ryan's Express	433	(2)
World War II: The Resistance	435	(46)
Casablanca	438	(5)
One Against the Wind	443	(2)
O. S. S.	445	(2)
13 Rue Madeleine	447	(2)
To Be or Not to Be	449	(2)
Watch on the Rhine	451	(2)
The White Rose	453	(5)
Korean War
All the Young Men	458	(2)
Battle Circus	460	(3)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri	463	(2)
The Hunters	465	(2)
The Manchurian Candidate	467	(3)
M*A*S*H	470	(3)
Men in War	473	(2)
Pork Chop Hill	475	(3)
The Steel Helmet	478	(3)
Vietnam War	481	(40)
Anderson Platoon	485	(2)
Apocalypse Now	487	(2)
The Boys in Company C	489	(2)
China Gate	491	(2)
The Deer Hunter	493	(2)
84 Charlie MoPic	495	(2)
Full Metal Jacket	497	(3)
Gardens of Stone	500	(2)
Go Tell the Spartans	502	(2)
Good Morning, Vietnam	504	(2)
The Green Berets	506	(2)
Hamburger Hill	508	(2)
Platoon	510	(2)
A Rumor of War	512	(4)
The Siege of Firebase Gloria	516	(2)
The War at Home	518	(3)
Coming Home	521	(22)
The Best Years of Our Lives	524	(3)
Born on the Fourth of July	527	(2)
Coming Home	529	(3)
Courage Under Fire	532	(2)
Judgment at Nuremburg	534	(4)
The Razor's Edge	538	(2)
The Third Man	540	(3)
Titles Index	543	(6)
Cast Index	549	(54)
Director Index	603	(4)
Writer Index	607	(8)
Cinematographer Index	615	(6)
Composer Index	621	(4)
Category Index	625