1970s
War movies from the 1970′s
The Red Badge of Courage (1974)
Two words. Skip it! Wait for the 1951 version of this starring Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin to come around on the tube, or something. Just avoid this at all costs. Stephen Crane's classic novel, "The Red Badge of Courage", about a boy who becomes a man through the trials of his experience in... »
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A Bridge Too Far is a long and complex look at the spectacularly failed Operation Market Garden, where Allied troops were to drop behind enemy lines into Holland and take bridges to support an advancing ground force in September 1944. As history has shown, it didn't go as planned. At all. This movie is... »
M*A*S*H (1970)
So is M*A*S*H a "war movie" or an "anti-war movie?" It's been called both, and I think they're right on both counts. Robert Altman's 1970 masterpiece which spawned the spinoff TV series comes at you from both directions, dead serious and dead funny. All at the same time. It follows the doctors of the... »
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Tora! is the quintessential model for a pseudo-documentary war movie, painstakingly attempting to chronicle the events (on both sides) leading up to the infamous 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Is this an action-packed thriller that will keep you pinned to the edge of your seat, wondering what will happen next? No. Absolutely not. ... »
Apocalypse Now: Redux (1979/2001)
Saigon. Shit. Few movies could pull off opening with those two words. Apocalypse Now *is* that movie. Period. Apocalypse Now:Redux is a "director's cut" of sorts which puts back several scenes / episodes into the film that were dropped from its initial 1979 release. Additionally it puts back the original ending. A.N. is the... »
