2000s
War movies from 2000 to the present
Rescue Dawn (7/4)
Just learned of this movie, expected in theatres on 7/4 of this year (fighting the Transformers juggernaut, have to flip a coin for this one!) Christian Bale and Steve Zahn will star in Rescue Dawn, an action drama by Werner Herzog and based on the director's acclaimed 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly.... »
The Great Raid (2005)
The Great Raid focuses on the 1945 rescue mission mounted by the Rangers against the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines. It was an ambitious mission, to be sure, and it had to be done to keep the Japanese from burning their prisoners alive, as they'd taken to doing in some of... »
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Flags of Our Fathers is the story of three men who were honored (I guess you could call it that) for their part in raising (one of) the flags over Iwo Jima in 1945. However it portrays this "honor" as that of being used as marketing pawns in the name of selling more war... »
New In Theaters 2/16 — Days of Glory (2006)
Looks like a foreign film that will be seeing a limited release here in the states (not anywhere near me, like I have the time anyway!) The liberation of Italy, Provence, the Alps, the Rhone Valley, the Vosges and Alsace marked vital stages in the Allied victory. And in the place that France was... »
Stealth (2005)
So not a lot of good things have been said about Stealth. Eh, I went into this expecting the worst, and came out feeling a little better about it. Not much, but a little. Bottom line is it's not as bad as everyone says. *If* you perform a little "suspension of disbelief" black magic,... »
Pearl Harbor (2001)
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. Well it should anyway, its unfortunate that the Bruckheimer/Bay team got a hold of it and turned it into an unconvincing heart-string-tugging love story with a happy ending. There, I said it. OK so maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but there are a... »
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... »
Windtalkers (2002)
2002's Windtalkers is the semi-fictional tale of two Navajo code-talkers and their USMC "protectors" during the Battle of Saipan in the Pacific during World War II. The Navajo code-talkers were a very real and very effective weapon in the Pacific theater. Put simply, the Japanese just couldn't figure it out. Check out more in... »
