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Battle For Haditha (2007)

June 2nd, 2011 | by Chris

Battle for Haditha is a faux-documentary-style movie based on a true event, the November 2005 ‘retribution’ attack on a group


To End All Wars (2001)

May 12th, 2011 | by Chris

Don’t mistake To End All Wars for just another rehash of The Bridge on the River Kwai.  While the topic-at-hand


Hiroshima (1995)

April 20th, 2011 | by Chris

In 1995 Showtime released this miniseries/docudrama about the events leading up to, and including the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima


Rhineland (2010)

April 19th, 2011 | by Chris

Thanks to indie director Chris Grega for sending me a copy of his film, “Rhineland.”  Once again I have to


Fires on the Plain (1959)

April 11th, 2011 | by Chris

Fires on the Plain manages to compress all of the inhumanity, desolation, and desperation of war into the scope of


Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

March 31st, 2011 | by Chris

Take equal parts Black Hawk Down and Cloverfield, mix in elements from District 9, Aliens, War of the Worlds, The


The Killing Fields (1984)

March 31st, 2011 | by Chris

There are some movies which are just plain difficult to watch, but you really need to watch them anyway.  1984′s


71: Into the Fire (2010)

March 30th, 2011 | by Chris

Wow, just wow.  I’d read a lot about this movie out of Korea, about a band of college students thrust


Sabre Jet (1953)

March 28th, 2011 | by Chris

I really, really wish I could find more information on this little-known movie, because as cliched and strange as it


Hearts and Minds (1974)

February 17th, 2011 | by Chris

If you watch no other documentary about the Vietnam war, you should make it 1974′s Hearts and Minds.  It’s a


Go For Broke! (1951)

February 16th, 2011 | by Chris

“Go For Broke!” was the motto of the 442nd Combat team, famous for being comprised of Japanese-Americans, a number of


Tank Battalion (1958)

February 15th, 2011 | by Chris

Wow.  Just wow.  What a totally dreadful movie. OK, it starts out well enough, with a group of guys in


Wing and a Prayer (1944)

February 14th, 2011 | by Chris

“The story of carrier X” or so the tagline says.  Presumably to try and preserve some sort of classified-ness in


A Bright Shining Lie (1998)

February 10th, 2011 | by Chris

A Bright Shining Lie is based on the true story and biography of John Paul Vann(played by Bill Paxton), who



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