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A Bridge Too Far (Collector's Edition)
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1977
Synopsis: An epic film that "re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War II" (The Hollywood Reporter), A Bridge Too Far is a spectacular war picture. Painstakingly recreated on actual battlefield locations and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind one of the biggest military gambles in history.
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fears.
Ambush Bay
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1966
Synopsis: General MacArthur doesn't know it, but he's headed for an ambush. Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and James Mitchum star in this "well-made" (Los Angeles Times) World War II nail-biter that'll keep you on the edge of your seat with "consistent excitement" (The Film Daily) right until the explosive ending.
A marine patrol secretly lands on the Japanese-occupied island of Siarago. Their mission: to locate a Japanese-American girl with vital information concerning General MacArthur's pending Philippine invasion. What they uncover instead is a Japanese plot to detonate underwater mines as the US fleet enters the bay. Cut off from outside communication, these brave marines must find a way to prevent what could be the worst naval tragedy from ever happening.
Attack on the Iron Coast
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1966
Synopsis: During the WWII occupation of France, the heart and strength of the German Navy sits in a heavily guarded port known as the Iron Coast - and it'll take a crackerjack team of Allied commandos to destroy it. Lloyd Bridges gives "one of his best screen performances" (Boxoffice) as a major hellbent on seeing a deadly mission through to its "blazing finale" (Films & Filming).
Major Wilson (Bridges) is a loose cannon, and his latest mission is a perfect fit. He must take an old minesweeper filled with explosives and ram it into the Nazi's prized naval port. The problem is, he and his crew will have only five minutes to escape this floating torpedo before it blows. Even if they succeed in taking down the stronghold, will they live to see the tide of war turn?
Attack!
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 06, 1956
Synopsis: Eddie Albert is a cowardly captain, Lee Marvin a crooked colonel, and Jack Palance a diligent lieutenant as a small platoon fights its way back from the front in director Robert Aldrich's searing WWII drama.
Beach Red
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1967
Synopsis: Young marines on a WWII tour of duty learn that "war is hell" in this "graphic, unflinching and honest drama of men in combat" (The New York Times). Starring Oscar nominee Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn, Beach Red marked "a real breakthrough in American war picture production" (New York Post), because it "takes pains to show the terror on both sides" (Cue).
After a gory battle to take the beach on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific, Captain MacDonald (Wilde) asks Sergeant Honeywell (Torn) to lead a squad on a perilous journey deep into the jungle to find the enemy's stronghold. The scouts soon learn that the Japanese are preparing to strike back hard and fast. In the hours to come, whose blood will soak the sand red?
Beachhead
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1954
Synopsis: Oscar nominee Tony Curtis "blends hard-hitting toughness with humor" (Los Angeles Times) as a Marine who must battle Japanese soldiers, private demons and fellow Marines in this "gripping" (Variety) World War II saga. "Bristling with suspense and rugged action" (The Hollywood Reporter), Beachhead is a classic war drama that delivers plenty of "emotion-stirring heroics" (Boxoffice).
Four Marines embark on a hazardous island mission to verify reports about a secret Japanese minefield. The intelligence comes from a French planter - who may or may not be an Allied spy - and his beautiful daughter. If their story is true, can the Marines outgun their enemies, make it through the treacherous jungle, and rendezvous with American forces in time to prevent disaster?
Bent
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 26, 1997
Synopsis: This film draws from the award-winning play by Sherman Martin that spotlights the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. This emotional drama chronicles the struggles of a gay man who not only survived a concen- tration camp, but also emerged from it a better, more caring human being at peace with his sexuality.
China Doll
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jul 27, 1958
Synopsis: Frank Borzage directed this bittersweet story of an Air Force captain who, while drunk, accidentally purchases an Asian housekeeper and grows to love and marry her. When the couple is killed in an air raid, their daughter must survive in an orphanage.
Exodus
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 07, 1961
Synopsis: Paul Newman delivers an inspiring performance as a resistance fighter who helps rescue 600 Jews from detention camps which results in the rebirth of an entire nation. Co-starring Eva Marie Saint.
Flyboys
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 2006
Synopsis:
Flyboys, the first World War I aviation film in over 30 years, is inspired by the epic, courageous tale of the American young men who would become known as the legendary Lafayette Escadrille. They were ordinary boys who volunteered for the first World War looking for adventure, and in the process, they became heroes. Never before has a movie so accurately portrayed the thrill and danger of the aerial dogfights that played such an integral role in the Allied resistance.
In 1917, prior to the official entry into the war by the United States, the Allied powers of France, England and Italy were on the ropes against the German juggernaut. Some altruistic young Americans volunteered to fight alongside their counterparts in France. Some joined the infantry, others chose the Ambulance Corps. But 38 young men had a different idea: they decided to learn how to fly.
Their motivations for enlisting may have been different: Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) is searching for his purpose following the bank's foreclosure of his family ranch, Briggs Lowry (Tyler Labine) is shamed into joining by his disciplinarian father, while African-American expatriate boxer Eugene Skinner (Abdul Salis) vows to repay his debt to his adopted, racially-tolerant country. But under the command of French Captain Thenault (Jean Reno) and the leadership of American veteran Reed Cassidy (Martin Henderson), these young American men took to the air with honor everyday as they risked their lives, not just in facing the formidable German aggressors, but also in boarding their newly-invented, mechanically-imperfect aircraft, which were being used in combat for the first time.
Inspired by the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, Flyboys is directed by Academy Award-winner Tony Bill (The Sting) and produced by Dean Devlin (The Patriot, Independence Day, Stargate) and Marc Frydman (ABC's "Commander in Chief"). James Franco (Spiderman, Spiderman 2) stars with Marin Henderson (The Ring) and Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code).
