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The hope is that someday this will be a reasonably comprehensive site which can help you better decide which World War II movies you should invest your time and money Continue Reading →
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is ninety years old today. We’ve already reviewed A Bridge too Far, The Battle of Britain, Dunkirk, The Eagle Has Landed, Play Dirty and Too Late the Hero. Continue Reading →
What to Watch on D-Day
I’m a little too busy to do this today, but I’ve been thinking about what to put on a D-Day film festival–more of a D-Day film binge, really. A festival Continue Reading →
Behind the Lines in North Africa
One of the parts of the war I was most interested in when I was younger was the British special forces in North Africa. The Long Range Desert Group and Continue Reading →
Pearl Harbor Day
Eighty years ago today forces of the Japanese Empire attacked United States military installations in Hawaii, I think. This is not a history site. There are a number of movies Continue Reading →
1998: A Great Year–Or the Greatest Year?
You would be hard pressed to find a better year for World War II movies than 1998–unless you looked at 1970 (The McKenzie Break, Patton, Too Late the Hero, Tora! Continue Reading →
In Praise of the Piat
The Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank Mark I, or Piat, was the primary British handheld anti-tank weapon of the Second World War, I’m guessing. This is not a history site. It’s also Continue Reading →
The First of the Fifty
I started this project in part because I recently moved and brought a collection of fifty war movies, Combat Classics, with me, even though I had yet to watch any Continue Reading →
The Big Four
In his book Where Eagles Dared: The Filmgoer’s History of World War II, Howard Hughes (a Howard Hughes—not the Howard Hughes) writes, “The beginning of the sixties marked the emergence Continue Reading →
D-Day Plus Five
I’ve posted reviews of two movies Military.com doesn’t mention in their article of the seven must-see D-Day films. I am not criticizing them; one of these films is obscure and Continue Reading →