100 Great War Movies: The Real History Behind the Films
6 AMERICAN SNIPER he is sent to Iraq after the 9/11 attacks. Kyle is a talented sniper, earning the nick- name “Legend” for his ...
APOCALYPSE NOW 7 his high- powered rifle on rooftops in Iraq and asked him to shoot women and children. They’re the real villain ...
8 APOCALYPSE NOW War and used Conrad’s story of a white trader’s mad exploits in Africa as the tem- plate for an allegory about ...
APOCALYPSE NOW 9 Willard. Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Steve McQueen, James Caan, and Al Pacino all refused the part, prob ab ...
10 APOCALYPSE NOW Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall), a macho 1st Cavalry commander and surfing enthu- siast, who gets them past the N ...
ARMY OF SHADOWS [FrenCH: L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES] 11 Capt. Willard and Col. Kurtz are based on the central characters in Conrad’s Hea ...
12 ARMY OF SHADOWS [FrenCH: L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES] Background Former Re sis tance fighter turned filmmaker Jean- Pierre Melville (r ...
ATTACK! 13 refuses. Jardie emerges and convinces Le Bison that Mathilde is incapable of sui- cide; they must kill her. Jardie an ...
14 ATTACK! Background Keen to make a WWII movie, in de pen dent director- producer Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me, Deadly) tried but fa ...
ATTACK! 15 La Nelle. Without knowing the whereabouts of the German soldiers, Cooney refuses to commit the whole com pany to a co ...
16 ATTACK! excellent reviews and solid box office returns and recouped its production costs more than twice over. Reel History V ...
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER [RUSSIAN: BALLADA O SOLDATE] (1959) Synopsis Ballad of a Soldier is a Soviet war film directed by Grigori Ch ...
18 BALLADA O SOLDATE [russIAn: BALLADA O SOLDATE] art reflecting “the con temporary relevance and beauty of Rus sia.” Though the ...
BATTLE OF ALGIERS, THE [ItALIAn: LA BATTAGLIA DI ALGERI] 19 being unfaithful to her husband, and most egregiously, killed off it ...
20 BATTLE OF ALGIERS, THE [ItALIAn: LA BATTAGLIA DI ALGERI] in mind about a former French paratrooper covering the conflict as a ...
Omar (Brahim Haggiag), a petty criminal with a lengthy rec ord, is arrested. Five months later, la Pointe leaves prison and join ...
bombs are set off and the building housing la Pointe is brought to the ground. La Pointe and his followers are all killed. This ...
BATTLEGROUND 23 Battleground (1949) Synopsis Scripted by WWII combat veteran Robert Pirosh; directed by William Well- man; and s ...
24 BATTLEGROUND Plot Summary In December 1944, new replacements Jim Layton (Marshall Thompson) and Wil- liam J. Hooper (Scotty ...
BEASTS OF NO NATION 25 were mixed but mostly positive. Bosley Crowther praised Battleground as “a smash- ing pictorial re- creat ...
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