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Empire of the Sun (1987)
I’ve read J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World and in his afterword he mentions his childhood in China, which reminded me that I still hadn’t watched Empire of the Sun, which is based on his childhood...
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Ballad of a Soldier – Ballada o soldate (1959)
Grigory Chukhray‘s movie Ballad of a Soldier aka Ballada o Soldate is an iconic Russian war movie, which is often mentioned together with another famous Russian movie of the same time, The Cranes are...
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Movies on the Spanish Civil War: A List
When I think of movies on the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom comes to mind. And Pan’s Labyrinth. And the abominable There Be Dragons. I was surprised to see that there are quite a lot and some of...
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Phantom (2013) Sub Movie with a Russian Point of View
I discovered Phantom thanks to a comment on my post on U571 . Since it’s a new movie and it has been quite a while since I last saw a submarine movie and because I’m very fond of Ed Harris, I thought...
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The Desert Fox (1951) Biopic on Field Marshal Rommel’s Final Years
The Desert Fox, starring James Mason as Field Marshal Rommel, is based on the biography of Rommel by Desmond Young. The movie opens with British commandos trying to assassinate Rommel in 1941 and then...
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Top 10 War Movies – The Guardian List
This year I want to move back to what this blog was initially meant to be. A place where I would write about war movies and related themes, and not so much a blog, which is limited to reviews. As you...
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Miklós Jancsó’s The Round-Up – Szegénylegények (1966)
I suppose when you’ve seen quite a lot of the well-known prisoner of war films and are fond of the genre, you’ll come across Miklós Jancsó’s The Round-Up aka Szegénylegények sooner or later. Not only...
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
I’m actually a bit surprised that I really liked this melodramatic movie, despite the fact that the gender roles and the messages about family and marriage are cringe-worthy. While I felt it’s dated,...
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Lone Survivor (2013)
I decided to watch Lone Survivor after having read a positive review on The War Movie Buff’s blog (here). I did not regret it, although I have some reservations. Talk about a doomed operation. Lone...
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Marine Raiders (1944)
Marine Raiders is a black and white US movie from 1944. I’ve got it with a bunch of other “forgotten” war movies. Unfortunately, after having seen it, I’m pretty sure I know why it was forgotten. It...
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Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011) A WWII True Story
Agnieszka Holland’s movie In Darkness is a Polish/German/Canandian co-production based on a true story. Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) is a sewer worker and petty thief, living in Lvov, a Nazi...
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The Boys in Company C (1978)
The Boys in Company C is one of those Vietnam war movies you either like a great deal or not at all. I was surprised to find myself among those who really like it. It isn’t a masterpiece because it’s...
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
“The right picture can win or lose a war.” I remember watching Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers shortly after it was in the cinemas and feeling less than enthusiastic about it. I’d been watching...
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Das Boot (1985) TV Version
I love this movie. I can’t believe I didn’t rewatch it earlier. When I started this blog I wrote a Top 10 favourite war movies list and Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot was one of them. I’m glad to say...
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The Great Raid (2005)
The Great Raid, starring James Franco, Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes and Connie Nielsen, tells the story of the raid at Cabanatuan, on the island of Luzon, Philippines, in January 1945. The story is...
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The Bridge – Die Brücke (1959) A German WWII Classic
I finally got a chance to watch Bernhard Wicki’s famous anti-war movie The Bridge – Die Brücke, in which a group of sixteen-year-old high school students fights to keep a bridge. Fighting for – or...
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American Sniper (2014)
Clint Eastwood’s latest movie American Sniper is based on the true story of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle who was called “the most lethal sniper in the U.S.”. Every time I watch a movie based on a true...
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Is Fury War Movie?
Long live macho-martyrdom and let’s kill as many bad, bad Nazi’s while we can. Yikes. Fury is the kind of movie that gives the war movie genre a bad name. Bizarre is the word that came to my mind more...
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The Imitation Game (2014)
More than one person I know felt that the Academy Award for best acting should have gone to Benedict Cumberbatch for his role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game and not to Eddie Redmayne. But even...
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Northmen – A Viking Saga (2014)
So, yes, the Swiss/German/South African co-production Northmen doesn’t fare too well on IMDb and similar places. And, after the first ten minutes, I almost stopped watching because the acting wasn’t...
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