Tag: war movies
TnT Top Ten: War Movies
port1080.
Posted to Media on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 08:10:43 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
War has always been a compelling topic for film; indeed, the "father film" of the American motion picture industry (Birth of a Nation, filmed in 1915) was set in the American Civil War, and the early Russian classic Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) was set during a failed 1905 uprising against the Russian Czar.
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The Greatest War + The Greatest Generation = The Greatest War Flicks?
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 11:31:43 PM EST. RSS.
The title question is answered in the affirmative by Associated Press film critic David Germain who uses the week of the release of Clint Eastwood's film about the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima, Flags Of Our Fathers. While Germain's vote is still out in terms of whether Eastwood's movie is any good, he offers up a list of what he thinks are the "finest" WWII movies ever made. Like every list of this sort, the composition of the list - and the underlying premise that WWII movies are the best war movies ever - is highly debatable.
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