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Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film), MGM remake directed by Lewis Milestone starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard; first Ultra Panavision 70 film, $20 million cost, seven Oscar nominations, replica ship sank in Hurricane Sandy 2012.
Objective, Burma!
Objective, Burma! is a 1945 Warner Bros. war film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn as Captain Nelson leading paratroopers against a Japanese radar station; withdrawn from Britain in 1945 for ignoring the British role, rereleased 1952.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is a 1942 British black-and-white war film, the first made under The Archers by Powell and Pressburger, about an RAF bomber crew smuggled home from occupied Holland by the Dutch resistance.
Pork Chop Hill (1959 film)
Pork Chop Hill (1959) is Lewis Milestone's Korean War drama starring Gregory Peck as Lt. Joe Clemons, based on S.L.A. Marshall's book about the April 1953 battle during Panmunjom truce talks, released by United Artists.
Railway Guerrilla
Railway Guerrilla (铁道游击队) is a 1956 Shanghai Film Studio war film directed by Zhao Ming, adapted from Liu Zhixia's 1954 novel about the real Lunan Railway Brigade raiding Japanese trains in Shandong; famous for its song 'Playing My Beloved Tu Pipa'.
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) is a Robert Wise WWII submarine drama starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, adapted from Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel, premiered aboard USS Perch.
Sahara (1943 film)
Sahara (1943) is a Columbia Pictures World War II film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Humphrey Bogart as tank commander Sgt. Joe Gunn defending a desert well; based on The Thirteen and MacDonald's Patrol, remade in 1953 and 1995.
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima (Heltene fra Iwo Jima) is a 1949 Republic Pictures war film directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne as Sergeant Stryker; shot at Camp Pendleton with Marine cooperation, it earned four Oscar nominations and nearly $4 million in domestic rentals.
Sanjuro (椿三十郎)
Sanjuro (椿三十郎, Tsubaki Sanjuro) is Akira Kurosawa's 1962 Toho samurai film, a sequel to Yojimbo starring Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, famous for its brief final duel and blood-spray ending.
Shangganling (上甘岭)
Shangganling (上甘岭, Battle on Shangganling Mountain) is a 1956 Changchun Film Studio war film directed by Sha Meng and Lin Shan, the first Chinese feature film on the Korean War, famous for the song "My Motherland" and its 2020 4K restoration.
So Proudly We Hail!
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) is a Paramount World War II drama directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake as Army nurses on Bataan and Corregidor, with four Oscar nominations.
Spartacus (film)
Spartacus (1960): Stanley Kubrick epic starring and produced by Kirk Douglas, from Howard Fast's novel, scripted by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo; $12 million, four Oscars, blacklist-breaking credit, 1991 restoration.
The 300 Spartans
The 300 Spartans is a 1962 Rudolph Maté epic for Twentieth Century-Fox starring Richard Egan as Leonidas at Thermopylae; shot on location in Greece, it inspired Frank Miller's graphic novel 300.
The Alamo (1960 film)
The Alamo (1960) is John Wayne's only film as director, an epic Western in which he stars as Davy Crockett. Budgeted at $7.5 million but costing $12 million, it earned six Oscar nominations, winning Best Sound.
The Bridge (1959 film)
Die Brücke (The Bridge), 1959 West German anti-war film by Bernhard Wicki, his debut, adapted from Manfred Gregor's autobiographical novel; seven teenage conscripts die defending a bridge slated for demolition; Golden Globe winner, Oscar-nominated.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is David Lean's Oscar-winning war drama, adapted from Pierre Boulle's novel, about British POWs building a railway bridge for Japanese captors while Allied commandos plot its destruction; it won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.
The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) is a Columbia Pictures naval drama directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Stanley Kramer, adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer-winning novel, starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg, with seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 Hammer war drama directed by Val Guest, starring Andre Morell, about Allied POWs in Malaya hiding Japan's surrender from a commandant sworn to kill them; controversial and a box-office hit.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) is a Warner Bros. action film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, a largely fictional revenge plot climaxing in the Battle of Balaclava charge, distinct from Tony Richardson's 1968 revisionist remake.
The Colditz Story
The Colditz Story is a 1955 British POW escape film directed by Guy Hamilton, based on Pat Reid's memoir of Colditz Castle (Oflag IV-C), starring John Mills and Eric Portman, shot at Shepperton and BAFTA-nominated.
The Conqueror (1956 film)
The Conqueror (1956) is an RKO historical epic directed by Dick Powell, produced by Howard Hughes, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan; infamous for miscasting and for filming near Nevada nuclear test fallout later linked to cast and crew cancers.
The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли)
The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли) is a 1957 Mosfilm war drama by Mikhail Kalatozov, starring Tatiana Samoilova and Aleksey Batalov; it won the 1958 Cannes Palme d'Or, the only Soviet feature to do so.
The Cruel Sea
The Cruel Sea (1953) is an Ealing Studios British war film directed by Charles Frend, adapted by Eric Ambler from Nicholas Monsarrat's 1951 novel, starring Jack Hawkins as corvette commander George Ericson escorting Atlantic convoys against U-boats.
The Destiny of a Man (Судьба человека)
The Destiny of a Man (Судьба человека), 1959 Soviet war drama, Sergei Bondarchuk's directorial debut for Mosfilm, adapting Sholokhov's story about soldier Andrei Sokolov; 39.2 million viewers, Moscow and Locarno grand prizes, 1960 Lenin Prize.
The Enemy Below
The Enemy Below (1957) is a Dick Powell war film starring Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens as dueling destroyer and U-boat captains in WWII's Battle of the Atlantic; based on D. A. Rayner's novel, it won the Special Effects Oscar and inspired Star Trek's "Balance of Terror".
The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th (1940) is a Warner Bros. World War I drama directed by William Keighley, starring James Cagney as fictional coward-turned-hero Jerry Plunkett and Pat O'Brien as real chaplain Father Francis Duffy of New York's Irish 69th Regiment.
The Fighting Seabees
The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 Republic Pictures war film, also known as Donovan's Army, directed by Edward Ludwig and starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Dennis O'Keefe; a fictionalized account of the U.S. Navy Construction Battalions (Seabees), made with Navy cooperation and Republic's largest budget.
The Great War (1959 film)
La grande guerra (The Great War) is Mario Monicelli's 1959 Italian-French war comedy-drama with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman, produced by Dino De Laurentiis; the first realistic Italian film on World War I, it shared the 1959 Venice Golden Lion-equivalent prize.
The Guns of Navarone (film)
The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 J. Lee Thompson war film produced by blacklisted Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean's novel, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn as saboteurs destroying German guns on a fictional Aegean island; seven Oscar nominations, Best Special Effects win.
The Horse Soldiers
The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's 1959 Civil War film starring John Wayne, William Holden, and Constance Towers, loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel about Grierson's 1863 Mississippi cavalry raid and Newton Station.